CC Yang: Reclaiming the Vision

CC Yang: Reclaiming the Vision

Opening reception: Thursday September 5, 2019 from 5 to 7pm

QCC Art Gallery/CUNY,

222-05 56th Ave, Bayside, NY 11364

Curators: Faustino Quintanilla, Luchia Meihua Lee

Exhibition Dates: August 28 - September 27, 2019

Watch Us! Together We Can do it

2013-present

Simulation of the performance

Reclaiming the Vision presents a unified view of the interconnected segments of society and the physical environment in which it functions. This is accomplished by exhibiting CC Yang’s work related to politics, religion, art history, the environment, and global harmony. Starting in 2013, Yang has carefully planned a daring performance project named Watch Us! Together We Can do it for which he is seeking patronship. Collecting any object in this exhibition will go towards supporting Watch Us! Together We Can do it. We request your loving contribution to enable Yang’s dream. Taken as a whole, this work articulates Yang’s vision of a world towards which we can strive.

Plans call for Yang to a climb a 300-foot rope ladder attached to a helicopter or blimp, which ascent will be steadied by 230 collaborators – one from each nation on earth. When he reaches the apex, his fellow performers, each holding a unique brightly-colored LED strand, will power on a gigantic artwork illuminating the darkness. Unified in Yang’s version of an interconnected world, these 230 individuals will serve as role models, as a micro-level spiritual force intended to create macro-level worldwide harmony.

About CC Yang

Multidisciplinary artist CC Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for many years in New York City. He studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan (BFA, 1986) and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (Master of Science, 1994).  In a 2009 review Holland Cotter of the New York Times called one of his projects “a magical tunnel of love.” He has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and from The Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation. He was awarded fellowships from the Vilcek Foundation and in 2018 he was at Yaddo. His 2019 artist residency was at MASS MoCA Studio, and in 2020 he will be at Santa Fe Art Institute for the Labor Residency.

His most recent work addresses society’s efforts to protect itself, both physically and psychologically, against long-term catastrophe resulting from pollution, surveillance, isolation, quarantine, and religious/political/social intolerance. The modern world, as Yang conceives it, is a graduated mixture of anxiety and entrancement. Twenty-first century products can do wondrous things, but producers and consumers alike wantonly discard waste. He explores such short-sighted practices by combining found materials, video projections, performance, and his own body to make art that spotlights ways forward. He likes to collaborate with other artists to create work which deals with the issues affecting individuals and, by extension, specific communities as well as society at large. Incorporating a touch of irony, his art helps us become better acquainted with the frightening side of human nature, signaling experimental and creative ways to view the planet and ourselves.

CC Yang: Reclaiming the Vision 楊金池的願景

Opening reception: Thursday September 5, 2019 from 5 to 7pm

Venue: QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, Bayside, NYC

222-05 56th Ave, Bayside, NY 11364  Tel: (718) 631-6396

楊金池的願景展覽收錄了他近十年來對社會，政治，宗教尤其以與環境的觀察及關心的作品及行爲表演，作品提供了對社會相互關聯與各環境的統一觀點，通過展示楊金池自不同的角度朝向關注全球，提供一種整體性的和諧及實現的可能。 從2013年開始，楊先生精心策劃了一個名為Watch Us!的大膽表演項目！ 計劃將會要求楊攀登一架300英尺的直升機或飛艇上的繩梯，將由230名合作者穩定這繩梯 –這揭示著--來自地球上的每個國家，當他到達頂點時，他的同伴們，每個人都拿著一個獨特的顏色鮮豔的LED線，為一個巨大的藝術作品在黑暗中照亮。 在楊金池版本的相互聯結的世界中統一，這230個人將充當榜樣，旨在創造宏觀層面的全球和諧的微觀精神力量。

我們共同努力為他尋求贊助。 在本次展覽中收集任何物品將用於支持Watch US! 我們一起做到了。 我們要求您的愛心貢獻，以實現楊的夢想。 總的來說，這項工作闡明了楊的觀點, 也是我們可以為之奮鬥的世界。