DIANA GUO





︎LANDSCAPE

︎BREWING FLOWER POWER
︎ARCTIC FOOD KIT

︎MUSEUM IN TRANSIT
︎AIRPORT DYNAMISM

︎SNOWBANK
︎ISLAND OF SEQUENCE ︎COMMON BORDER
︎MIGRATING MUTUALISM
︎NOCTURNAL EARTH

︎WEARABLES
︎SKETCHBOOK


︎ART/EXHIBIT

︎FLOATING BETWEEN BORDERS...OR, PERHAPS, AN EARTH WITHOUT BORDERS?
︎FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM ︎
HETEROTOPIAS OF CONSUMPTION
︎MEDIATIONS
︎WEAVE
︎MOTHER II
︎RADIAL


︎WRITING
︎2021-2018
︎READING LIST


︎ABOUT  

DIANA GUO interested in creating atmospheres through storytelling and poetry and believes in the soft power that stories can bring. She is exploring the translation/transformation of personal narratives in immersive public spaces to incite awareness, emotion, and social change. Moving forward, she will continue researching themes of biopolitics and inclusion/exclusion in design practice and art.

dianaguo@gsd.harvard.edu




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Diana Guo
Selected Works

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The media are not toys… they can be entrusted only to new artists, because they are art forms.
(McLuhan, 1954)


Radial

Art Installation in Landscape 

Poughkeepsie, New York 
Year: fall 2016

+bamboo +japanesegarden +radial +sculpture +onsite +installation +public art +plywood 

On the Vassar campus, the Japanese garden has started to decay over the years due to a lack of maintenance. In the middle of the garden landscape is a large rock, which collects rain water through its narrow opening. My sculptural intervention on the site is a visual device in a radial shape meant to channel new energy into the space and serve as a contrast point to the yin energy of the stone. Made of much more temporal material - bamboo - and in its natural pale shade, its yang energy resonates through the condensed foci point in the center, from which positive energy tunnels through. The piece is made of a total of 881 chopsticks from the waste and donation of Asian American fast food restaurants in the area. The sculpture was installed on site and left to blend into its natural surroundings.