studio catherine griffiths


 

AEIOU — Constructed/Projected, 2015 / Typojanchi 2015, Culture Station Seoul 284: Main exhibition with Studio Spass (left), Why Not Associates & Gordon Young (floor), Catherine Griffiths (alcove), Joon Soo Ha (right projection), and Nolgong (out of frame) / photograph (top), Jinsol Kim © 2015

 


 

installation drawing / © 2015

 


AEIOU — Constructed/Projected, installed ... the film ‘i’, the projected/sound component (a running stream of consciousness) is central to the space. Reference is made to other projects, and modes of construction — a timber ‘A’, sheets of plywood; the disassembled ‘E’ from AEIOU; the reflective paper ‘O’, a material often used in my practice; barrier tape, a sideways ‘U’, improvised / © 2015

 


 

 


Typojanchi 2015 opening celebration / Ahn Sang-soo inserts himself, another layer into the installation (below)

 


/ photographs CG (unless noted) / above left + right: Jinsol Kim © Korea Craft & Design Foundation. All rights reserved. Typojanchi2015: 4th International Typography Biennale

 


 

Special thanks to Typojanchi — Kyungsun Kymn, Chris Ro, Ahn Byung-Hak, Adele Soon, Youngeun (Bree) Sohn, Daun Lim, Doyeon Yang, Zero Lab — the whole team — who worked on my behalf to help install the AEIOU work as imagined on paper and as a maquette ... to Zanders the papermakers for the Chromolux paper; to Oliver Connew (dancer), Alfredo Ibarra (composer), and the voices of family, friends and strangers for their contribution to ‘i’.

— CG

 

/ organisational map: Youngeun Sohn / Typojanchi site: E Roon Kang © 2015

 


Photographer: SSSAUNA STUDIO
© Korea Craft & Design Foundation. All rights reserved.
Typojanchi2015: 4th International Typography Biennale

Open Talk, Typojanchi 2015 / poster: Jaemin Lee © 2015

 

Typojanchi 2015, 4th International Typography Biennale, Culture Station Seoul 284 / poster: Jaemin Lee © 2015

 

     
     
     

03 other in(ter)ventions



TypeSHED11
an international typography symposium, Wellington, NZ

typ gr ph c
a series of compact workshops, Karekare, NZ



installations, exhibitions

Iterations/Alterations
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 2025, Aotearoa NZ

What is my threshold now?
Manifesto vs Manifest, PLATES #1, 2024, New York, USA

7/7, 14 views
Te Tuhi Project Wall, 2023, Aotearoa NZ

Self-preservation
Offering It Up, Adam Art Gallery, 2023, Aotearoa NZ

The Phone Book: Club de Conversation (2012): deconstructed (2019), suspended (2022)
Counterparts // Part one: Where To From Here?, No Vacancy, 2022, Naarm Melbourne AU

catherine griffiths : SOLO IN [ ] SPACE
The Space Gallery, 2019, Shanghai, CHINA

Work/Space
Shanghai Art and Design Exhibition, 2017, CHINA

A whakapapa, two lines of women, an installation drawing
All Lines Converge, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2016, Aotearoa NZ

Installation with mirror and line
transitionalfieldwork, an exhibition, 2016, Aotearoa NZ

only U know ...
collaboration, Lela Jacobs AW17 Auckland, and SS17 Paris collection, Aotearoa NZ + FR

Constructed/Projected
installation, Typojanchi 2015, 4th International Typography Biennale, Seoul, KR

The Tuwhare Poster Project
fund-raiser for the Hone Tuwhare Trust Writers Residency, Aotearoa NZ

memento :: motif
Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Alzheimer, Valparaíso, Chile

The Phone Book
a maquette, for the Club de Conversation project, Aotearoa NZ

Club de Conversation at S/F with Dino Chai, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ

Club de Conversation: Keyhole Series and Dials
rug series, Dilana Workshop, Aotearoa NZ

Sound Tracks
installation, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Aotearoa NZ

The Jets
short film, Paris, France

 


posters, protest, statements

The Best Design Awards
three posters, 2018, Aotearoa NZ

Labour of Love
another word-play poster, 2018, Aotearoa NZ

W in black
drawings in progress, 2017, Aotearoa NZ/FR

The Alphabet
front page takeover of the Sentinel & Enterprise newspaper for 26 days, Fitchburg, USA

The Brexit Series
a word-play poster series in response to Brexit, Aotearoa NZ

Raising the Flag
contemplative, suggestive — design unravelled, Aotearoa NZ

Protest Vessel 1/2 PRICE
a collaboration with ceramic artist Raewyn Atkinson, Aotearoa NZ

 


AEIOU — Constructed/Projected

2015



Typojanchi 2015, 4th International Typography Biennale


AEIOU — Constructed/
Projected
is a semi-autobiographical work, and the fourth in an ongoing enquiry into the Vowels. The serial work continues to explore material and contextual terms, the abstract construction of the vowels (line, curve, circle), and the speech sounds that these elicit.

Constructed/Projected is site specific, made in response to C( )T( ) and the biennale theme of city and typography. Layers of interaction — extrinsic > extemporaneous < intrinsic — between body movement, political manoeuvre overhead, telephone numbers collected, signs and letterforms identified, pavement infrastructure underfoot, and the recording of speech and sound are presented in a short film ‘i’, a running stream of conciousness, with remaining objects placed in situ.

An additional layer of viewer/s intervention (un-tested at the time of making, but expected) will cause varying levels of confusion, perhaps a loss of clarity, or clarity, as the viewer moves through the constructed and the projected, inadvertently/
purposefully inserting themselves into the work.

— CG / November 2015


AEIOU 

Timber (A), copper pipe (E), film ‘i’ 7:55 (I), reflective paper (O), barrier tape (U)

Constructed 

A: two lengths of timber, sawn, joined, propped at the entrance of the space

E: 20 copper pipes collected, set out in a row

I: film with sound, projected from the pillar into the alcove space

O: 50 sheets of Chromolux Alu set in a circle, 120cm diameter, on the floor

U: 100m of barrier tape, tied to the pillar outside of the space, stretched across into the space, wrapped around the plywood sheets, and pulled back across the floor, finishing at the roll

 

Projected 

Film: Catherine Griffiths — collected photographs, video footage, voice recordings, 1999–2015; excerpts from ‘The Phone Book’, Club de Conversation, 2012; ‘The Jets’, 2010

Dancer: Oliver Connew

Composer: Alfredo Ibarra

Voices: strangers, friends, family

With thanks to Zanders, Zero Lab, and Typojanchi for assistance with materials and projection equipment.

 


related links

AEIOU
Sound Tracks
Fifth Movement
Korea Craft & Design Foundation
Typojanchi 2015
Typojanchi Facebook & Instagram




 

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