DI-AY BATTAD
(a.k.a. Brenda Battad) is a Pittsburgh-based, multi-disciplinary artist and educator who works with visual, aural, and kinetic metaphor.
Oracle.
Installation and sound performance.
2008.
Oracle is a collaborative installation and three-hour performance with R.J. Tripodi at Unsmoke Systems in Braddock, PA.
An armored figure slowly leads the blind oracle, who holds a fluorescent light, outside and around the Unsmoke Systems building. The light is attached to an extension cord, which the armored figure gathers every few steps. The light occasionally flickers. Eventually, the oracle and armored figure step into and through the building, up a ramp, and into a dark room. The oracle steps up onto a circular platform, puts her hands into a box of light, and creates an overwhelming drone. Several lights placed around the room flicker on and off. For three hours, the armored figure and the oracle interact with the environment around them.
Ghosts Are Crossing
video
2:34
Layers of found footage, processed to varying degrees of abstraction, speculate on the spectral space between ground and sky.
MOTHER: TRIBUTE. Video.
Drapery Samplers.
2007.
Drapery Samplers is a collaborative performance between Carolyn Clayton, Di-ay Battad, Rachel Maran and Stacy Chu. Traditional drapery designs are shrunk down, hand sewn and refashioned to decorate and conceal parts of the female body rather than cover windows.
Finger. Created using movements of the artist’s fingers, hair, and face. A grotesque and mesmerizing transformation of body parts.
Cardio. For the month of January 2009, I created one minute-long video per day. The resulting videos contain both abstracted and referential images and sound, and are driven largely by tone and image-sound relationships.
I Think I Fall
video
Demo Reel 2009
Dance
video
Pulse
video
Music by Marlon Battad. Footage from family trips to the Singapore Zoo and visiting our mother shortly after our youngest brother was born.
See Eye See Eye. Video.
Addressing both the human eye’s experience with recording media and technology, as well as the technology’s experience with the human eye, “See Eye See Eye” communicates the tendencies of both eye and technology to deteriorate and construct experiences.
Skydeer5
Birthdays in the 21st Century
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