Strategies of Survival: Notes by Jonn Herschend, Ernest Jolly, Christine Wong Yap, Favianna Rodriguez, Stephanie Syjuco
Online from October 4, 2014
As part of Open City/Art City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Open Source: Instructions by Christine Wong Yap
Christine Wong Yap, How to Make a Study in Perspective After Ai Weiwei('s Disappearance)
Open Source features instructions for creative intervention in public space, designed for distribution via social networks. For more information or to print, download or distribute instructions online, visit www.invisiblevenue.com.
More information about Christine Wong Yap's work and these instructions can be found on her blog: http://blog.christinewongyap.com
Here and Now: Elaine Buckholtz, Floor Vahn, Christine Wong Yap
Here and Now: Three site-specific installations in historic Oakland architecture featuring new works by Elaine Buckholtz at Mills Hall (c.1871), Floor Vahn at Pardee Home Museum (c. 1868), and Christine Wong Yap at Camron-Stanford House (c.1876)
June 2010
Full color catalog, published by Mills College Art Museum, with an introduction by Dr. Stephanie Hanor and essay by curator Christian L. Frock, available as a free pdf document: Download HereandNow_catalogue
Elaine Buckholtz, "Out of the Blue (Mills Hall Reconsidered)," 2010
Mills Hall (c. 1871), Mills College, Oakland; light and video installation: theatrical lighting equipment, video, dvd players, projectors; above photo: Paul Kuroda
Floor Vahn, "Sonic Pardee Home (Reconstituting Memories of Pardee Past)," 2010
Pardee Home Museum (c. 1868), West Oakland; sound installation: original sound scores and vocal performances by Elaine Buckholtz, Tania Ketenjian, and Addie Mae O'Brien recorded on CD, audio players, speakers; above photos: Christian L. Frock
Listen to an audio sample of the Music Room installation, 3' 0": Download 1 Audio Track
Listen to an audio sample of the Billiards Room installation, 3' 23": Download 1 Audio Track
Listen to an audio sample of the Cupola installation, 2' 31": Download 3 Audio Track
Christine Wong Yap, "The Great Balloon Giveway," 2010
Camron-Stanford House (c. 1876), Lake Merritt, Oakland; installation and social sculpture: 1,000 helium filled balloons, string, community members; above photo: Christian L. Frock
Here and Now: Elaine Buckholtz, Floor Vahn, Christine Wong Yap
Here and Now: Three site-specific installations in historic Oakland architecture, featuring new works by Elaine Buckholtz at Mills Hall (c.1871), Floor Vahn at Pardee Home Museum (c. 1868), and Christine Wong Yap at Camron-Stanford House (c.1876)
"Here and Now" is curated by Christian L. Frock and is organized by the Mills College Art Museum.
Elaine BuckholtzOut of the Blue (Mills Hall Reconsidered), 2010
Mills Hall (c.1871), Mills College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
Friday, June 4, 11, 18, and 25 at Sunset to 10:00 pm
Saturday, June 5, 12, 19, and 26 at Sunset to 10:00 pm
Elaine Buckholtz’s site-specific light and video installation "Out of the Blue (Mills Hall Reconsidered)" animates the exterior of Mills Hall, Friday and Saturday evenings in June. This work is freely visible as a drive-by experience in transit from an easily accessible circular driveway on campus.
Floor Vahn
Sonic Pardee Home (Reconstituting Memories of Pardee Past), 2010
Pardee Home Museum (c.1868), West Oakland
672 11th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Saturday, June 5, 12, 19, and 26 at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 pm
Floor Vahn's three unique sound scores, "Sonic Pardee Home (Reconstituting Memories of Pardee Past)," draw on the real and imagined history of the house and are installed as ambient sound within various rooms. This sound installation is accessible during scheduled tours on all four Saturdays in June at 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 pm. Tours are $5/person.
Christine Wong Yap
The Great Balloon Giveaway, 2010
Camron-Stanford House (c.1876), Lake Merritt
1418 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA 94612
One-day event: Saturday, June 5, 12:00-4:00 pm
Christine Wong Yap's "The Great Balloon Giveaway," is a one-day free event and social sculpture set to take place on Saturday, June 5. This work is inspired by imagery from the recent Oscar-winning animated film "Up" and re-contextualizes the history of the house through the free distribution of 1,000 helium balloons to passersby, with assistance from a local youth group.
Download MCAM-HereandNowPR_0601
While visiting, take a self-navigated tour of the curator's Alternative Oakland short-list, including historic architecture, public art projects, galleries, alternative spaces, bookstores and restaurants. Click here to view Alternative Oakland map.
Image: Eadweard Muybridge, Mills Seminary, Seminary Park, Alameda Country, CA (1873). Courtesy of Mills College.
Hello! My Name is...
"Hello! My Name is..."
A site-specific intervention for the College Art Association Conference Chicago, with contributions from Chris Basmajian, Michael Damm, Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Jamie Hilder, Scott Oliver, Susan O'Malley, Zachary Royer Scholz, Zefrey Throwell, Christine Wong
Yap
February 10 - 13, 2010
College Art Association 98th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker DriveChicago, Illinois 60601
Public Art Dialogue Session:
Site Variations: The Shifting Grounds of Public Art
Featuring "Invisible Venue(s): Alternatives to the Institution" an overview of Invisible Venue by Christian L. Frock
Friday, February 12, 9:30am - Noon
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chaired by Dr Harriet F. Senie and Dr Cher Krause Knight