The World Isn’t Finished Yet, Is It? by Jocko Weyland
The World Isn’t Finished Yet, Is It? is an exhibition of photographs, drawings and paintings by artist, writer, and curator Jocko Weyland, presented at the European Center for Peace and Development in Pula, Croatia, organized by and in conjunction with the Vladimir Film Festival.
On display will be ‘word’ drawings that are transcriptions of signs and other public announcements from China, paintings of brightly colored clay Russian folk-art figurines his mother bought in Moscow in the 1960’s, depictions of objects and natural items on the ground from his time working for the Parks and Recreation Department in Incline Village, Nevada, and “redacted” and overpainted foldout ski area trail maps. Bookending the exhibition will be a sampling of closeup photos fetishizing details of hardcore album covers from the early 1980’s, and recent skiing self-portraits.
Jocko Weyland (b. 1967, Helsinki, Finland) is the author of The Answer is Never — A Skateboarder’s History of the World (Grove Press, 2002), The Powder, Danny’s Lot, Geomancy, and Egg Strike on Orchard (Dashwood Books, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2021, respectively), and the short story collection Eating Glass, published in 2015 by 1980 Editions. He started the serial publication Elk in 2003, which spawned Elk Books and the eponymous Elk Gallery, an itinerant space that presented sixteen exhibits at non-traditional places in New York, Los Angeles, and Beijing between 2006-11. In New York, from 1991 to 2006, Weyland worked as an archivist for the Burns Archive, the Sygma Photo Agency, and The Associated Press Photo Library, and later lived in Beijing for two years teaching English and writing the bimonthly column ‘Raw China’. for Vice Magazine. More recently he has spent winters as a lift operator at the Diamond Peak ski area and was curator at MOCA Tucson from 2013 – 17.
Exhibition remains open from September 23rd — October 23rd 2023.