Animations on NoMorePotlucks

Essay by Vanessa Kwan, interview with Dayna Macleod. Features three animations.

http://nomorepotlucks.org/article/crux-no6/see-girl-has-got-have-it-diyan-achjadi-and-military-complex

Sugar Bombs part 2: Montreal

Sugar Bombs opens at Montreal, Arts Interculturels on November 12th!

paper doll prototype

fresh from the studio. Still missing her arms, to be added next week.

buttons!

 

buttons

To be distributed at the opening, tonight

The Further Adventures of Girl @ Things of Desire

http://thingsofdesire.ca/2009/05/28/the-further-adventures-of-girl/

Interview by Mike Landry

Uniforms

I’ve always been fascinated by uniforms, and the ways that uniforms both aim to erase difference (we all wear the same thing therefore we are one) while also functioning to differentiate particular groups from non-members. Uniforms also indicate status and importance, through subtle — and not-so-subtle — indicators. They become identifiers of allegiances and identifications, of employment and rank, and of access and power.

Ceremony, 2007

 

 

Some artworks that use uniforms:

Uniforms: Order and Disorder 

Fred Wilson: Guarded View

Chris Burden: LAPD Uniform

Daryl Vocat: Building A Foundation

 

Some types uniforms I have worn:

Indonesian school uniform diagram

Indonesian scouts uniform diagram

A print-related bibliography

I recently taught a class called “Multiples and Contemporary Practice” at Emily Carr which examined the ways that prints and multiples have impacted our contemporary context.  Below is a partial, incomplete reading list from that course:

Anderson, Benedict, “The Origins of National Conciousness,” in Imagined Communities: Reflections on The Origins and Spread of Nationalism London and New York: Vers, 1991

 Benjamin, Walter “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) in Illuminations trans Harry Zohn, New York: Schoken Books, 1969

 Briggs, Asa and Burke, Peter. “The Print Revolution in Context,” A Social History of the Media. p. 15-73. Cambridge UK and Malden, Massahussetts. Polity Press / Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2002.

 Buskirk, Martha, “Original Copies” in The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art Cambridge and London:  MIT Press, 2003

 Foucault, Michel, “What is an Author?” in Language, Counter Memory, Practice, Ithaca, NY : Cornell U Press, 1977

 Hebidge, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Routledge, 2005

 Lawrence Lessig, “Free Culture”

 Postrel, Virginia, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Conciousness New York: Harper Collins, 2003

Roberts, John, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade

Schwarz, Hillel ,“Ditto” in The Culture of The Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles New York: Zone Books, 1996

Tallman, Susan,”Multiplicity” in The Contemporary Print from Pre-Pop to Postmodernism, : New York and London: Thames and Hudson,1996

3d Print

 

Work table with 3d Girl

A 3-dimensional print of the Girl being painted and finished in the studio.  The Girl was drawn in Blender, printed on a 3d printer at the IDS labs at Emily Carr. She still needs a few more layers of paint and varnish before she’s good to go.  Being a slow worker and self-taught in 3d-modeling, I started working on this in 2007. 

This project was an experiment to try and  materialize some of my drawings and 2-d prints into objects.  There is much more to be done — more prints, different scales, tests in mold-making and casting so that I can actually work on this as a multiple rather than a one-off.

Sugar Bombs catalog available!

The Kamloops Art Gallery published a beautiful catalog in conjunction with the exhibition Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, with a fabulous essay by Kristen Lambertson.  Exhibition closes in a week; it will travel to Montreal and Saskatoon at the end of this year.

Overflow continued

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still working on the animation.  Overflow is inspired by the devastating mud flow in East Java, which has buried a number of towns and shows no signs of abating.