We are excited to present New Humans: Mika Tajima and Howie Chen on October 5th.
Mika Tajima is a New York City–based artist who, by connecting geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, explores activities, form, and performative roles defined by divisive social spaces. A Columbia MFA graduate, her recent exhibitions includes Sculpture Center, Bass Museum, and X Initiative with upcoming exhibitions at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, and collaborative project at South London Gallery.
Formed in 2003, New York–based New Humans make collaborative works that explore the intersection of sound, installation, and performance. New Humans emerged out of Mika Tajima's art practice and is a moniker for her projects with curator Howie Chen, as well as musicians, artists, and designers including Vito Acconci, Charles Atlas, C. Spencer Yeh, among others. New Humans performances and recordings employ a working use of physical materials, piercing drones, sheer static, and low bass frequencies.
Howie Chen is a New York–based curator who is a cofounder of Dispatch, a curatorial production office and project space. This year Chen and artist/attorney Jason Kakoyiannis founded JEQU (Juicing the Equilibrium), a project to assess how sociological and cultural economic approaches to art world debates can augment artistic critique.
View and listen to Mika Tajima/New Humans work:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/new_humans.html
http://elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/mika-tajima-new-humans
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2010/05/mika-tajima-at-bass-museum-of-art/
Other links:
www.dispatchbureau.com
www.jequ.org
Images of Mika's work:
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