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| Yin Mei | |
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I am a performance artist and choreographer living and working in New York. I was born in China and emigrated to the US in 1985. |
| About the Artist | |
Currently I am developing a hybrid form of performance art in which I create works of ink on paper using a technique I call "danced calligraphy". Using my own body as a brush, I create contemporary art works that express the fundamental principles of "chi", or what the ancient Chinese understand as life force. My overall goal as an artist and performer is to make visible through art the inner world that lies beneath the surface of everyday life – a parallel world beyond material purposes and goals, stemming from emptiness, filled with the mystery of life. |
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Cursive - Performance I
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| Work in performance at James Cohan Gallery, NYC. |
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Cursive Series (various)
2007 |
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| On display at DeVos Museum, Fall 2007. |
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2006 |
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| At Puffin Gallery (2006). |
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| In performance at Queens Museum International Biennale. |
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| Education and biography | |
| YIN MEI is a director/choreographer/performance artist known for category-defying art works that fearlessly bridge geographic, technological, artistic and cultural divides to create a unique brand of theatrical magic. Having forged a style employing Chinese energy direction and spatial principles as a means of creating contemporary dance theater, Yin Mei has established herself as a movement and visual artist uniquely positioned to explore themes of artistic and spiritual significance arising at the intersection between Asian traditional performance and Western contemporary dance theater. She has collaborated in her work with an astonishing array of important artists, including such well-known visual artists as MacArthur Award-winning Xu Bing and Cai Guo Xiang. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and a Choreography Fellow from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yin Mei was twice nominated for the Cal-Arts Alpert Award in Choreography. Recently, Yin Mei has established herself as an emerging performance/visual artist creating works on paper with ink transferred through the movements of her body. Her mixed media installation/performance work entitled CITY OF PAPER was chosen to appear in the Queens Museum International Biennial in 2006/07. She also performed/displayed this work at the Nasher Museum at Duke University and at the White Box Gallery and James Cohan Gallery in Manhattan in 2006. A two-page photograph of Yin Mei creating this work at the James Cohan Gallery appeared in the January 2007 issue of Art Review magazine. One of Yin Mei’s ink works is currently appearing as part of a group show entitled “Aberrance of Chinese Character” at the Huantie Art Zone in Beijing. Yin Mei had her first one woman show, entitled “3000: Yin Mei”, at the DeVos Museum in Michigan in October and November 2007. Yin Mei’s work has been supported by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund, the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Meet The Composer, Arts International, Greenwall Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Dance Force, Asian Cultural Council, Bossak/Heibron Charitable Foundation, Queens College Foundation and the Research Foundation of City University of New York. Yin Mei was a participating fellow in the Asia Pacific Performing Arts Exchange (APPEX) in Bali, Indonesia sponsored by the Center for Intercultural Performance at UCLA. A longtime practitioner and teacher of Tai Chi and a student of the I Ching, her research into Chinese contemplative practice was recognized with a Contemplative Practice Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Yin Mei is a professor of dance and currently the director of the Dance Program at Queens College, New York City University. She has twice been the recipient of a Queens College Presidential Research Award for her choreographic work and has four times received a Queens College Innovative Teaching Award for developing original course offerings, including (most recently) a course entitled “Light In Performance” in conjunction with a Queens College Physics professor. Yin Mei has also offered master classes and seminars worldwide and has been a guest instructor and artist-in-residence at Brown University, the University of Alaska, Arizona State university and the Beijing Dance Academy. She received her B.A., M.F.A. and coursework toward a Ph.D. from New York University. |
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| Currently at work on "City of Paper", a multi-media work that merges imagistic movement with visual representation to create post-modern performance out of the timeless elements of Chinese calligraphy: paper, ink, body and time. A first version of this work will be shown at The Asia Society in New York in September 2008. | |
| Website: www.yinmeidance.org | |
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