This piece can be viewed from the front parameters of the room as well as the staircase. You are encouraged to float around during the performance to experience different perspectives of the movement. The total duration of the piece is approximately 20 minutes and will revolve 3 times with no breaks. The performance begins at 7:30pm on November 2nd.
Half/Dozen Gallery presents Plans for the New City by Gala Bent. Plans for the New City examines the way that a city, and even a single building, can act as a utopian vision of paradise on earth or a mystical vision of “The New City.”
The imagery in Bent’s work explores how the buildings we reside in can take on a life of their own, almost becoming creatures in themselves. Cities have neurological systems in the form of communication networks, venal systems of water and waste. In a conceptual parallel, Bent’s drawings make use of hair, eyes, bodies and animals that become biological-architectural systems. But the work is also skeptical of the possibilities of finding perfect civic balance, and the cracks and leaks are plainly visible.