Showing posts with label artasiamerica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artasiamerica. Show all posts
Friday, October 7, 2011
AAAC Artists Archive - Introduction and Demonstration

This is an AAAC event.

Time:  Wednesday, October 12, 4:oo p.m. - 6:oo p.m; 
           Thursday, October 13, 6:oo p.m. - 8:oo p.m.


Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Community Center
                107 Suffolk St (at Rivington), New York, NY

An introduction and demonstration of 
the AAAC Artists Archive and its online site:
 ARTASIAMERICA



The contemporary art of the last sixty years by Asian American artists exhibited by Asian American Arts Centre will be accessed at this event, particularly during the talk by the curator/executive director Robert Lee.

The AAAC Artists Archive is a research and educational archive documenting the history of Asian Pacific American Artists in the United States since 1945 to the present. Focused on twenty six years of AAAC contemporary art exhibitions held in the Lower Manhattan, it is inclusive of American artists deeply influenced by Asia. Its online counterpart – Artasiamerica.org is a high-quality research tool as well as an innovative educational asset for college and high school students, educators, and community members.

Foremost, it features images of the art works of the artists themselves, with written material to support them. Together they enable a direct experience of the art of Asian American artists and the issues and questions of cultural diversity in America.

Web Sites: www.artasiamerica.org www.artspiral.org

No RSVP required. Sit is limited so please come early.


 
The painting of "Charlie Chan the detective" is by Roger Shimomura

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
"Growing Peace" - Indira Johnson's fields art project in Oregon, IL

Bird view of "Growing Peace"
Walking through "Growing Peace"


Indira Freitas Johnson is an artist, cultural worker, and activist based out of the Evanston, Illinois. Though she has resided in the States for well over two decades, Indira has continuingly kept close ties with her homeland, India. She uses a wide array of mediums for her creations, her materials often being derived from multiple sources ranging from discarded man-made items to the recycled and more organic. Her subjects often ponder the origins of South Asian values and ethics, spiritual development, and issues of social justice and humanitarianism. “The influences of my mother, a social activist and my father, an artist and a follower of Gandhi have been predominant in my life and art,” she writes, “I continue to deal with the same issues that have preoccupied me for the last two decades - the growth towards a spiritual existence as an individual and as part of the human continuum.”

Her most recent work is with the Fields Project of Oregon, Illinois, where she created a five-acre field sculpture titled Growing Peace. It is in this work that Indira contemplates the power of human perspective and its relationship to the process of finding peace within civilization. Her design, "Growing Peace" was meant to imprint the earth, inviting observers to become participants in our shared goal for peace. Indira employed the foot, a symbol that continues to dominate her work as the primary motif in "Growing Peace". She believes it's power lies in its universality and we stand and walk without feet, which gives us stability and grounds us to the earth. This is Indira's statement of her concept:
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Friday, June 24, 2011
"Asian Pacifically New York: The Photography of Corky Lee"

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"Asian Pacifically New York: The Photography of Corky Lee" Exhibition at Queens Museum of Art
On view : June 25th - August 14th, 2011




Set inside the Queens Museum of Art’s magnificent Panorama of the City of New York, this exhibition presents the artist’s long-term commitment to documenting the experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander American communities of New York. These communities comprise 12% of the city’s population,  who are perhaps seen but not well understood. By capturing the geographically, culturally and linguistically disparate communities under a pan ethnic-framework, Corky Lee hopes to highlight a political solidarity and shared identity forged in the American and New York contexts. These contemporary images challenge centuries-old ideologies and representations, and thus becomes instrumental in reconstructing and redefining a population that will continue to flower as engaged citizens and take their rightful place in America. With the understanding that the 10th anniversary is close at hand, some images will hone in on issues of immigration and post-9/11 experiences. Drawing on the diasporic impressions, Corky also includes an image of the detained Chinese artist, Ai Wei Wei from 1989 during pro-democracy protests.

There are 18 of the 36 photographs spanning Corky's 40 years of work on QMA's website. Additional photos will be projected across the 9,335 sq. ft. 3-D display during the reception.

This exhibition is an extension of QMA’s Partnership Gallery program.

Exhibit is made possible by contributions from the Confucius Institute of Stony Brook University, Asian/Asian American Research Institute of CUNY, OCA-Long Island and Asian American Center of Stony Brook.

QMA will provide a free shuttle bus at the #7 train, Willets Pt. (Citi Field) to the museum between 2:30 & 6PM. By LIRR, the stop is Mets-Willets Pt. The walk from the station is approximately 10 minutes. Head towards Unisphere & QMA. There is limited free parking. 

QMA is open late on Fridays until 8PM during July & August.


Corly Lee's Bio:

Corky Lee is a New York based photographer whose subjects frequently depicts concepts of Asian American assertion and awareness in the social and public life of New Yorkers and indeed, of all Asians in the US. As a second generation Chinese-American, Corky grew up in Queens during the Civil Rights era. He has been described as the “undisputed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate,” with his work depicting pinnacle moments such as the events following the Vincent Chin murder and the 1975 protests at City Hall. In addition, Corky’s skills have been employed by a variety of media outlets, including Time Magazine, the New York Times and the New York Post. His photographs, spanning over a forty year period, are currently being displayed at the Queens Museum until August 14th in an exhibit titled, “Asian Pacifically New York: The Photography of Corky Lee.”

Corky exhibited at the AAAC in November 1994 in Photography and Community: AAAC Annual. He served as curator for the exhibition, Not Your Chop Suey Chinatown: Eight Photographers selected by Corky Lee in December 2002. He was also part of The AAAC Story, Spring of 2002 – a collaboration with Asian/ Pacific/ American Studies Program at New York University - a critical review of the Arts Centre's work to date with one hundred artists from AAAC Permanent Collection.

“Who has not heard one of Corky’s stories? At the drop of a hat he can cite what was happening at the moment a photo was taken, even those long ago. We recognize Corky as a community photographer. Let’s also recognize him for the flip side of his work, as the, ‘undisputed unofficial Asian American Historian Laureate’.” - Bob Lee



For more info. please visit: http://www.queensmuseum.org/
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
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Date: Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Time: 1pm
Location: Chinese embassy/consulate in your area
Demonstrators carrying posters of the artist Ai Weiwei gathered outside a Chinese government office in Hong Kong earlier this week.Ym Yik/European Pressphoto AgencyDemonstrators carrying posters of the artist Ai Weiwei gathered outside a Chinese government office in Hong Kong this week.
Artists and curators will hold a sit-in outside Chinese embassies and consulates on Sunday to protest the detention of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Mr. Ai was detained on April 3; on April 7, a Chinese official told The Times that he was being held on suspicion of “economic crimes.”
The form of Sunday’s planned protest—in which participants will bring chairs and sit down outside Chinese government buildings around the world — draws on an installation titled “Fairytale: 1001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs,” which Mr. Ai did at Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in 2007. In it, he arranged 1,001 late Ming and Qing Dynasty wooden chairs around the exhibition; he also recruited 1,001 Chinese citizens through the Internet to volunteer to go and live in Kassel for the length of the show. The plan for the protest took shape after Anne Pasternak, the president of Creative Time, posted a question on Facebook asking what the art community could do to support Mr. Ai’s release. Steven Holmes, an adjunct curator at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, listed “about 11 ideas all based on Ai Weiwei’s work, and I thought that was really beautiful,” Ms. Pasternak said in an interview.
With a friend from Sweden and others, Ms. Pasternak put up a Facebook page for the protest, titled “1,001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei.” The protest will take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

By Kate Taylor Via NYTimes
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Friday, April 8, 2011
1001 Chairs For Ai Weiwei




Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is an internationally regarded figure who has fought for artistic freedom and for freedom of speech throughout his distinguished career, envisioning and shaping a more just and equitablesociety through his work. He has been missing since his arrest on April 3rd in Beijing. 

Steven Holmes was inspired by facebook discussion on what art communities can do to support the safe release of Ai Weiwei. He proposed to reenact Ai Weiwei's project Fairytale: 1,0001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs—an installation which was comprised of 1,001 late Ming and Qing Dynasty wooden chairs at Documenta 12 in 2007 in Kassel, Germany—in front of Chinese embassies and consulates around the world.
This Sunday, April 17, at 1 PM local time, supporters are invited to participate in 1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei, by bringing a chair and gathering outside Chinese embassies and consulates to sit peacefully in support of the artist’s immediate release.

Event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163478807041517
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Asian American Arts Centre presents.. BOOM BOX

BOOM BOX


Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NYC
Dates: March 17 - March 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 17, 5:00pm-8:00pm

Artists: Amy Chan, Ming Fay, Jung Hyang Kim, and Hyungsub Shin.
Curated by Eun Young Choi.

Featuring four artists who create beautiful visual harmony inspired by nature Boom Box, like the compact portable stereo, overflows with various rhythms and melodies that combine together to create a complex yet intimate visual symphony. The white walled rectangular gallery is transformed into a vibrant celebration of colorful blooms, pods, branches, and burgeoning flora. The exhibition includes intricate multi-layered dreamlike abstractions of Jung Hyang Kim, a fruit-laden lush urban jungle installation by Ming Fay, delicate yet quietly mesmerizing surreal landscapes by Amy Chan, and painted abstractions and delightful wire constructions that straddle the boarder between nature and artificiality in the form of rhizomes and stolons by Hyungsub Shin.

Eun Young Choi is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and studied Museum Studies at City College, CUNY. Some of the venues that she has curated at include Gallery SATORI, Number 35, Arario Gallery New York, Lumenhouse, and the NARS Foundation in New York City and Gallery Factory in Seoul. She has also exhibited her work international in Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, and the US.

For more information, go to http://www.artspiral.org/new.html
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Friday, January 7, 2011
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'Never sorry' is the first feature length documentary on one of the most controversial
and iconic chinese contemporary artists of our time, ai weiwei whose voice on human rights issues
in china have resulted in his detainment, as well as the order to demolish his newly completed
work studio in shanghai, among other events. directed by beijing-based journalist and filmmaker
alison klayman, the film offers an intimate and scholarly portrait of the cultural figure,
whose art and activism has made headlines not only in his native homeland of china,
but around the globe.

Ai Weiwei's latest work 'sunflower seeds', fills the tate modern's turbine hall with millions of life-sized
hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds. the installation is on view until may 2nd, 2011.

Here is a little teaser of what to expect from 'never sorry':

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry TEASER from Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry on Vimeo.


Produced by MUSE film and television, 'ai weiwei: never sorry' is set to be released later this year.
for more info and updates you can visit the film's facebook page and twitter.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES at Exit Art

ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES at Exit Art 
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opening Friday, September 24, 7pm - 9pm
Alternative Histories is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces – like P.S.1, Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street, White Columns, Creative Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more – as well as document a new generation of alternative projects such as Live With Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra’s, English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus Space, and others.

Over 130 spaces are represented in the show, which elaborates on the significant contributions these organizations made to the cultural fabric of New York City. They gave visibility and inclusion to otherwise excluded artists and ideas. The idealism of the founders, the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in sustaining these histories, against all odds, illustrates the dynamic purposes that propel the artistic scene in New York. “Imagination is an alternative to reality, creating options that never end,” says Papo Colo.

The exhibition incorporates a broad definition of the term “alternative space,” and includes significant publications and artist collectives to cover a broad arc of this history – bridging neighborhoods, decades and themes. In the development and organization of this exhibition, the curatorial team viewed dozens of archives and personal collections – selecting critical materials from the histories of the spaces and projects – and interviewed founders and early staff members, when possible, to construct a narrative about the alternative space movement in New York and its continuing impact on the city’s cultural and artistic landscape.

For more information go to Exit Art
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
8 ARTISTS: FROM THE AAAC ARCHIVE


Date: August 14 - September 11, 2010 
Location: Cuchifritos
Address: 120 Essex Street, Essex Street Market, New York, NY 10002
Opening Reception: Saturday, Aug 14th, 4pm - 630pm


Artists: Charles Yuen, Dinh Q. Le , Dorothy Imagire, Eunjung Hwang, Howardina Pindell, Nancy Hom, Roger Shimomura

In collaboration with the Artists Alliance Inc.(AAI) an AAAC (Asian American Arts Centre) exhibition entitled tentatively, “Eight Artists: from the Archive”, will be installed in the Cuchifritos art gallery/project space located inside the Essex Street Market from August 14th - September 11th 2010. 

This exhibition of Eight Artists from the Archive brings a few chosen artists to the public, focused on those presented in AAAC’s digital archive – artasiamerica.org.  The best way to present a context for such art at Cuchifritos is through the presence of the digital archive.  Making this resource available on site and demonstrating the ease of tapping into it. AAAC has been gathering its physical archive of images and documents of Asian American artists for over two decades, and a good portion of this resource is now online. Go to artasiamerica.org and/or come to the gallery and ask for a tour of it there. 

 
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Dinh Q. Le's installation for Projects 93 at MoMa

Location: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York
 June 30, 2010- January 24, 2011


Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese American, b. 1968) weaves together—both literally and figuratively—personal recollections with larger histories and mythologies often related to the Vietnam War, also known as the American War in Lê’s native country. For Projects 93, Lê presents The Farmers and The Helicopters (2006), an installation comprised of a three-channel video and a helicopter hand-built from scrap parts by Le Van Danh, a farmer, and Tran Quoc Hai, a self-taught mechanic. For more information, visit http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1061 
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGESS

SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 30, 2009
Curated by Angel Velasco Shaw
Opening Reception:
Friday September 18th 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: AAAC, 23 Bowery, NYC
Gallery Talk with Artists & Scholars:
Wednesday October 7th 6 - 8pm.
Location: WHITE BOX 329 Broome St. NYC

Artists: Albert Chong, John Yoyogi Fortes, Swati Khurana, and Tomie Arai.
Writers: Jan Christian Bernabe, Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, Midori Yoshimoto, and Sarita Echavez See.

To commemorate the thirty-fifth year of mounting arts in a community context, the Asian American Arts Centre presents “Out of the Archive: Process and Progress,” a major exhibition program. It aims to draw attention to the AAAC Artists Archive and its recently launched digital archive - artasiamerica.org. This program includes a special exhibition installation, a gallery talk, a catalogue, several essayists, and online interactive events and opportunities for the audience. The digital archive, a major undertaking over two years in the making, consists of about 10% of the total 1,500 Asian American artists entries in the original archive, which reflects the last 60 years and several generations of artistic production.

The four artists presented, Tomie Arai, Albert Chong, John Yoyogi Fortes, and Swati Khurana, have been selected from a review of all the artists posted in artasiamerica.org by guest curator Angel Velasco Shaw. The printed catalogue has been edited and coordinated by Sarita Echavez See who selected four writers to participate with her in reviewing the artists' work: Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, and Jan Christian Bernabe. AAAC seeks to expand the ways in which it has presented Asian American art in a community context. Expanding our approach to the literary arts, we are introducing a critical writing component in order to draw upon literary and cultural criticism for visual interpretive and critical thinking.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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JULY 28, 2009



artasiamerica, the digital archive is finally launched! Go to www.artasiamerica.org.

This effort is just the beginning. As we work with more and more artists, organizations, galleries, we'll move closer towards our goal of making the archive of artasiamerica search-able, discoverable, and accessible online.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Asian/Pacific American Archives Survey



AAAC has appeared as one of the Asian/Pacific American archives survey participants on the NYU website! Go here to read more.

Made available by New York University, the Asian/Pacific American Documentary Heritage Archives Survey project is the first systematic attempt to map Asian/Pacific American archival collections in the New York metropolitan area. AAAC is represented as an important archive documenting the development of New York Asian/Pacific American community and art. We are one of the rare organizations that have a professional artists' archive. The archive, currently about 1,500 artists, include Asian Americans producing art, Asian artists who are active in the United States, and other Americans who are significantly influenced by Asia.
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