Zoo Art Fair | The Wasteland
@ The Royal Academy
17-20 October 2008
Shezad Dawood, The Wasteland (Detail), 2008, Variable Dimensions
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'…You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images, where the sun beats / And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief / And the dry stone no sound of water…'
World faced with growing instability, violence: think tank / Mofaz: Iran is the root of all evil, threat to world peace / Swallowed by sand: China`s billion-dollar battle against desertification / Banks count the cost of the credit crunch / Nature Declares War with Wind and Water / Pensioner cuts fuel bills with medieval stove / Africa: The Next Victim in Our Quest for Cheap Oil / Chilling image of Liverpool flooded by rising seas / Russian arms sales to set new record / Bali bombers challenge execution, want beheading / Worldwide explosion of jellyfish / Extreme weather brewing on horizon
'…On Margate Sands. / I can connect / Nothing with nothing...'
For Zoo Art Fair 2008 Paradise Row presents The Wasteland - an evolving installation informed by the Wagnerian ideal of the gesamtkuntswerk - the total work of art - incorporating individual works by gallery artists… inspired by the content and fragmented structure of Eliot's poem and the world.
Quotes in italics = from T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland.
Other quotes = recent media headlines.
Other quotes = recent media headlines.