Xmas
"Xmas"
a video and sculpture installation by Donna Cheng
December 21, 2009 - January 1, 2010
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
New York, NY
Installation on view: Monday - Friday
12:00p to 5:00p (CLOSED Christmas Day, December 25)
The video and sculpture installation, "Xmas", pokes fun at the holiday onslaught of commercial advertising. Light and paper sculptures are cheery and cheesy with a dark twist. Traditional Christmas song lyrics are modified to reflect our recessionary reality as we ring in a new decade. The public is invited to hum along, or to stop for a little longer and learn these "new classics" . Providing a break from the traditional holiday window display, Donna Cheng's multi-racial Santa sculpture will inhabit chashama's storefront window surrounded by projections of anti-consumerism messages. Passersby are invited to interact with the sculpture – to let it know if they've been good this year. Fun for the entire family.
FREE and open to the public
Parody caroling lyrics co-written with Astro Twin
Performed by Melissa Munn
Melissa@FaceArtByMelissa.com
"Have Yourself a Merry, Merry Christmas" audio recording
Arrangement by John McMahon
Sung by Melissa Munn
"Let There Be Peace On Earth" audio recording
Arranged by John McMahon
Performed by RUB
http://www.myspace.com/rubsings
about Donna Cheng
Donna Cheng is an artist who has worked in video, sound, and interactive technologies as well as the traditional plastic arts of sculpture and painting. Her work has evolved into creating environmental installations that incorporates these media. She is intent on exploring social and historical themes in her site-specific public art pieces. Her last exhibit was a video projection inside a warehouse ruin at the Dumbo Arts Festival, 2009 about the neighborhood's history and the gentrification of the waterfront. She has a B.A. from Scripps College in Studio Arts, and recently graduated with a M.P.A. from Baruch College. She has also studied at the School of Visual Arts in computer art and at City Tech in entertainment technology for the live performance.
emotra@gmail.com | www.facebook.com/donna.cheng.nyc | www.flickr.com/photos/donnacheng/
a video and sculpture installation by Donna Cheng
December 21, 2009 - January 1, 2010
chashama 266 Window Space
266 West 37th Street
between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7 to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.
New York, NY
Installation on view: Monday - Friday
12:00p to 5:00p (CLOSED Christmas Day, December 25)
The video and sculpture installation, "Xmas", pokes fun at the holiday onslaught of commercial advertising. Light and paper sculptures are cheery and cheesy with a dark twist. Traditional Christmas song lyrics are modified to reflect our recessionary reality as we ring in a new decade. The public is invited to hum along, or to stop for a little longer and learn these "new classics" . Providing a break from the traditional holiday window display, Donna Cheng's multi-racial Santa sculpture will inhabit chashama's storefront window surrounded by projections of anti-consumerism messages. Passersby are invited to interact with the sculpture – to let it know if they've been good this year. Fun for the entire family.
FREE and open to the public
Parody caroling lyrics co-written with Astro Twin
Performed by Melissa Munn
Melissa@FaceArtByMelissa.com
"Have Yourself a Merry, Merry Christmas" audio recording
Arrangement by John McMahon
Sung by Melissa Munn
"Let There Be Peace On Earth" audio recording
Arranged by John McMahon
Performed by RUB
http://www.myspace.com/rubsings
about Donna Cheng
Donna Cheng is an artist who has worked in video, sound, and interactive technologies as well as the traditional plastic arts of sculpture and painting. Her work has evolved into creating environmental installations that incorporates these media. She is intent on exploring social and historical themes in her site-specific public art pieces. Her last exhibit was a video projection inside a warehouse ruin at the Dumbo Arts Festival, 2009 about the neighborhood's history and the gentrification of the waterfront. She has a B.A. from Scripps College in Studio Arts, and recently graduated with a M.P.A. from Baruch College. She has also studied at the School of Visual Arts in computer art and at City Tech in entertainment technology for the live performance.
emotra@gmail.com | www.facebook.com/donna.cheng.nyc | www.flickr.com/photos/donnacheng/
