#Anthropology Test Series 2024

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Gallery visit: 24th Sydney Biennale (AGNSW) (4.4.24)

Exhibition description (found in all other exhibition locations for 24th Sydney Biennale):

"The singular life-giving body that is the sun, like the world it shines light upon, has been known under thousands of different words in as many languages. Each name carries a different cultural viewpoint, and many do not rely on a vision of a single sun. The image of ten thousand suns evokes a scorching world, both in cosmological visions and in our present moment of climate emergency and of a world ablaze.

Since 1945, the atomic era has aroused the public imagination. Nuclear explosions have been inscribed in memory in the form of devastatingly monumental mushroom clouds. This history largely unfolded in the Pacific, from the bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War to the hundreds of tests staged in the subsequent decades, orchestrated by imperial powers on island nations and Indigenous lands. The race to develop nuclear weapons has caused human displacement and contamination, and led to regimes of military control, including at Maralinga, South Australia, from 1952 to 1963. Unlike the nuclear era, the manifold crises of the carbon era remain elusive and are not able to be encapsulated in a single image. Thus, the mushroom cloud also asks how the climate crisis can be imagined, represented and embodied in the life of images.

Across all sites, the 24th Biennale of Sydney emphatically conveys a "solar joy' of cultural multiplicities. It brings First Nations understandings of the cosmos to the fore, and celebrates carnival traditions as forms of resistance and modes of rallying against oppression and dehumanisation. Under the title Ten Thousand Suns, the Biennale works within these different layers, acknowledging the deep crises derived from rampant exploitation while refusing to concede to an apocalyptic vision of the future. This edition cautions against a 'politics of doom' as a cause for fatalism and inaction. It proposes, instead, the radiance and warmth of ten thousand suns, illuminating a collective future lived with irrepressible joy that is not only possible, but also necessary."

Maru Yacco's Sydney Parade (2024, mural - acrylic paint)

Description: "In Maru Yacco's Sydney parade, silhouetted figures appear like a troupe of dancers on a stage. Playing with ideas of hyper-masculinity and exaggerated femininity, the characters act as avatars. Yacco creates worlds full of whimsical, gender-fluid characters, informed by Japanese popular and subcultures. Often delving into ideas around genderless reproduction and alternative family structures, Yacco - a prominent figure in the Japanese trans community - challenges assumptions while reflecting on contemporary ideas of identity construction in the age of social media."

Robert Gabris' The Garden of Catastrophe series (pencil on paper)

From left to right: Becoming an Insect (2023), Deadly Nightshade (2023), In the Garden of Catastrophe (2023)

Description: "The series The Garden of Catastrophy is an expression of empowerment, symbolising the reclamation of agency over one's own narrative and identity. Each drawing challenges centuries of racism, discrimination and exoticisation experienced by the Roma people throughout Europe to this day. Pressing against heteronormative assumptions, Robert Gabris' drawings present a free-flowing identity more accepted within Roma culture. This self-described chaos isn't a force of destruction, but rather an agent of transformation and rebirth - a metaphor for the ever-evolving identities and stories of the marginalised. Central to Gabris' work is a critique of the Eurocentric anthropological discourse that has historically objectified and dehumanised Roma bodies. Through the fragmented portrayal of the queer Roma body, the drawings depict a garden of healing wherein the 'other' grows prodigiously. Symbolising ancestral wisdom, the insects that populate the garden navigate adversity with tenacity, just as the Roma people have endured the trials of history and colonisation."

Iratxe Jaio and Klaas Van Gorkum's False Flag (2021-2023, sculptural installation - polystyrene, fibreglass, epoxy resin and lacquer - and short film (5 mins 49 secs))

Description: "Taking inspiration from René Magritte's 1937 painting Le drapeau noir ('The black flag'), a response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Irate Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum have re-created in 3D several of the work's futuristic airplanes. Appearing as if props from a science-fiction film, the planes foreshadow the advent of drone warfare and satellite technology that define the contemporary era. Gesturing at the ways in which technology fundamentally skews human relationships with geography, Jaio and van Gorkum's False Flag is backgrounded by footage of the Basque mountains, and layered with ghostly and disparate voices listing body parts depicted in Pablo Picasso's Guernica 1937. Blurring ideas of the present, past and predictions for the future, False Flag considers how time and distance alter historical memory."

Bonita Ely's loctus works

Row 1: At home with the Locust People (Itchy feet) (1974-1975, oil paint and collage on canvas), At home with the Locust People (1974, acrylic paint on canvas)

Row 2: c20th Mythological Beasts: At home with the Locust People (1975, mixed media installation and short film (19 mins))

(Mild content warning for some censored artistic nudity)

Description: "From the deserts of Ancient Egypt and the outcroppings of North America's Rocky Mountains to Australia's drought-ridden plains, locust swarms have devastated harvests, communities and entire landscapes. This biblical phenomenon - a sign of great punishment or the end of times - is scientifically referred to as the 'gregarious phase' whereby solitary locusts congregate in heaving, mass-producing and ravenous swarms. For Bonita Ely, who explores themes of environmental degradation in her art, there is an apt correlation between the gregarious phase of locusts and the relationship humans have with the natural world. Created in the 1970s when questions surrounding population and pollution were reaching a fever pitch, the 'Locust People' works depict modern domestic scenes populated by vulgar human-insect hybrids. In each, the Locust People have left their surroundings either bare or smouldering, yet remain unbothered by anything except one another. Ely's grim prediction of future environmental collapse positions humans as both the victim and the perpetrator. In c20th Mythological Beasts: At home with the Locust People, a nuclear family reclines, unfazed, while watching scenes of a dying world on television. Like a locust swarm, humanity will not stop until there is nothing left to consume."

Nádia Taquary's beaded headdresses EG03 (yellow - 2021, Ipe wood, 70-degree bronze, fabric, and African cowrie shells) and EG05 (red/purple - 2021, Ipe wood, 70-degree bronze, glass beads imported from Czech Republic, Nigerian amber, and gourds)

More info (not from Biennale description):

Pauline and Jim Yearbury's carved Rimu wood (c. 1967-1975)

From left to right: Tu Matauenga, Tawhirimatea, Rongo Mare Roa, Warrior Slaying Taniwha, How Maui Made The Sun Slow Down, Hinemoa & Tutanekai

Description: "An important practitioner in Maori modernist art, Pauline Yearbury was dedicated to the preservation of ancestral knowledge. In 1943, she became one of the first two Mãori women to study at Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, and would go on to spend much of her career tutoring younger artists. In collaboration with her husband Jim Yearbury, Pauline Yearbury created incised Rimu wood panels detailing the swirling stories which constitute a rich Mãori mythology, the back of each labelled with a description of the scene it depicts. From tales of love and war to the movement of the sun, Yearbury has captured the intricacies of her culture by combining traditional Mäori carving with her geometricised forms."

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Geography Optional: A Comprehensive Guide to Syllabus Paper-1, Test Series, and Foundation Course 2024

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Unit-II: Climatology

Unit-III: Oceanography

Unit-IV: Biogeography

Unit-V: Environmental Geography

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