ORENSANZ 2008: The Far Reaches of Space.
March 27th – March 30th, 2008
Various locations in New York City
“Look down, there’s everything!
Everything is what Mars is, and
It looks exactly like your Apartment!”
“We are exploring a beautiful galaxy littered with planets, pieces of exploded rockets, asteroids and meteors with pretty tails sweeping through outer space.”
Bob Holman “Your Land on Mars,” 2004
Day 1 (March 27, 2008)
DAY 1. The mobil art installation conceived by Angel Orensanz and curated by Jan Van Woensel and Greggory Bradford has run today a predefined itinerary through the art crowded time and space of Manhattan. It was launched shortly after midday from the doors of the Angel Orensanz Foundation in Lower Manhattan; to move swiftly to Fifth Avenue and 36 St. to the Volta Art Fair. Then it bounced Northwest to the piers over the Hudson into the Armory Art Fair. To then take a sudden turn Southwest to the Chelsea Art Museum, the stage for a great video art display. People have approached the moving silvery shuttle first with curiosity and then in a participatory mode: taking seats inside the shuttle to watch a pure Orensanz burning universe of video black holes and wall displays; then joining in a choreography of movement and poetry, instigated by the crew of the shuttle itself.
Day 2 (March 28, 2008)
Two emblematic New York stops made on Friday, March 28: The United Nations area and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The silver shuttle Orensanz 2008: The Far Reaches of Space made it today to the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across the UN and to the Whitney Museum of American Art. To gain access to those two midtown citadels; the silvery vehicle had to navigate through dense crowds of protesters voicing their world dissent in the first case, and, in the second, a mile long line of art connoisseurs ready for the soft shock of the new. Orensanz’s silvery shuttle crosses both galaxies: a burning, exploding universe and the ensuing iconography of chaos and cataclysm. At the DHPlaza the shuttles encountered The Garden before the Snake, a long-term public installation of Orensanz, that lends itself to participation and intervention; while in front of the Whitney the shuttle offered an intimate, quiet digital cave, warm and introspective.
Day 3 (March 29, 2008)
On Saturday March 29, the Orensanz shuttle made stops at The Armory and Pulse Art Fairs (12 pm); The Guggenheim Museum (3 pm), again the Whitney Museum (4 pm)....
Day 4 (March 30, 2008)
...and finished its four days journey on Sunday on the Lower East Side, next to the New Museum.
