{"id":37890,"date":"2018-09-27T21:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=37890"},"modified":"2018-09-27T23:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:19:24","slug":"under-the-volcano-virtual-dream-center-edition-screened-on-ep7-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/09\/27\/under-the-volcano-virtual-dream-center-edition-screened-on-ep7-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"~’UNDER THE VOLCANO’ . . VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER \/ SCREENED ON EP7, PARIS \/ SEPT 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

re: PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE BUILDING \/ THIS IS:
\nPEOPLE PEOPLE EXHIBIT \/ VIRTUAL ARCHIVE \/ BUILDING.<\/p>\n

JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET . . of VDC \/ VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, PARIS<\/a> . . <\/strong>
\npresented, what looks to be a 4-story high<\/strong> screening, of ‘Virtual Dream Center 1.1’ . .
\nwhich is . . a virtual \/ re-construction of the pop-up exhibit,
\n‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’,
\nA one weekend pop-up painting show \/ which looked back at the truly hardcore Lower East 80s NYC art scene, as seen through the work of these 3 artists, who<\/strong> were very active in that art scene, but have not been recognized in the general, more mainstream ‘take’ . . of what is usually<\/strong> regarded as the ‘canon’ of the times.
\nbut, their work and personal dynamic, cannot seem be restrained from slowly bursting through that crusted-over misconception & hence the title . . ‘Under the Volcano’.
\nor, the real fire \/ under the top layer of what was . . the almighty Lower East Side \/ 80s art scene.<\/p>\n

this historic, archival, break-out exhibit, completely comprised of original works by all 3 artists,
\nwas staged at 169 Bowery St, in an empty & large storefront, in NYC’s Chinatown.
\nrunning June 6-8, 2015 \/ the exhibit was curated by KATE & THEO CERIGO, with art works selected,
\nfrom their own family collection.
\nKate and Theo, who grew up in a storefront on Rivington St., just off the Bowery, when it was raw and explosive with the likes of Basquiat and Haring, were immersed in this wildly creative milieu \/ being the now 20-something (in 2015), children of Simon and Nancy, and Dan . . was like their wild crazy sushi-loving uncle.<\/p>\n

NICHOLAS STEINDORF, a digital artist & friend of Kate’s, who actually helped with the behind-the-scenes staging of the show, and who had already produced some digital projects for VDC \/ VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER . . brought the exhibit to the attention of Paris-based JEAN-BAPTISTE, who received the show with great interest, and together \/ they re-created<\/strong> an ‘interactive’ digital version of the show, based on photographs taken at the time.
\nas well, Nicholas re-created the street ambience, sound, & architecture of the Bowery and the exhibit, which brought it very much to life, & Jean-Baptiste interjected some surreal ‘urban’ collage \/ visual animation \/ ‘parkour’. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthis is . . EP7, the bar \/ restaurant & a (very) modernist building – located at 133 avenue de France, Paris . .
\nwhere the VDC \/ ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ screening, was held . .
\nas part of a 2 week video presentation, curated by CARLOS SANCHEZ-BAUTISTA \/ all projects, screening 4 stories high, on the (very) modernist front exterior.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nhere you can see the start<\/em> of the ‘Under the Volcano’ screening \/ with a digital rendering of The Bowery, as it was back in the summer of 2015, digitially re-created, and animated by NICHOLAS STEINDORF.
\nI remember having many conversations with him, about just how many garbage bags, to place along the street \/ the signage & the shut, metal storefront security ‘gates’ . . are also ‘authentic’ \/ see detail, lower right.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthis is . . The BOWERY, in NYC.
\nthe exhibit took place on the right-hand side of the street, in a storefront – within that group of old buildings.
\nin a few minutes, the animation will take you inside the door, and into the exhibit.
\nit’s an interesting feature of real-life Parisian architecture, to see the carefully constructed animation, presented in a very ‘deconstructed’ manner . . on the ‘brute’ exterior.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthere we are, SIMON, DAN, and me . . in an image captured, and made large, from an archival photo from 1981 \/ which was used as the ‘Under the Volcano’s . . . invite \/ card.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nSIMON and me, from the same photo. the screening took place Sept 14, 2018.
\nit took me about 2 weeks to get my head around the fact, that my head had been projected<\/strong> 4 stories high – on a big, Paris St. !!!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\na charcoal drawing by DAN ASHER . . peeps out \/ on Paris !!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\na painting, of KEITH HARING . . by SIMON CERIGO.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nJEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET & VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER present: ‘VDC \/ VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER 1.1’
\n‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER, NANCY SMITH’ . .
\n“sur la facade monumental de l’EP7, Paris.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe original exhibit card: ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO: SIMON CERIGO, DAN ASHER,NANCY SMITH’JUNE 5-7, 2015
\nfrom an archival photo of the 3 us, taken in 1981 in NYC \/ we were just about 30 yrs old, Dan was a few years older. Simon had drawn around the edges, with blue oil stick.
\nimage courtesy: KATE & THEO CERIGO<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nyou can access ‘VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER 1.1’ \/ ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’… on the VDC platform
\nfor a . . FREE DOWNLOAD<\/strong> \/ hit here !!<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nartwork – by NANCY SMITH
\nfor more background info, incl the show’s original press release & installation photos . . .
\nhit . .<\/strong> ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO – VDC’<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nwatch:<\/strong> VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, ‘Under the Volcano’ . . at EP7 on YOUTUBE \/ Sept 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nwatch:<\/strong> a brief walk-though of the animated ‘UNDER THE VOLCANO’ \/ posted to Youtube by NICHOLAS STEINDORF<\/a><\/p>\n

ALL PHOTOS OF THE PARIS SCREENING: COURTESY JEAN-BAPTISTE LEGLET \/ VDC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

re: PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE BUILDING \/ THIS IS: PEOPLE PEOPLE EXHIBIT \/ VIRTUAL ARCHIVE \/ BUILDING. JEAN-BAPTISTE LENGLET . . of VDC \/ VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER, PARIS . . presented, what looks to be a 4-story high screening, of ‘Virtual Dream Center 1.1’ . . which is . . a virtual \/ re-construction of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37890"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37926,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions\/37926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}