Convergence

Additional stills from the video Convergence.

Video by Anna Peach, Performance by Yen-Fang Yu and Anthony Whitehurst

2008-2009

Archaeology

I find myself returning to ideas, as I disassemble sculptures and reassemble and reinvent them here far away from the place where they were envisioned. After making three ocean crossings, I let the work morph into something slightly different. I recombine them with new elements, textures, metaphors. I snapped them apart in a garden in Switzerland, then squish them into tile grout upon a card table in Manhattan. One month of weekends were spent free diving in Hawaii so to collect these contemporary artifacts. They were alive then, being claimed back by the sea in a hundred year process. Young coral polyps, sponges and veils of plant life disguised them. I stole them from the seabed to study them, so change their context and reveal where lives collide.

Aquatic

My Waikiki photographs. Working around the idea that the sea has a memory of its own experience.

The Contemporary Museum -Honolulu

Thank you for the kind words from the artists, Contemporary Museum members,TCM employees and the Textile Society Conference participants. I am happy to have the work back in Hawaii and to be a part of this wonderful exhibition. The show will continue through January.

Fertility Suit 2

Fertility Suit 2, Anna Peach, Invasive seeds (Job's Tears) on clothing.

This piece is part of the exhibit at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu that runs through 1/12/2009.

Feed- the video series

With the final day of DiVA being Sunday, I have decided to lay low tonight and recoup with the videos of my own design before seeing the blitz of other artist's works. I realized that feeding is a core theme fit for a quad of videos set in three locations. Feed-Eel, features Moray's in Hawaiian waters, Feed-Fish also in Hawaii, Feed-Swan set under lake Zurich, Switzerland, and Feed-Crow series in Newfoundland, Canada.

In the above featured stills from Feed-Eel, I floated a subway submarine sandwich across a lagoon in Hawaii and filmed the ensuing attack in the minutes that followed. Filmed in two feet of water...I pretty much had the ocean to myself after showing the video to a few on the beach. Hey, whatever works.

Japan

This is an article that came out ages ago, but with all of my travel it was never posted. If you click on the image, you should be able to read it (in Japanese.)