Dear all,
The solo exhibition *Jen Liu: GHOST__WORLD* is on view through August 24 at
the nonprofit art space* / (Slash) <https://www.slashart.org/> *in San
Francisco, California. *GHOST__WORLD: a performance for 4 dancers*,
co-presented
this weekend at *The Lab* on April 27 and 28, is among the first of
the *Hewlett
50 Arts Commissions in Media Arts <https://hewlett.org/50commissions/> *to
premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Installation views and more info online
<https://www.slashart.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GHOST__WORLD-Press-Release.pdf>
about
this solo exhibition and the related performance commission. Please stop by
if you visit San Francisco.
*Jen Liu: GHOST__WORLD <https://www.slashart.org/ghost__world/>* premieres
a new body of work — Web AR, videos, paintings, and sculptures—alongside
select pieces from Jen Liu’s multifaceted *Pink Slime Caesar Shift*
(2016–present).
Both projects originate from the New York-based artist’s long-term
engagement with labor activism and women workers in electronics and e-waste
in South China—in which realities such as NGO liquidation and disappeared
labor activists converge in research-based fictions. *GHOST__WORLD* takes
up last year’s social media phenomenon of “frog mothers,” unlicensed street
vendors in China wearing inflatable frog costumes and selling frog-shaped
balloons.
*GHOST__WORLD: a performance for 4 dancers
<https://www.slashart.org/ghost__world-a-performance/>*
*The Lab, San Francisco*
The performance features dancers *Tracey Lindsey Chan, SanSan Kwan, Miche
Wong, *and *Áine Dorman. *
Following each half-hour performance, *Jen Liu: GHOST__WORLD* *exhibition
curator* *Tanya Zimbardo* will moderate a conversation between Jen Liu and
guest speakers at The Lab.
*Saturday, April 27* (performance + artist in conversation with *Cathy Park
Hong, UC Berkeley*)
7 p.m.
*Sunday, April 28* (performance + artist in conversation with *Vanessa
Chang, Leonardo / ISAST*)
5 p.m.
Discount code: SLASHFANS
*GHOST__WORLD: a performance for 4 dancers* is built on choreography
originating in first-hand interviews with electronics and e-waste workers
in South China (conducted by Liu in fall 2022). An overwhelming sense of
disconnection and dim prospects are routed through references to a number
of traditions, including Chinese Lion Dance, Butoh, and the synchronized
dances of “frog mothers” — illegal street vendors wearing inflatable frog
costumes, selling frog-shaped balloons — a viral sensation throughout Asia
in 2023. This piece considers life as a ghost trapped in a phone,
fragmented inside a digital purgatory, the border between a real body and
light dancing on the screen.
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*Jen Liu *is a New York-based visual artist working in video, painting,
dance performance, and biomaterial, on diasporic Asian identities,
postcolonial economies, speculative feminism, and the re-motivating of
archival artifacts. She is a recipient of the Creative Capital Grant, the
LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant, the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video,
the \Art Award from Cornel Tech, the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in
Digital/Electronic Art, the Pollock-Krasner Award, and the Hewlett 50 Arts
Commission in Media Performance. She has presented work at MoMA, The
Whitney Museum, The New Museum, The Kitchen, and Sculpture Center, New
York; Royal Academy and ICA in London; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthalle Wien;
the Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, Leon; the Times
Museum Guangzhou, Today Biennial Beijing, Shanghai Biennale, Singapore
Biennial, and Taipei Biennial. She has also received multiple grants and
residencies, including Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; Para
Site, Hong Kong; Pioneer Works, ISCP and LMCC in New York; and de ateliers,
Amsterdam, NL. In 2024 she will be artist in residence in Asian Art Archive
in America, with solo exhibitions at / in San Francisco, and Blindspot
Gallery, Hong Kong.
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*/ (Slash) *is a nonprofit visual art space founded in 2018 to advance and
promote the expanding field of contemporary art in San Francisco through
exhibitions, publications, and public programming.
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*Tanya Zimbardo *- *she/her*
Co-editor, *Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970,
<https://checkout.square.site/merchant/YQTF0J7QHKHM3/checkout/Y2J3OMNP6SPZ4O4O3KGKFLIJ>*
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture: San Francisco (D.A.P.)
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