This work was produced by the French artist Pierre Huyghe in 2005. Huyghe and his crew embarked upon the Antarctic expedition in February of that year, and the trip was prompted by the artist having learned that global warming had caused the Antarctic shelf to recede, opening up new areas of the ocean and access to uncharted islands. Huyghe had also heard a rumour that an elusive white animal lived in the region and one of the aims of the expedition was to find it. In his account of the trip Huyghe stated that after days of travelling, the crew came to an island that they thought was a likely location for the creature to be found and set up their equipment there, the white penguin eventually appearing after a wait of several days (see The Association of Freed Time, ‘El Diario del Fin del Mundo’, Artforum, vol.43, no.10, Summer 2005, pp.296–301). However, in 2005 the film’s director of photography Maryse Alberti gave a different account, stating that ‘The captain [of the ship] had seen a penguin on an island that’s an abandoned Chilean base with orange and black buildings. Argentina also has a base there and the British have a helipad ... We wrangled that poor animal to this sci-fi base and filmed it’ (quoted in Huyghe and Kaplan 2005, accessed 9 December 2014). The concert was held in October 2005 and jointly organised by the Public Art Fund and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The music was written by the composer Joshua Cody and inspired by Huyghe’s topographical map of the island.