{"id":5296,"date":"2019-03-01T17:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:46:00","slug":"wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wake\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2018<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wood, steel, fiberglass, electronic and mechanical components, paint<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

24H x 34W x 60L feet<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibited in Times Square from July 11th to September 5th, 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-presented by Times Square Arts, No Longer Empty, Queens Museum<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabricated in partnership with University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wake<\/span><\/i> is a large-scale installation that evokes the hull of a ship crossed with the skeletal remains of a marine mammal. Parts of a shipwreck, modeled on the USS Nightingale, a nineteenth-century clipper ship, rise up from the plaza like the bleached bones of a massive beast. A 21-foot-tall carved sculpture of Jenny Lind, an opera star known as the \u201cSwedish Nightingale,\u201d  accurately derived from a figurehead of the singer that was once mounted on the prow of the Nightingale, leads the wreckage. Subtle animatronic motions allow her to slowly breathe and scan the sky. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The physical construction of Wake <\/i>took place at UNC Asheville\u2019s STEAM Studio and was an interdisciplinary collaboration between students, faculty, staff and community artists all under the direction of Mel Chin Studio.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artwork calls forth both the city\u2019s triumphs and the complicated layers of its past. New York City has become a center of trade, commerce, finance, entertainment, and tourism, but also has a complex history that includes the shipping (by the USS <\/span>Nightingale<\/span><\/i>, among others) of guns and slaves that augmented this burgeoning city\u2019s economy. The expanding past economies were a prologue to our current environmental dilemma. Jenny Lind, a Swedish opera singer from the same era, became the first American <\/span>superstar<\/span><\/i> when she toured the United States under the guidance of P.T. Barnum.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The physical presence of <\/span>Wake<\/span><\/i> serves as an entry point into <\/span>Unmoored<\/span><\/i> (link to unmoored), an ambitious twenty-first-century mixed-reality public art project that is interactive for all ages and backgrounds. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With <\/span>Wake <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Unmoored<\/span><\/i>, Chin hopes to spark deeper personal investigations through digital devices and provoke enlightened stewardship of human actions in relation to global warming realities. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2018 Wood, steel, fiberglass, electronic and mechanical components, paint 24H x 34W x 60L feet Exhibited in Times Square from July 11th to September 5th, 2018. Co-presented by Times Square Arts, No Longer Empty, Queens Museum Fabricated in partnership with University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA). Wake is a large-scale installation that evokes the hull […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,39,40,25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-collaborative","category-installations","category-multiples","category-public","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8825,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/8825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}