Earthshaker: Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman & P. Staff

Del Vaz Projects is pleased to announce Earthshaker, an exhibition and accompanying publication presenting the work of Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman and 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 rela- tionship 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.
 
Publication Specs:
– 6.5 × 9 in (170 × 230 mm)
– 304 pages
– 65 black & white / 42 full-color
– Cover silkscreened on unbacked buckram material
– Plates and various reference illustrations from Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman & P. Staff
– Texts by Jay Ezra Nayssan, Eva Hayward, Maxi Wallenhorst & McKenzie Wark
– Designed by Ben Schwartz
– Printed by Die Keure, BE
– Published by Del Vaz Projects, CA