5/1/2023 0 Comments Gaia anesidora![]() Just as Donna Haraway proposes, “playing string figures” and the practice of “tentacular” figures, Iris Brosch's protagonists closely communicate, inter-mingle, experiment, support and serve each other as one nourishing entity. Similarly, Iris Brosch suggests a utopian and complete different perception of our planet that is animated, inhabited, and vitalized by other-wordly figures of women and men being relaunched by hybrid-mythical goddesses or multi-species creatures that remind us of friendly (or not so friendly) Gaia-related versions both caring and sharing in multiple gestures. The artist concept of “Inside Gaia” is not defined as just a search for the cliché idea of loss of nature, but moreover, it gives access to a “critical zone” described by Bruno Latour in the Gifford Lectures (2013) of our living sphere. Her ongoing project started 2019 at the Venice Biennale and most recently continued as an artist in residency at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvards University in Washington, DC. “Inside Gaia” photographer and performance artist Iris Brosch undergoes an exploration into critical zones of our living conditions on Earth. After Python's execution, Delphi was wrested control of Gaia and was henceforth under the protection of Apollo. Gaia combined with the mud left over from the world after the end of the Golden Age, and gave birth to Python, a winged serpent with clairvoyant abilities that lived in the place that was later to be called Delphi. The exact location was indicated by the Omphalos (Greek “navel"). According to the myth, Zeus had an eagle rise from each end of the world, meeting at Delphi. Delphi was considered the center of the world for the ancients. Being a chthonic deity, its origin lies in the geological strata of Delphi in Greece. ![]() Inside Gaia: Pandora was the first mortal woman formed out of clay: Gaia- related etymological interpretation of Pandora/Anesidora (one-who-sends-up- gifts), the one who gives everything, or the gift of all versus anti-feminist Hesiodic misogynous myth, Washington DC, USA
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |