Dialogic Tropes:

Pearls and Bodies in The Burden of 4000 Pearls (2007-2009) and hole/whole (2009-2011)

Authors

  • Jane McQuitty Alberta University of the Arts, School of Critical and Creative Studies
  • Kim Huynh University of Calgary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29561

Abstract

Calgary-based installation artist and printmaker Kim Huynh’s projects are profoundly aware of materiality and ways in which it can encourage us to jump out of the ruts and customary ways of categorizing and thinking in late Capitalism. The media that Kim Huynh adopts can range from the extraordinary to the banal, from a vast string of pearls to orange peels. This short interview with Kim Huynh investigates matters that are material and conceptual, incorporated into two projects referencing social injustice and embodied female experiences.

Author Biographies

Jane McQuitty, Alberta University of the Arts, School of Critical and Creative Studies

Jane McQuitty is a doctoral candidate with the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. McQuitty is also a lecturer with the School of Critical and Creative Studies at the Alberta University of the Arts, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Kim Huynh, University of Calgary

Kim Huynh, a Calgary based artist studied art theory and philosophy before going on the receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1990. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta in 1992. Since 1999 Kim Huynh has taught print media and drawing in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. Over the last 15 years, Huynh has incorporated cultural materials, ready-made objects and print-based processes in her mixed-media installations to speak about the shifting Asian hybridized identity in Canadian multi-culturalism. Huynh's work explores the social and cultural transformations created by the impact of globalization.

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Published

2021-08-27

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020): "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Section

Post Colonial Articles, Poetry, Artwork