FACES Project
(EYES video, streamed live video, public installation)
Click the "EYES" image below – EYES is a single-channel video based on five digital faces from my 1993 installation, "FACES.". It was projected onto the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn, in the summer of 2020. I created this video as a reaction to the daily COVID assaults and violence toward masked people who bear Asian features. Asians and Asian Americans have historically been stereotyped as untrustworthy "Outsiders" and competitors who suffer discrimination caused by race, political challenges and historical conflicts with China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Japan in the past, which Asian Americans in this country have to endure. EYES is a video exploring the emotions this pandemic has evoked, including our fear, power struggles, human (dis)connections, and race relations.
"EYES" streamed live on Jan 7, 2021, 01:23 mins, 1920x1080, real-time sound.
Recorded on Jan 7, 2021, streamed live from the Light Year 74: "Evoke" projection on the Manhattan Bridge while watching the Jan 7 Capitol Riot on CNN News.
Recorded on Jan 7, 2021, streamed live from the Light Year 74: "Evoke" projection on the Manhattan Bridge while watching the Jan 7 Capitol Riot on CNN News.
FACES Site–Specific Installation
https://neumeraki.com/art-offscreen-sara-c-sun
A 2020 Art Off-Screen public installation of five "12 x 17" laminated digital faces
at a residential home in Brooklyn, New York
I created FACES in 1993 for the BWAC Exhibition Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Driven by everyday fear and violence living under the intensity of the pandemic, I repurposed the five faces as a site-specific installation for the Art Off-Screen public art project curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch. I placed the work underneath the front door steps to represent feelings of social invisibility and hidden emotions, so much a part of being Asian and the Asian-American experiences when confronted by fear, racial and political attacks, cultural misunderstandings and exclusion. In addition to this project, I also created a new video called EYES on the very top of the page.
https://neumeraki.com/art-offscreen-sara-c-sun
A 2020 Art Off-Screen public installation of five "12 x 17" laminated digital faces
at a residential home in Brooklyn, New York
I created FACES in 1993 for the BWAC Exhibition Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Driven by everyday fear and violence living under the intensity of the pandemic, I repurposed the five faces as a site-specific installation for the Art Off-Screen public art project curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch. I placed the work underneath the front door steps to represent feelings of social invisibility and hidden emotions, so much a part of being Asian and the Asian-American experiences when confronted by fear, racial and political attacks, cultural misunderstandings and exclusion. In addition to this project, I also created a new video called EYES on the very top of the page.
Art Off-Screen public installation exhibition is a part of the International NEUMERAKI Project (https://neumeraki.com)
Inquiries: eileen@neumeraki.com
Inquiries: eileen@neumeraki.com
