{"id":39758,"date":"2020-04-21T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?page_id=39758"},"modified":"2020-12-07T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:21:58","slug":"japan-queens-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/japan-queens-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Queens\u2014The Multicultural Life of Clouds & Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to our first TNOC virtual exhibition, featuring a collective of artists from Japan, Korea, and the United States.<\/strong> They bring us into the hydrological cycle through a theatrical exhibition, while storming, raining, and drinking our way through the social and physical spaces and cultures we inhabit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the Gallery Space\u2019s \u201cfront door\u201d and we are asking for a voluntary donation to support this exhibit\u2014a tip jar, or pay-what-you-will ticket.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During COVID-19, The Urban Ecological Arts Forum at The Nature of Cities is bringing to life virtual exhibition spaces, highlighting current exhibitions on urban ecological themes that would otherwise be impossible to experience due to the closure of cultural facilities. Your ticket purchase ensures that the artist\u2014and that this online forum\u2014can continue to bring ecological arts to the public. Please donate what you can. 75% of your donation goes to the artist.<\/strong> You can see the show for free too; scroll down. But please consider a donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Typhoon Queens, Exhibition #1<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition Statement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Five artists from Japan, Korea, and the United States (known as the Typhoon Queens<\/em>) bring us a theatrical installation, using the hydrological cycle to examine the ecological spaces we inhabit. <\/strong>This work is part exhibition, part experiential story. Here, the social, political, and ecological strain between people and the borders we create, enters into the world of clouds and rain. The exhibition on view here, at times takes the form of a lyrical play, where humans and nature rotate characters as moderator, observer, and instigator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A complex orchestration of alternate views on deep-rooted human struggles, members of the Typhoon Queens find multiple ways to address a simple question: in our human dealings with each other and the world, can nature show us the way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explore The Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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First Act: A Cloud Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore the Typhoon Queens installation on the mezzanine level at Art Spot Korin<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We begin on the mezzanine level of Art Spot Korin in Kyoto. Here in the ‘cloud gallery,’ <\/strong>an exhibition of film, photography, sculpture, and performance considers the boundaries and cycles of this water world, as it is born and interpreted in each society and culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

American artists Patrick M. Lydon, Robin Lasser work with clouds and rain, respectively. Lydon’s cloud sculpture — made of pulped newspapers from Japan and Korea — reveal remnants of sentences and words from our daily cultural headlines, as they intermix and float together in the space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n