Oreet Ashery
The World is Flooding
The World is Flooding, takes Mayakovsky’s free-to-use play Mystery Bouffe* as both structure and starting point for collective works in which the figure of the Eskimo has been developed as at once a whistleblower, a messenger, an innocent child forming an early comprehension of the system and a newcomer experiencing a new environment for the first time. The figure of the Flood came to represent that which is ‘too much’; too many feelings, too many demands, too many traumas, while the Boat is a saving device which, alas, is liable to be taken over by the privileged.
The World is Flooding-zine is free and available to download as a PDF on request from info@oreetashery.net and was done in collaboration with Freedom from Torture, UKLGIG, Portugal Prints, and Tate Modern.
Oreet Ashery is a London based, interdisciplinary visual artist. Her practice is socially and politically engaged and often takes place in public spaces and tends to include participatory and interactive elements.