People in my performance and installation art perform creative acts as opposed to being background actors
As I was working on the outcome in photographs of white room I realized I've seen it before, I recognized the concept. It's the Big Bang.
I had this realization of the universe as the ultimate art making machine, and if we are a simulation - the ultimate art protocol.
I've always loved the idea that Buckminster Fuller had of the universe as the ultimate technology, but I see it as the ultimate art. Where neutrinos and all kinds of particles stream, pulsars and supernovas, and galaxies colliding, art created in all spectrums not just the visible, with fields splashing instead of paint.
White Room Art Installation, Performance and Wearables I created for Chashama Gala and Chashama Rama in November, 2021
White Room is a tongue-in-cheek reference to my obsession with NASA clean rooms, and the white canvas every artist has had to face through the millennia.
White Room Art Installation Performance and Wearables created by Mirena Rhee for Chashama Gala and Rama in November, 2021.
This is a collaborative, community work.
My vision for a creative civilization spreading into the stars, wormhole art, no borders, no guns, and no coins but art for the betterment of humankind.
A 21st-century creative collaboration with people from all walks of life, the white room creating a circle of light with the everyone-creator at its center, a throwback to the ideas of the Renaissance for human-centered and humanistic art.
I created the White Queen wearable as a paintable dress, cape, bag, and shoes, as part of White Room art installation and performance in creative collaboration with Anita Durst, and performance by Anita Durst.
The White Queen in the White Room. As part of White Room Art Installation Performance and Wearables created by Mirena Rhee for Chashama Gala and Rama in November, 2021. Performance by Anita Durst. White Queen wearable in collaboration with Anita Durst, paper flowers by Todd Monaghan.
I have a favorite movie and in it the title character says that every weapon has a manual. I thought that if my art is to be effective it also needs a manual, so I started incorporating instructions. All walls of the White Room, the White Queen bag, everything had instructions as part of the artwork, you literally couldn't miss the purpose.
I created several elements which I branded with the white room stamp in several variations as I wanted them to belong to the same universe. I also created little strings visual strings which led out of the room into the universe of the Chashama Gala 2021. As well as included a video as a lead into a future project.
I created a character white, with a branded suit, which is a reprisal of my Ingredients of a Subway Car performance: https://www.mirenarhee.com/ingredients-of-a-subway-car
People in my performance and installation art perform creative acts as opposed to being background actors.
Rainbow Bridge
Rainbow Bridge Installation and Collaborative Art created on Thanksgiving Day, 2021.
Where I ask people to hold Giant Hands over the Bow Bridge in Central Park, I take a picture and will assemble all pictures together.
I realized i don’t lie the word collaborative but even more dislike participatory.
People in my performance and installation art perform creative acts as opposed to being background actors.
Rainbow Bridge installation by Mirena Rhee created on Thanksgiving Day, 2021. Photograph by Sarah Singh.
