Chia-Shan Lee: Never Ending Story
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60 Reade St, New York, New York
6:30pm until 9:30pm in EDT
RSVP required | rsvp@contaminatenyc.com
Contaminate is pleased to present Never Ending Story, an experiential art evening dedicated to London-based artist Chia-Shan Lee. The event will be held at Kristin Hanson Gallery, 60 Reade Street in Tribeca from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. The show is the first of a series of exhibitions dedicated to the winners of One Hundred Days, an international juried art competition, launched by Contaminate in the fall of 2011, which challenged artists to create a project inspired by th...
e principles of sustainability. This exhibition – ongoing until October 15th, 2012 – will showcase Chia-Shan’s installation Never Ending Story, winner of the competition for the Environmental Track.
Inspired by both the concept of information overload in contemporary society and the waste of resources associated to newspapers’ production (2.5 million tons of newspapers are produced and circulated each year in the U.K.), Chia-Shan narrates a contemporary fairy-tale employing newspaper yarns as story-telling material, as she believes that the abstract meaning of the words recording daily news fills them with emotions and messages. In her vision, the energy of the words is the key to rethink the values and use of newspapers and their impact on people’s life. Combining critical theory with the creative aspect of textiles and the symbolic meaning of newspapers words, she created an installation of clothes and sculptures with the purpose of raising awareness on the issues of newspaper recycling and resources waste. During the opening night the installation will come alive with performers Seanna Sharpe, Alexis Convento, Ede Thurrell, Lucy Struever wearing Chia-Shan’s creations and staging her fairy-tale under the direction of choreographer Vanessa Walters and music score by Emiliano Melis and Renzo Vitale. DJ set by Joe Livingston. September 13th, 2012 | 6:30pm to 9:30pm Kristin Hanson Gallery 60 Reade Street, New York |
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