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  • Horizon: Against Nature. The great Grandmother: a rope as long as a wolf. Good work: a rope as long as a flying fish flight

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.

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
30 Jan - 20 Feb 2017
Museum/exhibition
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: School of Arts & Humanities
Date Deposited: 02 Mar 2017 10:45
Last Modified: 28 Nov 2019 15:26
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/2719
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