Dust from distant mountain / Jennie Cole.
- Cole, Jennie, 1983-
- Date:
- 2022
- Books
About this work
Description
Dust from distant mountain is the third in a series about the Covid-19 pandemic. It focuses on the Omicron variant, international protests, and the political shifts caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The work comprises of a box within a phase box containing a concrete poem printed on a concertina, with a summary of events from the first three months of 2022. The base of the box contains dust made from crushed shells and herbs, typically used in folk religion and magic for protection rituals.
Publication/Creation
London : Jennie Cole, 2022.
Physical description
1 volume (unpaged concertina format) ; 11cm x 1225 cm (in box 11 x 8 x 6 cm) + fine dust in base of box
Contributors
Edition
Number 2 in an edition of 16.
Notes
"The concrete poem within features the word ‘particulate’ altered by insertions and deletions, arranged into a repeating and reflected pattern over the full length of the concertina. It is partly based on Liu Tsung-yüan’s poem ‘Getting Up Past Midnight and Gazing Across the West Garden, I Encounter the Rising Moon’, an ancient Chinese poem of the mid-T'ang period, which was characterised by artistic richness and sociopolitical catastrophe. The description of events on its reverse concerns the spread of the Omicron variant and its effect on UK politics and healthcare, global protests over Covid policies, and developments in international politics due to the invasion of Ukraine. This account includes a history of Babyn Yar, and details of global research that was beginning to reveal the social impact of the pandemic and its expected legacy across the world."--artist's website.
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Where to find it
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