Opener 11 Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction

Nina Katchadourian, Austria, 2006, C-print, 30 x 40 inches, courtesy of the artist and Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York

Installation view, Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, Tang Teaching Museum, 2006

Installation view of Paranormal Postcards, 1996-2001, in Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, Tang Teaching Museum, 2006

Installation view of Accent Elimination, 2005, in Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, Tang Teaching Museum, 2006

Installation view of GRNADOPENING, 2006, in Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, Tang Teaching Museum, 2006

Installation view of Popcorn Journal, 2001-2006, in Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, Tang Teaching Museum, 2006

Installation view of Endurance, 2002, in Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, Tang Teaching Museum, 2006

Nina Katchadourian makes engaging and irreverent artworks that combine investigative practices with a more elusive, poetic logic. Incorporating sculpture, photography, video, and sound, her multilayered projects are propelled by deliberate attempts to observe, scrutinize, order, and disorder her surroundings. All Forms of Attraction, the eleventh in the Tang Museum’s Opener series, collects more than a decade’s worth of Katchadourian’s provocations.

Works on view include meticulously dissected road maps that reimagine our collective geography.

Others artworks witness the artist’s often-meddlesome relationship to the natural world. Projects such as Mended Spiderwebs, Natural Car Alarms, and Artificial Insemination deliberately misunderstand natural phenomena as a way to reconsider the complex relationship between nature and culture. Linguistic systems and coded meanings also rank high among Katchadourian’s fascinations. In Talking Popcorn a machine listens to the pattern of popping corn and uses Morse Code to translate these sounds into written language.

Opener 11: Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction is organized by Ian Berry, the Susan Rabinowitz Malloy ‘43 Curator of the Tang Museum, in collaboration with the artist. The Opener series is generously supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, The Laurie Tisch Sussman Foundation, The Overbrook Foundation, and the Friends of the Tang.

Exhibition Name

Opener 11
Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction

Exhibition Type

Opener Series

Solo Exhibitions

Place

Malloy Wing

Dates

Jun 24, 2006 - Dec 30, 2006

Curators

Opener 11 is organized by the Tang Museum’s Susan Rabinowitz Malloy ’45 Curator, Ian Berry, in collaboration with the artist, Nina Katchadourian.

Artists

Nina Katchadourian

Publisher

Tang

Cover Type

Hardcover

Page Count

Year Published

2006

Past Exhibitions 2006

Opener 11Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction