MeMoSa: Creative Destruction
Student Artist-in-Residence Lulu Wang presents: Creative Destruction
Saturday, April 18th
Doors Open 3:30 PM, Showing 4:00 - 4:30 PM, Q&A 4:30 - 5:00 PM
Doors close at 4PM. Please arrive by 3:50PM.
Creative Destruction is a performance-installation of interactive robotic creatures housed inside handbuilt ceramic vessels. They inhabit a space sculpted by light and projection, reacting arbitrarily to audience movement. The collective act of the crowd will finally become the catalyst for an irreversible, unrepeatable symphony.
Sensory, ritualistic, and oddly playful, the work explores the boundary between being creative and destructive.
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To visit, please RSVP at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main campus entrance (3009 Broadway).
Visitors with active Barnard/Columbia IDs have automatic campus access and can walk in.
Lulu Yueyi Wang is a senior at Columbia University, double-majoring in Visual Arts and Computer Science. As an artist and engineer, she crafts embodied experiences through installation, painting, and coding. She has worked with the Computational Design Lab, the Imaging and Vision Lab, the Design Tool Lab, the curatorial department at Toledo Museum of Art, and various artist teams.
Her artistic practice is inspired by the dream-journey tradition of viewing Chinese literati landscape paintings—which she sees as ancient imaginary VR—and her own experiences navigating different geographical and cultural landscapes. This leads her to build spaces, both physical and virtual, where people from different backgrounds can settle their desires, wonders, and grief. During her residency, she will deepen this exploration of embodied space-making by investigating how human-machine interplay can evoke primal sensorial experiences through robotics, projection, and installation.
You can learn more about her work at luluyueyiwang.com.