2021 SALA Feature Artist: Roy Ananda

In this episode, Christina catches up with the 2021 SALA Feature Artist, Roy Ananda. Tune in to hear about the role of fandom and humor in Roy's work, the inspiration behind the 'heart' work that features on the 2021 SALA poster, and the process of creating this year's SA Living Artist Publication.

Show Notes

• Untitled, 2006, Fabric, coat-hanger, fibreglass, dimensions variable


• Bugs Bunny – ‘The Grey Hounded Hare’


• Aether Drift, 2013, timber, acrylic paint, fixings, aluminium trestles, 300x600x500cm


• Monograph – Roy Ananda


• Roy Ananda: Further Annotations at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA)


• Annotations series


• Olafur Eliasson, Dark matter collective, 2018, 217 partially silvered glass spheres, paint (black), stainless steel


• Peter Booth, Painting 1982, 1982, oil on canvas


• formalism


• Sol LeWitt


• MF Doom (member of hip-hop duo Madvillain) / Madvillain – ALL CAPS


• Fransisco Goya in the AGSA collection


• Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the AGSA collection


• Albrecht Dürer in the AGSA collection


• Deviantart.com/fan-fiction


• Death notice, 2016, digital print on newsprint paper, 15x7cm


• SA Living Artist Publication


• Christopher Orchard: The uncertainty of the poet, Peter Goldworthy, Margot Osborne, Roy Ananda, Julia Robinson, Rod Taylor


• Peter Goldsworthy


• Andrew Purvis


• Bernadette Klavins


• Sean Williams


• D&D / Dungeons & Dragons


• Wakefield Press


• A house falls on Buster Keaton


• The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V)


• affirmational fandom vs transformational fandom


• Roy Ananda 2004 SALA Keynote speech


• ACSA / Adelaide Central School of Art


• Adelaide Central Gallery


• Supreme Library at Adelaide Central Gallery


• FantasyNameGenerators.com


• Slow crawl to infinity, 2014, Plywood, timber, fixings, 550x700x1050cm


• Thin walls between dimensions, 2018, MDF, timber, acrylic paint, fixings, Dimensions variable


• Wookie


• ‘Easter egg’ (noun) 1: a chocolate egg given at Easter, (2) an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or bonus.


• CACSA / Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia


• (Dueling rapiers): Roy Ananda, Untitled, 2015, swords, steel, springs, motor, and micro-controller, dimensions variable


• Alexander Calder


• Inigo Montoya vs Man in Black


• 501st legion


• Darth Vader


• Boba Fett


• Roy Ananda, Autobiography series


• Melvyn Bragg


• RoyAnanda.com


• @roy.ananda on Instagram

Music:

Galactic by Seb Jaeger

Hungarian Rhapsody No2 by Hans Liszt performed by Brent Tucker