Still Looking Good - book

Still Looking Good, cover

Still Looking Good

by Alice and Oliver Connew

GLORIA Books, 2019

Edition of 300, signed and numbered

Special Edition of 30, signed, numbered with signed and numbered inkjet print #37.

Still Looking Good is the final part of a collaboration between New Zealand artists—and siblings—Oliver Connew (dancer/choreographer) and Alice Connew (photographer) which brings together dance, sound and a visual aesthetic that are drawn from and reference pervasive socio-political forces that organise modern human activity, as understood by the artists.

Still Looking Good is a catalogue for the enabling infrastructures—physical, ethical, economic, biological—of human “Progress, Growth & Development”; a decades-old ideology. During the launch of the Orion Spacecraft, a video of which can be found on YouTube, the commentator can be heard to repeat over and over, “still looking good”. It is a statement that introduces uncertainty and appears hoping rather than confirming. A question is asked: Still Looking Good?

Alice Connew is a New Zealand-born, Berlin-based photographer. Her work transpires from a seemingly unconscious stream of intangible visual connections which occur throughout daily life. These links often show themselves at a later—and usually unexpected—time. She is the co-founder of GLORIA Books, a publishing collective focused on the publication of art and photography books.

Oliver Connew’s artistic work is motivated by a desire to spend much of his time dancing and with a willing sense of social and political responsibility. In this way, his choreography asks: What’s Dance Got To Do With It? Oliver has lived and worked in Berlin since 2013.

Still Looking Good, inside pages