MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts

photograph from yesterday's event

MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts
A conversation on national borders and their impact on the environment, people and imaginations between Gaye Chan, artist of FRASS, an exhibition currently on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and
Maxine Burkett / Director of Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy. Associate Professor of UHM Law School
Robert Perkinson / Author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). Associate Professor of UHM Department of American Studies.
Nandita Sharma / Author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Associate Professor of UHM Department of Sociology.

Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania St. Honolulu, HI 96814
Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 3 to 4 pm

MOBILITY AND STASIS is held in concert with Immigrant Movement International, Creative Time, and the Queens Museum of Art, in honor of International Migrants Day.

Gathering a few Eating in Public ANTI-APEC Actions

Free Trade Approach has its Doubters, by Susan Essoyan
Nov 6, 2011 - StarAdvertiser (to readable article)

APEC Sign Incites Controversy At UH Manoa Campus

October 26, 2011 / kitv.com

Review of FRASS in StarAdvertiser, by David Goldberg

[to readable article]

Eating in Public - talking about this, that and APEC

photo courtesy of Cindy Iodice

Eating in Public - talking about this, that and APEC
A video produced by Henry Mochida on the occasion of FORUM (to) FESTIVAL, a part of AlternaAPEC

November 6, 2011 / 5 – 7 pm / University of Hawaii at Manoa, ART auditorium.

Featuring: the Yes Men on identity correction and the power of “agreeing” | Eating in Public on the global commons | Keiko Bonk of PONO | Papua New Guinea artist Jeffry Feeger | Pek-Pek Liberation Front, 3rd Path O`ahu, & Women’s Voices, Women’s Speak| Artist Bob Freitas on The Question of Balance in Hawaii | Hanoi: Public City filmmaker, Micheal DiGregorio | Community Writers Collective | and special appearance of the Earth Village Orchestra. Assistant Professor and organizer of alternaAPEC, Jaimey Hamilton will moderate.

MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts

MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts
A conversation on national borders and their impact on the environment, people and imaginations between Gaye Chan, artist of FRASS, an exhibition currently on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and three scholars.

Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 3 to 4 pm at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Attendees should arrive no later than 2:45pm to view the exhibition prior to the event.
Free admission.

The three scholars are:
Maxine Burkett / Director of Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy. Associate Professor of UHM Law School
Robert Perkinson / Author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). Associate Professor of UHM Department of American Studies.
Nandita Sharma / Author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Associate Professor of UHM Department of Sociology.

Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania St. Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 532-8700

MOBILITY AND STASIS is held in concert with Immigrant Movement International, Creative Time, and the Queens Museum of Art, in honor of International Migrants Day.

Inquiries: Gaye Chan

Interview on Hawaii Public Radio

Radio Interview with colleagues Mary Babcock and Jaimey Hamilton on Hawaii Public Radio by Noe Tanigawa.

EATING IN PUBLIC at NY ART BOOK FAIR

Eating in Public's pamphlets, "Free Papaya" and "SAME ENEMY SAME FIGHT" included in the NY Art Book Fair.

HonWeekly 9-21-2011 Interview

Honolulu Weekly 9-21-2011 Interview
by Matthew Dekneef

about Frass, APEC, ant farms, etc.

ANTI-APEC SHIRTS+SIGNS

In response to APEC's (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) November 2011 conference in Honolulu, Eating in Public, in collaboration with Arm and Roller Press, Tadpole Studio, and others, has produced tee shirts and signs for distribution.

In July 2011 EIP utilized our website and Facebook to put out a call saying something like, "APEC is meeting in Honolulu in November. Eating in Public is up to something. We want all your old tee-shirts – Any color, size, design."

Approximately 800 to 1,000 shirts and flat sheets were dropped off (unscientific count because no one bothered to actually count them) and transported to Arm and Roller Press on September 6. Printing began in earnest on September 15 with a team of over 20. Since a controlled system of chance operated at each and every step, each shirt is unique. Amazing textual and visual juxtapositions abound, reaffirming that autonomy and agency is nothing to be afraid of.

See PHOTOS

Distribution started immediately. Periodic drop-offs will be made to Revolution Books Honolulu for dispersal. Free for people who will wear them. $5,000 for those who won't.

Related to these projects, Eating in Public will be taking part in two OFF[HRS] workshops at thirtynine hotel: September 29 and Oct 15 @ 6:30pm

ANTI-APEC

Eating in Public's ANTI-APEC pages are up and running, with downloadable pamphlet and slogan templates. And we will be at 39hotel on Oct 13, 6:30 - 8 pm doing demonstration as a part of [OFF]HRS. Come!

Frass at Honolulu Museum of Art

FRASS
at Honolulu Museum of Art

The Academy is pleased to debut Frass, the latest project from photographer and conceptual artist Gaye Chan. Chan’s work ruminates on the ways in which cartography, photography, and printed matter simultaneously offer and occlude information. Frass originated in a rare and obscure source: an insect-damaged accordion book of 19^th-century Japanese woodblock illustrations. Intrigued by the complex pattern of wormholes that meandered through the book’s pages, Chan scanned the folios, enlarged them, and superimposed onto their lattice-like surfaces Google Map photographs of approximately 20 miles of the U.S./Mexico Border. The resulting installation is comprised of 10 large-scale digital prints—each a composite of more than 300 intricate screen captures—mounted in the manner of roll-up maps, aligned horizontally, and anchored by a rotating laser that traces the border’s location from one image to the next.
Frass suggests analogies between insect detritus and topography, larvae tracks and the roadways established for the transport of people and goods associated with the Mexican maquiladoras [export assembly plants]. In juxtaposing the vantage points of satellite and worm, authorized cargo and illicit traffic, Frass documents the border as it currently stands and speculates on the imbalance of power between this arbitrary boundary, the individuals who navigate it, and the body politic that transcends it. Scheduled to coincide with the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, taking place in Honolulu in November, Frass reflects on how economic alliances promote free trade, even as they rely on national borders to criminalize the movement of people.

exhibition documentation

Free Grindz on view in Honolulu

Free Grindz, created originally for an exhibition at Southern Exposure (Feb 2011), is on view as a part of the faculty exhibition at the University of Hawai'i from September 4 - 30, 2011.

Free Grindz is an edible weed information center / weed seed distribution station. Designed as a shipping crate and made (almost) entirely out of found material, it unfolds into the exhibition itself.

Flux Hawaii 'interviews' Eating in Public

Flux Hawaii 'interviews' Eating in Public.

in Honolulu Weekly

featured in "Take, Leave... Whatevas" by Richard Morse, Honolulu Weekly (June 29, 2011)

Share Seeds

Used the "Feeding the Future" forum as a trial run for upcoming 2012 seed-sharing stations. Packaged 6 types of seeds saved from our plants: luffa squash, pigeon pea, manoa lettuce, okra, green eggplant, and green onion.

Feeding the Future

Eating in Public will take part in
"Feeding the Future" - Sunday June 26 12-3 pm at Fresh Cafe

Nandita will be on panel "Calls to Action: What We Should Do" while Gaye sets up a seed-sharing station.

Sponsored by Yelp.com, Whole Foods, and The Hawaii Independent

Sunday, June 26, 12-3pm at Fresh Café - 831 Queen St., Kaka‘ako, Honolulu

The event will include three panels: 1) The challenges and opportunities facing local farms; 2) The next generation of local restauranteurs; 3) Calls to Action: What We Should Do.

Summercamp

Gaye Chan has been included in Summercamp's first 2011 program, Starting the Ball Rolling Again, an outdoor group exhibition of artists who re-purpose ideas and translate materials.

Summercamp is a home in the neighborhood of El Sereno, Los Angeles. The homemade modern house, full of pass-throughs and secret spaces, currently functions as an artist live/work space and hosts ProjectProject. Founded by alum Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera and Janice Gomez in 2009, the space showcases exhibitions, performances, lectures, workshops, screenings and events by activating multiple parts of the property – installing works in the sloping backyard, projecting videos on the living room ceiling, and showcasing musical performances in the old goat pen.

Chan's contribution, entitled Orphan, is a ceramic frog/bear from the unclaimed glazeware shelf to pose the question, “Did it turn out so differently than intended that you fail to recognize it, or was the shock of recognition so horrifying that you simply fled?”

Summercamp's ProjectProject
3119 Chadwick Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032
Opening Reception Sunday, June 12th from 5-8PM
Pickling Demonstration with Jen Smith from 4-6PM
Exhibition runs from June 12th to July 2nd
Hours by appointment, summercampprojectproject@gmail.com