posted May 2, 2009 8:00 AM by Jaekyung Jung
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THINGS OF THAT NATURE FEATURES 9 PROJECTS AT
THE BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS MILLS GALLERY
Opens May 15, 2009
Boston – The Boston Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of Things Of That Nature, an exhibition featuring nine projects developed by graduate students at MIT’s Visual arts program: Haseeb Waqar Ahmed, Gina Badger, Caitlin Berrigan, Jaekyung Jung, Jin Jung, Matthew Mazzotta, Alexander Rosenberg, Jegan Vincent De Paul, and Jess Wheelock. The exhibit will be on view from May 15 to June 7 at the BCA’s Mills Gallery. The opening reception, free and open to the public, will be on May 15 from 6 to 8 pm.
Artists
Haseeb Waqar Ahmed's Shamshir+Windtunnel=Progress is the recreation of an experiment performed by the artist at the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel at MIT. The wind tunnel creates atmospheric conditions to develop technologies that proliferate through everyday life. By using the tunnel to freeze the movement between start and strike in the swing of a Shamshir sword, the technical object of the wind tunnel is made to create an aesthetic one instead. The tunnel, pointing toward the future, the sword to the past, are bound together in the present by the action of cutting through air.
The Little Dig is the first in a series of projects by Gina Badger using the actions of gardening to develop a new language of urban intervention. In this case, digging provides a methodology for exploring the relationship between individual people who pay taxes and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Drawing on the histories of urban gardening and symbolic protest, Badger engineers a humorous and poetic attempt to locate personal agency in the face of the current global financial crisis.
Caitlin Berrigan’s work investigates ideas of interdependence using materials associated with both nutritional sustenance and fear of contamination. Milk and blood, as well as disembodied casts of her own internal organs, expose the complex possibilities of interrelation between bodies, particularly in an age when organ transplants and other radical forms of exchange are increasingly part of a globalized economy.
Through disarmingly simple strategies like having a collaborator, Sohin Hwang, wearing a drum with the message "Hit Here If You Feel Victimized" on it, or wandering the streets of Boston wearing a mirror, the videos of Jaekyung Jung explore civic agency in public space. In each project Jung has orchestrated a situation where viewers are asked to question their assumptions about socially accepted norms.
a play: Between Me and You is a project by Jin Jung in which she directs situations in order to give attention to relationships that surround us. She writes and hands out text that can instruct and give background to these situations. At the gallery, the viewer will find props she has created that can be performed with our bodies. These performing objects mediate the interaction between us.
Matthew Mazzotta’s Insertion Module is a structure designed for the negative spaces of buildings. It sits anonymously, almost unnoticed, in plain sight until it is taken out and transformed into a portable teahouse. The actual teahouse will be on view at the Mills Gallery, along with descriptive material about the overall project and the projected modules for other locations.
Alexander Rosenberg’s work explores identity through experiments in longing and failure. In this installation at the Mills, Rosenberg will recreate on his own terms the life and work of Enoch Robinson, an eccentric inventor who built a perfectly round house in Massachusetts in 1856. “I am prone to dreaming of time travel, an impossible endeavor, but one that can be distantly approached through historical research,” says Rosenberg
Using video, performance, sculpture, and photography, Jess Wheelock depicts episodes of calamity on a small personal scale: everyday disasters that lie somewhere between banality and significance. The scenes created by the artist suggest a struggle against limitation and a desire for wholeness and happiness -- all of which are infused with irony and absurdity.
Public programs for Things of That Nature are organized by the BCA assisted by ///COUNTER, an organization focused on the collection and circulation of power, art, and energy. ///COUNTER is a project concerned not with the production of art as much as with the circulation of art (and thus power and energy) to the very people it aims to represent. ///COUNTER is a project by Jegan Vincent De Paul.
Additional funding for this exhibition generously provided by the MIT Arts Council.
PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
Friday, May 15, 6:00 to 8 pm – Opening Reception
Saturday, May 23, 12:30 to 1:45 pm - Family Day
Wednesday, May 27, 6:30 pm - Gallery Talk
About The Mills Gallery
The BCA’s Mills Gallery is dedicated to presenting exciting contemporary works by local, regional, national, and international visual artists and curators. During each exhibition, the BCA provides multiple opportunities to engage with the artwork and artists through its Artist Talk series and other related events. The Mills Gallery is located at 539 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End. The Mills Gallery is the BCA’s non-profit gallery; exhibitions and Public Programs are free and open to the public. $5 donations are suggested. Visit us at www.bcaonline.org
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posted Feb 18, 2009 6:00 AM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Aug 5, 2009 10:12 PM
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'The Gulag', a collaborative project with Sohin Hwang, was selected for Carpenter Center Students Choose Exhibition and was exhibited at Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition: Students Choose Exhibition
Date: Feb., 3-13, 2009
Location: Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Reception: Feb., 12, 5:30-6:30 p.m. |
posted Nov 30, 2008 4:46 AM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Aug 5, 2009 10:39 PM
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Project 'Interrupted' was selected as Silver Awards for the Spark Awards 2008, the world's first multi-level design competition.
Exhibition: The Spark Awards 2008
Date: Oct., 5, 2008 - Jan., 31, 2009
Location: the Autodesk Design Gallery in San Francisco, CA, USA
Organized by: The Spark Awards |
posted Nov 30, 2008 4:46 AM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Aug 5, 2009 10:37 PM
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Project 'Interrupted'
was selected as the SpaceTime Student Awards in Physical Installation
category for 2008 Space Time Interactive competition and will be
exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2008 this coming August.
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008
Date: Aug., 12th, 2008-Aug., 14th, 2008
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Organized by: ACM SIGGRAPH |
posted Nov 28, 2008 3:34 PM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Dec 25, 2008 9:30 PM
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Project 'Interrupted' was exhibited in Zelny trh, built as a farmer's market nealy 800 years ago, in Brno 2008
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posted Jul 30, 2008 11:35 PM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Dec 25, 2008 9:29 PM
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Project 'Interrupted' was exhibited in the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008
visit the website.
Exhibition: the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008
Date: Jun., 17th, 2008-Oct., 19th, 2008
Location: Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic
Organized by:Moravian Gallery
Cooperating
institutions: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, The South
Moravian Region, The City of Brno, Brno Biennial Association, Czech
Centres
Endorsed by: ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations |
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posted Jul 28, 2008 11:45 PM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Aug 5, 2009 10:41 PM
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Past + Present, Mixed Media, 2009
The
present does not exist on its own but as a result of the past (cause);
that is, in a sequential context. For example, when an object moves
from the left to right, the right of the 'present' can be understood as
the 'left,' in the context of the past, as the position is relatively
left in the present. Past+Present consists of an audience filmed real
time, and a computer and controller that can display the present and
past simultaneously. The images, captured with camera, display the
present shape in real time. When the controller’s dial is turned
leftwards, the current picture being filmed and the past, relative to
the degree of the turned dial, overlaps in participator's vision. By
allowing the audience to experience the present (result) and past
(cause) at the same time, the project aims to provide a contextual
insight of the present.
This project will be exhibited at:
Design MADE 2007, It's Hotel
'Design made' makes differentiation from the passive exhibition culture. It will
show the new and experimental exhibition freed from the stereotypes and the
old
ideas about design exhibition. Every year, nationally and
internationally noted designers take part in the exhibition with young
and new designers. New designs selected through the design competition
will be also exhibited.
Not only through the exhibition but through other activities, public
will have a broader mind about design and a new way of looking at design by
sharing designs. The activities will allow international cultural communication
and opportunities to view the future design trends.
Date : Oct.3. 2007 - Oct.22. 2007 (20days, no holidays)
Opening reception : Oct.2. 2007 5:00 PM
Location：Design Museum gallery 1,2,3 and outdoor space
Organizer : Seoul Art Center
Sponsor : Ministry of Culture and Tourism
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posted Jul 16, 2008 10:20 AM by Jaekyung Jung
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updated Aug 5, 2009 10:58 PM
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I
proposed the exhibition plan, a joint exhibition consisted of the
experimental pieces of artists and designers who I met by chance during
my studying at RISD, at the Korea Institute Design Promotion.
Thirty thousands dollars were funded by the government organization for
this plan. It was a big challenge for me because I haven’t any
exhibition producing experience in my life. I visited around forty
galleries in Chelsea and Brooklyn in NYC to suggest my exhibition plan.
Finally, in the summer of 2007, in the Project Space 35 Gallery in
Chelsea, fourteen designers and artists from Boston, San Francisco,
Chicago, Providence, New Haven, New York and Paris accidentally crossed
paths and joined forces under the title Meet by Accident. Initiated
with a simple imagination, I recreated an intersection of space and
time between people that would be a greatly exciting experimental
piece, spanning graphics, illustration, furniture, textiles,
photography, and interaction design. It was exhibited. I exhibited my
first experience of my aesthetic interests of physical phenomena, Still Life in Centrifugal Canvas.
Visit the Meet by Accident website Title : Meet by Accident
Date : Saturday August 25th to Friday August 31st, 2007
Location : Project Space 35
Address : 547 West 27th Street 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10001)
Sponsor : Korea Institute of Design Promotion, Project Space 35
Meet by Accident, Curatorial Project, 2007
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Designers / Artists *in alphabetical orderHyunyoo Cho, Pattern Maker
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY Yeju Choi, Graphic Designer
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT Keywon Chung, Interaction Designer
San francisco, CA Baek Hahn, Graphic Designer
Paris, France Sohin Hwang, Communication Designer
Harvard University, Boston, MA Jinho Im, Computer Artist
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Jaekyung Jung, Graphic Designer
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Jinyul Jung, Graphic Designer
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT E Roon Kang, Interaction Designer
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT Dongyun Lee, Illustrator
School of Visual Art, New York, NY Sylvie Le Maout, Photographer
Paris, France Jinsoo Seo, Communication Designer
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL B Soop Shim, Graphic Designer
New York, NY Roger Wei, Furniture Designer
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
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