Through the performance, I want to introduce and share with the audience an aspect of Chinese culture, the ritual ceremony of honoring the deceased in a hope to make a connection with them emotionally and physically.” “It has taken me years of thought and courage to use performance in my work. She describes Linear Amplitude as a deeply personal work, in which the installation came to her first, and evolved to include the concept of performance. And, she says the latest work also continues to explore the “abstracted anatomical essence of clothing forms, using materials like latex rubber, paper and mixed media.” Each of these works also involves an interactive component with a viewing audience and the involvement of others in a performance of some type. Lane says that her work at The Loft bears similarity to other installations she has created, and that with this and other projects such as Remembering, Bravura, and Living Cubicle, her focus is on evoking past memories while using materials inherent to Chinese culture. “Traditionally in Chinese culture, joss paper folded in shape of an ingot, together with other paper items, like garments or daily appliances, are burned for the deceased to use, spend and wear in the afterlife,” she notes. Lane used stitching, dripping paint, and folding construction to create the exhibition. The main medium of the installation is paper, including joss paper, bamboo paper, Japanese Kozo paper, crochet threads, sewing patterns, pins, and paint. The hanging clothing-forms references a crowd.” The anthropomorphic forms on each side of the wall references family members kneeling and bowing to her presence. The center wall piece, an abstract sculptural image, references my mother wearing her favorite blouse with a Chinese frog closure. The deep emotion behind both the visual and performance art creates a palpable presence.Īccording to Lane, “Through imagination, I have created work about Chinese memorial services based on my experience when I lived in Hong Kong. This installation and performance is my special tribute to her.” Connie Lane, Linear Amplitude, Michael Stearns Studio at the Loft Image courtesy of the artist I missed her memorial service when I was here in the U.S, due to a visa problem.
I created this installation in memory of my mother. “It is about paying respect, and honoring the deceased, and it does tie into my work in the installation,” Lane relates.īoth performance and art, Lane says were “borrowed from the idea of Chinese memorial services. At the loading dock, the performers stood, folded the paper, bowed, and burned it. Along with the solemn processional to the fire, the performers also knelt in the gallery on cushions, clapping hands and bowing, and holding wooden blocks inscribed with wordings meant for the deceased as a way to pay respect to them. The performance was a heart-opening work that focused on paying respect and honoring the deceased, according to Lane. Titled Virtue of Respect, the performers in the piece were Andrea Serna, Ro Wenner, Sheila Lynch, Betsey Hall, Vicki Waller, Daal Praderas, Patricia Hyde, Connie Lane, and Michael Stearns. The papers represent wealth or money, also called spirit money. There they burned Joss paper, with traditional golden foil in its center.
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Clad in hooded garments constructed of paper sewing patterns that reflect and evoke the suspended artwork itself, a group of performers solemnly moved to the Loft building loading dock, where a portable fire pit glowed. Originally from Hong Kong, Lane’s performance is both an outgrowth and beautiful come-to-life moment for the exhibition. The work is both meditative and ghostly, a stand-alone exhibition that is also inextricably linked to the performance piece Lane performed at the gallery on March 23rd. The artist evokes her own contemplative thoughts on belonging, memory, and being, as she summons up the past and its relationship to the present.
Michael Stearns Studio at the Loft, San PedroĬonnie Lane’s Linear Amplitude, which showed at Michael Stearns Studio at the Loft in San Pedro, is a haunting and ephemeral work. Connie Lane, Linear Amplitude, Michael Stearns Studio at the Loft Image courtesy of the artist Connie Lane: Linear Amplitude
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