Wappen Field 
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		:: in Manhattan -- July 8 through August 12, 2012

   Location:
     BOSI Contemporary
     48 Orchard Street / New York NY  10002      

     http://bosicontemporary.com
     info@bosicontemporary.com   


   Hours: 
     Monday through Sunday, Noon to 8p

     RECEPTION: Thursday, July 12 2012, 6-9pm


  Come out to walk through, contemplate, listen to and co-vibrate with
  Michelle Jaffe's mysterious yet universal, archetypaly motivated
  sculpture project WAPPEN FIELD.  I have contributed my expertise and
  influence to this room-sized work by providing a 12-channel sound design
  according to Michelle's vision for the work.  This piece employs
  SuperCollider to move and manipulate voices across a field of sound
  sources that may be approached and heard individually or by walking
  through and around the piece.


  PRESS RELEASE--
    BOSI Contemporary is pleased to present Wappen Field, the solo exhibition
    of New York based artist Michelle Jaffe. In her upcoming project, Jaffe
    will present a large-scale participatory installation and a series of
    sculptures, both of which explore the use of armor to mask and shelter the
    body from interference. Reflecting on the theory of the collective
    unconscious and mythological truths, Jaffe utilizes a minimalist aesthetic
    to create work that uniquely questions the interplay between archetypes in
    socio-cultural structures.

    The exhibition title Wappen Field refers to the inaugural New York
    presentation of Jaffe's sculpture, sound and light installation. The term
    Wappen is German for Coat of Arms, a visual symbol of heraldic
    identification in the Middle Ages. The installation is comprised of 12
    chrome-plated steel helmets, resembling face guards suspended from the
    ceiling. The height of the helmets and the emblem generated from the
    shadowed lighting on the gallery floor imply the existence of human forms.
    This is the space that the viewer is meant to occupy in order to fully
    experience the work. Composed by Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, then reconstructed
    and manipulated by Jaffe, each Helmet contains a speaker that produces an
    assortment of male and female vocal sounds. Jaffe later worked with
    programmer David Reeder on a Super Collider- an algorithmic programming
    language, to disperse the voices throughout individual helmets, creating
    dissonance, rhythms and vortexes of sound.

    Whereas artists such as Judith Shea and Louise Bourgeois have used clothing
    to suggest shelter and psychological repair, Jaffe is independent in her
    use of sound and aesthetic. By allowing the viewer to place him or herself
    within the helmet and obstructing their field of vision, Jaffe emphasizes
    sound as the essential element for interpretation.


  For more information please visit:

    http://bosicontemporary.com/exhibits.html

    http://michellejaffearts.com/biography
    http://davidreeder.info

    http://www.michellejaffearts.com/installation/sculpture-and-sound-installation-wappen-field/statement


  Wappen Field is a sponsored project of NYFA.  Funded in part by NYSCA
  Individual Artists Program.