Patricia Piccinini

When was Patricia Piccinini born

• 1955

• 1945

• 1965

Choose three life events that influenced Piccinini's interest in biotechnology & hybrids

• She liked movies

• Piccinini’s family immigrated to Australia and she spent years as an ‘outsider’ due to her South African accent and different cultural customs. She was half this and half that.

• Mother died early on in her life from cancer, influences her interest in medical technology and concern with the ethical and moral issues especially with stem cell research.

• She spent her early career sketching preserved specimens from medical museums.

• Was always day dreaming

Choose two answers that are a correct overview of Piccinini's practice

• A. Contemporary artist: videos, computer animation, and sculpture.

  B. Perfectionist / slick finish to her artworks

  C. Interested in ideas of nature vs unnatural, technological advances & biotechnology

  D. Works are confronting, shocking, and take full advantage of new technologies

• Piccinini, challenges people to think about the identity of hybrids and their place in our changing world. Her hybrids are half human and half animal.

• Piccinini does really weird sculptures

• Piccinini likes to create pretty artworks

Choose two answers that explain what The young Family 2002 portrays:

• Piccinini displays the relationship and differences between natural and hybrid life forms

• This work deals with the maternal relationship between a mother and her children.

• Piccinini is unsure

• All are correct

Choose two answers that explain why Piccinini made the 'young hybrids' cute?

• The human features apon the creatures such as the hands and feet make the dog like creatures quite disturbing. Therefore, to make the work more inviting to the audience; we see the creatures in this loving and caring type of interaction and are able to feel tenderness and understanding towards her hybrids.

• The cuteness of the young hybrids allows the audience to overlook their uneasiness when looking at the half human half dog mother.

• none are correct because Piccinini valued monotones of hybrid species

Choose four answers to explain how Piccinini's 'Young Family' 2002 challenges us?

• challenges many traditional conventions and the canons of art

• Challenges normal concepts of maternal relationship between a

  mother and her children.

• Challenges our responsibility & commitment to care for these creatures since we created them.

• Piccinini challenges our classification of life by displaying the relationship and differences between natural and unnatural

• Piccinini challenges our understanding of different colour schemes

Which three of these are part of the Structural Frame:

• She does not make artworks herself and employs a team of technicians, and fabricators, who work from drawings and 3D models to create the sculpture in a factory.

• Unconventional skills: research skills, interviewing techniques,

  creating a 3D model on a computer, and a great ability to

  communicate her idea to the fabricators who make her work.

• Shows her disregard for traditional sculpture materials and methods by using advanced machinery to create hyperrealism, with silicone and polyurethane.

• Cultural, Subjective & Postmodern understandings

Watch the video & listen to links to her past

• I was able to link her past as an unwanted immigrant to her quest to nurture these hybrids and understand more about her studio practice.

• No I was not able to see the link between her past and the nurturing of her hybrids and still do not understand her studio practice.

• If no-watch video again

Which three answers explain the dualities that Piccinini works within?

• I make these works both attractive and alluring but also grotesque and disconcerting.

  
  

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• I want to pull you in, to create a sense of empathy for these vulnerable creatures. But I also want to push you away — to make you feel like they’re unattractive and so not human.

• That push-and-pull dynamic creates a space for the viewer to think.

• She creates works for advertising companies

Enlarge the image and read the information. Then choose three correct answers that explain how the audience interacted with the 'Young Family' 2002

• The audience developed a relationship with the 'Young Family'

• The audience created an alternate reality for the 'Young Family'; some placed the family in danger and others were more caring about the young families future.

• This online life existed for three years from 2004-2007.

• No relationship developed between the audience and the 'Young Family'