Dominion: A Whale Symposium - Tapa blanda

'With an extraordinarily talented entourage of poets, photographers, biologists, composers and cetologists, Philip Hoare and Angela Cockayne have assembled Dominion, a contemporaneous interpretation of man s tortured, often tragic, but sometimes inspired relationship with the great whales. Does this sound a bit like Moby-Dick to you?' --Richard Ellis

'Lots of whale-jack-off photos for the horny and faithful' --John Waters

The Dominion exhibition and Whale Festival, held at Plymouth University in February 2011, was the first in of its kind in the UK. It explored the iconography of the whale in art, science and history, through film, music, poetry and gallery talks. In the process it became a unique celebration of the cultural links between art and science, as seen through the abiding, mysterious shape of these extraordinary animals. Dominion contains new essays by artists, writers, curators and scientists as well as images of Angela Cockayne s work and evocative photographs of whales themselves.