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Rindon Johnson

  • Rindon Johnson’s work in sculpture, video, poetry, and virtual reality deals with technologies that enable captivity and the harnessing and transformation of nature from a gender- and race-critical perspective. A central motif in his work is the cow, which has been bred for centuries with an eye to maximum profit and consumer pleasure. He often uses cowhide as a sculptural material, drawing out connotations that relate to the commodification of bodies and the attendant destruction this brings. A past collaborator of Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Johnson came to virtual reality through the practice of writing poetry. In both poetry and VR, Johnson observes, “worlds can be endless, limitless, emotional, tyrannical.” Thus, Johnson’s practice is unique for its thematic and material connection of the very old and the very new, the emotional and the embodied, and as a way of thinking through climate grief and crisis.

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Rindon Johnson’s work in sculpture, video, poetry, and virtual reality deals with technologies that enable captivity and the harnessing and transformation of nature from a gender- and race-critical perspective. A central motif in his work is the cow, which has been bred for centuries with an eye to maximum profit and consumer pleasure. He often uses cowhide as a sculptural material, drawing out connotations that relate to the commodification of bodies and the attendant destruction this brings. A past collaborator of Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Johnson came to virtual reality through the practice of writing poetry. In both poetry and VR, Johnson observes, “worlds can be endless, limitless, emotional, tyrannical.” Thus, Johnson’s practice is unique for its thematic and material connection of the very old and the very new, the emotional and the embodied, and as a way of thinking through climate grief and crisis.