{"id":6393,"date":"2020-11-13T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2024-04-12T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T07:17:00","slug":"environmental-art-earth-in-a-builders-skip-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/environmental-art-earth-in-a-builders-skip-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental art \u2013 Earth in a Builder&#8217;s Skip II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/926183164?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Earth in skip 28-11-2023 Victoria Road N22\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental art.  The Earth in a builder&#8217;s skip<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video (1min 1sec).      November 2023 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A video  camera moves towards a builder&#8217;s skip and travels through a hole in the tarpaulin that covers the skip to reveal the contents of the skip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contents are seen to be a view of outer space with planet Earth suspended or floating in it. The builder&#8217;s skip may be thought of as a portal to another dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A meaning of the artwork is that the Earth has been reduced to the rubble and rubbish that is disposed of in builder&#8217;s skips or dumpsters, which are primarily designed to hold the debris and waste from construction projects and demolition projects. The work is a critique of our disposable consumer society and the environmental crisis that we are currently living through. In the area of London in which I live there are frequently builder&#8217;s skips positioned on the road in front of houses as the owners rip out perfectly good kitchens and replace them with new kitchens. It&#8217;s happening just a few doors away right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-art-earth-skip.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary environmental art - planet earth in a builder's skip\" title=\"contemporary environmental art - planet earth in a builder's skip\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><i>A video still from the Earth in a Builder&#8217;s Skip video.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental art. The Earth in a builder&#8217;s skip Video (1min 1sec). November 2023 A video camera moves towards a builder&#8217;s skip and travels through a hole in the tarpaulin that covers the skip to reveal the contents of the skip. The contents are seen to be a view of outer space with planet Earth suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,107,9],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8537,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}