Taylor, Finlay, Raj Shah, Vaibhav and Miranda-Bilbao, Jasone, 2017, Show, Exhibition or Event, Horizon: Against Nature. The great Grandmother: a rope as long as a wolf. Good work: a rope as long as a flying fish flight
Abstract or Description: | The submission is for a co-curated exhibition and contribution of two art works to the event. The 'Against Nature' project proposes that nature is a horizon that can be approached indefinitely and yet never completely grasped. The idea ‘Against Nature’ takes inspiration from the French fiction novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans A Rebours published in France in 1884. The main protagonist, Des Esseintes, is a highly sensitive, neurotic anti-hero and aesthete who escapes Paris for the countryside and abandons himself to a life of decadence, fine art and literature in order to criticize the vulgarity of society. This was the time before the industrial revolution, when society and the prevalent ideology were seen in terms of nature and the beauty of its forms, structures and geometry. Pre industrial revolution, the same umbrella of Nature, held together a unity of aims and beliefs that served the joint purposes of science, religion and art. Today, and within a now post-industrial and late capitalist global logic, Nature is often narrowly taken as being in opposition to culture. Science, art and religion, have become disconnected: science has favored the purely technical, religion has adopted a confused and transcendent notion of God, and art has tended towards reflecting this present state of confusion with the faint hope that it can somehow contribute to its eradication. Our project attempts to pull science, religion, art and nature back together under the reconfigured rubric of nature / horizon and unite them inside of regions between visibility and invisibility. In attempting to visualize and move towards the horizon, a range of motions begin that may potentially connect memories, ideas, feelings and all aspects of life to the infinity of the universe. This project researches a multicultural and international collision of approaches to thinking about the concerns of the artists in a wider context. Re-addressing existing work alongside new artefacts. |
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Contributors: | Contribution Name RCA ID Artist Nankervis, Adam Artist Kupferberg, Daniel Artist Medalla, David Artist Kulkarni, Aditi Artist Sala, Anri Artist Waqif, Asim Artist Singh, Avtar Artist Evans, Chris Artist Hamilton, Duncan Artist Garaigorta, Charo Artist Joy, Clair Artist Pfenningstorff, Barbara Artist Johnson Soliz, Cecile Artist McCausland, Onya Artist Cross, David Artist Smith, Emma Artist Taylor, Finlay 0610248016589 Artist Keith, James Artist Segawa, Yuta Artist Saiki, Fernando Artist Matthews, Bob 0210031117653 Artist Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Daniel Artist Vernekar, Diptej Artist Torres Ayastuy, Esteban Artist Deller, Jeremy Artist Swaroop, Kamal Artist Scrivener, Kate Artist Jimenez Santil, Madelaine Artist Uranga, Manu Artist Marshall, Mike Artist Sen, Mithu Artist Satpath, Niroj Artist Hagen, Ole Artist Nayar, Parvathi Artist Dutta, Pranay Artist Samant, Sharmila Artist A, Shimbuku Artist Woolham, Simon Artist Mallik, Sujit Artist Surabhi, Saraf Artist Han Chen, Szu Artist Kelton, Tara Artist O'Riley, Tim 9410244609009 Artist Joag, Tushar Artist Orlow, Uriel Artist Neidich, Warren Artist Dhanurdharan, Vipin |
Events: | Title Location Dates Type Horizon: Against Nature Delhi, India 2017-01-30 - 2017-02-20 UNSPECIFIED |
Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W110 Drawing Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W120 Painting Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W130 Sculpture Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W140 Printmaking Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W190 Fine Art not elsewhere classified |
School or Centre: | Other School of Arts & Humanities |
Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2017 10:45 |
Last Modified: | 24 May 2025 13:59 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/2719 |
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