Is sport the main event, or just the prop? Issue 06 looks at how sport serves as a backdrop for social movements, community bonds and artistic expression: the boundary between reality and illusion, fake props and authentic performances, what's real and what isn't. Does a high-quality wetsuit bring us closer to nature, or take us further from it?
Jane Stockdale photographs the theatre of the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow. Ted Whitaker writes on post-humanism and the wetsuit as a second skin. Mark Bo Chu looks at the opposite of winning. Kent Andreasen shoots the sculpture of rock climbing outside Cape Town. Sheridan Wilbur talks religion at the Footy Temple. Aria McManus builds a series of hyper-real sporting props. Christian Nathler witnesses the love and hate of football localism. Long Prawn look for change in the bottom of a Gatorade barrel.
Good Sport 06. The Prop.
