Along with an amazing cohort - Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Felicita Maynard, Ronny Quevedo, Rebecca Shapass, Jia Sung - I will be in residence at Smack Mellon starting this July. Be sure to come by for studio visits!
BANDA - Galeri Nasional Indonesia Group Show
Perjanjian Breda merupakan kesepakatan antara Inggris dan Belanda terkait penyerahan Manhattan kepada Inggris, dan sebagai kompensasinya Inggris menyerahkan Pulau Run kepada Belanda pada tanggal 31 Juli 1667. Perjanjian ini pula yang mengakhiri perang Anglo-Belanda kedua.
Pada tahun 2017 ini, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan, c.q. Direktorat Warisan dan Diplomasi Budaya pada tahun anggaran 2017 melakukan kegiatan Pendukungan Peringatan 350 Tahun Perjanjian Breda yang digagas oleh Yayasan Warisan Budaya Banda. Kegiatan ini akan dilaksanakan pada tanggal 20 September - 4 Oktober 2017 di Galeri Nasional Indonesia.
RANGKAIAN KEGIATAN
PAMERAN
"Banda Warisan untuk Indonesia: Pala dan Perjanjian Breda 1667-2017"
20 September – 4 Oktober 2017
Gedung C, Galeri Nasional Indonesia
Kegiatan ini merupakan bagian dari rangkaian pameran serupa yang diadakan sebelumnya di Erasmus Huis, Jakarta (31 Juli – 30 Agustus 2017) dan akan dilanjutkan di Banda mulai awal November 2017. Pameran ini juga didukung oleh Kedutaan Besar Belanda melalui Erasmus Huis, Galeri Nasional Indonesia dan Balai Arkeologi Maluku.
Pameran “Banda, Warisan Untuk Indonesia” yang mengusung sub tema: “Pala dan Perjanjian Breda, 1667-2017” menyoroti sejarah Banda sebagai penghasil rempah yang kaya dan bagaimana peran Banda sebagai pusat perhatian dalam perdagangan dan politik internasional. Pameran ini juga menghubungkan episode sejarah tersebut dengan Banda saat ini dan bagaimana Banda menjadi sumber inspirasi dalam karya seni kontemporer. Pameran ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat, khususnya generasi muda akan perannya sebagai penerus sebuah bangsa besar yang sejak dahulu telah memiliki peran penting dalam sejarah perdagangan dunia. Dengan demikian diharapkan akan muncul kebanggaan akan jati diri sebagai bagian dari bangsa Indonesia.
Beberapa seniman nasional dan internasional seperti Hanafi, Titarubi, I Made Wianta, dari Indonesia; Beatrice Glow dari New York; Isabelle Boon dari Belanda; dan Jez O’Hare dari Inggris; yang terinspirasi oleh Banda turut berpartisipasi menampilkan karya seni mereka dalam pameran ini. Tim kurator yang terlibat dalam pameran ini adalah Wim Manuhutu, Sadiah Boonstra, Wieske Sapardan, dan Siti Halimah.
SEMINAR
"Banda Dulu, Kini dan Besok"
3 Oktober 2017
Ruang Seminar, Galeri Nasional Indonesia
Narasumber:
- Hilmar Farid, Dirjen Kebudayaan
- Sri Margono, Sejarahwan (tentative)
- Tanya Alwi, Pendiri Yayasan Warisan Budaya Banda
- Titarubi, Seniman
- Bonnie Triyana, Komunitas
Hilmar Farid, Direktur Jenderal Kebudayaan, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan membuka secara resmi pameran di Galeri Nasional Indonesia dan mengatakan “Banda merupakan bagian penting dalam wilayah NKRI yang dalam sejarahnya telah mengubah tatanan dunia sebagai penghasil rempah dan akar budaya maritim Indonesia”.
Rob Swartbol, Duta Besar Kerajaan Belanda untuk Indonesia mengatakan “Pameran yang digelar di Galeri Nasional membawa kita kembali ke 350 tahun yang lalu dan memberikan kita fakta dan pemahaman baru tentang apa yang terjadi pada saat itu. Saya senang bahwa pameran ini memperlihatkan berbagai perspektif tentang fakta sejarah. Selanjutnya, adalah hal yang menyenangkan untuk melihat bagaimana sejarah Banda dikaitkan dengan Banda yang kita kenal saat ini dan bagaimana sejarah itu menjadi sumber inspirasi bagi seni kontemporer”.
Tanya Alwi, Ketua Yayasan Warisan dan Budaya Banda Neira menambahkan, ”Pameran ini terinspirasi dari 350 tahun Perjanjian Breda. Kami berharap pameran ini dapat meningkatkan kesadaran dalam menghargai dan melestarikan kekayaan alam dan budaya Banda, dan memberikan inspirasi untuk membangun Banda berbasis kemasyarakatan agar Banda dapat memberikan dampak secara nasional maupun internasional”.
Circulating Undercurrents, Artist Feature, Cultural Politics Journal, Duke University Press
I'm thrilled to share this feature article of my recent work as well as my cover art "Banda Island Archipelago" gracing the cover of Cultural Politics Journal of Duke University Press. Check out the article and the issue here.
I want to acknowledge the generosity of curator Deborah Frizzell and the editors for inviting me to organize and share my thoughts on this platform. I also want to thank Jim Blasi for the gorgeous graphic design layout. And lastly, the beautiful convergence of August 2017 for having my Banda Island Archipelago print on the cover of Duke University Press' publication while also showing the actual silk print at the Jame B. Duke House (NYU Institute of Fine Arts)...all during the 350 year commemoration of the Treaty of Breda.
See the article here: http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/current
#Rhunhattan #socialhistoryofplants #dukehouse #bandaislands
Interview with the Center for Artistic Activism →
"It’s a long wave. I think of everything as being interdependent or part of an ecosystem, philosophically and biologically. There are urgent moments of crisis where the waves are crashing on the land, which are the moments that activists quickly rise to. But then there’s the long waves, behind them, that are holding a space. They’re affecting generational change, through educational, cultural methodologies. I see myself as being part of that [long] wave; I want to stay in there and be vigilant all the time."
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.
Still Searching... 5. Visual Sovereignty and Standing Rock: Decolonizing Native Spaces of Appearance →
Published: 01.12.2016
in the series The Spaces of Appearance
excerpt:
"Until recently, this acknowledgement was often lacking in the United States. On May Day 2016, the Free University of New York hosted “Liberation Lab” in what is now known as Washington Square Park. The day began with artist Beatrice Glow and representatives from the American Indian House in Manahatta (now Manhattan) and the Native American and Indigenous Students Group at NYU performing a Lenape Calibration. That is to say, the space was realigned with Native co-ordinates and symbols, like the sassafras leaf. Speakers evoked the presence of the Minetta spring under the present park and the proximity of the Lenape Trail on what is now Broadway. All this autumn, events at Decolonize This Place – a residency at Artists Space – have recalled that the space is occupied and remembered Native histories."
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."
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
July 15, 2016
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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
ARTISHOCK
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.
Asian Contemporary Art Week 2014
Spanish Lesson on How to Speak Chino
I delve into the historical realities of Asian migration to Peru by dissecting the folk etymology of “chino.” There is a plethora of ways to use the word “chino” (Chinese) in colloquial Spanish that range from orange juice, marijuana, curly blondes, children, a gaucho’s wife, a person with indigenous physical characteristics, fifty cents to several Peruvian ex-presidents.