‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers competition – ‘Babylon Now’ by Elliott Nimmo

Source: blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au --- Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Ross Manning, Australia b.1978 / Spiral 2015 / Industrial ceiling fan, swivel, silk / Courtesy: The artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane / © The artist In conjunction with ‘ GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art ’, emerging writers had the opportunity to enter the ‘GOMA Q’ Emerging Writers Competition , launched on the opening weekend of the exhibition. A judging panel comprised of the Emerging Creatives team and the QAGOMA Blog coordinator had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the many high quality entries about the ‘GOMA Q’ exhibition. We are pleased to announce the winner is Elliott Nimmo, his blog published below. Entries from four talented runners up will also appear on our Blog over the coming weeks. Babylon Now An old land, far-reaching and impenetrable, whose primeval architecture expands arid in every direction. Space and structure – a land of mythos . The world evoked in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon is as cruel as the landscape in which it is set. A colonial tale of new bodies in ancient lands. Babylon was of course an ancient and bustling metropolis in Mesopotamia. It has long been romanticized and mythologized, its status enriched and perhaps enhanced, by time and our own inherent desire for rose-tinted nostalgia. I thought of Malouf’s work, particularly his title, Remembering Babylon , when I walked through ‘GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art’. It is an exhibition that posits new flesh in an old land. ...

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