Bio{luminescent}Sphere
Bio{luminescent}Sphere
a transformative, site-specific installation & interactive performance by
aricoco
www.aricoco.com
& Natalia Zubko
www.nataliazubko.com
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
Natalia Zubko is a sculpture/installation artist from California who currently lives and works in New York City. She has BA's in Anthropology and Art History from Brandeis University as well as a post-baccalaureate certificate (Brandeis) and MFA (Parsons) in Fine Arts, Sculpture. Natalia's work has ranged from small, intimate light sculptures built out of everyday materials to large, outdoor installations. She has worked on numerous interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative commissions and projects around NYC from envisioning and building an installation to house photos and interviews from the "FishBird" project (exploring the experience of being multi-racial) to designing and constructing props for an experimental theater piece. Natalia's latest project was a large, public, weather-interactive, sculpture/installation, "Luminous Accumulation," for the Art Lot, Brooklyn.
aricoco was born and raised in Tokyo, and currently works with Smack Mellon Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY. She received MFA from University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in May 2007. Participated in several residencies including: Vermont Studio Center and LMCC Swing Space in 2008. Awarded the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship 2008-2009.
a transformative, site-specific installation & interactive performance by
aricoco
www.aricoco.com
& Natalia Zubko
www.nataliazubko.com
December 6 - 11, 2009
Installation on view daily
Opening: Sunday December 6, 4-7p
Interactive Performance at 5p
Additional Performance, Thursday, December 10, 4-6p
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
New York, NY
The combination of the warm, glowing installation, and the performance of the "firefly's" blinking, lighting their own path - searching for a place to play and rest, will beckon passerby's to join in the search and become fireflies themselves.
Natalia Zubko explores ideas of light and perception, redefining/creating a space for the fireflies that is calm, quite, and almost spiritual. The emergence of this environment's existence in the mid-town location, its flood of cold artificial lights that can often feel harsh and almost threatening, will create a counterpoint: a softly illuminated, peaceful resting point.
Subtle pulsating lights in the installation will summon the blinking Firefly, aricoco. The audience/participants will be invited to become "fireflies" and respond to her lights as well as light their own path as they search for a place to play and rest within the glowing, interactive installation.
FREE and open to the public
Natalia Zubko is a sculpture/installation artist from California who currently lives and works in New York City. She has BA's in Anthropology and Art History from Brandeis University as well as a post-baccalaureate certificate (Brandeis) and MFA (Parsons) in Fine Arts, Sculpture. Natalia's work has ranged from small, intimate light sculptures built out of everyday materials to large, outdoor installations. She has worked on numerous interdisciplinary, multi-media, collaborative commissions and projects around NYC from envisioning and building an installation to house photos and interviews from the "FishBird" project (exploring the experience of being multi-racial) to designing and constructing props for an experimental theater piece. Natalia's latest project was a large, public, weather-interactive, sculpture/installation, "Luminous Accumulation," for the Art Lot, Brooklyn.
aricoco was born and raised in Tokyo, and currently works with Smack Mellon Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY. She received MFA from University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in May 2007. Participated in several residencies including: Vermont Studio Center and LMCC Swing Space in 2008. Awarded the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship 2008-2009.
