BERTHOU Maxime, POZLEP Mark.
Southwind.
Snoeck
Regular price
€40,00
| N° d'inventaire | 26428 |
| Format | 22 x 31 |
| Détails | 304 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Ghent, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461617576 |
In 2019, artists Maxime Berthou and Mark Pozlep embarked on a months-long journey along the Mississippi River, from north to south. Their intention was to cross the United States along its most important waterway, teeming with life and marked by history, but also by abuses: from racism, unemployment, and poverty to monoculture and pollution. Along the river, they filmed their encounters, also documented by sketches and notes in their logbooks, but also collected numerous varieties of grain, with the aim of later making the famous 'moonshine' alcohol, very popular during Prohibition.
A story that this book tells for the first time in its entirety, in words and images, using testimonies, photographs and drawings, as well as essays signed notably by the French film critic Antoine de Baecque. The project has already been presented as an installation at HISK Open Studios and, through an educational program, at the Centre Pompidou in 2019. It was the subject of a film of the same name, which premiered in NOLA - an acronym for 'New Orleans, Louisiana' - in January 2022, and recently a theatrical event, performed for the first time in Ljubljana in May 2022, then in Utrecht.
In their socially engaged, transdisciplinary, performance-based practice, the two artists track down the problems hidden beneath the glittering surface—often of water: in 2015, they already worked together on Hogshead 733, restoring an old wreck and crossing the English Channel with it, not without difficulty, until they reached Scotland, where they transformed the ship's planks into wooden barrels for distilling whisky.
In 2019, artists Maxime Berthou and Mark Pozlep embarked on a months-long journey along the Mississippi River, from north to south. Their intention was to cross the United States along its most important waterway, teeming with life and marked by history, but also by abuses: from racism, unemployment, and poverty to monoculture and pollution. Along the river, they filmed their encounters, also documented by sketches and notes in their logbooks, but also collected numerous varieties of grain, with the aim of later making the famous 'moonshine' alcohol, very popular during Prohibition.
A story that this book tells for the first time in its entirety, in words and images, using testimonies, photographs and drawings, as well as essays signed notably by the French film critic Antoine de Baecque. The project has already been presented as an installation at HISK Open Studios and, through an educational program, at the Centre Pompidou in 2019. It was the subject of a film of the same name, which premiered in NOLA - an acronym for 'New Orleans, Louisiana' - in January 2022, and recently a theatrical event, performed for the first time in Ljubljana in May 2022, then in Utrecht.
In their socially engaged, transdisciplinary, performance-based practice, the two artists track down the problems hidden beneath the glittering surface—often of water: in 2015, they already worked together on Hogshead 733, restoring an old wreck and crossing the English Channel with it, not without difficulty, until they reached Scotland, where they transformed the ship's planks into wooden barrels for distilling whisky.