Arty AYAKAMAY solo exhibition SINGLE-ACTION

Ayakamay represents HOTEL KAMIKAZE
May 12th Fri – June 4th Sun, 2017

◆Opening Reception:
5/12 Fri 6pm – 9pm

◆Performance:
5/19 Fri 6pm – 9pm
(DSC Annex)

DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary is proud to present HOTEL KAMIKAZE, an exhibition by Ayakamay, opening May 12th, 2017 and on view through June 4th, 2017, in the DSC Project Space, with a featured perfomance in the DSC Annex on May 19th.

After World War II the word “Kamikaze” became synonymous with Japanese suicide pilots and filled Americans with anger and hate.

The traditional meaning of “Kami Kaze” is a completely different and a positive one. “Kami Kaze” is sacred figure of the Divine Wind an ethereal being, a deity whose breath and wind creates energy that moves weathervanes, fans and flags, birds and insects, a positive deity creating a temporal freedom for all touched by this spirit.

Ayakamay’s installation in Hotel Kamikaze creates eternal temporary non-space: a comfortable place to address this still-present discomfort in the common past between East and West, between Japan and the United States. This sacred wind, still trapped, threatens to be caught in the lightness of the air like a cloud or a mirror that shows us how difficult it is to find commonalities when we hold onto our preconceptions and cannot reconcile our histories.

Ayakamay will present a stand-alone long-duration performance in the DSC Annex on the evening of Friday, May 19th. The artist invites us to penetrate this singular hotel, a place dyed to a certain redness between the sanguine and the carnal, an unsettling surface that we see crossing the planes of image and the space, a red that seduces and deceives us with its violent passivity that emulates our voyeurism making us blind to what is secreted in the being of things.

DAVID&SCHWEITZER CONTEMPORARY
56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Ayakamay would like to thank you for your support and friendship to make the year 2015 an exciting year. We look forward to share another exciting journey to explore more of Ayakamay world in 2016 with you!

We will kick start with her first solo show “GENDERLESS” at Prince Street Project Space of Leslie Lohman Museum. Join us Ayakamay’s first performance in 2016 at the opening on February 4, 6:00PM to 8:00PM.

HOURS:
OPENING RECEPTION and Ayakamay Performance
THU Feb 4th 2016
6:00PM – 8:00PM

Exhibition and Performance Installation
FRI Feb 5th till TUE Feb 9th 2016
12:00PM – 6:00PM

LOCATION:
Prince St. Project Space
127-B Prince St
New York, NY 10012
(At Prince St & Wooster St)

Programming administered by:

Join us on Sunday September 6th 2015 as we celebrate the end of Ayakamay’s residency at Ideal Glass. Her final live production at the gallery will include the premiere of her latest piece, as well as a display of recently completed works.

Door : 6PM
Pre Performance : 7PM
Performance : 8PM
After Party : 9PM
at IDEAL GLASS 22 East 2nd street NYC