112 during the window/gallery installation "Inside/OutNYC", May 9, 2006
112 W 44th Street (between 6th Ave and Broadway) was donated to chashama by the Durst Organization in May 2005.
Situated a block from Times Square, chashama is back in its original neighborhood (where our former spaces are being transformed into One Bryant Park).
(between Broadway & Sixth Ave. / Subway: 1,2,3,B,D,F,N,Q,R,V,W to 42nd St., 7 & shuttle to Times Square. Bus: M104, M42 to Sixth Ave., M5, M6, M7 to 43rd St.)
112 W.44th Street is open primarily for exhibits with occasional window installations and performances.
(Window Stage dimensions are 10'2" x 5'1". Use links at right for floorplan view.)
At 112 through April 26th, 2008, Thurs-Sat, 12-8PM, is I In The Sky, a free, interactive public art project by internationally-acclaimed artist Raul Vincent Enriquez in association with The Durst Organization and chashama.
"I In The Sky" comprises a street-level photo-booth (designed by Michael Caselli) at the chashama gallery paired with the Lumacom electronic display sign atop the 4 Times Square building. The Lumacom will broadcast digital portraits taken by photo-booth visitors that have been animated by Enriquez to resemble flipbook images. The process takes about 20 minutes and is free of charge. The portraits are best seen in Manhattan on 44th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, from the New Jersey side of the Hudson, and online at www.durst.org/iinthesky.
To learn more about "I In The Sky" and for b-roll and images, please visit www.durst.org/iinthesky.
This event is free and open to the public.
Raul Vincent Enriquez works in various media, including photography, animation, live performance, moving image, and sound. He has a history of hosting events, such as the Bean and Cheese Burrito Party and the ongoing Salon Desayano Robusto, which foster mastication among audience members.
Enriquez's work is geared toward revitalizing social relations and interactions in many different contexts. His animated "wiggly" portraits create unnervingly candid moments of extreme eye contact between subject and viewer; his live food performances re-energize the flaccid mass-market food service dynamic by shaking up visitors' expectations of "service." As a performer, Enriquez displays a kind of radical hospitality, which invites enthusiastic and frank participation by
the audience.
In recent years, he has showed work at New Museum (NYC), Queens Museum (NYC), Scope (NYC/London/Miami), EFA Galleries (NYC), Conduit Gallery (Dallas), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Performance Studies International (NYC), New York Theatre Workshop, NYU Performance Studies Program, and Cal Arts (LA), among others. In 2002, Enriquez was an Electronic Media Artist grant recipient from the Experimental Television Center, NY. In 2008/09, he will create a traveling Media & Burrito Truck, a mobile live food-performance radical hospitality unit.
from the artist: "I find portraits to be a timeless and accessible art form. In each portrait, several photos are sequenced and animated, framed to create the impression of extreme eye contact. My goal is to make provocative art that captures viewers."
About Raul Vincent Enriquez
click links in right column for more information and images of space