An overview of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in December, a month before the recent eruption.
By Andy Battaglia
As part of the call for support, the organization—directed by Markus Reymann and chaired by the storied art collector and patron Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza—has offered an example of the kind of work made as a result: a 21-minute video titled Hunga Tonga by the Danish artist collective Superflex, which participated in a seafaring journey with TBA21-Academy in 2018. (“They’re almost like landscapes that you sail across,” Rasmus Nielsen of Superflex told ARTnews about sailing over the unfathomably deep Tonga Trench for a feature about TBA21-Academy shortly after. “You feel out of scale, and seasick. There’s so much water underneath you that it’s hard to grasp.”)