PERFORMANCE - SLIDING MIRROR: 24 Hour Embrace, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art [12.03.2010]
YOUNG SUN HAN
SLIDING MIRROR: 24 Hour Embrace
Midnight Friday 19 - Midnight Saturday 20 March
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
4A presents a 24 hour performance by Young Sun Han, in 4A's street front gallery. Sliding Mirror: 24 Hour Embrace involves the artist finding strangers matching his physical description through online listing services.
At the stroke of midnight the artist and a stranger will embrace for 24 hours.
The embrace, silently endured, will take on the presence of a transient moving sculpture. Using the body as a medium, the performance raises questions about intimacy, our longing to connect with others and critically explores an art practice ambivalent to object making.
Sliding Mirror: 24 Hour Embrace is a work in 4A’s major curated exhibition Last Words an exhibition project that will unfold over the 2010 calendar. Comprising performance, workshops, lectures, solo and group exhibitions, Last Words explores language, knowledge and communication in an age of cultural diversity and globalisation, particularly focused on younger generations of Asian artists living here in Australia and overseas.