
Making Strange
Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-9847550-9-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume juxtaposes for the first time two striking bodies of work by Delhi-based and internationally recognized contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. Gagawaka, the first project, consists of twenty-seven sculptural garments made from a bizarre assortment of recycled materials including foam cups, surgical masks, tire tubes, tampons, X-ray film, bandages, bras, foil pill wrappers, and drain pipes. These garments evoke a relationship both playful and subversive to fashion, haute couture, the runway, and the brand.
The second project, Postmortem, is a collection of haunting sculptural objects composedof mannequins, tailor's dummies, wooden props, and models of human organs and bones. Postmortem questions the spectacle of Gagawaka with a wider set ofcommentaries about the human body and social concerns related to aging, illness, and death.
The second project, Postmortem, is a collection of haunting sculptural objects composedof mannequins, tailor's dummies, wooden props, and models of human organs and bones. Postmortem questions the spectacle of Gagawaka with a wider set ofcommentaries about the human body and social concerns related to aging, illness, and death.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
145 illus., 142 in color
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9847550-9-7 (9780984755097)
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Saloni Mathur is associate professor of art history at the University of California, LosAngeles. Miwon Kwon is professor of art history at University of California, Los Angeles.