miwa et marco: flutter

flutter

/ re-cycle /

video and photo projection/installation with
spinning mirrors and flying images

You should take the Staten Island Ferry to visit flutter at Tattfoo gallery. While on the Ferry (a sure entry in the list of top ten trips to experience the sublime New York City), it is suggested you take a moment to go outside, push your body against the railing and feel the wind off the ocean as you see the hugeness of Manhattan recede.

Even if the wind stings your cheeks, or makes your eyes water at least you can be thankful that this vessel is on the earth in your medium of wind and sun and that you are not in your fifth month of a voyage to Mars, in a cramped cabin breathing your own recycled air.

Every molecule in your body every system which makes you you or the bird a bird evolved in this environment of wind and sun which is as old as life on this planet. The wind is a crucial element in your life support system.

Can you imagine not being able to tell the difference between the smells of wind at the sea, on a field, near a highway, when it snows? Everyday you can feel the joy of the astronaut who upon having landed safely in the ocean opens his portal and, home at last, breathes in his air, his precious natural air.

Can you feel the wind? Does the bird? The throw away?

Download the Press Release(pdf)
or the Invitation(big picture)

At TATTFOO Temple of Art and Design (www.tattfoo.com)
67 Monroe Ave, Staten Island NY 10301

February 15 -> March 13th, 2004

Marco and Miwa live and work in Brooklyn

NEWS

upcoming:

Peekskill Project08

/PET Project and NY Flavors Ice Cream /

Sept. 13 - Nov. 23rd 2008

Peekskill, NY

Miwa is installing some PETs on the piers and will be serving a new flavor of NY Flavors Ice Cream for 2 days at the opening

Working Space 08

/Curated by Tatiana Arocha/

Aug 2 - Sept 20, 2008

Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space

Artists employing a wide variety of media, from AAI's Rotating Studio Program, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. Curated by Tatiana Arocha

Kite Flight

/on the roof of Port Authotity/

Sunday Sept 21st, 2008 12:00-3:00 pm

Fashion Center

Catch a flight from a Manhattan rooftop! the Fashion Center BiD invites you to let your imagination soar at our fourth annual Kite Flight. Join us on the top of the port Authority Bus terminal for an afternoon of kite-making, kite-flying, crafts, and free food, music and fun!

current:

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

/3-logy Triennial 2008/

August 22, 2008 to January 6, 2009

Price Tower Arts Center

In Bartlesville, OK in the only high rise building built by Frank Lloyd Wright, Miwa is participating in a show of "creative repurposed or ‘upcycled’ objects"

recent:

Cool

/Summer Invitational/

Jul 10 - Aug 15, 2008

George Adams Gallery

A New York Flavors Ice Cream performance at the opening of a show called "Cool" at the George Adams Gallery in Chelsea. Miwa will be serving a new New York Flavored Ice Cream "34th St Herald Square" (kimuchi !).