Visual Arts

Mixed Media: Jolanta Lapiak

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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

How to Cite: Lapiak, J. (2009) “Mixed Media: Jolanta Lapiak”, Deaf Studies Digital Journal. 1(0). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/15499139.0001.063

COLLECTION:

Artwork #1
Artwork #1

“Torn and Cut Dictionary”

Mixed Media

8” x 11” dictionary with handmade case 2007

Artwork #2
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
Artwork #3

“poetry performance”

Other

Photo calligraphic trace of ASL text; poetry performance. Digital photograph, up to 13 x 19 inces

Artwork #4
Artwork #4

“there is no outside of the text (derrida)”

Other

Digital photograph, up to 13 x 19 inches Halifax, Canada

Artwork #5
Artwork #5

“Liberated from Signoclasm”

Performance Art

Performance, 11 May 2007 Interakcje 2007: International Performance Art Festival Galeria OFF, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland