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)


Weave

9 ft x 11.5 ft large sculpture pine wood, silk, torn cloth, nails + joinery, old bedsheets. traditional weave

Palmer Gallery, New York 
Year: Fall 2017


+weave +traditioonal +landscape +blanket +quilt +craft +exhibition 

Woven taut upon the pine frame, the verticals mirror a traditional musical instrument. Yet, made with dull cloth, the ‘device’ makes no sound. The blanket is a symbol of the domestic realm, and it is associated with silence - you use it during sleep and rest. the piece is also a tribute to all the women in my family who subsisted on traditional craftmaking, both financially and emotionally, as craftmaking became a space of healing and comfort from the violent silencing of women voices which was an omnipresent experience. Using material associated with the notion of sleep, the weave references landscape, shelter, and choreography.

What happens to the piece when it is taken from its wooden frame? does it transition from a painting into a sculpture? Does it become a dance, or a series of musical visual notations?