13/10/2024
Neja Tomšič: O***m Clippers (2018)
More about the book: https://rostfreipublishing.com/product/o***m-clippers-neja-tomsic/
"The artist book O***m Clippers is based on the series of homonymous tea ceremonies in which artist Neja Tomšič tells (true) stories about forgotten episodes in world history to a chosen audience while making and drinking tea. In the second half of the 18th and in the 19th century the tea and o***m trade was one of the most lucrative businesses in the world and was, at the time, completely controlled by the great European colonial powers and private corporations enjoying state protection.
The book O***m Clippers is a combination of images and texts through which the artist narrates stories based on documents while, at the same time, consciously transitioning from the factual to the symbolic level of this issue. The tea and o***m trade refers to a time, in the past, when notions on politics, class, gender, religion and culture as we know them now were being (trans)formed. It also refers to the present time, however, as this enormous industry is still at the heart of many economic and military superpowers, whose roots can be traced to tea and o***m trade. Numerous successful financial, trade or transport companies still active today were established in the period of the tea and o***m trade, often as a result of it. Based on short-term planning and quick profits, the tea and o***m trade had profound consequences on many societies around the globe."
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