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A box of smile by Yoko Ono (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)
Jessica Findlay’s project “Front” consists of 2 symbiotic, voice-activated, inflatable conflict suits. Front is a sort of an endless game of vocal battle between two people who wear suits equipped with fans which inflate when they yell. Each suit has two types of inflation sacks - aggressive and defensive - which inflate depending on who is making sound. The suits are to be worn by the public.
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The Million Person Project
Day 1 was challenging; one more day to figure out my story…
$1000 mistake (at Shapeways LIC)
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On Saturday May 30, the Manny Cantor Center participated in the IDEAS CITY festival’s street program. Here’s our Q&A with them.
Why did you want to be a part of IDEAS CITY?
As an LES-based artist working in partnership with Manny Cantor Center, a local cultural and community Center, I find this to be an incredible opportunity to be part of a great (and environmentally conscious) festival. Manny Cantor Center’s programs reach people of all ages and backgrounds—many of whom are considered invisible. We both love our community, our city, and the unique ways in which art unites people.
How did your project address the theme of The Invisible City?
Manny Cantor Center serves many populations that are often overlooked, or invisible, when it comes to education, social services, and personal experience. As the artist-in-residence at Manny Cantor Center’s Weinberg Center for Balanced Living, I was able to provide a voice to one of these groups: senior citizens. Our kiosk for the day was a handcrafted Sukkah, a temporary hut designed and built by Educational Alliance’s Jack Sheratt. For IDEAS CITY, the sukkah, traditionally used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, will be our own temporary space for Lower East Side storytelling and dialogue with our amazing senior tour guides.
Where can we find your work outside of IDEAS CITY?
For more on the Manny Cantor Center: MannyCantor.org or follow us social media: @MannyCantorNYC
For more on Laura Nova: moving-stories.org or vimeo.com/lauranova
What change would you like to see happen in New York City?
We would like to see a healthier, more vibrant city that cares for all of its inhabitants, no matter their background.
Jun Yang
Paris Syndrome, 2007–08 (top left)
HD video, sound, color; 10 min
Courtesy the artist; Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, Beijing; Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; and Shougo Arts, Tokyo.Jun Yang’s wide-ranging work, which includes film, video, installation, and public projects, often examines the influence of cliché media imagery on the formation of identity. Part of a larger body of work, Paris Syndrome is named for a disorder said to affect tourists visiting Paris or parts of Western Europe in which the afflicted experience delusional states, hallucination, dizziness, and sweating. Shot in residential areas of Guangzhou, China, the video depicts a couple looking out onto various urban scenes; they appear shocked and lost, unable to comprehend or participate in their surrounding environment. Here, the couple experiences the syndrome as a trauma, wherein they are unable to reconcile their dream of a city with its harsh reality.
Yao Jui-Chung
Roaming around the Ruins I, II, III, IV Mirage—Disused Property in Taiwan, 1990–2005 (top right)
HD video, silent, black-and-white. Courtesy the artist.
A prolific artist, writer, publisher, curator, and teacher, Yao Jui-Chung has exerted a tremendous impact on the Taiwanese art scene. His work often engages Taiwan’s historical past, evoking the political and psychological complexity involved in the various waves of colonialism its people have endured. For decades, he has been studying discarded and disused buildings around Taiwan and capturing them through photography. Roaming around the Ruins provides a glimpse into the vast documentary archive that the artist has amassed over the years; it unfolds as a slideshow, like one you might see of a friend’s vacation, but in this case, all of the sites are in a state of abandonment. Shot from idiosyncratic angles, the photographs evince not the formality of an architectural survey but the attachment, questioning, and wistfulness of a citizen.
Jun Yang’s and Yao Jui-Chung’s works are part of “The Great Ephemeral”
Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner
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Time for a play date!
Highlights from the walking tour at IDEA City, May 30, 2015
Moving Stories Kiosk (sukkah) at IDEA City, May 30, 2015
The amazing Manny Cantor Center staff and volunteers who made this event happen! Thank You!
Pua Shen, the 90 year old Kung Fun master leads the public in a warm up before the walking tour at IDEA City on May 30, 2015
Inside the sukkah, “Moving Stories” tour guide Karen (the science lady) discusses stops on the walking tour at Idea City, May 30, 2015.