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High-Bandwidth Video of the Dysfunctional Clothing Collection Dance Performance

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Low-Bandwidth Video of the Dysfunctional Clothing Collection Dance Performance

(25 megabytes, WMV)

Tanya Wood is a visual artist with a bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Univeristy of Alberta in Edmonton. She primarily works in steel, creating people-sized abstract sculpture, though she also uses many mixed materials to create painting, assemblage and most recently, wearable fabric creations. There are few “rules” about art creation that she isn’t willing to question and possibly ignore. She is leery of casting herself into one particular role as an artist as she is constantly reacting to found object materials and incorporating them into her work.

 

The Dysfunctional Clothing Collection is a collection of 'wearable art creations' composed of family heirlooms, scrap fabric and bolt-ends created by Tanya Wood and exhibited in a series of dance performances choreographed by dancers and choreographers from Orchesis Dance Group at the University of Alberta, Ballet North, and West Edmonton Ballet. Hair and makeup for the events were handled by stylists from Swizz Salon and Spa and Olga Savic. The Dysfunctional Clothing Collection Dance Performance was performed at 'Night of Artists Edmonton 2005' on March 18th, 2005, and the next night at the University of Alberta's Dinwoodie Lounge as part of the 'From the Ground Up' Charity Gala.