From liav.koren at gmail.com Thu Oct 15 21:49:56 2009 From: liav.koren at gmail.com (Liav Koren) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:49:56 -0400 Subject: [dorkbottoronto-announce] dbot: nov 19th: artificial anaimal landscapes Message-ID: November's dorkbot will be robo-landscape-ana-taxidimically excellent. Brandon Vickered and David Hannan will be presenting. Details to follow! Liav. From liav.koren at gmail.com Wed Oct 28 17:26:11 2009 From: liav.koren at gmail.com (Liav Koren) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:26:11 -0400 Subject: [dorkbottoronto-announce] nov 19: bios, images Message-ID: Nov 19th: Brandon Vickered + David Hannan. 7pm, at Interaccess 9 Ossington. -=-=-= David and Brandon both have have a diverse body of work that deals with human interventions into landscape, decay, animalism and sculptural practice. You can see some wonderfully evocative documentation of their work at their websites: www.davidhannan.ca/ www.brandonvickerd.com -=-=-=- Bios: David Hannan: M?tis artist David Hannan works with taxidermy-form sculptures to explore vulnerability, both in humans and in nature. Hannan?s taxidermy hybrids present tension and beauty in the merging of animals into sculptures and at the same time, suggest landscape in the gentle undulations of the forms. Many of the themes in Hannan?s art derive from his Aboriginal heritage, particularly his engagement with history, and notions of territory. His work uses taxidermy forms to make transformational sculptures that evoke emotional responses of fear, endearment and aggression. Traditionally, taxidermy forms have been used as the basis of a hunter?s trophy, where the skin of an animal is stretched over the form to be preserved. In Hannan?s work however, instead of using animal skin, he uses packing tape and wool felt blankets that create a sense of fragility. The blankets suggest a need for warmth, protection, shelter, love and understanding but also that it can suffocate and allows us to hide from ones fear. Brandon Vickered My studio practice is extremely varied, encompassing kinetic sculpture, site specific interventions, emerging digital technologies and a traditional object based approach to sculpture. A common uniting theme in my work is an examination of sculpture as a catalyst for critical engagement in our physical world. Whether through craftsmanship or the creation of spectacle, my goal is to provoke the viewer to question the constructed world they inhabit. The end goal of my studio practice is to draw the viewer?s attention to the assumptions we make about the reality we perceive.