Puppies Puppies
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
We meet artist Puppies Puppies. Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo (b. 1989, Dallas, TX), widely known by the moniker Puppies Puppies, expands ideas around the readymade by imbuing ubiquitous and everyday objects, signifiers, and actions with a personal and political charge. Puppies Puppies works across sculpture, installation, and performance art.
She has, for example, reconfigured antibacterial gel dispensers, toilet bowl liquid, the color green, as well as the acts of sleeping, peeing, and taking a pill in installations and performances that challenge ableist frameworks of artistic and capitalist production. Many of Puppies Puppies’s exhibitions have also included actionable components: a GoFundMe campaign to support a friend’s transition fund, free HIV testing and counseling, and a working shower available for use by the public. Kuriki-Olivo thus asserts that life can be viewed as its own form of endurance practice, especially for those whose very survival is at stake, including trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people of color.
At the Venice Biennale 2024, Puppies Puppies is exhibiting two works. A Sculpture for Trans Women... (2023) is a life-size bronze sculpture taken from a 3-D scan of the artist’s body. Emblazoned with the word “WOMAN”, the work – which will be activated with performances throughout the Biennale – subverts the power of monuments to make visible and celebrates trans life in an act of protest and commemoration.
Electric Dress (Atsuko Tanaka) (2023) pays tribute to those killed in 2016 at the mass shooting that took place during a “Latin Night” party at Pulse, a queer nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The sculpture references Atsuko Tanaka’s Electric Dress (1956) with LED lights that flicker to the pulse of a heartbeat and lights that cycle through the rainbow colours found in the Progress Pride Flag. Both sculptures honour queer and trans life while confronting oblivion and invisibility.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Talk Art is brought to you by Chanel. |
| 0:04.0 | That's right and we are very excited that Chanel Connects podcast is back for its fourth season. |
| 0:10.0 | This round, Chanel Connects is taking you to the Venice Bianale to meet the artists, curators and |
| 0:15.7 | thinkers shaping culture today. |
| 0:18.3 | Now we particularly love listening to artist William Kentridge and curator Caroline |
| 0:22.4 | Christophikaggia discuss the Venice installation. artist William Kentridge and curator Carolyn Christo Pacagiev |
| 0:23.6 | discussed the Venice installation of William's film Self-Portrait as a coffee pot |
| 0:27.6 | Carolyn's work at the Castello de Rivly Museum in Italy and the origins of |
| 0:32.1 | their long relationship. |
| 0:33.8 | I also really enjoyed listening to two of the most remarkable women from the gallery scene, |
| 0:39.1 | the legendary Sadie Kohls, who has shaped the art world for decades, and Angelina Volk, who is set to do the same. |
| 0:46.3 | They discuss the Venice Bionale how it sets the international art agenda and how working |
| 0:51.7 | with artists is a great love affair. |
| 0:54.0 | Shinnell connects. |
| 0:56.0 | Listen now on your preferred streaming platforms or on Shinnell. com. Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Russell Tovey. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm Robert Diamant. |
| 1:11.0 | And this is Torkart. |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome to Torkart. How are you today, Robert? |
| 1:16.3 | Today Russell, I am feeling like I am a performance. |
| 1:21.3 | Oh right, what does that feel like? Well today's guest has |
| 1:26.0 | inspired this feeling within me and has also the other word I've been thinking a |
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