heteroerotic lust and dead seriousness
Melville House Publishing
University of Rochester Press
How should a museum deal with artworks that are considered problematic today
work has become an end in itself
Ben Rivers: Urthworks Gosha Rubchinskiy heteroerotic lust and dead seriousnessMACK, 2025, softcover, 176 pages, 17 x 21. 5 cm Urthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed