A Tale of Two Islands - Video Documentation
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Mannahatta VR Upcoming demos at A/P/A Institute at NYU + Exploring Future Reality 2016 at Viacom with NYC Media Lab
Mannahatta VR: Envisioning Lenapeway
A/P/A Institute at NYU, 8 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Nov. 14 2016, 2-5pm (click here to RSVP for this date)
Dec. 12, 2016, 2-5pm (click here to RSVP for this date)
Mannahatta VR is a virtual reality experience that reimagines the past and futures of New York. The experience starts on one block of Broadway that continues to be part of a vast matrix of Lenape pathways connecting Manaháhtaan (original Lenape name of Manhattan) to the greater northeast region. This project is created in partnership between artist Beatrice Glow, The Wayfinding Project at the A/P/A Institute at NYU, Alexandre Girardeau of Highway 101, ETC (Experiential Technology Community) and Indigenous cultural and knowledge bearers.
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Mannahatta VR: Envisioning Lenapeway - Virtual Reality Demo 11/10, 11/14 & 12/12
Monday, November 14, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | RSVP here
Monday, December 12, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | RSVP here
Artist Beatrice Glow and The Wayfinding Project have partnered with Alexandre Girardeauof Highway 101, ETC (Experiential Tech Community) to build Mannahatta VR, a virtual reality experience in the HTC Vive which brings together the past and present of one Broadway block. The team also collaborated with NYU Ground Manager George Reis to create a virtual tour ofNYU’s native plant gardens. Visit 8 Washington Mews on November 14 or December 12 to meet Glow and experience Mannahatta VR.
Nov. 18 - ARTIST ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: WILSON, CAO, GLOW @ The Center for Book Arts →
NOVEMBER 18, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
In conjunction with the exhibition, Enacting the Text: Performing with Words, join artists Martha Wilson, Paco Cao, and Beatrice Glow for an evening with artist actions and a an exhibition-focused panel discussion.
Suggested donation: $10 ($5, members). Reception to follow.
Decolonizing New York - NYU News →
Through virtual reality installations, a historic symposium, an artist residency, and more, NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Institute is challenging New Yorkers to engage in "Indigenous vision training."
Lenapeway + NYU Native Plant Gardens Tour →
Lenapeway, an installation by artist Beatrice Glow and The Wayfinding Project at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, will be on 24-hour view in the street-level windows of 715 Broadway (at Washington Place) from October 10 (Indigenous Peoples’ Day) to December 9. The location of the installation, which is viewable from the sidewalk 24/7 and is co-sponsored by NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, marks the intersection of the main Lenape trail and a side-trail that traverses through present-day Washington Square Park.
To enrich the installation, Glow and The Wayfinding Project have partnered with NYU Grounds Manager George Reis to create a tour of NYU’s native plant gardens some of which are situated along the original Lenape trail. This hour-long excursion and sensorial experience begins at 715 Broadway—the site of the installation—and takes guests to four of NYU’s eleven native plant gardens and through Washington Square Park.
This tour is accessible for wheelchair users. If you have any access or mobility needs or questions, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
"Rhunhattan: A Tale of Two Islands" Blog for NYU Digital Humanities
To tell this story of two islands with intertwined fates of land dispossession and erasure during the birthing of imperial globalization propelled forward by countless caravans and ships transporting spice, sugar, and silk, I am reeducating myself about the broken human relationship with land and waters. We are living in debt to our future generations and must learn how the Lenape sustainably managed the island for the sake of futurity over millennia. In a time when massive glaciers the size of lower Manhattan crashing into the ocean doesn’t make a media splash, we have a great responsibility to fight apathy. We are living in urgent times and there is a need to revitalize indigenous cultures and knowledge for environmental stewardship. We need a paradigm shift from falsely believing that human beings are landlords of Earth to seeing humans as being part of the ecosystem.
“Lenapeway” Retraces the Original Broadway Trail
Long before Henry Hudson’s arrival in 1609, Manhattan or Manaháhtaan, as originally named by the indigenous Lenape people, was a place of gathering and exchange amongst diverse nations. Today, Broadway runs along a portion of the original matrix of trails that connected Manaháhtaan to the broader northeast region and the Great Lakes.
A Tale of Two Islands: Welcome Event for Artist-in-Residence Beatrice Glow to the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University →
A/P/A Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence Beatrice Glow begins her residency with the act of planting a native tree, and the presentation of a new lecture-performance. Glow’s work uncovers invisible, suppressed stories that lie in the geopolitical shadows of colonialism and migration.
Aromérica Parfumeur: Una entrevista con Beatrice Glow →
Aromérica Parfumeur, es una muestra que explora el camino recorrido de plantas a través de la ruta de las especias y expediciones científicas, así como el vínculo entre Asia y las Américas. En el marco de esta exposición María Montt Strabucchi, miembro de ALADAA, entrevistó a la artista Beatrice Glow, quien trabaja con instalaciones, publicaciones en múltiples idiomas incluyendo chino mandarín, español e inglés, performances y charlas, entre otros.
Source URL: https://www.aladaachile.com/post/2016/09/05/arom%C3%A9rica-parfumeur-una-entrevista-con-beatrice-glow
Artista estadounidense Beatrice Glow exhibe en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Situada dentro de un centro comercial, Sala de Arte Mall Plaza Vespucio del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, la exhibición Aromérica Parfumeur, que tendrá lugar el 13 de agosto al 18 de septiembre, es una instalación de arte de la artista Beatrice Glow que toma la forma de una perfumería, mientras conecta el imaginario histórico del “descubrimiento” y la formación de las Américas tras la búsqueda de las especias de Asia. Los conquistadores no sólo estaban detrás de El Dorado y la Fuente de la Juventud Eterna, sino también del Picante y el País de la Canela. La historia social de las plantas lleva una relación íntima con la globalización: la circunnavegación del mundo liderado por Hernando De Magallanes fue financiado por un puñado de clavos de olor y Colón llegó a las Américas en la búsqueda de Asia y sus especias. Luego, fue Américo Vespucio quien subscribiría la idea “radical” de la existencia de un “Mundo Nuevo.” La Globalización se formalizó cuando Asia, las Américas y Europa se conectaron por la primera vez en el año 1565 por el Galeón de Manila, mejor conocido como el “Nao de la China” o “Nao de Acapulco”. Ésta era una ruta comercial que recorría la ruta entre Manila, Acapulco y Sevilla, exportando bienes de lujo como porcelana, seda y especias, influyendo en la cultura visual de las Américas.
ASIAN/PACIFIC/AMERICAN INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES BEATRICE GLOW AS 2016-17 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
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Interdisciplinary artist Beatrice Glow will be the Artist-in-Residence at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute for the 2016-2017 academic year—an appointment that includes public events on Sept. 27 and Dec. 8.
Glow’s work uncovers invisible, suppressed stories that lie in the geopolitical shadows of colonialism and migration. Her practice includes sculptural installations, trilingual publishing, participatory performances and lectures, and experiential technologies.
During her residency, Glow will research the social history of plants via spice routes and botanical expeditions focusing on the historical and contemporary relationship between the islands of Rhun (in pres¬ent-day Indonesia) and Manaháhtaan (Manhattan) to create Rhunhattan, a multiplatform project which will include psychogeographic and immersive tech experiences.
Glow, an NYU alumna, was the recipient of the 2015 Van Lier Visual Art Fellowship at Wave Hill and was named a 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Finalist. In 2014, she was awarded a Franklin Furnace Fund grant to create the Floating Library—a pop-up, mobile device-free public space aboard the historic Lilac Museum Steamship on the Hudson River. Glow is a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ Council Member and previously was Artist-in-Residence at the LES Studio Program at Artists Alliance Inc. Her most recent activities include Aromérica Parfumeur, a solo exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile (2016); The Wayfinding Project at the A/P/A Institute at NYU (2016); Rhunhattan at Wave Hill (2015); and a lecture performance as part of Asia Contemporary Art Week’s Field Meeting Take 2 at the Venice Biennale (2015). She holds a BFA in Studio Art from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Artist-in-Residence events
Both events are free and open to the public. To RSVP, please call 212.992.9653 or visitwww.apa.nyu.edu/events. Subways: N, R (8th St.), A, C, E, B, D, F, M (W. 4th St.)
Tues., Sept. 27, 6-9 p.m.
A Tale of Two Islands: Welcome event for Beatrice Glow (lecture-performance and reception)
Location: NYU Steinhardt Pless Hall Lounge (first floor), 82 Washington Square East
Glow begins her residency by presenting a new lecture-performance. Leeza Ahmady (Asia Contemporary Art Week), Thomas Looser (NYU Department of East Asian Studies), Jennifer McGregor (Wave Hill), Jack Tchen (A/P/A Institute), and Associate Dean Lindsay Wright (NYU Steinhardt) will offer comments.
Thurs., Dec. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
The Wayfinding Project: Closing Showcase (presentation and reception)
Location: 8 Washington Mews (below 8th Street, between University Place and Fifth Avenue)
Seeking to displace the myth of “the purchase of Manhattan,” The Wayfinding Project, part installation, part experiment in virtual and augmented reality, and part collabora¬tive research project, closes with a showcase of its findings. Featuring Beatrice Glow and students from Jack Tchen’s Fall course, “Indigenous Futures | Decolonizing NYC.”
EDITOR’S NOTE
Artists-in-Residence are invited to bring their notoriety, artistic work, and history of involvement with the Asian/Pacific American community to NYU. The Artist-in-Residence uses his/her time at A/P/A to create important new work, artistic retrospectives, forums, or conferences. Scholars, fellow artists, and community members familiar or new to the artist’s work, gain a unique opportunity to engage with the Artist-in-Residence within a university setting.
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/07/15/nyus-asianpacificamerican-institute-announces-beatrice-glow-as-2016-17-artist-in-residence.html
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Magical (un)Real: Entranced Land in Artishock
Magical (un)Real: Entranced Land, en Momenta Art, Brooklyn, presenta una selección de artistas que viven y trabajan en la ciudad de Nueva York, y cuya temática para esta exposición se centra en América Latina.
Tomando prestado el título de la película Terra em Transe, obra esencial de Glauber Rocha estrenada en 1967, la exposición presenta un corte transversal de artistas que reactivan sus conexiones con el continente latinoamericano a través de la mirada de un viajero, del investigador o del expatriado. Al igual que la película de Rocha, sobre un hombre atrapado entre las facciones políticas en el hipotético país de El Dorado, las obras incluidas en la muestra realzan las dialécticas de una región lastrada, desde hace tres décadas, por ideologías neoliberales y populistas.
Curada por Esperanza Mayobre y Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde, Magical (un)Real: Entranced Land se propone desmitificar la noción de un continente unificado, que encapsula la diversidad de narrativas que dan forma a la América Latina contemporánea. Estas propuestas artísticas centran sus reflexiones sobre las desigualdades entre razas/clases y política/violencia estructural que siguen prevaleciendo a lo largo de los cambios ideológicos ocurridos en las últimas décadas. Mediante una sensibilidad profundamente arraigada en la poética política, algunos de los artistas incluidos en la muestra examinan el panorama político latinoamericano desde el prisma de la alteridad. Lee mas aqui
Spanish Lesson on How to Speak Chino, Momenta Art, Brooklyn | Sunday June 12, 4PM
In conjunction with the exhibition, Magical (un)Real: Entranced Land
Please join us for Spanish Lesson on How to Speak Chino, a lecture performance conducted by artist Beatrice Glow. There is a plethora of ways to use the word “chino” (Chinese) in colloquial Latin American Spanish. While "chino,-a" often refers to a person with indigenous and or Asian physical characteristics, depending on context it can also reference orange juice, cannabis, curly blondes, children, a gaucho’s wife, fifty cents and even public figures. The lecture delves into the historical realities of Asian migration to Latin America, coolie geography and folk etymology.
Friday June 10 at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space 5-8 PM
Glow’s installation at Cuchifritos consists of a new body of work that tells the social history of spices as a bloody continuum of exploitation, extraction, and land dispossession. She created a series of digital prints on silk drawing upon historical depictions of the spice trade combined with her own drawings that are inspired by botanical research to illuminate the transhistoric weight of spices, silks and colors that have propelled forward countless caravans and ships in the birthing of globalization. The artist considers these silk prints as objects that sit between the resemblance of Mantones de Manila and oriental rugs, objects that embody a long history of trade, cultural circulations and mystique. The transparent and weightless quality of silk evokes the ghosts of history that invisibly shape our present while starkly contrasting historical gravity.
Thursday May 26 @ Ora Gallery | A Conversation on how Cultural Practice Interfaces with Critical Issues →
Cultural practice—art, writing, film, design—is a potent way to share knowledge and ideas. It is never more powerful than when it illuminates the critical issues that we are faced with and forges a pathway of curiosity and understanding. As we recognize the urgent need for meeting the challenges of climate change and pollution, cultural expression is a ground for global visibility, an essential platform and a strong voice that transcends borders and languages.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Se Busca Colaborador, 2008
Throwback Thursday: I will be returning to Santiago de Chile 8 years after I first performed this piece "Se Busca Colaborador" during DEFORMES 2008, here I am saying hi to the Cordilleras!
At each opening, I ceremoniously read the following letter to the audience:
[English]
Santiago de Chile, November 2008
Dear Potential Collaborator,
After eight months of trying to coordinate a collaboration between New York and Buenos Aires, I found myself with a stumped project entirely unfit for showing due to an artistic partnership thwarted by poor transcontinental communication. Healing from the loss of a partner, I have reshaped my project for the situation at hand, and have now come to DEFORMES 2008 specifically in search of one or more new collaborators. This quest will be the basis for an artwork, “Se Busca Colaborador,” that satirizes my predicament by looking for collaborators during the biennial itself.
Collaborations are like relationships. They fail. Sometimes. Therefore, I arrive solo to DEFORMES 2008 ready to be reborn and find new collaborators. We are going to laugh at failure. With open faith, I invite you to come on a blind date. We are going to play. You and Me. Alone. No spectators. Spontaneous projects. Promiscuous collaborations. One-day-stand performances. In the heat of the moment interactions. There is no script. Tell me what you desire today and we will seize it. Sparks will fly. Maybe we can interview each other. Make a video. Design dishes for each other. Maybe tourism? Bring an aspiration.
Let´s focus on the creative process instead of final production. There is so much room for failure, but even more room for success this time around with a generous dose of flexibility within this anti-project, anti-purpose, and anti-production proposal.
Beatrice Glow
P.S. To coordinate our meeting, I will be in the Biblioteca de Santiago everyday from 10 AM-12PM, unless there is a biennial event at these hours, then I’ll see you there. Come say hi and let´s make a play date. Then I will go to Valdivia on the 16th and wait for you in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.
[Spanish]
Santiago de Chile, Noviembre 2008
Mi Querido Colaborador Potencial,
Después de ocho meses de intentar coordinar una colaboración entre Nueva York y Buenos Aires, me encontré en medio de un proyecto estancado, completamente inadecuado para mostrar, al ser frustrado por las dificultades de la comunicación transcontinental. Curándome por la pérdida de un colaborador, he reformado mi proyecto según la situación, y vengo a Chile para DEFORMES 2008 especificamente en la búsqueda de uno o más colaboradores nuevos. Sorpresivamente, esta búsqueda es la base para una obra, “Se Busca Colaborador,” que satiriza mi aprieto. Esta vez buscaré a colaboradores durante la bienal actual.
Las colaboraciones son como las relaciones. Fracasan. A veces. Por eso, vengo sola a DEFORMES 2008 lista para renacer y buscar a colaboradores nuevos. Burlémonos del fracaso. Con mucha fe, te invito a una cita a ciegas. Vamos a jugar. Tú y Yo. Solos. Sin espectadores. Proyectos espontáneos. Colaboraciones promiscuas. Ligue-performance de un día. Interacciones del momento. No hay un guión. Cuéntame que quieres ahora y lo intentamos. Saltarán chispas. Tal vez nos entrevistemos mutuamente. Hagamos un video. Diseñemos platos de comida para el otro. ¿Turismo quizás? Trae un deseo.
Enfoquémonos en el proceso creativo en vez del producto final. Hay muchas posibilidades de fracasar, pero más posibilidades de tener éxito esta vez con una generosa dosis de flexibilidad al proponer un anti-proyecto con anti-finalidad, y anti-producción.
Beatrice Glow
P.D. En el 5 de noviembre, a las 4PM nos saludamos en la Biblioteca de Santiago, y coordinamos las posibilidades de juntarnos mientras esté en Santiago. Estaré en la Biblioteca cada día entre 10AM y 12 PM, salvo los dias cuando haya eventos a estas horas. Luego voy a Valdivia el 16 de Noviembre y te espero en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.