The bronze statue in the center depicts Mazu or Matsu, the chinese sea goddess, who is particularly popular in Taiwan and Chinese communities outside of mainland China. This monument is at Chengshan Peak (成山头 Chéngshāntóu), in the harbur city Weihai on the Chinese...
Manimekhala is a budddhist goddess regarded in Southeast Asia as guardian of the Seas.
In 1783 an unsual seismic event sequence occured along the Strait of Messina between the island Sicily and mainland Italy. Katrin Kleemann from LMU Munich writes: "Between 5. February and 28. March 1783, five strong earthquakes shook Calabria and Sicily and were...
German born and UK based visual artist Mariele Neudecker creates aquarium installations of forests, houses or vessels since the late 1990's. Her so called "tank works" are three dimensional landscapes that evoque German romanticism, scientific artefacts as well as the...
Japanese culture has a long history of natural disasters, mostly earth quakes. Also the so called Triple-Disaster of 2011 was caused by an earthquake, which caused a Tsunami and then the explosions at the Fukushima atomic plant. In Japanese culture the catfish...
A project of speculative mapping and audio art about sea level rise in the Mediterranean: Link
In her essay on the motive of Mount Vesuvius, Valerie Hammelbacher traces the beginning of the image of disaster in art history back to the Britsh enlightment and the philosophy of physico-theology. More often referred to as natural theology, this school of thought...
Painting of the Goldauer Bergsturz by at the time sixteen year old Swiss artist David Alois Schmid (1791 - 1861). It depicts the massive landslide that completely destroyed the town Goldau in the Swiss mountains.
Contemporary etching of the Lisbon harbour during the 1755 earthquake and tsunami. Artist unknown.
Map by German scientist Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680)
