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Fall arts picks: ‘The Architect’s Garden’
The Visual Arts Center at UT has done a great job so far of presenting innovative projects in its Vaulted Gallery. In fact the UT VAC netted the Austin Critics’ Table Award this year for Best Work of Art: Independent or Public Project for Amanda Ross-Ho’s “Untitled Nothing Factory.”
Mika Tajima’s “The Architect’s Garden” looks like it’ll be another one intriguing project.
Like Ross-Ho, Tajima will use the Vaulted Gallery as both a place for her finished installation and a place for the production of the installation itself.
Tajima’s work is a mash-up of sculptural objects, installation and performance, often using enormous panels that become a site for improvisational sound performances. For “The Architect’s Garden” she plans to create a framework of scaffolding to hold canvas panels printed with a kaleidoscopic collage of images drawn from her interest in modernist designs, formal French gardens and even Richard Linklater’s film “Slacker.”
Some panels will feature projected images from conversations she hold with people from UT and from the Austin community — conversations that will also serve as the basis for a series of public programs to take place in conjunction with the installation. And the first talks are already scheduled, including one with Linklater.
Artist talk with Mika Tajima
When: 6:30 p.m. Aug. 30
Where: Blanton Museum Auditorium
Mika Tajima in conversation with Richard Linklater
When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 13
Wehre: Art Building, Room 1.102
“The Architect’s Garden” runs Sept. 9 to Dec. 17 at the UT Visual Arts Center. See www.utvac.org for more information.
Image: From “The Pedestrians,” Mika Tajima and Charles Atlas, 2011. South London Gallery.
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