The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas Image: "The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations" "Since to provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now he deepest purpose of Western civilization. . party now for tomorrow we perish. All this is no more than a culmination, an intensification of a world tormented to extinction by an indifferent hedonism careless of a future already consumed. . . . from Ecstasy to Disneyland the vapid, visionless imaginings of the market, the pedestrian interpreters of a future already inscribed in the predictable certitudes of junk culture. . . They have penetrated all the governments on the planet. Their nostrums of salvation permeate every instrument of governance in the world. They assemble in hushed teakwood conference rooms and suites with leather folders at their elbow. They sink into soft padded chairs beneath the purring of obtrusive air-conditioners, the tones of their discourse are measured. The utterances and revelations that fall from their lips are grave and stolid. They speak an unintelligible tongue called economics, of a blandness and ambiguity in keeping with their tasteful handcrafted suits and silk ties and soft leather shoes. . where between the lobster, tiger prawns and ancient whisky, they will confide to the country's rulers the secrets of growing rich like the West. . .They come bearing not gifts but loans, packages blueprints for rescue . What they mean is: sell us your country's resources, its minerals, its forests, fishing grounds, crops, precious stones, natural landscapes for tourist traps, the labor of its people . . . . and we will make you rich. . . The real merchants of peerless knowhow have brought whole continents to the verge of collapse. . .and driven millions of people to ruin." -- Jeremy Seabrook "Third World Network Features"
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations by Audra Skuodas
  • Audra Skuodas
  • The Apocalyptic Ballet of Nations, 1998
  • Foam core, vellum, gold paper, fabric, colored pencil, acrylic paint, string, styrofoam ball
  • 15.5 x 15 x 1 in
  • Inv: 000163BOOK
  • Available

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Hand bound and illustrated book with text from Jeremy Seabrook

  • Subject Matter: Intersect of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy and Social Science
  • Collections: Artist Books
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