Read more here on my May 4 event at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University where I report back on my travel research to the Banda Islands of eastern Indonesia. I am also presenting a public program at the Duke House, Institute of Fine Arts at NYU on May 11 titled "Empire of Smoke: the Legacy of Tobacco."
Empire of Smoke: A Legacy of Tobacco | Thursday May 11, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM →
My current solo exhibit Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes at the James B. Duke House with NYU Institute of Fine Arts is on view March 22 – June 19, 2017. Please join me, along with some illustrious guest speakers on Thursday May 11th at 6:30 PM for"Empire of Tobacco: the Legacy of Tobacco"!
- Smudge at the entrance of the James B. Duke House
- Introductions by curators Kristen Gaylord and Kathleen Robin Joyce
- Opening remarks by George Stonefish
- "Spice Roots/Routes," a performance/lecture by Beatrice Glow
- "Tobacco, tobacco! Sojourns, Symbols, and Slaves in the Shaping of the Modern World," a talk by Prof. Gunja SenGupta
A Tale of Two Islands: Reporting Back from the Banda Islands | Thursday May 4, 6:30 PM →
Please join me for my final program as the
2016-17 Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU!
"Beatrice Glow returns from Rhun, a volcanic Indonesian island in the Banda Sea, to present her final public program as the A/P/A Institute Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, Glow investigated the social history of plants via spice routes and botanical expeditions, focusing on the historical relationship between two islands on opposite sites of the world: Mannahatta and Rhun. The islands, which were traded by the British and Dutch during the 17th century spice wars, are connected by both a botanical and colonial legacy. Glow shares her findings and the immersive tech experiences she is creating in collaboration with Highway 101, ETC as part of her ongoing, multi–platform project Rhunhattan." Please RSVP here.
- When: Thursday May 4th, 6:30 PM -8:30 PM
- Venue: Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, 8 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes @ Duke House, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
This exhibition demonstrates how these recurring patterns of exploration and exploitation speak to one another and continue to resonate with contemporary concerns. By installing the Spice Route series in the former home of James B. Duke, we also reflect on how the Institute of Fine Arts—which has made the Duke House its home since 1958—can productively engage with the history of this site.
Voz de la Chimba "Entrevista: Beatrice Glow El aroma de la Historia"
La exposición “Aromérica Parfumeur” en Sala de Arte que el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) tiene en Mall Plaza Vespucio, nos ha dado la oportunidad de hablar con su creadora, Beatrice Glow. Los olores, los aromas, no sólo impregnan la vida cotodiana de las personas, sino de la humanidad en su conjunto y en toda su historia. Las expediciones, los descubrimientos de nuevas tierras o el comercio estuvieron ligados a la búsqueda de especias aromáticas desde los tiempos más antiguos. El valor que se otorgaba a ciertos productos que, por la lejanía de sus orígenes, eran difíciles de conseguir, fue también causa de guerras, matanzas, expolios y, siempre, explotación de unos pueblos por otros. Hay toda una historia económica, una geopolítica, cuyo motor esencial fue la posesión de los aromas. Pero también una historia social tan alimentada de placer como de sufrimiento.
A Tale of Two Islands - Video Documentation
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."
"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.
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.
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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.
Rhunhattan: An Interview with Beatrice Glow
During the Spice Wars in the 17th century, nutmeg was worth its weight in gold, and its trees grew only on the Moluccas Islands of Indonesia. One of the smallest of these islands, Rhun, was considered the first English overseas colony, and its people and resources were quickly war-torn by competing Western powers. Rhunhattan, Beatrice Glow’s installation in Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space, not only ruminates on a particular colonial history, but also brings into question the many trajectories which continue to develop out of complex networks of globalization. The aestheticizing of violence, colonialism and environmental exploitation only continue to morph and expand. Today, Manhattan is an economic capital of the world, while Rhun has disappeared from Western memory. Despite Dutch attempts, in 1665, to destroy Rhun’s remaining natural resources, nutmeg trees continue to grow on the island today.[1] Glow’s work is an effort to uncover these forgotten histories, as well as enduring legacies. In advance of the Artist’s TalkSaturday afternoon, October 24, in Glyndor Gallery, Danni Shen, Curatorial Fellow in Visual Arts, discussed Rhunhattan, cross-cultural narratives, art-making with spices, and more with Glow.