Letting Go Performance
Documentation of “Letting Go” Performance. What happens when communication breaks down to a point where a person’s life experience is not heard? How can one make their voice heard? In Letting Go, a temporary public art exhibit in Newark that addresses themes on catharsis, I addressed catharsis through the processes of …
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Letting Go
The curators, Jeanne Brasille and Jade Lien, renewed the abandoned and desolate block between Broad and Central Avenue in Newark, NJ on Saturday during the 10th Annual Open Doors and Studio Tour. They brought together a collection of over 50 artists to take part in a public cleansing and healing. …
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Jersey City Artists Nyugen E. Smith and Jacqueline Arias Represent at Newark Studio Tour
The Jersey City Independent posted an article about the street block of performances and art installations taking place in Newark this weekend.
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Nyugen E. Smith – Performance at Mana Art Center
Nyugen E. Smith performed at Mana Contemporary’s kick-off party for the 21st Annual Jersey City Artists Studio Tour on Friday, September 30, 2011.
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Rogue Performance at Mana Art Center
About a week ago I got a call from my fellow JC Artist and partner-in-crime, Nyugen E. Smith and he tells me that Mana Art Center is kicking off the Jersey City Art tour this year and that he is planning to do a rogue unsolicited performance outside of the …
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Imbrication Installation
The Imbrication Video Installation on soil I am interested in exploring the transformative qualities found in soil. As a body of intricate systems working together, soil is not easily identified by its parts, but is known by its whole; similar to the human body. It is a caretaker of deep …
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Andrei Tarkovsky about Solaris
"No knowledge of life can be won without a colossal expenditure of spiritual power.
There may be grave losses on this path, but all the more profound and rich will be the achievements. In order to arrive at an understanding of the laws of life, in order to become conscious of what is best in oneself . . . all my protagonists must pass through a tense sphere of meditation, searching and achievement."
