Tavares Strachan

B.A.S.E.C. Rocket Cap

Name: B.A.S.E.C. Rocket Cap
Brand: Tavares Strachan
SKU: BC-HAT-BLK
Price: 80.00 AUD
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B.A.S.E.C. Rocket is one of two caps designed by Tavares Strachan for Task Eternal, Powerhouse's inaugural exhibition tracing humanity’s enduring quest to defy gravity, take flight and journey into space. Strachan is a Bahamas-born, New York-based artist known for The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, a sculptural work documenting thousands of entries on historically marginalised people, places and events. His work is included in Task Eternal, extending his longstanding interest in space, discovery and the question of who is represented within histories of exploration. B.A.S.E.C. Rocket depicts a rocket launching through a starry sky in green and black, branded B.A.S.E.C., Strachan's own imagined Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Centre, alongside Powerhouse.

material

Cotton

size

140mm x 180mm x 280mm

Tavares Strachan

Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian conceptual artist born in Nassau in 1979, educated at the College of the Bahamas, the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. His multidisciplinary practice investigates science, exploration and erased histories, often through immersive research that has taken him through astronaut training and deep sea exploration alike. Strachan founded B.A.S.E.C., the Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Center, his own fictional space agency and clothing line built with his mother Ella Strachan, extending his research into wearable objects, flight jackets, bunny boots and fighter pilot suits among them. One of his best known projects, the satellite ENOCH, carried the story of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut selected for a national space program, into orbit for three years.

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