{"id":742,"date":"2011-01-23T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2014-11-02T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T05:25:19","slug":"2009-rivers-of-the-underworld-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"2009 Genoa \u2013 Rivers of the Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"

2009 Rivers of the Underworld<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Exhibition: Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities<\/a> (permanent collection)<\/span><\/address>\n
Location: Bogliasco (Genoa), Italy. <\/span><\/address>\n
Dates: 11 November – 22 December 2009<\/span><\/address>\n
Media: Glass vessels, digital animation, discarded objects, light, shadow and sound, oils, recovered objects<\/span><\/address>\n
Dimensions: 5 works @ 150mm x 485mm<\/span><\/address>\n
Music by Mark K. Johnson<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n

RIVERS OF THE UNDERWORLD was fully funded and completed while on a fellowship at the\u00a0Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities<\/a> in\u00a0Bogliasco, Italy. It\u00a0is composed of five large apothecary jars representing \u2018water\u2019 from the five Rivers of the Underworld. The five rivers were\u00a0Acheron<\/a> the River of Sorrow,\u00a0Phlegethon<\/a> the River of Boiling Blood,\u00a0Cocytus<\/a> the River of Frozen Tears,\u00a0Styx<\/a> the River of Hatred,\u00a0and finally\u00a0Lethe<\/a> the River of Forgetfulness.\u00a0The jars are filled with blackened oil surrounding lost or discarded elements and fetishes representing the individual themes of Sorrow, Boiling Blood, Frozen Tears, Hatred,\u00a0and Forgetfulness.<\/p>\n

These jars are filled with detritus collected from streets, fields and trash pits – and re-presented as reliquaries that speak of our cultural values and act as witnesses to our social condition. The trash and the detritus that people thoughtlessly throw away every day is re-presented as something beautiful, compelling, seductive – but embodying the underlying message that we are creating our own rivers of the underworld through what we discard so wantonly. The aura of Rivers of the Underworld<\/i> is a guise unique to a community – even a year. It is a time capsule as well as a time line. By re-framing trash as sacred reliquaries, detritus transforms into witness and ultimately into accuser. It preserves the detritus for the future. It demands a reckoning.<\/p>\n

Greek and Roman mythologies (Plato<\/a>\u2019s Phaedo<\/a> and Republic<\/a>, Homer\u2019<\/a>s Odyssey<\/a>, Virgil<\/a>\u2019s Aeneid<\/a>, and later in Dante<\/a>\u2019s Commedia<\/a>) describe the five Rivers of the Underworld<\/a>. The Greeks and Romans believed these five rivers equated to five actual underground rivers in Europe.<\/p>\n

Final Installation RIVERS OF THE UNDERWORLD<\/span><\/address>\n
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\"\"Study for River of Sorrow (Acheron)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Studies for River of Boiling Blood (Phlegethon) \/ River of Frozen Tears (Cocytus)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Studies for River of Hatred (Styx)\u00a0\/ River of Forgetfulness (Lethe)<\/p>\n

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2009 Rivers of the Underworld Exhibition: Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities (permanent collection) Location: Bogliasco (Genoa), Italy. Dates: 11 November – 22 December 2009 Media: Glass vessels, digital animation, discarded objects, light, shadow and sound, oils, recovered objects Dimensions: 5 works @ 150mm x 485mm Music by Mark K. Johnson RIVERS OF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[379],"tags":[112,110,101,118,111,383,382,7,21,20,102,107,120,100,17,108,105,116,104,106,117,121,119,115,113,103,114,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}