Bricolage
Whatever falls to hand. Whomever we meet. In that space, in that time, together. This from Tokyo, March 2019.
Author: dk
Home
Working on a new book. It’s getting there. Publishes this month. Pre-order HOME at this link.
S P A C E | Winter 2019-2020, ‘Project Epicurus’
This week in S P A C E I’m starting something very different. Nothing new there. It’s an interactive writing project, that also has some popup conversation parties looped in.…
Interactive Papers
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S P A C E | Autumn, ‘Trust the Process’
Wrapped a 12-set series of zines today, with S P A C E | Singapore, ‘Dancing in the Cloud.’ This series for the autumn was called ‘Trust the Process.’ An…
Protected: Dancing in the cloud
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‘The Book of Slow Moment’
In Finland in the summer of 2018, DK made a lot of things. Most of them were very small. A5. The feeling of simplifying the ways we create, by making…
‘Internet, I Hate You’
Kind of overwhelmed with how many people are glued to their phones and computers, I got really excited and just made drawings. Analog. Mostly at jazz clubs, as is my…
‘An Art of the Moment’
Conversations that move, progress, and build towards something that has depth, scope for more learning, and meaning to those who are participating in the dialogues. That is what I am…
This is This
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Atelier S P A C E
Making zines on the road with new and different others How it started was a conversation, like most of the things I do. Went kind of like this: ‘What if!……
The Book of Red
Relationships, discovery and the chance encounter in Hanoi Let me set this up. We are in Hanoi. It is approaching evening. A streetside table, with red carnations and a small…
S P A C E | Tokyo
[Ueno, Tokyo. A cool evening. Sakura in bloom] Atelier S P A C E | Tokyo gathered strangers for a brief moment, under the open air, with music, at a…
Fuzzy Quantum Pop
I did a short talk at Lincoln Theatre. It was called ‘Fuzzy Quantum Pop.’
‘Hei Kesä’ at Oulu Arts Festival
DK: ‘I was wondering if I could do something with you guys.’ OAF: ‘What?’ DK: ‘Something for Oulu Arts Festival, I think?’ OAF: ‘Let’s talk.’ DK: ‘Yes, lets!’ [Time] OAF:…
Hei Kesä at AIR Frosterus
MV: ‘I can’t believe you are in Finland!’ DK: ‘I said I would come one day, didn’t I?’ MV: ‘Yes, but Kärsämäki? Really? And here we are. And you’re showing…
Math + Jazz
WHO: Dipika Kohli WHEN: 2015 WHERE: Elephant Bar, Phnom Penh WHAT: A conversation salon WHY: For the fun, juxtaposition, and ‘let’s just see what happens’ spontaneous gesture of it. That’s…
Choices
‘WHAT ABOUT if?’ Choices. A conversation installation.
Rooftop Philosophy in Phnom Penh
[Phnom Penh, evening. A party. A roof.] DK: I had been to the venue before, it was perfect. The last few times, though, it had been banal and useless, the…
Hello August
In a garden, in Phnom Penh, twelve people who had no idea what to expect said ‘yes’ and showed up for ‘Hello August.’ A ticketed, quiet, and once-off moment. DK…
The Excerpts of Note
[London, a design museum near Earl’s Court. Lobby conversations with passerby.] Stranger: But what is the point? DK: Bricolage bits and pieces are not for commissions, usually. They are for people…
TEDx: ‘There’s Not That Much Time Left’
‘DK admonishes that one should decide what should be done with their finite days, and quickly.’ —TEDx Raleigh
Distracte
WHO: Dipika Kohli WHERE: Mère Cafe, Phnom Penh WHEN: August 2016 WHAT: Art installation WHY: To try a popup ‘art intervention.’ Gallery-less. Unfancy. No sales, flyers, or artspeak. I WAS…
The Book of Songs
A spontaneous gesture: drawing on the spot, in the moment ‘This is just!…’ ‘…’ ‘I just!…’ ‘…’ ‘Well, I drew it. What I felt. If you ever need art…
Internet, I Hate You
COMING STRAIGHT OUT of a month of wandering about taking notes in marker, with scissors and glue in the collages, and conversations, of course, this is the first pop-up installation of Dipika Kohli’s in Europe.
Book of Blue
An art show within a jazz show ‘Hi.’ ‘Hi?’ ‘I wanna do something at jazZ happens.’ ‘Okay, what?’ ‘Dunno.’ Can we talk about it in real life?’ ‘Sure.’…
The Book of Ennui
[Five strangers gathered over breakfast in Phnom Penh. A light breeze, an open-air courtyard] ‘So that’s what it is!’ ‘…’ ‘The graph. You drew a graph?’ ‘I did…’ ‘Who else…
Discover Khmer Design
Cambodian design. Art. Aesthetics. Something was in this place, something I had never before seen. Vernacular architecture enchanted, the moment I landed in Phnom Penh. I stayed five years. It…
Offline
Coming off the road from India after six months, DK was pretty exhausted. Context, story, identity, and search continued to be big questions. She found herself in Bangkok, then Chiang…
S P A C E | Palo Alto
[Stanford University, Roble Hall. Participants gathering a circle on the lawn for ‘an unconference’.] DK: Designing for the !*, and unexpected. I had never really done it before. Design a 9-week experiential program…
Origin: ‘What is fromness?’
WHO: 16 strangers WHERE: Milk Green Tea, Phnom Penh WHEN: March 2014 WHAT: A salon using the ‘unconference’ method ORIGIN: ‘What is fromness?’ was inspired by the talk, ‘Ask me where I’m…
Modern Sikkim
WHO: Sonam Tashi Gyaltsen, Dipika Kohli, Guests WHERE: B. R. E. W., Gangtok WHEN: October 2013 WHAT: A conversation salon series WHY: I love to gather people for remarkable connections, which means…
#DurhamTweetup
Returning to North Carolina USA in the late 2000s after leaving for a decade, as well as having no idea of what I was going to do, I needed to…
Today I Love You
‘Making zines, collaging things I find and discovering ways to put it all together. That’s just part of what one does when one is in a new place (or maybe…
