::: August 24, 2008 :::
For this exhibition in Poland, I am developing a new piece. It has been for a while since my residency at Taipei Artist Villege to construct a big installaion piece at a place very far from my home. This time I use the material I have never used, corrugated cardboard, and making a big airplane, B-29 Enola Gay!
3 Way Calling
Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Opole, Poland
August 30, 2008 through September 21, 2008
Opening Artist Reception: at 6:00 p.m. on August 30, 2008
Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej
Work by
*Aleksandra Janik
*Taro Hattori
*Michael Damm
“3 Way Calling” is an exhibition featuring three artists from three culturally and historically distinctive countries, Aleksandra Janik from Poland, Taro Hattori from Japan and Michael Damm from the U.S.A. “3 Way Calling” explores the subjective experiences of mobility and relocation in the globalized world. Three artists gathered to explore the shift of perspective and gaps in cultural perceptions that occur so frequently in our increasingly multi-centered world. The mechanism for their inquiry is a kind of triangular rotation – each artist moves one step over to make work in (and, to some extent, for and about) home countries of one of the other artists; Aleksandra Janik addresses Japan, Taro Hattori addresses US, and Michael Damm addresses Poland.
Aleksandra Janik’s installation and black and white photographs are derived from her experience in Japanese gardens, expressing their tactility and tranquility. Taro Hattori creates a room size installation with sound and a cardboard sculpture of the Enola Gay, the airplane which dropped an A-bomb at the end of WWII. Michael Damm presents photographic and video collages which document the city-scape of Katowice, layering space and history to construct suggestively poetic images.