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EVENT:
RENASCENCE GROUNDBREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEW
MEDIA exhibition presented in association with arts>World
Financial Center
LOCATION:
World Financial Center, Courtyard Gallery
220 Vesey Street (between West Street and the Hudson
River)
DATES:
February 5 - March 16, 2008
Press Preview:
2-5:00 p.m., February 7
Artists Leon Lim, Mary Behr, Lihua Lei available for
interview
OPENING RECEPTION:
6 - 8:00 p.m., Thursday, February 7
To purchase tickets: click
here
GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday - Friday 12 - 6:00 p.m., Saturday -
Sunday 1 - 5 p.m.
CONTACT:
Margaret
Bodell, 646.551.9781 / 212.505.7196
Stephanie Taylor, VSA arts, 202.628.2800
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Lihua
Lei
Phantom Pain
40-foot installation
Newhouse Award-winner
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NEW
YORK - VSA arts' grounbreaking new media exhibition,
Renascence, which offers a new platform for personal
expression and interaction, premieres at the World Financial
Center Courtyard Gallery. "Renascence is
the first new media exhibition that captures the disability
experience," said Saoula Antoniou, president of VSA
arts. "We're excited to bring this dynamic exhibition
to New York, a city long known for redefining artistic
boundaries."
New media allows artists to engage in humanity through
digital formats that are accessible to everyone. There
are 650 million people living with disabilities throughout
the world, acording to the United Nations—the world's
largest minority. Renascence brings revelations
from international artists that change the perceptions
both about disability and the role of new media in the
traditional art world.
HIGHLIGHTS
New Yorker Leon Lim's four-part multimedia
installation, Leon Lim's Silent Story, uses a video format
to test the boundaries between the hearing and the Deaf
world by flashing contrasting images from the two communities.
Video, photography, and a blog depict artist Hans
Bernhard's life with a mental disability in Psych/OS
cycle. Mary Behr's interactive sculpture
MOVE! is a direct response to the invasive nature of airport
security checkpoints for those with artificial joints.
The exhibition alo features Newhouse award winner Lihua
Lei's 40-foot installation, Phantom Pain. Transparent,
butterfly-like wings float over glass casts of the artist's
own legs. Lei, who has polio, invites the viewer to reflect
upon the vulnerabilities and transformations of the body.
ABOUT VSA arts
VSA arts is an international nonprofit organization
founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create
a society where people with disabilities learn through,
participate in, and enjoy the arts. VSA arts provides
educators, parents, and artists with resources and the
tools to support arts programming in schools ans communities.
VSA arts showcases the accomplishments of artists
with disabilities and promotes increased access to the
arts for people with disabilities. Each year millions
of people participate in VSA arts programs through
a nationwide network of affiliates and in 55 countries
around the world. VSA arts is an affiliate of
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For
more information visit: www.vsarts.org
ABOUT arts>World Financial Center
The exhibition will be presented in association
with the arts>World Financial Center program,
an innovative series of free performances, exhibitions,
installations, and festivals created to showcase emerging
as well as established artists. arts>World Fiancial
Center, celebrating its 20th Birthday, serves as the
leading showcase in Lower Manhattan for visual and performing
arts, and is sponsored by American Express, Merrill Lynch,
Brookfield Properties and Battery Park City Authority.
For more information visit: www.worldfinancialcenter.com/ae/
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