I recently visited the NARS Foundation Open Studios to see friends and find some inspiration for art. I had a lot of interesting conversations that day, and I decided to try to capture two of them with Sky Kim and Peter Emerick, a lovely couple in residency at NARS.
Not quite the quality of the James Kalm Report or Alan Lupiani and the newly-launched Two Coats of Paint channel, but I've been enjoying experimenting w/ impromptu, unedited video interviews and hope you enjoy them. Have a few more coming up, and you can find the rest on my Vimeo page.
This weekend, I'm showing alongside Whitney Biennial artists Kate Gilmore and the Bruce High Quality Foundation in... Paterson, NJ. It's a massive warehouse space featuring a number of contemporary artists, and I'll be leading a participatory performance piece:
The Artist Is Kinda Present A Performance Piece by An Xiao Escape From New York, curated by Olympia Lambert
Saturday, May 15 5-8pm (the opening reception is 3-9pm)
Shuttle bus available from NYC/Chelsea! From 2:30pm til 9pm return. Pick up at 22nd Street and 10th Avenue and will also stop at 14th Street L station at 8th Avenue.
Sorry for the relative silence here; lots of thinking, reading and doing, not a lot of blogging. I've started a new photo diary to capture little things I see that don't really have a place here but catch my eye nonetheless. Someone asked me recently why I take pictures with my Blackberry when I sport all the power of a digital SLR. I didn't have a good answer, but wabi sabi came to mind. Enjoy.
Hi there. I'm An Xiao. I'm an artist, designer and writer An Xiao looking at the intersection of the digital and analog in the 21st century. I photograph, install, perform and tweet and have shown my work in publications and galleries internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, Yale/Haskins Laboratories, The New York Times and Art in America. I founded and direct @Platea, a global online public art collective, and serve as a contributing columnist for PBS-affiliate Art21 and a contributing writer for the New York Foundation of the Arts and Hyperallergic.
That Was Zen, This Is Tao is my journey in haiblog -- brief, crisp prose about everything and anything that crosses my mind (which is a lot!), as I try to make some sense of the 21st century and bring a little Zen into it. In no particular order, I enjoy writing about the contemporary art world, Web 2.0 and the Internet, Zen and poetry, modern marketing, fashion and style, GTD (Getting Things Done), American politics and anything else of interest. I lead a hectic life, and I often use my iPhone to make updates in subways and parking lots. I also regularly post my most recent photography. I do hope you enjoy your stay! Below are some news updates from my web site.
