{"id":43066,"date":"2014-06-01T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=43066"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:46:59","slug":"china-june-4-1989-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=43066","title":{"rendered":"China: June 4, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 1st \u2013 10th
\n5:00PM-8:00PM
\nWhitebox Art Center
\n329 Broome Street, NY, NY 10002
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In collaboration with Whitebox Art Center, Asian American Arts Centre presents, \u201cChina: June 4, 1989\u201d, an art exhibition. The public is welcome to this beautiful gallery on the lower level, which is open from 11:00AM-6:00PM on weekdays and 12:00PM-6:00PM on weekends, from June 1st through June 10th. Curated by Robert Lee, the exhibition features works from artists that were part of the original 1989-90 exhibition. The white walled gallery with its high ceiling will be transformed into a commemoration of this much-celebrated exhibition.<\/p>\n

Fifty artists will be participating. Some of the artists included are: Vito Acconci, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Betty Beaumont, Luis Camnitzer, Mel Chin, Agnes Denes, Lotus Do, John Duff, Leon Golub, Billy Harlem, Edgar Heap of Birds, Ava Hsueh, Kunio Izuka, Ik Joong Kang, Donald Lipski, Lilliana Porter, Rumiko Tsuda\/Daniel Georges, Dolly Unithan, Martin Wong, Sofia Zezmer, and Zhang Hongtu. A full listing of artists can be requested. Alongside these works there will be a wall of clippings displaying news articles and mementos for those who want to learn exactly what happened – many of these will be in Chinese.<\/p>\n

The original exhibition, which accumulated over 300 artists at Blum Helman Warehouse in SoHo, then later at PS 1 in LIC, eventually encompassing 174 standing panels (doors) linked to form a freestanding expandable wall. Over 80 small works were also on display. Artworks represented artists from Argentina, Sweden, Britain, Italy, France, Greece, Japan, and Korea. Every piece was created in the moment of this terrible incident. Thus each piece reflects an artist\u2019s immediate response from their own artistic and cultural stance, articulating peoples\u2019 outcries in vivid, powerful art forms. Multiple perspectives gathered here, reflecting a truly diverse American, and in this sense, global response to expanding political horrors. Many of the artworks and the history of this terrible confrontation can be seen at http:\/\/www.artspiral.org\/past_exhibitions\/june4\/june4.php<\/a><\/p>\n

In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a special screening of \u201cPortraits of Loss and the Quest for Justice\u201d, a documentary produced by Human Rights In China with footage shot by the Tiananmen Mothers \u2013 a group of family members of those killed during the violent crackdown on the 1989 Democracy Movement. The documentary will be on view during the opening and closing receptions, at which time a staff person from HRIC will give a brief introduction of the video. Light refreshments will be available. For more information on the Tiananmen Mothers and HRIC resources, please visit: http:\/\/www.hrichina.org\/en\/june-fourth-25-resisting-enforced-amnesia-building-just-future<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 1st \u2013 10th 5:00PM-8:00PM Whitebox Art Center 329 Broome Street, NY, NY 10002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43068,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43066\/revisions\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}