Past meeting
Do you want to have a fantastic out of the body experience?
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Meeting Description
Who
- This exhibit is a out of the body experience...
Why
- Start your out of the body traveling in the Yayoi Kusama's permanent exhibit "You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies", at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Organized by
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"We will meet right inside the main entrance of the Phoenix Art Museum.
The General Admission is Free to all on Tuesday Evenings, 3-9pm"
--Larryariz (Activity Leader)
Details
Start your out of the body traveling in the Yayoi Kusama's permanent exhibit "You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies", at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Quite frankly, it felt like an out of the body experience.
You get to "be" right in the center of our Milky Way or another gigantic galaxy of stars. And best of all, you don't have to leave our planet earth.
Your trip begins in the middle of a room full of blackness. In this darkness, your looking up, looking down and all around you. The total blackness slowly turns into thousands of tiny white or colored lights or stars. These stars seem to be magically created and they are appearing all around you. Viewing these stars is set up in perspective, so you can faintly see the stars at the outer edges of this galaxy.
I'm imagining myself in the middle of some galaxy out there in the Universe and all I was seeing, was the stars around me. I'm standing in the center of these stars and the first thought that came to my mind...hey, this visual phenomena is really cool!
This exhibit is quite a out of the body experience, and I did not even have to leave my body!
If there is a interest, we can meet afterwards at the Starbucks, 530 E Mcdowell Rd (NWC, McDowell/7th street)
Larry Noack
602.763.8066
Yayoi Kusama started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten, and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils.
These visions developed into obsessive neuroses which fueled her paintings, sculptures and performances, reflecting her self-described obsession with nets, dots, food and sex. She went to the United States in 1957. Showed large paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights. In the latter 1960s, staged many happenings such as body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations. Launched media related activities such as film production and newspaper publication. Her work includes sculptures, books, performance art, installations and photo collages.
Yayoi Kusama's mental illness began in childhood when she began hallucinating the dots, nets and flowers which subsequently appear in her paintings and sculptures. Kusama opted to live in a mental institution in Japan, using her obsessional art as a life-saving therapy. She has lived there ever since and continues to make artworks, including large outdoor sculptures. She has a studio within the institution, but also rents a studio a short distance away.
In a career spanning more than fifty years, Yayoi Kusama is known not only as an artist but also as a novelist, underground filmmaker and fashion designer.
Note:
Light rail construction could(?) be blocking the entry drive off of Central Avenue.
To enter the Museum's parking lot, go one block east of Central (Alvarado Rd.) and one block north of McDowell (Coronado Rd.) to the parking lot.
General Museum Hours:
Tuesday, 10am-9pm
General Admission:
Free to all on Tuesday Evenings, 3-9pm
This "Firefly" exhibit is located on the second floor of the Katz Wing for Modern Art.
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