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.