Calum Craik “Leisure”
Calum Craik
Leisure [2013]
Space Blanket, bowling ball, image of Californian swimming pool, steel
Sextant, curated by Marco Antonini
Nurture Art, Brooklyn [link]
A cartography of sociologic desire, Craik’s ludicrous simulacra 1earth floats in orbit around a radiant golden mountain2: mythic wealth manifested as hollow skin3 4 5. The heavy hobbyist planet eclipses an idealized cliché of personal oceans, darkening the American dream6. The game sphere condescending to a postcard attenuates an episteme of juvenile vapidity, shallowness a parody of nihilism.7.
Leisure indeed: the surreal map8, a nouveau fabled teleology9 10, amplifies labor for the consumer: discernment is a cultural effort11 12. The key/legend is a vague context pointing at content,13 inferring vast social aptitude only attainable through swaths of leisure labor14.
~Ryder Richards
images courtesy of Nurture Art
