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Housebroken
39-31 29th St
LIC, Queens
More goodness from Flux Factory. Artist Ian Burns created a cotton covered conveyor belt running as backdrop for a model airplane blowing via mini fan recorded by digital video cam playing real time on adjacent monitor. If anyone wants to put the punctuation in the right places I’m looking for a copy editor.
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Hsin-Chien Huang
“Shanghai Shall We Dance”
Speed and Chaos (Group Exhibition)
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th
until 17 February
There were several interesting pieces of contemporary Asian art in this exhibition, but I found this video installation most interesting. An infrared camera eye captured the movements of the viewer and emulated them on screen in the manner of erecting and dismantling a group of brick buildings. This piece was a perfect parable for what I witnessed in China during my visit last autumn. The pace of construction was frenetic, with very little regard for the old while fetishizing all things shiny, new and technologically advanced. Strange considering the the ancient cultural history of China. Just one of many seeming contradictions that perhaps are destined to be perplexing to the outsider…
