Antipolis is a pastoral poem and stab-bound artist’s book that represents the London 2012 Olympic Games as a space of otium.

This pastoral convention represents an ideal of free time, leisure, and ease. However, in Antipolis, otium is reimagined as a politicised concept, by which the experience of space and place created by ‘London 2012’ is reproduced as poetry, with focus on the spectacular depthlessness of the Games.

Alluding to the classical pastoral scenario of companions walking and talking, Antipolis uses fragmented dialogue to restage the London 2012 Olympic Games as a destabilising ‘walk’ through varied ideas of place and pastoral. This allows the poetic text of Antipolis to explore connections between nature, technology, spectacle, dialogue, history, fantasy, construction, exploitation, labour, leisure, politics, conspicuous consumption, and city-walking.

Jennie Cole, Antipolis (2012)

Details:
Book measures 17 x 25 x 0.4 cm.
58 numbered pages.
Edition of 30.
An artist’s book by Jennie Cole. Made in London, 2012.

Construction:
Covers of 120gsm pearlised white paper.
Inner pages of 80gsm white copy paper with inkjet-printed black text.
Title page and opening epigraphs feature text typewritten on a Moritso 30, in red and black ink.
Endpapers are inkjet-printed colour copies of a hand-drawn landscape scene, merging adapted elements from the Stratford site of the London Olympic Games in 2012 with imagined structures, including those modelled after architectural styles from Ancient Greece.
Stab-bound with white linen thread.

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