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Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council (http://www.lmcc.net/) resident
artist Lishan Chang (http://www.changlishan.com/) has been
invited to exhibit at the Gallery Korea. Entitled New Land, the show opens on January 31 and is co-sponsored by the
Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan.
Occupying
the entire gallery, Chang's installation uses fluorescent
knitting yarns, black lights, and video projection to create a
gallery-going experience that is at once warm and inviting,
playful and surreal. As
visitors enter the exhibit, their clothes will immediately
interact with the black lights and the fluorescent
surrounding. In other words, they will become part of the
show: as floating bodies in a tangerine-colored landscape. The
result is a visual experience that borders on the sensual. And
not just the sensual, but the musical as well. For the
fluorescent cotton yarns also serve as musical staffs before
the video screen, dividing it into five--much like the five
horizontal lines on a score. Made
in collaboration with composer Chialing Lai, the video
projection thus "notates" the entire installation,
providing an inaudible musical accompaniment which the
visitors can only "hear" in their own minds: via the
images they see on the screen and the movements they make in
the gallery. New
Land runs from 31 January to 2 March 2007 at the Gallery
Korean. The address is 460 Park Avenue (at 57th Street), 6th
Floor, New York, NY 10022. For further information, please
call 1212-759-9550 or visit http://www.koreanculture.org/.The
gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. 
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