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

Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
Griffith University Art Museum, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
24 February — 16 May 2026

Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa NZ
30 July — 24 October 2025

Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
The Design Gallery, University of Melbourne, Naarm, Australia
19 May — 27 June 2025

Iterations/Alterations
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Chapter 1, Aotearoa NZ
15 February — 29 March 2025 [extended to Chapter 2]

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

7/7, 14 views
Te Tuhi Project Wall, Aotearoa NZ
20 August – 22 October 2023

Self-preservation
Offering It Up, Adam Art Gallery, Aotearoa NZ
24 August — 29 October 2023

The Phone Book: Club de Conversation (2012): deconstructed (2019), suspended (2022)
Counterparts // Part one: Where To From Here?, No Vacancy, Naarm Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
12 – 31 July 2022

catherine griffiths : SOLO IN [ ] SPACE
The Space Gallery, Shanghai, CHINA
13 October – 1 December 2019

Work/Space
Shanghai Art and Design Exhibition, CHINA
3 – 13 December 2017

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

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

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
November 2015

The Tuwhare Poster Project
fund-raiser for the Hone Tuwhare Trust Writers Residency, Aotearoa NZ
2014

memento :: motif
Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Alzheimer, Valparaíso, Chile
23 September — 23 August 2012

The Phone Book
a maquette, for the Club de Conversation project, Aotearoa NZ
2012

Club de Conversation at S/F with Dino Chai, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ
14 July – 18 August 2012

Club de Conversation: Keyhole Series and Dials
rug series, Dilana Workshop, Aotearoa NZ
June — July 2012

Sound Tracks
installation, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Aotearoa NZ
2011

The Jets
short film, Paris, France
2010

 


posters, protest, statements

SHREDDED
[LUXON QUOTES] RUBBISH COLLECTION, six [type specimen] posters, 2026, Aotearoa NZ

The Best Design Awards
three [type specimen] 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 [type specimen] 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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