Opener 11: Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian was born in California, moved to the East Coast for college, went back to the West Coast for graduate school, and now lives on the East Coast again. This map reflects her bicoastal experience of the country. See more 

Over 250 postcards, collected by the artist during her travels, are stitched, grouped, and connected via an elaborate network of dotted lines. A "world view" of extreme and almost paranoid interconnectedness emerges. Each time the project is exhibited, Katchadourian incorporates postcards from the city or town where... See more 

The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö, an island off the coast of Finland where I spent summers growing up. In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread. All of... See more 

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Talking Popcorn is a machine that listens to the sound of popping corn and translates it using Morse Code. Morse Code is a system of communication invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in 1835 for use with the telegraph. The code represents letters of the alphabet and numbers with sequences of dots and dashes (or... See more 

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Endurance uses an excerpt of archival footage shot by expedition photographer Frank Hurley from Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary 1914 expedition to Antarctica. While attempting to reach the South Pole, the expedition's ship, called the Endurance, was immobilized and crushed by the Antarctic pack ice, stranding the... See more 

Natural Car Alarms was a public art project where Katchadourian replaced the standard six-tone car alarm with new audio made entirely from bird sounds. See more 

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My foreign-born parents, who have each lived in the United States for over forty years, both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that I have never been able to imitate correctly (and have not inherited). Inspired by posters advertising courses in "accent elimination," I worked intensively with my parents and... See more 

The Sorted Books project began in 1993 and is ongoing. Iterations of the project have taken place in many different sites, ranging from private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping... See more 

Austria describes itself as "the heart of Europe." This photograph shows the entire Austrian road network, dissected from a paper map and formed into the shape of a heart. See more 

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At the entrance to the museum, Katchadourian’s banner Grnad Opening celebrates a spelling error discovered at a neighborhood deli in Brooklyn, New York. Based on this photograph she recreated the banner exactly as it originally appeared. See more 

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