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What happens to creativity when trying to work at 4,000 metres altitude?
An artist in Italy has been trying to find out - spending two days working in simulated Alpine conditions with fierce blizzards and temperatures of minus 10 degrees Centigrade.

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It may not seem like it, but it's a sunny September day in Bolzano, Italy where Peter Senoner is creating his art.
As Senoner creates sculptures and drawings, the control panel in his work space indicates -9.5 degrees Celsius and it's not getting any warmer.
The artist is in a terraXcube chamber at the Eurac Research Centre - a private research facility that specialises in simulating extreme climates.
For the last two days, 8 hours a day, Senoner has been trying to create his art in the equivalent of 4,000 metres altitude.
For him it's a unique way to test his creativity.
"One thing is putting your art on display, but what is even more important is creating art. And creating art inside the terraXcube gives us new unique possibilities that no museum, no gallery or no exhibiting space can give us," he says.
While the goal is to test Senoner's imagination, his body is also being tested.
Before embarking on this project, the artist's health was closely monitored to ensure that he was fit enough to endure the extreme climate created in this work space.
TerraXcube's climatic chambers are usually used to study the effects of climatic conditions in various situations.
The centre is headed up by Christian Steurer.
"The room produces a temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius, that's where we start off from," he says.
"We then fill it with snow, we turned on the snow nozzles, we have also introduced a little experiment we created – we create ice on the sculpture inside, and these are all elements that we can use inside the terraXcube, but then it is the artist that makes it happen, we have agreed upon certain experimental things with the artist, he needs to experiment with them as well, the main concept is that we have an artist working in an extreme environment and he tries to do his work there."
Several stations have been prepared ahead of time so Senoner is able to work on different projects as the hours go by.
"I will work against the elements, and I try to liberate the sculptures from the snow, the ice, so they don't disappear, and with the drawings it is the opposite: we have prepared wooden tables, and there I will work on botanical drawings, plants, very thin and fragile by using graphite because graphite is the only material I can work with inside there at those extremely low temperatures, and it is like a link to my brain and my body, it is like a seismograph drawing in a way," he says.
Senoner's temporary use of terraXcube is part of the Transart Festival - a prominent multidisciplinary festival of contemporary culture in Italy that aims to involve its audience in the exploration of new contemporary frontiers.
"Usually the public or the visitor finds himself in front of finished pieces of art, to be able to have him participate in the creative process in this very particular way creates, I believe, a new way to live and experience the art," says Peter Paul Kainrath, director of Transart Festival.
Visitors are able to follow what happens in this artificial Arctic both from the outside, through the control windows and, if they wish, from the inside - experiencing first-hand the unusual glacial atelier.
For German visitor Fritz Fiaust, the experience took over the art itself.
It's day 2 of the experiment and Senoner says he is relieved that his set up has multiple pieces of work to focus on.  

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