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ANTIDOTE

THE EARTH ISSUE

by Grace Partridge | May 23, 2017 | ANTHROPOCENE

THE EARTH ISSUE

IMAGE CREDIT: ZAN WIMBERLEY

 

Our friends at the Earth Issue featured our latest exhibition Anthropocene. Check it out here.

#antidoteloves ~ Dhaka-based architect @marinataba #antidoteloves ~ Dhaka-based architect @marinatabassum, who has been described as a pioneer for a new generation of architectural thought, calling for a focus on ‘architecture of relevance’. "I have learnt the fundamentals and values of good architecture from the Western-centric education system. But in practice, I re-evaluated all my learnings and appropriated them according to the context I practiced in. Every region must appropriate architecture education and practice based on their context and time. One needs to go through a process of unlearning to define one’s own architecture practice, process, and language." Tabassum is currently working in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, in south-east Bangladesh, and designing mobile modular houses for ultra-low-income people in the country’s coastal areas. Pictured: Her Aga Khan Award for Architecture winning project 'Bait ur Rouf mosque' and the socially and environmentally responsible 'Panigram Resort' in the Ganges Delta. This resort was built in line with the local vernacular architecture: thatched bamboo huts on mud floors that are positioned around traditional Bengali courtyards.
#antidoteloves ~ The inspiration for the Bondi Mem #antidoteloves ~ The inspiration for the Bondi Memorial’s ‘Rise’ artwork came from the very site it stands upon, where the dark chapters of LGBTQ history the memorial commemorates took place. Designed by artist John Nicholson of Brisbane’s @uapcompany, ‘Rise’ honours the victims of the gay hate murders that occurred in Marks Park and the clifftops of South Bondi, as well as at locations across Sydney, from the 1970s to the 1990s. ‘Rise’ is series of stone terraces which replicates the exact topography of the rock face strata of the cliffs below Marks Park, where a number of gay men were assaulted and thrown from to their deaths. The artwork memorial instead symbolises the inversion of the experience of the victims, with each of the six terraces representing steps that climb towards the horizon and the sky, and as a pathway forward from the history of violence.
#antidoteloves ~ Regram image from previously exhi #antidoteloves ~ Regram image from previously exhibiting artist @jemimawyman whose latest solo exhibition ‘Fume’, features plumes of smoke from flares, fires or deterrents present during protest. 💨 Expanding on her ongoing photo collage practice, Wyman accumulates images documenting global activism that are printed, hand-cut, and arranged — investigating the use of camouflage as a visual and psychological device related to power. Fume here evokes the origin of the word ‘camouflage’ that developed from the French camouflet meaning ‘whiff of smoke in the face’. Now showing at @sullivanstrumpf 💜
#antidoteloves ~ Jedda-Daisy Culley’s latest sho #antidoteloves ~ Jedda-Daisy Culley’s latest showing for @jerico_contemporary ‘And your mother’s psychic spaghetti river.’ Closing today, this latest body of work sees the artist explore a narrative perforated by deception and her fatalistic relationship with misconception, entering the space between death and survival. Fooled again by masters of disguise and working through her profound emotional response, the artist draws on themes of abandonment, fear and strength; speaking to the sentiment that there is no greater power than a mother fighting to save her children. Pictured: the big guy in the fluoro orange onesie he’s gonna eat snake’s alive while you die, 2021.
Text from @hyperallergic and video with thanks to Text from @hyperallergic and video with thanks to @macushla_r and @sara_blue 👏🏽 #antidoteloves ~ When Macushla Robinson, a writer and curator based in New York City, typed the word “rape” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection database, the search yielded 181 results. Among the entries are French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin’s “The Abduction of the Sabine Women” (1633-34) and an Ancient Greek amphora illustrating the moment before Ajax, a mythological hero, rapes the Trojan king’s daughter, Cassandra. There are also images that hint at rape in subtler ways, such as Julia Margaret Cameron’s haunting photograph “Beatrice” (1866), a portrait inspired by the 16th-century Roman noblewoman Beatrice Cenci, who was beheaded for killing her abusive father. For a project she calls “All the Rapes in the Met Museum,” Robinson went a step further, analyzing each entry to study how institutional cataloguing and wall labels often gloss over or downplay the impact of sexual violence, particularly when it comes to female victims. There are 7 more days to support this project via Kickstarter — we endorse this prescient and thoughtful curatorial offering and hope you can to! ✨
#antidoteloves ~ The ‘Animated Drawings for a Gl #antidoteloves ~ The ‘Animated Drawings for a Glacier’ series by Meredith Leich: a watercolorist, animator and videomaker, whose work explores the nature of cities, place-based histories, and climate change. She says, “In all of my work, I want to make striking images that respond to our natural environment through a human, historically-driven lens — from simply capturing a city’s distinctive architecture, to thinking about how social conventions inform the way we live together.” These images are the result of experimenting with a group of locals to project abstract hand-drawn animations onto the ice in remote Alaska and the glacially-formed shores of Cuttyhunk Island. ☁️

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