Visual Arts
Mixed Media: Jolanta Lapiak
Abstract
A collection of artwork via a photo calligraphy series, photographs, and performance art by Jolanta Lapiak.
Keywords:
art
,
deaf art
,
photography
,
calligraphy
,
deaf culture
,
deaf studies
COLLECTION:
Artwork #1 “Torn and Cut Dictionary”
Mixed Media
8” x 11” dictionary with handmade case 2007
Artwork #2 “a splendid flash of concrete poetry”
Other
The photo calligraphy series depict a trace of text in Ameslan or ASL (American Sign Language). The artist translates a selected English text into Ameslan or ASL and captures the movement of ASL into a digital image. This process refers to Derridean arch-writing and grammatology. Digital photography, up to 13 x 19 inches
Artwork #3 “poetry performance”
Other
Photo calligraphic trace of ASL text; poetry performance. Digital photograph, up to 13 x 19 inces
Artwork #4 “there is no outside of the text (derrida)”
Other
Digital photograph, up to 13 x 19 inches Halifax, Canada
Artwork #5 “Liberated from Signoclasm”
Performance Art
Performance, 11 May 2007 Interakcje 2007: International Performance Art Festival Galeria OFF, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland