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Kate Gilmore

Walk the Line
“On 6 June, 2011, at 8:30 am, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art will launch Walk the Line, a dynamic site-specific sculptural artwork by the American artist Kate Gilmore on Exchange Square, London. Inaugurating a new strand of events, entitled Parasol Public, this public art project promises to be one of the most thrilling summer events in London.

For this project Kate Gilmore proposes a vibrant site-specific art work in Exchange Square, London. During the live performance, teams of eight women in two shifts will walk continuously on top of a red structure for nine hours a day; from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Members of the public will be able to walk both around the structure in order to experience the work visually and through the passageway beneath the platform to get a sensory experience of the women walking above. By creating such a visually striking and powerful work, Gilmore highlights and gives prominence to the daily life of professional women in the City of London.”

The event will be broadcast live.

Where: Parasol unit
14 Wharf Road
London
N1 7RW

via e-flux

New York version

Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry

APR 15, 2011 – JUN 18, 2011

Anne Tyng (b. 1920 Jiangxi, China; lives San Francisco), one of the first women to receive a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University, and a woman at the forefront of experimentation in the field of using complex geometry as a source for new forms in building, is the subject of this exhibition at the Graham Foundation in Chicago.

“This exhibition introduces her work to new generations who are also working to push the spatial potential of architecture.”

Film: The Price of Sex

June 24, 2011 9:30pm
My pick for the upcoming 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York, June 16-30:

“A feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by the young women who refused to be silenced by shame, fear, and violence. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal journey¬–exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. (2011 Nestor Almendros Award Winner)

Discussions with filmmaker Mimi Chakarova to follow all screenings. A panel discussion will follow the Saturday June 25 screening and a reception will follow the June 26 screening.”

Where: Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater (upper level)
165 West 65th Street
btwn Broadway / Amsterdam

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