Comments on: Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:42:56 -0800

Nina Katchadourian's work includes mended spiderwebs, renovated mushrooms, a color-coded car park, and talking popcorn. Sadly the video for "a 10-minute excerpt from an archival film of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to the South Pole on the ship Endurance, projected onto my front tooth" is not yet online. [via]

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:46:50 -0800

OK, I love the cars sorted by color.

By: grobstein

grobstein — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:47:11 -0800

The car thing was hilarious, but I was disappointed when I read that it wasn't a prank but rather a project with significant official approval and participation.

By: prostyle

prostyle — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:47:18 -0800

A bicycle tire patching kit found in the tool shed was used to patch up a group of mushrooms that had small tears on the caps. Travesty.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:50:01 -0800

It wasn't a prank when she did it, but Pandora's box has now been opened.

By: srobbin

srobbin — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:53:56 -0800

I'm not sure I'd want to watch a Shackleton film being projected onto a tooth, but the others are clever.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:54:50 -0800

I've seen her stuff several times and I really like it. I've never been much for this kind of art, but she really pulls it off. One thing I enjoyed was an installation with a recording of all the verbal tics (uhs, ahs, ums) of the Apollo astronauts on the moon with all the speech edited out.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:58:10 -0800

that's pretty great.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:03:42 -0800

Great. I love the Charlotte's Web classified ad. charlotteslist?

By: DU

DU — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:08:30 -0800

Genealogy of the Supermarket is brill.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:10:18 -0800

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

By: billypilgrim

billypilgrim — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:11:24 -0800

This is great.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:18:05 -0800

The Gerber baby is the adopted child of the Brawny man and Mr. Clean. I love it.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:19:45 -0800

"a 10-minute excerpt from an archival film of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to the South Pole on the ship Endurance, projected onto my front tooth" Sublime.

By: Artw

Artw — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:28:21 -0800

I like this a lot. Especially the webs.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:34:42 -0800

Great post Armitage Shanks! Thanks! If I could favorite it a bunch of times I would. omg, Nina Katchadourian's art is wonderful! I love her art! what a delightfully intelligent sense of humor. Her Uninvited Collaborations With Nature really are sublimely fun. I feel my life has changed for the better seeing her art. The world will look different now in small, playful ways and can imagine her name becoming a word in my thoughts to describe amicably unlikely, delicate or subtle connections or unions. "Ah, that's so NinaKatchadourian."

By: metaculpa

metaculpa — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:07:37 -0800

"a 10-minute excerpt from an archival film of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to the South Pole on the ship Endurance, projected onto my front tooth" Sublime. I've seen this! Vancouver? Shit, I can't remember where. Maybe NY. It was fairly captivating, and looked profoundly uncomfortable. Not as uncomfortable as, you know, going to the south pole - but we all have our crosses to bear.

By: kcds

kcds — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:17:42 -0800

Yeah, I think nickyskye nails it - it's her sense of humor, coupled with lack of pretense. Clever, thought-provoking, inventive, witty, and yet still "serious" enough that her installations are recognizably art and not, say, just a prank. Great stuff.

By: serazin

serazin — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:00:28 -0800

By: serazin

serazin — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:08:05 -0800

and on NPR

By: Devidicus

Devidicus — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:52:31 -0800

[this is good]

By: fake

fake — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:18:23 -0800

Wow, this is wonderful work. Startlingly cheerful and funny without falling into any of the usual traps. Most of all, beautiful. Thanks for the link.

By: jtajta

jtajta — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:23:01 -0800

A local radio program did a piece on a sound installation of hers. The piece is part of a larger half-hour program on birds in New York City. The story is at about 23:40...

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:26:02 -0800

Fabulous!

By: minervous

minervous — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:47:23 -0800

I was at Wave Hill last year and heard her Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha. Delightful is the perfect word for it. Walking along in the park and then just barely hearing what for all the world sounded like adults mimicing bird calls ... then getting closer to a random tree and swearing that I could hear grown-up voices imitating bird calls! ... then seeing a speaker, a solar panel and an explanatory sign. So much fun.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:14:14 -0800

Popcorn's first word was "we"? This could be a problem.

By: !Jim

!Jim — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:02:29 -0800

I like this, it's good. I love the parking lot (TAKE THAT! commonwealth countries) idea, and the whole idea of arranging things by color. Almost makes me want to go do something with my life. Almost.

By: Many bubbles

Many bubbles — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:11:11 -0800

The car thing is kind of neat, mainly because of how little variation there actually was in the colors. I mean it makes sense; I'd just never thought about it before. It would be such a pain to try to find your car afterwards, though.