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For Immediate
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Location One presents NanoMandala
an installation for World Peace
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Opening:
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To salute World Peace in this Holiday Season, Location One presents an installation
by media artist Victoria Vesna, in
collaboration with nanoscience pioneer James
Gimzewski. The installation consists of a video projected onto a disk
of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors can touch the sand as images are
projected in evolving scale from the molecular |
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structure of a single grain of sand -achieved my means of
a scanning electron microscope (SEM)- to the recognizable image of the
complete mandala, and then back again. This coming together of art,
science and technology is a modern interpretation of an ancient tradition
that consecrates the planet and its inhabitants to bring about purification
and healing. The sand mandala of Chakrasamvara
seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from
the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India,
in conjunction with the "Circle of Bliss" exhibition on Nepalese
and Tibetan Buddhist Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This
particular sand mandala had never before been made in the United States. To complement the video, sound artist Anne Niemetz has developed a meditative soundscape derived from
sounds recorded during the creative process of making the sand mandala. Of the installation the artist says: Inspired by watching the nanoscientist at work, purposefully arranging
atoms just as the monk laboriously creates sand images grain by grain,
this work brings together the Eastern and Western minds through their
shared process centered on patience. Both cultures use these bottom-up
building practices to create a complex picture of the world from extremely
different perspectives. With generous support from the David
W. Bermant Foundation. Press contact: Flavia Destefanis 212.334 3347 flavia@location1.org |
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