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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Hypersculpture: 2D, 3D, 4D Remixable Painting/Sculpture/Installation; the haiku-entitled, cocoon/cockpit-shaped, 8m-X-4.5m artstravaganza "F-1 Papillons" (exclamation point)- Another View
transformation, change, ascension, impermanence, infinity, possibility, expansion, sampling, music, information, singularity, time, flatness, grid, apparent opposites: chaos/linear, male/female, soft/hard, creation/destruction, analog/digital, bio/machine, organic/architected...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
"Your Lightning Inhabits"
"Your Lightning Inhabits" by K.I.A., silver graphite on paper, 50" x 38", 2009
more drawings, micropoems, remixable sculptures by K.I.A.: http://nu4ya.posterous.com/
Sunday, November 22, 2009
jet engine totem pole / haida space shuttle by K.I.A.
New work by K.I.A.; image on metallic photo paper, framed, 60" x 40".
...a jet engine blueprint done in the manner of the Haida...title to be decided...
Saturday, November 21, 2009
F-1 Papillons -Best of K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu
"F-1 Papillons" -Best of K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu (15 tracks)
NOW AT iTUNES: LINK-> http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/k-i-a-shinjuku-zulu/id279563965?uo=6
Feat. the smartest & dumbest & funnest tracks by Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A.: from Paris Hilton BFF ("Hey La") to the Venice Biennale ("Large Slow River" w/Janet Cardiff)...
"Make Me Shake (Gimme Some Crush Crush)",
"Baby U Got",
"We Do Supersonic",
"Slow Is the New Fast",
"Feel It",
"Large Slow River",
"SXYLV",
"Dirty Liar",
"Sensation"
Friday, November 20, 2009
micropoem
just finished drawing & folding this micropoem:
graphite on paper, 50" x 38", by K.I.A., 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
oh-one-oh-one-oh-vah by K.I.A.
Artworks by K.I.A., in-studio: "F1 Papillons" (remixable sculpture, far left), "Redone" (red, tectonic arrangement, left); "Linear Mandala 3" (burnt sienna, above, left); "Staccatorest" (purple, near left, wall-sculpture arrangement); "Sound of Silver" (small); "01010VA" (large white, slightly rearranged); "Masaimatical" (red remixed African shield, top); "Micropoem 3" (right, framed).
Close-up view of "01010VA" by K.I.A. 5' x 5', acryllic on aluminum reconfigurable panels...
"Redone" painting intermixed with "01010VA" painting by K.I.A.; 5' x 5'...
more info: info[at]nu4ya.com
Friday, November 6, 2009
"Acceleration / still..."
Title:
Acceleration
still; Cocooned escapes, you; my
F1 Papillon
2009, by K.I.A. Mixed media on aluminum; dimensions variable.
A 2D-3D-4D Painting>Sculpture>Installation
A two-dimensional painting, hung three-dimensionally, to be reconfigured over time.
The initial image is a lepidoptera wing containing a collage of hundreds of aircraft blueprints.
The Initial sculptural configuration is a form suggestive of a cocoon, an airplane cockpit, an aircraft engine.
The 27'x16' flat painting (on 288 aluminium panels) are hung three-dimensionally over, through, and around a metal infrastructure. (In this iteration, the sculpture is of 12' h x 5' widest diameter.)
The 2D elements are the work functioning as a flat ‘painting’; a butterfly wing (the beginning image of the work); the aircraft blueprints; the initial 12' x 6' line-drawing (in metal) of a jet fighter/butterfly wing that becomes the sculpture's infrastructure; the words found on the blueprint schematics; the thin aluminium panels on which the work is painted; the shadows thrown by the sculpture.
The 3D elements are the cocoon/fuselage/engine sculputural arrangement (and future sculpture/installation reconfigurations); the X-Y-Z axis arrangement (for structural support of the painting) of the component parts of the metal line-drawing.
The 4D elements are the painting/sculpture as it's rearranged/deconstructed over time. Panels and sections can be regrouped, shifted, spun, etc; the work can be hung on the wall flat or bas-relief; it can be free-standing, hanging, flowing around corners; condensed, expanded, atomized (no pieces physically connected), intermixed with other works, etc. Additionally, all the painted surfaces -- the iridescent blues, opalescent whites, and substrate silvers-- change appearance according to the movement of the viewer, and the work looks significantly different according to the light (direct, spotlit, ambient, barely lit) over time. And the cocoon>butterfly reference relates to transformation...
And...
The painting/sculpture is ephemeral: it will never be in the exact same arrangement twice. (It is a physical object... that is not.)
The inside of the sculpture becomes the outside becomes the inside (re: Escher; Mobius; a 3D shadow of a 4D object: Fourth dimension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
The exterior 2D image and 3D shape are echoed by the interior 2D line-drawing but 3D arrangement of the metal infrastructure.
The black, flat, lines of the blueprints in the painting reinforce the butterfly-wing outlines and veining of the overall image, and the cockpit shape relates to the jet wing which relates to the butterfly wing which relates to the cocoon shape.
The 'process' is the work-- you are to see how it is made (glimpses of the infrastructure; 'backs' of the panels) and can watch the reconstructions/remixes as a live performance.
Some other connections & ideas:
The scales on a butterfly wing = the 'scales' (panels) of the painting = panels used in jet construction (including rivets/bolts).
Panels = grains in a Buddhist sand-painting, shards in a mosaic, pieces in stained glass, brushtrokes in Cezanne, planes in cubism, pixels in a screen...
Linear flight of a jet vs. non-linear flight of butterfly = grid of panels vs. arced panel arrangements; machined linear lines of a jet vs. biomorphic curves of butterfly wing
Analog vs. digital: curves of the painted lines vs. bits/bytes curves of the arcing panels... handmade painted curves vs. reproduced blueprints
Creation / Destruction: the sculpture is created, get uncreated... cocoon 'creates', jet fighter 'destroys'...
Hardness/softness: metal jet, metal panels, protection / paper cocoon, butterfly wing, protection
Technological/biological: machined, machine, metal, data (blueprints) / hand-made artwork, organic but architected cocoon
Yin and yang: 'femaleness' of butterfly wings; 'maleness' of a jet...
Uniqueness: a cockpit/fuselage, manufactured to exacting specifications, would always have the same shape; a cocoon, though made by caterpillars for eons, always has a unique shape.
The reconfigurable painting/sculpture series (past and ongoing), as a whole...
...function like a quantum wave but exist as a quantum particle (all possibilities collapse to the current iteration of the work.)
...are about potential--each piece contains all previous and future combinations...
...Is like music; the 'notes' are the panels; the work 'samples' (uses collage); like a song, can be interpreted by someone else (uniquely arranged by the owner, etc.)
...is also about the unknown-- the idea that the work will have completely unforeseeable versions in the future...
...touch upon the idea of the non-linear, in the sense the digital/random-access ability to take pieces (bits) of the work and shift them anywhere...
...invite participation...the audience/owner/curator is able to become involved in the works (mentally, as in "What if...", and/or physically constructing or suggesting a configuration or installation...)
...can be intermixed, and so also explore the idea that everything is interconnected...
...thematically explore opposing but complimentary ideas... (see below)
..Is always unfinished, as is each individual work
...works the grid, twerks the grid.
Finally:
Yes, the title is a haiku. Hopefully many of you stopped reading there, as all the rest is redundant (obvious?)
And FYI the sculpture reminds me of "A Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" by Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Acheulian hand axes: --which are a) weapons b) tools and c) some of the oldest art objects created by man, Acheulean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ; Frank Gehry's work: Frank Gehry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ; and Zaha Hadid: zaha hadid dubai - Google Search and even Peter Eisenman: Peter Eisenman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A couple more shots of "...F1 Papillon"; more to follow later date...
; )
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Singing Pi...and Massive Ballerina (Pirouettes for Millennia)
So I made the mistake of mentioning the idea for a song to Sinead ...
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Remixable sculpture skeleton by K.I.A.
2D infrastructure for the final remixable sculpture. Eventually to be hung in a 3D form, the interior 'skeleton' echoes thematically the outer shell of the work-in-progress sculpture/installation. Size: variable. Completion date: infinity. Title: a haiku (to be revealed...)
Friday, August 7, 2009
2d/3d/4d remixable sculpture/installation
in-progress 300-panel remixable 16' sculpture/installation cocoon/fuselage by K.I.A. stage 35 of 2 billion...
Friday, July 24, 2009
Major Tom, 40 years on...
He didn't burn up, he just burnt out: "Mrs. Major Tom" by K.I.A. (at iTunes too): Major Tom... and Mrs. Major Tom
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Shinjuku Zulu iPhone App @ iTunes
Shinjuku Zulu iPhone App now at iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/m7pd5m
Stay connected to Shinjuku Zulu & K.I.A. music, vids, pixs, tweets, blogs, games, trivia & more...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 22
22/22...and her melancholy melts away, and she smiles. (And it's wonderful.) -> [ “Hummingbird” by K.I.A.: http://tinyurl.com/pqkv2x ]
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 21
21/22...getting closer. So I pick her up... and the world collapses. I feel her tiny ribs, and her little heart...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 20
20/22...I'm busy working and knows not to interrupt-- but she's hovering around me like a hummingbird around a flower, getting closer...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 19
19/22...and in another country,I now have a daughter (with the woman above!) She's sad,in the way only a three-year-old can be; she sees...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 18
18/22...like an exotic little bird), and all the airport anarchy just dropped away for a moment. (And it was great.) Much later...
Friday, June 26, 2009
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 17
17/22...from a distance, but I felt her heartbeat against mine, I felt her tiny ribcage in my arms (she's slight, and beautiful...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 16
16/22...But there she was, and she came over and gave me a big hug.And the world collapsed again-- I was now used to bowing...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 15
15/22...if I'd recognize this friend-- it'd been a long time since we'd seen each other-- and I was late and a little stressed out....
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 14
14/22...Any airport is chaos, but an airport where the language is not the one you grew up with is chaos cubed. I wasn't even sure...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 13
13/22...the world restarted. (And it was good.)A year or two later, someone was coming from L.A. to visit me in Tokyo...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 12
12/22...of my finger. I managed to get the bird to the window without it getting away or crushing it, and when it flew out...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 11
11/22...papers and brooms and arms waving,a train roaring past, people clamoring, the oppressive humidity-all of it collapsed to the tip...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 10
10/22...to its breast, my index finger landed on its heart, and I could feel its fast-fast beat.It was a strange moment...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 9
9/22...slowly shifted, carefully extended my arm, and snatched quickly. I grabbed it from behind, and as my fingers curled around...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 8
8/22...(It remained on its feet, like an aging professional boxer near career's end.)The bird, a sparrow, was near me at this point, so I...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 7
7/22...the little bird out. Nothing worked.Eventually, after an especially loud thump on the window, it fell to the floor...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 6
6/22...all the windows they could. They were also getting brooms and shaking newspapers and waving their arms to try and direct...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 5
5/22...more and more invisible walls. As it grew crazier in its flight it drew more attention, and people were trying to open...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 4
4/22...it decided to leave. It immediately crashed into a closed window, then looped out and tried again, and then again, smacking into...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 3
3/22...and settled on a desk before looking around. When it noticed its salaryman surroundings (shady, but sllim-food-pickings),...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 2
2/22...super humid, and the windows were open to try and create a breeze (there was no air-con).A bird flew in...
Hummingbird by K.I.A. 1
1/22: I was in an old building with large windows, right next to Naka-Meguro train station. It was a typical Toyko summer...
Friday, June 5, 2009
Freedom by K.I.A. (annotate this video, y'all!)
The video "Freedom by K.I.A." on Youtube has been opened up to worldwide annotations / contributions. Be logical, illogical, political, scatalogical, philosophical...
Click the links on the video, (or the link under "More Info"), and add your thoughts, quotations, ascii art, annotation animations, etc. to the video. Be creative!
Freedom by K.I.A. (annotate this video, y'all!)
The video "Freedom by K.I.A." on Youtube has been opened up to worldwide annotations / contributions. Be logical, illogical, political, scatalogical, philosophical...
Click the links on the video, (or the link under "More Info"), and add your thoughts, quotations, ascii art, annotation animations, etc. to the video. Be creative!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
"P & M & S & L & D 55" by K.I.A. 10' x 6', (intermix of 5 paintings)
Another iteration of 5 separate paintings intermixed. (See other photos/posts for details on each individual painting).... the work is a probability wave, collapsed to the current version being viewed...
Monday, June 1, 2009
Kiss the Honey E.P. by Shinjuku Zulu feat. "Hey La", "Dirty Liar", "Kiss the Honey, Honey", "SXYLV"
All tracks by Shinjuku Zulu at iTunes, Amazon, etc....
==Track listing==
01 "Kiss the Honey, Honey" feat. Caryn Green
02 "Hey La" feat. Larissa Gomes
03 "SXYLV" feat. Ms Mac
04 "Dirty Liar" feat MC General (Ye Olde Schoole Edit by K.I.A.)
05 "Dirty Liar" feat MC General (Screw Chop Edit by K.I.A.)
06 "Dirty Liar Instrumental" (Ye Olde Schoole Edit by K.I.A.)
07 "Dirty Liar Instrumental" (Screw Chop Edit by K.I.A.)
see also tracks by K.I.A.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Mechanical Chrysanthemum by K.I.A.: 5 intermixed paintings, 9' x 15' (variable)
Five paintings by K.I.A., intermixed into half of a mechanical chrysanthemum: 1) "Masaimatical" (red African shield/math formulae) + 2) "Polyvictorian" (green Polynesian mask/Victorian imagery) + 3) "Staccato Rest" (purple note/historical and global musical notation) + 4) "Leaves of Steel" (orange leaves/scan of a photocopy of a reproduction of a facsimile of a handwritten version of Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass') + 5) "Data Drop" (ABAB rhyme-scheme collage)
Monday, May 11, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Remixed this... painting:
Polyvictorian by K.I.A., Remix #88, victorian era text & imagery inside mask; 10' x 6'...
more art by K.I.A.: http://tinyurl.com/487c8a
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