Café
Liustra (Kelowna)
July 25-September 21, 2006
Café
Liustra (Kelowna) will be at the Kelowna Art Gallery from July through
September 2006. A large ' café space' will be covered by a canopy of used
clothes that reference social meanings and histories specific
to Kelowna. Music and air ionization will emanate from a central
platform featuring a theremin, an activated electronic instrument.
Shelves will hold teas and wines from the cupboards and cellars of local
visitors, catalogued with personal memories and reminiscences.
Facilitator Tyler Russell describes Café
Liustra (Kelowna) as providing "...ways to evoke contemporary
memory, and contemplation of community...".
Café
Liustra (Kelowna) is an extension of Novaia Liustra's 1000 T4U project
presented at the 2004 Busan Biennale by Japanese artists Yoshihisa Nakano
and Masayuki Yasuhara of the art unit Novaia Liustra. Novaia Liustra makes
ambiguous the identity of the producer of the work, and seeks to create
multi-sensorial spaces to evoke memory. Meaning 'new chandelier' in
Russian, Novaia Liustra facilitates community and develops inter-personal
connections.Yoshihisa
Nakano, born in Kagawa, Japan, in 1967, completed graduate
studies at Tokyo University of Arts, and has facilitated workshops
at various institutions including Kochi Art Museum. Born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1961, Masayuki Yasuhara, a
musicologist, graduated from the Tokoyo National University of Arts,
received a Rotary Fellowship to study in Indiana University, was a
visiting student at the Moscow State University, and a visiting scholar at
the Moscow Conservatory. He has been on faculty at Mary Baldwin College in
Virginia, and is currently a professor of musicology at the Aichi
Prefectural University of Fine Art and Music.
Café
Liustra (Kelowna) facilitator Tyler Russell, originally from Kelowna,
is an independent curator living and working in Seoul, Korea. In June
2005, he curated an exhibition at the Ga Gallery in Seoul and Higure 17-15
CAS in Tokyo, working with young Korean and Japanese artists on an
exhibition about ironies in the 2005 Japan-Korea friendship year. He
worked as International Projects Coordinator for the Busan Biennale 2004
in South Korea.
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Community
Participation
How
can you participate?
 | Donate
used clothing and fabric |
| Contribute
teas and neglected bottles of wine and the stories that go along with
them.
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Do
you have tea that has been sitting in the cupboard for too long to be
fresh? Or a gifted bottle of wine you couldn’t say no to sitting in the
cupboard or cellar? If so, we would love to display them at the Kelowna
Art Gallery. Alongside your contribution, please submit any thoughts or
memories associated with the tea or wine. Maybe it is a scent or a flavor
that reminds you of a specific time in your life, or the memory of a
friend or a time of year, possibly a trip to another country?
Bring
donations to the Kelowna Art Gallery at 1315 Water Street beginning June
15.
This
project has been made possible through grants from the Vancouver
Foundation, Canada Council Japan-Canada fund and the Japan foundation.
Schedule
of Events
Wed, Sept
20
Wine & Tea Tasting Event
Forgotten Teas, Kept Wines: Memory and the Back of the Cellar/Cupboard
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