{"id":22167,"date":"2014-08-20T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=22167"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:13:33","slug":"cinders-opening-pix-the-soothe-sayers-kelie-bowman-jungil-hong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/08\/20\/cinders-opening-pix-the-soothe-sayers-kelie-bowman-jungil-hong\/","title":{"rendered":"~CINDERS OPENING PIX . . THE SOOTHE SAYERS: KELIE BOWMAN & JUNGIL HONG"},"content":{"rendered":"

CINDERS PROJECTS PRESENTS – DECADE OF DECADUNCE
\nJULY 2014 – POP-UP, DOSSIER SEAPORT, NYC
\nCINDERS<\/a><\/p>\n

a soothsayer is someone who can tell the future.
\nand usually it was grim news: as it often foretold death.
\nin this show, there was lots of foretelling, and most of it – was if not outright grim, then dark. and stormy.<\/p>\n

leave it to KELIE BOWMAN and JUNGIL HONG . . quiet contrarians both, to rise above the darkness and dance along the rim of ‘being’, and therefore be the poster girl prophets for . . CREATIVE MINDS = SOOTHING VIBES, no matter how dark the vision . . the vision itself is a powerful, many-splendored thing.
\nlike I said, soothe-sayers.<\/p>\n

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\nKELIE BOWMAN, silkscreen. ($300- $700)<\/p>\n

here’s the thing about Kelie’s work. in many ways at first sight upon entering this intense group show, it’s easy to write-off her work as an after-thought, a decoration. but, that would be wrong. very wrong.
\nlike a heartbeat in the background . . it pumps the quiet magic that keeps the show afloat.
\nit’s easy to think of another piece not in the show, as in removed – and the show still going on, but if you minus Kelie’s wordless ‘worlds’ . . a dancer leaves the room, and the show becomes disjointed, verging on cold and cruel. absurdist. surrealist. literal, sad ? less musical, for sure.<\/p>\n

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\nthey say we live in a uber-violent universe, we certainly live in a very violent world.
\nit’s been like that since day one, so the deal is . . to trip lightly, and spin out above the fray.
\nquestion: so, if we live in a violent universe, is there a peaceful universe somewhere out there, too ?
\njust asking.
\nand if so, what’s behind the two ? a big old Tibet Boddhi drawing yin yang circles, and every circle is another set of universes \/ we find it hard not to be able define, to lock down: the beginning and end of things.
\nmystery drives us . . crazy.
\ntriangles intersecting is small slice of that mystery, a repeating infinity. <\/p>\n

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\nKELIE BOWMAN, silkscreen door panel.<\/p>\n

KELIE is one of the two co-founders of CINDERS, and also one of the co-curators of this, their 10 year anniversary show, along with co-founder STO – so in a way, Kelie pulls together all these artists, many with dark thoughts . . but she herself is able to float (serenely) along knowing this crew, her crew . , is still bubbling along. ten years going strong. ok, maybe no more brick and mortar storefront – but most def . . still standing, still dancing, still . . singing the song.
\na new age presence on the . . 24\/7 digital web.<\/p>\n

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\nKELIE BOWMAN, this silkscreen ‘trim’ ran across the top of the exhibit – at places.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking you most get the dynamic of Kelie’s energy, inside the show – with her small flag-like, banner-like roll-out that ran across the top of the wall – in certain places.
\nit reminded me of the multi-colored flags that often shimmer over swim meets, or marinas. it delineates a visual breeze, and a soothing, unifying one at that. also made more significant by being from a curator’s hand, at that.
\nthey should string these things across the faraway deserts, and up over troubled city streets closer to home – just to tell people to chill out. lower the violence, tone it down, as opposed to dialing it up.
\nfolded-up versions in pretty colors should come in gun cases.
\nI mean, ok we live in a violent universe – but can’t we evolve past the gun being the only way to settle things. I guess not. same old same old, from Augustus through Lincoln. <\/p>\n

though on second thought, I got a few people I’d like to strangle to death – with a damn art banner myself. and with my bare hands, and let’s leave it at that. <\/p>\n

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\nso as you can see, Kelie’s banners stood for something, running along the top of the room, you can’t tell exactly what they stand for . . but whatever it is, it is generous, and easy . . on the living. <\/p>\n

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\nJUNGIL HONG, ‘Summer Snake 13’, letterpress on archival paper, edition of 11. ($150)<\/p>\n

now JUNGIL HONG, was an entirely different cup of soothsayer tea, and yet . . just as radical . . if not more so. personally I think this was not only the most graphic piece in the show . . obviously, and if you just want to read it, experience it as such – a pure abstract narrative – go right ahead. but, if you know her past work . . . very dark, richly colored and deeply-felt pictorial ancestral myth-makers . . of animals, like crows amidst eerie spooky non-western landscapes . . then you have to figure she has gone past fables into the realm of the . . super futuristic !!<\/p>\n

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\nyes, there may be entropy, death, and destruction of things as we used to know them – esp on the bio, the fragile planetary biosphere plane – but there is also the WEB !! code. new ‘organization’, new pattern – not based so much upon our genesis ‘bio-ness’ . . as much as on digital-ness merged with bio-ness \/ in a word. code. code building blocks and very much patterned . . in a word: hi-tech ‘animation’.
\napparently we only have 5 billion years to figure out how to flee this planet before our lovely but violent sun . . explodes.
\nso, this is the . . way forward.
\nslabs of organization. slabs and slices of harmony. or well, at the very least . . ‘code’ dominoes marching on.
\ndomino.
\ndomino effect . . is a hardly a harmonic connotation in (cold war) military terms – which just goes to show you, the visual effect of Jungil’s page. her creative stance, her effect.<\/p>\n

she definitely skewers more positive and futuristic, and pure, than the old definition of domino effect, as in war, or car accident . . with Jungil, it’s all about ‘patterns’ and code. and futurism. of a good sort.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking:<\/p>\n

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\nwatch: KILOBOT ROBOT SWARM SELF ASSEMBLES. HARVARD \/ YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

then again, just to show how – these 2 soothe<\/strong> sayers lighten things up, Ima gonna close with a little . .<\/p>\n

Urban Dictionary<\/a> help:<\/p>\n

domino effect – chain reaction<\/p>\n

when a girl notices your bling<\/p>\n

She liked my necklace so she started relaxin’, now that’s what the fk I call a chain reaction.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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