Suburban Utopia, An Infertile Place (SU4IP)
Lyndon Watkinson
Lyndon Watkinson (1999) is an artist, designer, writer, and musician based in Sheffield, UK. Democratising art and art context through artworks, publications, graphic design, articles, and sound. Creative director and founder of the online arts organisation SU4IP. His work is characterised by a desire for precision, often depicting aesthetics that celebrate and criticise the absurdity of corporatized identity, calling into question the necessity of creating false exteriors when what is not seen is often just as important.
In late 2020, a blog post entitled Suburban Utopia, An Infertile Place formed part of the wider inquiry and development of his practice for his bachelor's degree in fine art. As his work matured, he applied this term as a formalisation of his creative endeavours, later abbreviating it to SU4IP, now used as a digital alias and publishing entity.
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At some point, we may experience the feeling of incorrect placement. Strife, adversity, and toil litter human history, and will invariably continue to do so. When one tribulation is thought to have been eradicated, we quickly realise that we have only brought about its displacement, and allowed it to manifest itself in a different form.
The information age has brought about new challenges not yet faced by humanity. Jumping forward into the future will present us with new problems outside our comprehension; turning back the clock only reminds us of how much we take for granted, and how far we have come.
We are defined as a species by our ability to innovate, mitigate, and supplant ongoing dilemmas, and creatively overcome challenges. Since the beginning, we have employed the arts as a fluid and dynamic response to external influences. This, in practice, operates as anything from a simple coping mechanism to unwind and recharge, all the way to innovatively tackling and overcoming hardship.
Art is an interface between us and the outside world. It is happening all the time. We make sense of the world by exercising it within our own range of motions, and ultimately, we prescribe consistency and order to chaotic elements once thought to be outside our control.
"Order!" is the fourth iteration of submission-style publications produced by SU4IP, a paperbound exhibition demonstrating our inherent ability to reimagine, compile, and distil outside forces into something that will inspire others, or stimulate change. Enacting regulation, structure, hierarchy, systems, control, categories, location, and layout; for better, or for worse.
Designed and curated by SU4IP. Bound and digitally printed on heavy, opaque, and high-quality paper for the best visibility and legibility. (Cover: 250 gsm, roughly half the thickness of a credit card. Inside Pages: 170 gsm), A5 (148 x 210 mm).