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TRANSITIO_NYC BY SOLANGE FABIÃO COMES TO NEW YORK’S CHINATOWN OCTOBER 20-31, 2005

-Video Projection Features Documentation of Bustling Street Activity

from the Cities of Nanning and Shanghai-

 

 

NEW YORK, NY – Visitors to Chinatown in New York City will be greeted by a new sight this October: video images of street-life from the cities of Nanning and Shanghai in China. These video sequences are part of TRANSITIO_NYC, the second part of a ten-city, global public art project created by Solange Fabião. TRANSITIO_NYC will feature a 40-minute video loop of life in Nanning and Shanghai in China, with the images projected onto a building façade located on the corner of Canal and Centre Streets. TRANSITIO_NYC can be seen October 20 through October 31, 2005, with projections daily from 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

 

TRANSITIO_NYC’s strategy is to conjoin and contrast two contemporary Chinese cities with Chinatown in New York City. Solange Fabião’s non-narrative video documentation comes from the perspective of a car passenger, encompassing many neighborhoods and socio-economic conditions and takes audiences on an intimate and exploratory journey. Fabião started the TRANSITIO series in 2000, capturing her first video in a taxi-ride along the entire length of Broadway, starting in Washington Heights at 228th Street and ending on Wall Street. This non-edited video documentation of Fabião’s journey, which clocked in at one hour and three minutes, was projected in 2004 onto the City Center Dome in Central Beirut.

 

“TRANSITIO_NYC is a culture-specific project,” said Solange Fabião. “My intention is to bring awareness to cultural relations and to each individual. It’s a global dialogue of a city within a city. The videos are narrative-free and channel the spirit of a city for the passerby. The system of filming is based on the search for a moment in movement. It is both conscious and unconscious. It is also about the amount of information we absorb, which eventually leads to a story or an infinite number of possible stories that may start more than once.”

 

In 2006, TRANSITIO exhibits will take place in Beijing, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro with exhibits scheduled for Milan and Osaka in 2007.

 

OPENING NIGHT: OCT. 20 - Video Projection at Canal Street begins at 6:30 P.M. followed by gathering at STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE at 97 Kenmare Street from 7:30 to 9:00 P.M.

 

About TRANSITIO_NYC

 

TRANSITIO_NYC is made possible by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with support from The September 11th Fund, by the Beijing Modern Group, Bryan J. O’ Young, M.D., P.C. and private donors. The project is endorsed by Asian Americans for Equality; Chinatown Partnership LDC; Council Member, Alan J. Gerson; District 1 New York; The Explore Chinatown Tourism Campaign; and NYC & Company. The project's curator is Carolee Thea. Projection installation is by New York City Video & Staging, Inc. with CPMM as post-production consultant. Advisory Committee members are Jed Alpert, Christina R. Davis, Elizabeth Fiore, Steven Holl, Michelle Loh, Alyce Russo and Claire Weisz.

 

About Solange Fabião

 

Solange Fabião was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she studied architecture and received her bachelor of fine arts in set design. She worked as set designer for the Brazilian network Rede Globo and designed sets for theater in Rio de Janeiro and in Berlin, Germany. Fabião studied digital media and history of art at the HDK and Freie Universität Berlin, arriving in Berlin seven months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1994, Fabião left Berlin for New York City. Fabião received several honorable mentions for her architectural projects and most recently won the architecture competition for the Cité du Surf et de L’ocean in Biarritz, France collaboration with SHA. In addition, Fabião has designed an innovative, sculptural door handle, manufactured by Olivari and Technogel, utilizing Levagel technology which will be available in Austria this coming November. Fabião's art projects have been exhibited in Europe, in the Americas and in the Middle East. Exhibits include: 2004 TRANSITIO_Beirut, 2003 exhibition, TRANSITIO NYC_TORNIO in the Aine Art Museum in Finland. In 1997, she participated in the 47th Venice Biennial presenting the Internet project Cyberclone 2000. For more information, visit www.artdvision.com.

 

For more information on the TRANSITIO series, please visit http://www.artdvision.com

 

For downloads for high-resolution images, please visit http://homepage.mac.com/solangef

For more information on Chinatown events, please visit http://www.ExploreChinatown.com

 

 

EDITOR’S NOTE: Interviews with Solange Fabião available upon request.

 

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