Collaboration with Viki Holmes, in
MARKETMIXERS: WHEN SOCIAL & MARKET NORMS COLLIDE
October 17 - December 31, 2014 http://artisticallyirrational.ssri.duke.edu/marketmixers.htm
PHALLI PINNATI PROJECT
Restraining Order: The Art of Self-Control
December 14, 2012 - February 22, 2013 http://artisticallyirrational.ssri.duke.edu/restrainingorder.htm
Felt, cotton, bamboo, synthetic filling
Dimensions variable
You should play, and laugh.
This project was inspired by the birth of my son. I want to create a space in the world for masculinity to be expressed with freedom, lightness, joy and playfulness.
The phallus is an ancient symbol of masculine and procreative power. The shape of these winged phallus creatures is based on a Roman bronze tintinabulum from about 100B.C., in the collection of the British Museum. Tintinabula (with little bells) were hung by doorways as protection from evil.
Less obvious at first is the ancient archetype of feminine power within the piece: The Weaver. In the tale of the Seven Swan Brothers, the weaver-sister of the transformed boys takes up a challenge of skill, misunderstanding, pain, and relentless work in order to free her brothers from enchantment.
The action of this piece is in two parts. The first part is the creation, the artist’s labour in hand-making each individual ‘creature.’ This is the order of restraint. The second part of the work occurs as the strange creatures fly and interact with one another and with the audience, as people touch them and set them moving. Feel free.
Risograph print on paper
15 cm x 19 cm
PoorQuality: Inequality
June 1, 2012 - August 31, 2012 http://artisticallyirrational.ssri.duke.edu/poorquality.htm
The USA, like Hong Kong, is a society with extreme inequality of wealth and social stratification, yet Americans believe in a narrative of social mobility. This leads to unhappiness, debt, stress and even social unrest. Many Americans are against governmental interventions so my work proposes an educational alternative: teaching children to “observe degree priority and place.” Embrace the reality of the class system and educate children in a contemporary version of the Elizabethan worldview: “Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows.”*
Chinese education in Hong Kong notoriously requires rote memorization of received ideas. As young children are still open to the values of authority figures, this is an ideal starting point to re-indoctrinate a population.
Tanya Hart has created a set of 5 copybooks in the format used by generations of Hong Kong school children. Each book contains short statements appropriate to the lives and aspirations of children in different wealth ‘classes’ or quintiles. The books were custom printed on a Risograph machine by the ink'chacha print collective and hand bound. They are pre-printed in a follow-the-dots font to prevent errors or creativity. Phrases are in English and Chinese.
* Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
‘Crimes of my neighbours: Diary of a complaint’
28 June – 28 Sept 2008: Mao to Now, Newington Armoury Gallery, SOPA, Sydney.
Woman pretending to sleep (2001)
Documentation of Video Installation
https://youtu.be/e_7SdRmlZMU
'Woman Pretending to Sleep' in ' NewContemporaries' NewContemporaries, QVB, Sydney, Australia. 2002
SCA: Degree Show2001 (Honours and Masters),
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Publication: Quick & dirty, pretty shiny (six lovers)
Poem published in Not A Muse Anthology, 2009
Performance at Outloud, Hong Kong
Performance Video: https://youtu.be/5RTH1myk4ss
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Muse-Inner-Poetry-Anthology/dp/988180941X
Girly Love Stories: A Salon of Dissipation
Instruction Installation through seven spaces of love
Maitresse de Salon & curator
NewSpace Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia, 2001
Video Performance Projection
Shot & Directed by Tanya Hart
Film Stills by Anne O'Hehir
in 'Mugam'
Sydney Fringe Festival
Bondi Pavillion, Bondi Beach, 2001
Theatre Production written and directed by Matthew Aberline
Underwater Video Performer: Anna Gleeson
Film Stills by Anne O'Hehir
Film Stills by Anne O'Hehir
Film Stills by Anne O'Hehir
Attente
Two short films about waiting for coffee
Filmed on Super 8 film and Hi-8 Video
inspired by Jacques Prevert
Pusa (kiss me kiss me kiss me your lips are poison)
Video Art Loop
https://youtu.be/ZmD16LLcFPI
Length: 11min 30sec
Video by Tanya Hart
Filmed, recorded, edited by Tanya Hart
Soundtrack created with Larissa Stoljar
Performers:
Lenka Persi
L.P.
Larissa Stoljar (sound track)
Special thanks to
Rev Ivan Ransom at
Campbell St Church, Balmain
for sound recording location
Eli Whitbread at
Factory Fresh Entertainment
for video editing facilities
Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, Sydney.
© Tanya E. Hart, 2000.
Publication: Fascists in the Garden
Poem published in Outloud Too Anthology, 2014
Performance at Peel Street Poetry, Hong Kong
Perfomance Video: https://youtu.be/rXsexou0Nn0
Embroidery over childrens' drawings,
Collaborations with Olive Lee and Frederiks Kuka.
Beginning 2015, Ongoing.