Chris Jordan
There is a fascinating discussion running in the OCA student site prompted by student Brian Lavery. Brian had the enterprise to email Seattle based artist Chris Jordan and Chris responded. In case the name isn’t familiar to you the video above is a trailer for a film which is his current project and his website shows that themes of consumption and waste are not a recent development in his work (see here – read the text then click in the image).
It seems to me there are at least two current themes running here – one is the subject matter, based on a growing sense of this can’t go on like this. The second is the means of distribution – feature films as a way of reaching out far beyond the audience of the original pieces.
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I’ve seen these very disturbing stills before. I find both them and the film very difficult to look at and equally difficult to forget. Very powerful work, and very thought-provoking.
Thanks for sharing! Can’t view the video, but his site gives many a thing to think about, on so many levels.
I share the the same views as eileen.
It’s very difficult to instill in young people these days, or adults for that matter, how much damage to the environment and wild life dropping litter causes. I work with young offenders and part of their community service work includes litter picking on Chesil Beach on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast in Dorset. Most of what we pick up is what’s found inside those poor seagulls, and I’ve come across a few dead juvenile seagulls whilst out litter picking on the ‘Chesil’.
Once the yp’s have done a session they are usually quite surprised at how much litter people discard without a thought into the environment. One of my pet hates is little bags of dog faeces, there are everywhere. Why bother to pick it up and bag it? I think everyone who is caught dropping litter should be made to do a day’s litter picking, they wouldn’t do it again.
presently in India … also can not see the video!!
Postmodernism & Chris Jordan | People and Place says
[…] A pleasant surprise was when CEO Gareth picked out the thread for a post on “We are OCA”. http://www.weareoca.com/photography/chris-jordan/ […]
The link below takes you to a recent interview between Chris Jordan and Chase Jarvis. I listened to it over the weekend and found it both stimulating and moving. There are two main themes to the discussion – how Chris quit his day job at the age of 40 to pursue his photographic dream (and what others can take from that) and a thorough exploration of his art, the motives and drivers as well as his inspiration and how he goes about achieving his work. Worth watching on many levels.
The session lasts 90 minutes: I found it well worth the time investment – so much so that I expect to listen once or twice again.
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/live/