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.
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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