TY - ADVS
T1 - The Idea Home Show - Group Exhibition
T2 - Reclaim the Wilderness (2017)
A2 - Hesse, Emily
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 'When fortifications become A STATE OF MIND, we no longer dwell inside the landscape of our fortress, but transcend it’s walls to become the very structure itself. The thinking mind is no longer encapsulated within the unthinking body, it permeates wall, border, boundary. Its new found fluidity is passed like virus from one to other. It is the shadow at dusk and the murmur at dawn – finite light. And yet not born of the landscape, but the landscape ITSELF.The human fortifications of North Eastern England are of course, to the seeing eye, little different to anywhere else in this land. The rows of gridlocked terraces built rapidly by the industrial revolutionaries, only a few miles apart from the soft stone houses of the moorland. Each is passed by daily without notation of those residing here.Their forms so archetypal, we have become almost blind to their very existence. Within their walls we exist as Kings and Queens. We take ownership of foundations, insure content, and yet so often disregard our ancestral occupation of AUTOCHTHONOUS material.'Reclaim the Wilderness (2017) createda political sloganeering campaign againstMargaret Thatcher’s declaration of our landas a ‘wilderness’ (wilderness defined: anunoccupied site where no human previouslyexisted or was able to survive) during the1980’s. The location she labelled was theformer site of the heavy industrial firm HeadWrightson, where many generations of ourfamilies had laboured for over a hundredyears. My work included campaign posters,painted in clay, and seventy-eight hand-madeunfired bricks in River Tees clay that formedwhat appeared to be a pathway or road. Itwas impossible to lay the bricks out in a waythat the work did not resemble Carl Andre’sEquivalent VIII (1966)
AB - 'When fortifications become A STATE OF MIND, we no longer dwell inside the landscape of our fortress, but transcend it’s walls to become the very structure itself. The thinking mind is no longer encapsulated within the unthinking body, it permeates wall, border, boundary. Its new found fluidity is passed like virus from one to other. It is the shadow at dusk and the murmur at dawn – finite light. And yet not born of the landscape, but the landscape ITSELF.The human fortifications of North Eastern England are of course, to the seeing eye, little different to anywhere else in this land. The rows of gridlocked terraces built rapidly by the industrial revolutionaries, only a few miles apart from the soft stone houses of the moorland. Each is passed by daily without notation of those residing here.Their forms so archetypal, we have become almost blind to their very existence. Within their walls we exist as Kings and Queens. We take ownership of foundations, insure content, and yet so often disregard our ancestral occupation of AUTOCHTHONOUS material.'Reclaim the Wilderness (2017) createda political sloganeering campaign againstMargaret Thatcher’s declaration of our landas a ‘wilderness’ (wilderness defined: anunoccupied site where no human previouslyexisted or was able to survive) during the1980’s. The location she labelled was theformer site of the heavy industrial firm HeadWrightson, where many generations of ourfamilies had laboured for over a hundredyears. My work included campaign posters,painted in clay, and seventy-eight hand-madeunfired bricks in River Tees clay that formedwhat appeared to be a pathway or road. Itwas impossible to lay the bricks out in a waythat the work did not resemble Carl Andre’sEquivalent VIII (1966)
KW - Art
KW - clay
KW - politics of identity
KW - Land
UR - https://www.emilyhesse.com/reclaim-the-wilderness/#jp-carousel-3310
UR - https://visitmima.com/whats-on/single/idea-home-show/
M3 - Exhibition
CY - Middlesbrough
ER -