Badanna Zack
Part of The Artist's Life series

Michael Glassbourg
TickleScratch Productions
24 minutes • 2004
Also available on DVD

"You can't miss the meaning in Badanna Zack's 40 life-like skulls sculpted out of old newspapers. Here's all the news that's fit to kill."

–Peter Goddard, Toronto Star

Badanna Zack is a Toronto artist who continues to be a vital force on the Canadian scene. Her work amuses and challenges us, whether it's her controversial flying penises or papier-mâché projects ranging from pitch forks, sewing machines and a sow with piglets, to guns, urinals and human skulls. With the detritus of technology a major theme in her work, she has created soft-mould sculptures of Volkswagon Beetles to hang on the wall like carcasses and covered a mound of abandoned automobiles in earth to resemble an archeological dig at a land-fill site.

She shares her thoughts on the artistic process, feminism, the business of art, paying too much attention to theory, and the persistent label she's attracted of "political artist."

Subject(s): Artists–Badanna Zack, Installation art, Sculpture, Women–artists