{"product_id":"liss-fenwick-the-colony","title":"The Colony \/ Liss Fenwick","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-description-text\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eオーストラリア出身のアーティスト、リス・フェンウィック（Liss Fenwick）の作品集。本作は、作者が生まれ育ったノーザンテリトリーを舞台に制作されたもの。フェンウィックは、実家や教室に残されていた開拓時代の神話や先住民文化の抹消が記された蔵書を集め、それらをシロアリに与え、その残骸を撮影しました。シロアリによって侵食された書物の残骸は、トンネルや空洞からなる彫刻的な造形物へと変貌し、アーティストはそれらを写真に収めています。このプロセスにおいて、シロアリは単なる破壊者ではなく、西洋中心の支配的な物語を解体し、知識を土へと還す共著者として位置付けられています。ページの間には巨大なシロアリの塚の写真が差し込まれており、自然界の有機的なプロセスが人間の構造的ヒエラルキーを静かに凌駕していく様を示唆しています。これは、現代のオーストラリアに深く絡みついたままの入植者の精神構造を、能動的に脱学習（unlearning）する試みです。写真というメディアを用いて歴史と生態系の交差を提示したコンセプチュアルな一冊。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiss Fenwick’s The Colony is a book about books – and what happens when their authority is quietly and actively undone. Set in the distant north of the Australian continent, The Colony – Fenwick’s first photobook with Perimeter Editions – reflects on the book as a dominant form of human knowledge, and its role in a long, often destructive relationship with other forms of intelligence and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade on Larrakia and Wulna Country, the project sees Fenwick return to the region depicted in their acclaimed debut book Humpty Doom (Bad News Books, 2023), which was photographed around the artist’s hometown of Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, where they grew up on unceded land in a settler family. But where Humpty Doom swayed closer to the documentary genre, here Fenwick shifts positions, enlisting an unlikely team of co-authors – a termite colony living beneath their childhood home. Gathering books inherited from schoolrooms and family shelves – texts steeped in frontier myths, one-sided histories, and the erasure of First Nations cultures – Fenwick fed the selection of colonial volumes to the termites and then photographed the remains: a dense, sculptural language of tunnels, voids, and clay scaffolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing photography as both witness and collaborator, Fenwick allows collapse and digestion to reshape the dominant narrative, reversing these books’ presumed authority. The termites’ act of destruction becomes a generative act, dismantling certainty and returning knowledge to the soil, altered and unfinished. Woven amongst the pages of The Colony are photographs of colossal termite mounds, which appear as ancient, ghostly, monoliths piercing the landscape – their immense forms giving little indication of the assiduous, living commune within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFenwick’s photographs give precedence to native ecology and organic process over the hierarchy of structure and control; an active unlearning of the settler mindset that remains deeply entangled in contemporary Australia. In this book, the colonial fantasy is eaten away, hollowed out from within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n-\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128\u003cbr\u003eSize: 170 x 240 mm\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eColor, black and white\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Perimeter Editions, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53231097119017,"sku":null,"price":7480.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7790\/3145\/files\/LissFenwick_TheColony.jpg?v=1780999162","url":"https:\/\/aohatabooks.com\/en\/products\/liss-fenwick-the-colony","provider":"本屋青旗 Ao-Hata Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}