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TEDxNASA - Chakaia Booker - 11/20/09

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2009 · People & Blogs

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Chakaia Booker - Artistic Exploration and Experimentation    

A penchant for scavenged rubber, Chakaia Booker began a career assembling the strips and shreds of discarded Goodyears and Firestones into intricate, elaborate, widely acclaimed sculpture. Her work has a fully organic presence. For a NASA-commissioned memorial project, she disassembled a tire once used by the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia. Bookers work communicates her need to utilize her skills as a means of experimentation and exploration.  

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