Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram

By Fowler Museum at UCLAVivan SundaramRakhee Balaram, et al.

This volume juxtaposes for the first time two striking bodies of work by Delhi-based and internationally recognized contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. Gagawaka, the first project, consists of twenty-seven sculptural garments made from a bizarre assortment of recycled materials including foam cups, surgical masks, tire tubes, tampons, X-ray film, bandages, bras, foil pill wrappers, and drain pipes. These garments evoke a relationship both playful and subversive to fashion, haute couture, the runway, and the brand.

The second project, Postmortem, is a collection of haunting sculptural objects composedof mannequins, tailor's dummies, wooden props, and models of human organs and bones. Postmortem questions the spectacle of Gagawaka with a wider set ofcommentaries about the human body and social concerns related to aging, illness, and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984755098
• ISBN13: 9780984755097
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher