Wednesday 10 March '10
(from The John Ruskin Memorial Blog)

Ruskin goes to Sao Paulo

One of Oscar Niemeyer's Bienal Park Fruit Fancies

Sao Paulo at night through a Niemeyer brise soleil

This is the first of a number of dispatches from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I'm here with Jeremy Deller to develop a project with him for the Sao Paulo Bienal this coming September. It came out the project we were working on for the Whitworth Ruskin show, a film by Jeremy on the wrestler Adrian Street, which has a lot to say on the Ruskinian themes of education, social development, craft, labour, industry, ethics, aesthetics and self improvement.

Adrian was born into a coal mining family in south wales, but escaped this life through bodybuilding, costume making and wrestling, transforming himself in to The Queen Bitch of Pro Wrestling. He now lives (aged 68 and still wrestlng) in LA, running a cottage industry in wrestling costume production.

The plan is to combine this with a rethinking and reworking of the victorian Mechanics Institute and make it work in the context of the Bienal and Sao Paulo.

Posted by Alistair Hudson on 10/03/10 at 13:11 0 Comments