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The Waste Land

by DISSIMILAR

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DISSIMILAR is an artistic collaboration by Alastair Cook and James Norton.

The Waste Land is an artistic response to the poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. The poem is divided into five sections. The first, "The Burial of the Dead", introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair. The second, "A Game of Chess", employs alternating narrations, in which vignettes of several characters address those themes experientially. "The Fire Sermon" offers a philosophical meditation in relation to the imagery of death and views of self-denial in juxtaposition. After a fourth section "Death by Water" which includes a brief lyrical petition, the culminating fifth section "What the Thunder Said" concludes with an image of judgement.

James and Alastair now work together at Integrated Artists, a creative production company directing and delivering projects across the cultural sector.

Integrated Artists work with cultural institutions such as The British Library, Southbank, The Poetry Society, The National Trust, The Science Museum Group, Scottish Poetry Library, The Museum of London and The British Council.

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released April 2, 2011

All guitars, electronics and vocals by DISSIMILAR

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DISSIMILAR UK

DISSIMILAR create artworks in photography, film, sound and painting which explore artistic languages surrounding the subject of the human in the landscape. DISSIMILAR regularly collaborate with composers, poets and other artists, making artworks that visualise aspects of our urban landscape from alternative perspectives, questioning our relationship with the disintegration of our urban world. ... more

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