Guest: Michael Joaquin Grey

Date: 2015-04-02  19：00 ~ 2015-04-02  20：00

Address: Chronus Art Center (Bldg 18, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai)

Artist Talk- Michael Joaquin Grey
Accumulations: Creating Collections and Cosmologies
LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)
TIME:2015.4.2, 7-8pm
LOCATION: Chronus Art Center (Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)

About the Talk
Michael Joaquin Grey’s works capture the critical moments in nature and culture. With a focus on information, space (micro and macro) and the body, his artistic practice is constantly reminding us the limits of humanity, both perceptually and culturally; he emphasizes the importance of primary observation to help understand our development from the bottom up.  He shares the objects of media history as prosthetics to create an extension of our awareness.
This talk will serve as a portal into a world of interrelated cosmologies in which Michael will share with us his post-museum collection of the history of media located in a generative animation of the cosmos.

About the Artist
For the past thirty years, Michael Joaquin Grey (b. 1961, Los Angeles, California, lives in San Francisco and New York City) has been investigating the development of life, language and form in complex and natural systems; and how animate and inanimate systems originate, grow and decay. Grey’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Walker Art Center; Kunstverein Hannover; DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague; Sundance Film Festival; Berkeley Art Museum, California; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; the New Art Trust: TATE Modern, and the San Francisco Modern.