John Latham, ERTH, 1971, Curated by Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot

23 Sep-24 Sep 2016

Overview

First shown as part of Inn7o - Art and Economics at The Hayward Gallery in 1971, John Latham’s Erth utilised recently available images of our planet from space, pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica and a haunting voice-over, recounting the age of the universe, positioning human existence in relation to what Latham called ‘the whole event’. The opportunity to present this film as a singular event allows us to further invoke the reflexive nature of the work.