Never Endings

by Sadie Plant, Jonathan Watkins

This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies "Never Endings"; the first survey of new and recent work by Cornelia Parker in the UK for 10 years. Characteristically ambitious in both form and content, the exhibition consists of installation, sculptural pieces and video. Alongside well established works, such as the dramatic "Heart of Darkness", an installation involving charred timber resulting from a fierce forest fire that happened in Florida in 2004, the exhibition includes several striking new works constituting a significant development in the artist's practice; "Killing Time" and "Chomskian Abstract".The latter is video that features the distinguished writer and philosopher Noam Chomsky responding to Parker's questions on a possible global environmental catastrophe. His answers are rich with astute observations on the nature of democracy vis a vis consumerism, Middle Eastern politics and the role of fear in a post-Cold War world. The publication includes text by Sadie Plant and a transcription of "Chomskian Abstract".

Hardcover

About the author

She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1989, then taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) before going on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick, where she was a faculty member. Her original research was on the Situationist International, and she contributed to the Situationist-inspired magazine Here and Now (published between 1985 and 1994), before turning her attention to the social potential of cyber-technology.

Sadie Plant left the University of Warwick in 1997 to write full time. She published a cultural history of drug use and control, and a report on the social effects of mobile phones, as well as articles in publications as varied as the Financial Times, Wired, Blueprint, and Dazed and Confused. She was interviewed as one of the ‘People to Watch’ in the Winter 2000–2001 issue of Time.