Brendan Tang – Project Outline

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Project Outline: Brendan Tang

Students: Sarah and Aohan

 

Meeting time: Flexible; depends on Brendan’s schedule as he is traveling intermittently this term. Each week we contact each other via email and text message.

Meeting location: Brendan’s studio or the Burrard Arts Foundation (BAF) Gallery on Main and Broadway (108 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC V5T 1V9)

Project: While we have signed a Non-Disclosure agreement, so we have to remain somewhat vague, this is an installation, open to the public in January and produced through an artist residency, that has evolved from Brendan’s past work. Primarily working in ceramics with a footing in illustration, his recent work has combined traditional Chinese ceramics and contemporary mechanical forms, akin to materials in video games and other digital media. For this work, he is planning to push this digital juxtaposition with elements of virtual reality and its surrounding discourse, combining them with the clouds found in ancient Chinese ceramics. Given its central position in the traditional/digital Venn diagram, the cloud will serve as the main symbol for this installation.

 

Detailed Schedule:

September

  • Meet with Brendan and colleagues who work at the BAF gallery.
  • Make a maquette (three dimensional, to-scale model) of the BAF exhibition space. The maquette’s scale is every half-inch equals a foot. This allows us to envision the entire space as we plan and build the installation, consisting of sculptures and potentially other mediums, such as drawings and digital projections.

 

October

  • Clean and organize studio space.
  • Research (primarily online): cloud forms, glitch technology, fragmentation (renderings of the real world and where they get messed up).
  • Research: scaffolding and wooden support structures online, the more DIY the better.
  • Research: Screen tears, skew morphing, virtual rendering of the real world, precedents of analog representations of digital things, different aesthetics of what a glitch looks like. Also, producing the “uncanny.”
  • Research the various materials we are thinking of using and our potential techniques.
  • Practice making paper cubes, spheres, and other geometric shapes (to be used as models for potential sculptures within the installation).
  • Try to find a portable projector, within budget, in Vancouver or online.
  • Plan installation in maquette.
  • Poster presentation!

 

November & December – (to be further scheduled.)

  • Build the actual structures, sculptures, forms and illustrations for BAF show.
  • Peer Studio visits
  • CBEL Responses

 

January

  • The exhibition opens! All of you come!