Flat Earthers: Unpleasant Truths / Comfortable Lies

by Various

The Flat Earthers e-book and limited edition spiral-bound publication brings together new work and conversations from artists and writers around the globe in response to John Lake’s body of work To the Ends of the (Flat) Earth, documenting the 2019 Flat Earth Conference—an international gathering of people who believe the Earth is flat.

During the lead up to the 2020 elections in Aotearoa and the USA, John’s photographs and ‘research’ into misinformation in the ‘information age’ became a provocation for artists and writers to make new work, presented in the ‘project space’ of the Flat Earthers website, and excerpted for this book with design by Kerry Ann Lee, and editing by John Lake and Raewyn Martyn.

101 pages, Spiral-bound

Published July 1, 2021

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Reviews

[Bryce Galloway · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the sprawling catalogue / parallel text / accumulation of just some of the material spawned by Raewyn Martyn’s invitation to a raft of artists to respond to John Lake’s documentary photographs of New Zealand first flat earthers’ conference. Some of the texts and artworks tackle flat earth conspiracy theories and others head on (Antistatic, John Lake, Murdoch Stephens), discussing their prevalence during recent election narratives and amidst the heightened narrative of our global Covid pandemic. Other texts/artworks are too tangential/opaque; possibly interesting in their own right but with scant relevance to the subject at hand (Warren Jones & Campbell Argenzio, Radna Rumping…) Then there’s the middle ground; texts/artworks that parallel at one remove from flat earth conspiracies as a prompt (Gabrielle Civil and Bek Coogan as pop shawomen, Rachel O’Neill prose, Heather Christle on perception). Love the hybrid energy and ambition of the book’s meta project. The book is a curious spiral bound object, vertical format, bound at top like an oversized detective's notepad (perhaps that’s the point).