Exhibition

Liminality Liminoid - New Media Artist Snow Yunxue Fu NYC Solo Show

4 Mar 2020 – 30 Apr 2020

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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
13:00 – 17:00
Thursday
13:00 – 17:00
Friday
13:00 – 17:00
Saturday
13:00 – 17:00
Sunday
11:00 – 16:00

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MultiSpace NYC

New York
New York, United States

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Liminality Liminoid is a two-month long solo exhibition of the New Media Artist Snow Yunxue Fu, located in the 2,000 square foot ground floor of Multispace NYC in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

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Exhibition Time: March 6th, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm
Visiting by appointment on Wednesday, Friday, & Sunday afternoons
*Please fb/Ins message Snow Yunxue Fu or email (snowyunxuefu@nyu.edu) one day before to set up an appointment!

Exhibition Address: Multispace NYC
53 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002

VIP Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020, 6-9pm
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5th, 2020, 6-9pm

Liminality Liminoid is a two-month long solo exhibition of the New Media Artist Snow Yunxue Fu, located in the 2,000 square foot ground floor of Multispace NYC in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Fu’s artworks are set within a corridor, where Plato’s allegory of the cave is revisited through contemporary New Media Imaging technologies. Fu showcases new and selected digital work, ranging from VR, projections, and video installations. The artwork in the show demonstrates the relevant experimental approaches that her practice embodies among her New Media artist peers in this unique era where powerful technology is accessible for those who are determined enough to wield it.

Fu was introduced to computer animation at a time when the medium was associated in the mainstream with novelty, scientific modeling, and commercial animation, yet found in CG, like other artists in the same new media art community, an avenue to fully express her vision and practice. Working primarily with 3D software such as Maya, Realflow, Poser, Unity, and Unreal Engine, Fu’s mesmerizing scenes of intentional abstraction are the result of a breadth of fine arts and experimental practices translated into the intricate lexicon of digital software. Trained formally as a painter, Fu’s practice and approach to post-photographic 3D computer graphics and virtual reality software has been described as painterly and her research into the phenomena of the natural sublime echoes the investigations of historical western and Chinese painters, who peered into the significance or our capacity to experience the sublime in nature. She continues and expands their investigation and invites the viewer to examine the implications of our perception through the techno sublime.

The word liminal is often used in the discussion of the sublime within digital space and the VR experience, relating to occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold, conjuring up notions of time, space, and perception. The word is however borrowed from the field of anthropology, in which the liminal, as the anthropologist Victor Turner stated, “is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.”

Turner concluded that liminality "serves not only to identify the importance of in-between periods, but also to understand the human reactions to liminal experiences…and the sometimes dramatic tying together of thought and experience.” The digital space created in Fu’s work draws a parallel to the realms of the physical, the virtual, the metaphysical, and multi-dimensionality, setting the viewer in a liminal space at the threshold of each, fulfilling Turner’s observation that, “if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action, it potentially can be seen as a period of scrutiny for central values and axioms,” and for the origins of paradigms that are often taken at face value, yet all the while made possible by a perceptual capacity that is often taken for granted.

Unlike the sublime in nature, the digital space and the VR experience is what Turner would later go on to coin as a liminoid experience, with a distinction from the liminal in that the liminal engages in a social obligation or something out of our control, while the liminoid is a choice and often related to play. Liminoid, then is a simulation of the liminal, as the techno sublime experienced through digital space is a simulation of the sublime in nature, providing a voluntary opportunity for reflection. Like a pane of glass in a window, digital space frames and reflects our perception of reality, while simultaneously we see through it, peering off into the implications of the remarkable capacities and limitations of our ability to perceive. Within a digital space, we are offered an encounter to reflect on our response to the simultaneously beautiful and terrifying artifice of the techno-sublime, to be placed at the threshold of our perception while creating an opportunity to examine the implications of what is reflected.

*Please note that events such as artist talks and curated Gallery walks will be scheduled during the two months of the exhibition time. Please stay tuned for more detailed info.

For more detailed show info and links to RSVP for the opening:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/liminality-liminoid-opening-of-new-media-artist-snow-yunxue-fu-nyc-solo-show-tickets-93701187775

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Artist Bio:
Snow Yunxue Fu is a Chinese-born and New York-based new media artist, curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has formerly taught at other schools such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ox-bow School of Art and Artists Residency. Fu’s artwork has been shown internationally in solo shows, group exhibitions, screenings and festivals including New York Gallery of Chinese Art, New York; Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; Pioneer Works, New York; Sediton, Hong Kong; Arebyte Gallery, London, UK; Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China; Current Museum of Art, New York; TRANSFER Gallery, New York; NADA Art Fair, New York; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Thoma Art House, Sante Fe; Currents Santa Fe New Media Art Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Wrong Biennale, the Internet; Expo Chicago, Chicago; Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong; Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago; Venice Biennale Satellite Shows, Venice, Italy; MOMA PopRally Screening, New York; LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain, and etc. Her work has been collected by institutions such as the Currents Museum in New York, and she remains the youngest artist collected by the National Art Museum of China. Her interviews and reviews have been covered in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Arebyte on Screen, Sedition, the St. Louis Magazine Art Review, and Guangzhou Today’s Focus in China. She has presented on her work and research at institutions, symposiums, and international conferences including International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), SIGGRAPH Anaheim, SIGGRAPH Asia, the Ammerman Center for the Arts and Technology, Celebrating Women in New Media Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, The Fourth Chinese-American Art Faculty Symposium.

https://snowyunxuefu.com/home.html


*The solo show of Snow Yunxue Fu Liminality Liminoid is exhibited in the same location alongside the two other solo shows by the Contemporary Chinese Artists Frank Yefeng Wang and Miao Jiaxin, opening on the same day!

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