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defamiliarization

Texts and Images

05/05/2008

Diana Ali- Nottingham, UK (text)
Steve Dutton- South Korea (image)

Playing
Denying
Squinting
Stirring
Strengthen
Tip toeing
Stripping
Disguise
Unfaithful
In a minute

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About

This blog features the artists and participants that have contributed words and images that have explored the idea of Viktor Sklovsky's 'defamiliarization'
Participants can see how their written word has been translated into the visual and in which location and the artists contributing visually can see who and where their words came from.

For exhibitions of this project in Sheffield and London please follow the links below.

Instructions

1. An artist responds in 10 words to the word defamiliarization.

2. This response is passed onto another artist in a diferent location.

3. The second artist alters/ changes/ adapts the words.

4. The second artist displays the interpreted words in a setting which represents their city/ country.

5. They then take a photograph/s of the new words in their new place.

6. The photographs will be returned to the original artists who are re-introduced to their defamiliarized words.

Artists/ Participants

Aby Mackie Tom Mills (1)
Becky Shaw Rei Dishon (1)
Dave Smith Douglas McCulloh (1)
David Mcnab PJ Bruyniks (1)
Deborah Ford Carol Kanga (1)
Diana Ali Steve Dutton (1)
Diana Ali TC McCormack (1)
Domenico Olivero (1)
Ellie Harrison Oliver Deprez (1)
Helen Blejerman Janja Sesar (1)
Jaspar Joseph Lester Christopher Robbins (1)
Julia Rogers Wayne Brett (1)
Kate Moyse Madeline Djerejian (1)
Kate Pickin Jayant B. Joshi (1)
Marina Sossi Ellen Jantzen (1)
Martin Lewis James Kowacz (1)
Matthew Noel Tod Antti Savela (1)
Michael Corris Niki Papp (1)
Michael Pinchbeck Sue Shepard (1)
Niki Reid KC ZL (1)
Nusa Pauko Margherita Abbozzo (1)
Pam Bowman Sam Martin (1)
Polly Wiltshire Gil Scullion (1)
Rose Turner Janet Mohler (1)
Roxani Giannou Don Emerick (1)
Sadhana Ali JJ Higgins (1)
Zoe Lambert Niija Ala Fossi (1)

Links

One Night Stands, Curatorial collaborations
crawleyali at the CUC, Liverpool
Sheffield Hallam Curators Forum

Blog Archive

Artist/Curator

Diana Ali: Diana Ali is a British Bangladeshi Visual Artist and Independent Curator living and working in Nottingham, UK. Her practice involves fictional narratives, analogue video making, a play on text. She is interested in correspondence, communication, connectivity and collaboration and this is extended through her international curatorial projects. She travels, gets lost and collects themes of political responses and reactions, cultural and language boundaries, human interaction; bringing different fragments of cultures into one space. As an artist she has exhibited in London, Victoria, Australia, San Francisco, Tehran and Pakistan. To date she has independently curated fourteen shows in the UK, Romania, California, Lisbon, Cyprus, South Korea and Israel. She is currently working with promoting and advocating the importance of creative thinking and making in different sectors outside of art. She is also a creative mentor, workshop leader, a trustee for The Nottingham Women’s Centre and Axis and a Fine Art lecturer at Loughborough University and Open College of Arts. She has appeared in several art programmes as a professional mentor and presenter on BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4.

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