Lost & Found:
3.11 Photographs from Tohoku
http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=851
Monday, April 2, 2012–Friday, April 27, 2012
FREE
Aperture Gallery Project Room
547 West 27th Street, 4th Fl.
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
Aperture Foundation presents Lost & Found: 3.11 Photographs from Tohoku, a profoundly moving exhibition of photographs recovered from the devastation following the earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent nuclear catastrophe that took place in the Tohoku region of Japan a year ago, last March.
--Those are actual family photos found in the Tsunami-hit areas. First I thought those were scanned copies created like actual photos found in the dirt. But no, they were real ones that traveled long way to New York from Northern Pacific coast in Japan.
At the time when I entered the Aperture Gallery Project Room, where all those photos were coated in transparent plastic folder and hanging all over the wall, I felt some strange energy. I could not tell that the energy I felt was positive or negative, but I could tell that those photos were somehow breathing in the gallery room.
I got this overwhelming feeling, so I couldn't stay there long.
I'm going back to Japan on June 1st for the one year anniversary of my mother's passing.
Recollections vol. 2, Tokyo, June 2011 - Reviewed at www.manafinearts.com
Review: Ceres Gallery
April 13, 2012
Masayo Nishimura: Recollections vol. 2, Tokyo, June 2011 Ceres Gallery
By Tema Stauffer
http://www.manafinearts.com/the-mana-log/2012/04/review-ceres-gallery/
April 13, 2012
Masayo Nishimura: Recollections vol. 2, Tokyo, June 2011 Ceres Gallery
By Tema Stauffer
http://www.manafinearts.com/the-mana-log/2012/04/review-ceres-gallery/
Vernita N’Cognita “Invisible Woman” Thursday, April 12, 7PM, at Ceres Gallery
Vernita N’Cognita
“Invisible Woman”
A performance artwork with Butoh Movement & Butoh Voice
To be presented Thursday, April 12, 7PM, at Ceres Gallery
Vernita Nemec AKA N’Cognita’s performances incorporate Butoh movement, a form of expressive, non-traditional dance that originated in the fifties and sixties among the Japanese avant-garde & now Butoh Voice created from her poetry. In recent years, she has been exploring aging and how our society, so focused on the beauty of youth, negatively perceives women as they age. “The Invisible Woman”, was developed in a residency at the North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL) awarded by The Field. In this work, she focuses with humor and angst on this dilemma all women who survive into their 60’s and beyond must endure.”
“…women become invisible
as they get older
I feel it already
tho I still feel quite young.
I walk down the street
and no one looks at me
like they used to…”
Vernita N’Cognita aka Vernita Nemec is a visual/ performance artist/ curator who has exhibited her art throughout the world. Her artwork ranges across a variety of disciplines, from creating installations, m/m collages and tangible art objects such as the “Endless Junkmail Scroll to the creation of performance art that conceptually investigates theatre and its edges – using language, space, and time, silence and stillness as well as movement and voice as an instrument of self-expression.
--Wonderful show with many audience, thank you Vernita.
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