Earthshaker: Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman & P. Staff

Earthshaker proposes a 50 year lineage of dissident bodies reckoning with nature, despite a world that deems their bodies unnatural, corrupting or misfitted. Looking to the finite, contaminated, and chemically/irretrievably transformed Earth as a site of possibility, these artists present a more honest relationship between the bodies and worlds we inhabit.

Earthshaker is attentive to the ‘(al)chemical’, a term interested in both material and spiritual transfigurations that occur in and between the body and the earth.

How might ritual and corrosion; magic and toxicity; prayer and metabolism be related when contextualizing a perishing earth?

The three artists involved do not take these ideas as mere subject matter, but lived reality, leveraging different forms of technology, chemical and alchemical experimentation, and their own dissident flesh as sites of regeneration, complexity, and the birth of possibility on a planet poisoned with itself.

Del Vaz Projects 
Softcover, 304pp 
230 x 170mm