Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Time: 5:30PM to 7:30PM
Place: Office of the Manhattan Borough President
1 Centre Street, 19th Floor, Manhattan
Join AAARI for a special reception for Chee Wang Ng’s 9/11 memorial installation, on display at the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, and two other locations.
Malaysian born artist Chee Wang Ng will exhibit his installation, 9/11 Memorial Installation in Red White Blue, during the month of September to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. Ng’s installation cries for the nation’s loss by transforming a simple bowl of rice with chopsticks stuck in it vertically, taboo in the Chinese culture and eerily resembling the Twin Towers, sitting on top of a table cloth surrounded by candles representing the US flag, to honor the innocent lives lost. A low murmuring Buddhist prayer of salvation for the dead is heard in chants emanating from under the low circular table.
Installations
September 1 to 30, 2011
Office of the Manhattan Borough President
1 Centre Street, 19th Floor, Manhattan
September 8 to 22, 2011
Pace University
1 Pace Plaza, Birnbaum Library, Manhattan
August 29 to September 27, 2011
New Jersey City University
100 Culver Avenue, Jersey City, NJ
Installation is produced by AAARI, together with Office of the Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Confucius Institute at Pace University, and New Jersey City University
