Choreographing Space installation.
e+i architecture
08.25-09.15.07
Choreographing Space
Architect/Choreographer Eva Perez de Vega Steele and architect Ian Gordon, who collaborate as e+i architecture, have been awarded a grant by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to produce Choreographing Space, a site-specific installation that explores the intersection of architecture, dance, and the moving image. The project merges built form, dance performance, and films by emerging choreographers. By enveloping the gallery space with an interactive mesh capable of transformation, the project becomes both architectural space and performance event that engages performers and viewers, oscillating between static and dynamic states. Free performances occur every Saturday at 6:00pm, and the installation is on view Thursdays and Saturdays, 12:00-7:00pm, and Fridays 6:00-8:00pm.
145 Nassau Street
Between Spruce Street and Beekman Street, Manhattan, NYC
Isamu Kenmochi and Isamu Noguchi seated together on Basket Chair, 1950.
Photograph by Michio Noguchi, courtesy The Noguchi Museum
9.20.07 through 03.16.08
Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi
This exhibition looks closely at the friendship and collaboration between designer Isamu Kenmochi, who is credited with creating the “Japanese modern” style, and Isamu Noguchi, acclaimed sculptor and designer. Some 85 items borrowed from collections in the U.S. and Japan, as well as two specially created replicas of now-lost chairs, are on display. Together, the furniture, design objects, drawings, and photographs show how Kenmochi and Noguchi systematically pushed the boundaries that separated both tradition from modernism and hand crafting from mechanical production.
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard) Long Island City, NYC