This is from a few years ago but for some reason I didn't link it back then. So: Isaac Cordal's Urban Inertia series from Montreal.
Sculpture
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I cannot imagine the number of hours that goes into one of Jan Huling's pieces. Incredible work.
More on Huling's site.
Ann Weber is a sculptor in Los Angeles who works a lot with found cardboard. I saw her work featured on Colossal today.
I thought this short video was an inspiring look at her process from "garbage picking," as my mother would call it, to sculpting:
More on Weber's site.
I'm not sure if Bastien Dausse considers himself a dancer or an acrobat, or both, but he's also an inventor and... sculptor, maybe?
Check out this video, which features Dausse and another performer working with two of his sculptures. Fantastic stuff.
And then there's this bit of business:
Which, of course, reminded me of this dance scene from Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire:
Dausse's site is here: Barks Copagnie.
If you dug these pieces, you'll also appreciate my post on Unorthodox Choreography.
Jeremy Mayer disassembles typewriters and then reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures and other sculptures. He does not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together — the process is entirely cold assembly.
His guiding principles:
Emulation is beautiful.
Sustainability is crucial.
Patience is paramount.
Abundance abides.
These principles are expanded on on Mayer's website:
JEREMY MAYER
Featuring the sculpture of artist Jeremy Mayer from California, who has been making art by disassembling typewriters, then reassembling them into human, animal, and abstact biological forms for almost 30 years.
