You have to recognize the patterns I've always been suspicious of state sponsored joy where we all experience happiness on command once a year. I receive happiness branded letters in the mail. Corporations love to sell you happiness because they think it's something you can buy.
Corporations are ghosts of the state and you can no more buy anything from them than you can catch a virus from a contagion movie. Anything you buy is already dust, dead matter that has been temporarily arranged in a state sanctioned configuration.
Anything you buy is up to code dead, you buy dead crystals to decorate almost dead people who are only temporary not dead.
A hopless character frustrated by routine /
Corporate state has built routines to keep people from realizing their humanity. We struggle around these corrals and are skeptical about anything that is not sanctioned by the corporate state machine.
You only have to visit the popular opinion forums and you will recognize the patterns, organized by mass rituals our lives are bookended by institutionalized activities. Where we count dates between purchases.
If you really try to see you will recognize the patterns, YouTube is virtually unwatchable especially the mobile apps are so saturated with ads I can't figure out what's the actual content. So I hunt for ad blocking browsers and stick to exclusively pirating activities.
Paint Tube Periscope /
Mini-installations which led out of the White Room universe and out into New York City. A Empire State Building viewing periscope out of a tube of paint.
Big Bang /
White Room Art Installation, Collaborative Art, 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. 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, performance by Anita Durst.
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, ponchos, the White Queen bag, everything had instructions as part of the artwork, you literally couldn't miss the purpose.
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 the 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.
On Thanksgiving Day I invited people to hold a Giant Hand over the Bow Bridge in Central Park as a symbolic gesture /
Mirena Rhee invites people to hold a Giant hand over Bow Bridge in Central Park as a symbolic gesture. Photograph by Sarah Singh.
All art is long form, short form art is on Etsy /
It’s not that I do not respect creators for the online platform but I cannot afford to make short-lived work. All my ideas have been developed over time as I work on them in my mind and occasionally the ideas burst into reality in various forms and continue their lives even after the work has been completed.
White Room and Rainbow Bridge, a week in which I created several works where I compromised very little /
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.
Rainbow Bridge Installation and Collaborative Art
White Room -Today! /
White Room - for all my fantasies of NASA Clean rooms and for all the artists that had to face the white surface.
White Room - Mirena Rhee
The universe is a field not a wave it turns out, but i had to enable the wave function for the sake of artist feet
White Room - Wave Function
White Room - Mirena Rhee- Painter
Building the White Room Installation - Chashama Gala 2021 /
I have always been obsessed with NASA and their clean rooms. People scuttling around in pure White.
You know how in their clean rooms they don't even allow dust? What would happen if they allowed anything in there?
I’ll be reprising White, a reckless painter. And you are going to paint. Also creating several wearables. And the White Box.
Can paint but can’t spell.
Come paint - This week!
#ChashamaGala2021 - Chashama Gala - November 18 and 20th
Art for the Betterment of Humankind - DIY Performance and Christmas Gifts - My holiday catalog of do it yourself performance art /
About Art for the Betterment of Humankind
Art for the Betterment of Humankind is a framework for art-life and life-art in the new millennium. It is not just an art act but a life act that affects all aspects of life. It is designed to help every individual on the planet with a humanistic approach to art. It will allow every individual to contribute by limiting their carbon footprint and replacing possessions with their own creativity.
DIY Performance or Distributed Performance Art
Do it yourself or distributed performance - everyday acts that everyone can perform anytime and anywhere.
It is also a community-based performance art that is not simply showing and exhibiting art but working actively towards solving problems like zero waste, limiting consumption, and carbon footprint.
To perform creative acts as opposed to being background actors.
Zero Art
My idea for Zero Art came to me while I was cleaning the local park and seeing people carry doggie bags. I also saw people carrying garbage bags and randomly cleaning. It also was gradually developing on the back of my mind as I encounter piles of garbage on the sidewalks of Manhattan and thinking that lots of the garbage piles look like excellent unintended art installations. Artists have always dealt with found objects.
Zero Art aims at zero carbon footprint, zero slave labor, and impact on the environment. It is good for your body, apply your creativity to everyday objects.
1 Grab a small degradable bag & glove (or a bag for a glove).
2 Head to the nearest park.
3 Start picking trash from the park, the lawns, everywhere.
4 Make a small installation with your found objects. Arrange it as you have seen in galleries. Frame shot.
5 Take a picture. It is going to be your Zero Art still life.
6 Share it and inspire others to do it.
7 Dispose of it - it is meant to be an ephemeral object, a Zero Art pile on the side of the road. You just did a Zero Art performance.
DIY Christmas
DIY Performance and Christmas Gifts - My holiday catalog of do it yourself performance art.
A Holiday catalog of gifts for friends, family, lovers, and random strangers.
1 Read them from their favorite book, borrowed from the library. These days you can borrow digitally as well. Nypl shameless plug here.
2 Take them sledding with a found sled.
3 Trash treasure hunt in Manhattan.
4 Make them a food installation on the kitchen counter, spell their name or favorite phrase with cucumbers, carrots, zucchini, or whatever wonderful imaginative food combinations you can come up with.
5 Donate Kitchen and Pantry items and replace their spots in the kitchen cupboards with books, handwritten messages, and joyful cards. When someone you love opens the cupboard they will have a nice surprise.
6 Make a wall of your house paintable, hang a giant piece of paper or canvas, and have everyone paint on it, write messages, and mural fun things in bright colors.
7 Spell the name of your loved one with clothes, in the hallway, living room floor, any large floor space. Make a letter from each item of clothing and arrange like this. I call it Words Works.
Buy homeless person a sandwich
As part of the Holiday gift guide buy a homeless person a sandwich:
1 Approach a homeless person on the street. Use common sense and do not wake them if they are sleeping or otherwise unable to communicate
2 Ask them if they’d like a sandwich and a cup of coffee or drink, hot or cold
3 Ask what kind of condiments, bread, cheese, meats and what kind of drink to get
4 Got to the nearest deli, bodega, Starbucks. There’s literally a deli on every corner in New York
5 Order the sandwich and the drink - the deli will prepare it for you and put it in a bag with napkins, take straws
6 Hand it to the person. Do not give people homemade stuff, it is not in the best interest of everyone’s safety
7 Leave a good impression
Letter to the President - Art brings joy without prejudice /
Portrait of the President with Hands
Portrait of the President with Hands 6 x 7 inches, pen and ink on hot pressed board, 2021
Letter to the President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500RE: Federal Arts Program
Dear Mr. President,
I'm writing to you to please reinstate the Federal Art Project or some form of federally supported community art program so artists can actively engage in art production, research, and instruction.
Art is essential for our civilization in that even a simple cave art painting creates awe in the human mind. Art creates joy without prejudice. Imagine a world without the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the National Gallery of Art.
I believe art comes from the same place the universe comes from, a creative impulse that inspires our civilization. The brightest periods of humanity have been propelled forward by focused art patronage creating golden eras out of dark ages.Speaking on behalf of many artists I believe there's so much we can give to the community, for example, library classrooms and empty retail storefronts in New York City could be filled with art educators, instructing young people and adults in computer and art literacy and culture.
Empty storefronts and library spaces can be converted to community centers for education.
Art is endangered to be extinguished because big industries are not hungry for art. Imagine a world without Jackson Pollock because who needs splashes of paint?
Art is created spontaneously out of life, it only needs a breathing and living artist to do it.
For millennia great works of art have been a result of great patronage and programs, from the Pharaohs to the Medici, to Mount Rushmore.
Art needs federal help in a focused program. Art needs your help. On behalf of many artists I ask, please, help.
With best wishes,
Mirena RheeNew York ,NY, November, 2021
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Here is my White Room Installation in progress and the Empire State Building is staring me in the face.
A Sunday in New York /
New York City is so magnificent it is really hard to like anything else once it has touched you.
I love staring at New York City it is a fascinating subject of study and observation. People like to go to residences to do art I decided to do a persistent residency in New York City.
construction site of a big building going up on Madison avenue in New York City. construction sites are spontaneous installations, there's a lot of potential color and movement in them. buildings that I already done I'm not as exciting. I really love staring at construction sites in New York City actually staring and my favorite thing to do in New York.
CAMPBELL: It takes me back to a time when these spiritual principles informed the
society. You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is. When you
approach a medieval town, the cathedral is the tallest thing in the place. When you approach
an eighteenth-century town, it is the political palace that's the tallest thing in the place. And
when you approach a modern city, the tallest places are the office buildings, the centers of
economic life.
Music and Dancing on the streets of New York city
New York City is so saturated with cultures, it is its best asset, people perform spontaneously on the streets, or just offer their best act, and other people cheer them on.
Cat behavior Thumpasaurus band.
Fall in central park
They're all kind of beauties in New York City,
As I go about my day on a Sunday visiting cathedrals crossing Central Park in roaming the streets, looking up at skyscrapers, people dance and people cry and beg and then they cheer.
CAMPBELL: It takes me back to a time when these spiritual principles informed the
society. You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is. When you
approach a medieval town, the cathedral is the tallest thing in the place. When you approach
an eighteenth-century town, it is the political palace that's the tallest thing in the place. And
when you approach a modern city, the tallest places are the office buildings, the centers of
economic life.
If you go to Salt Lake City, you see the whole thing illustrated right in front of your
face. First the temple was built, right in the center of the city. This is the proper organization
because the temple is the spiritual center from which everything flows in all directions. Then
the political building, the Capitol, was built beside it, and it's taller than the temple. And now
the tallest thing is the office building that takes care of the affairs of both the temple and the
political building. That's the history of Western civilization. From the Gothic through the
princely periods of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth centuries, to this economic world that
we're in now.
New York City Skyscraper - Scapes reflecting in the big pond in Central park as dusk comes into the city
Paint'n party soon, november 18 & 20. come! With a view too /
White room - paint anything build
White room installation build
Memory Replacement Election Day 2021 Wearable /
This is how New Yorkers felt around this time last year.
3-Parties ! Not just Party but support the arts also. Come! I'll be showing White Room - Paint anything you want :) yeah, anything. /
Dear Friends,
Come party and support the arts! These are the places to be seen wearing no socks to be honest.
Chashama.org has been very supportive over the years, not just with projects I do but it also supports thousands of working artists.
Chashama.org is throwing holiday parties and the proceeds go 100 percent back to us, the artists. I am building an installation called White Room and it will be seen in all three events.
I'd love to see you, come !
Chashama GALA
GALA:
Thursday, November 18th
6pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring
Tickets: $600
Tickets link: https://chashama-gala-2021.eventbrite.com
A free-flowing, experiential art celebration featuring 300 performers and interactive installations.
Chashama ART PARTY
ART PARTY:
Thursday, November 18th
9pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring
Tickets: $80
Tickets link: https://chashama-art-party.eventbrite.com
Unleash yourself at New York's most outrageous art party! Tickets include open bar and immersion in a labyrinth of 300 performers and installations.
CHASHAMA-RAMA
CHASHAMA-RAMA:
Saturday, November 20th
12-6pm
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Fun
Tickets: $25
Tickets link: https://chashama-rama.eventbrite.com
Immerse yourself in creativity at Chashama-Rama: a $25 art extravaganza with interactive performances by 300 artists.
Lets party.n paint mm..ok? The very Awesome Chashama GALA: Thursday, November 18th 6pm-midnight 144 West 43rd Street, NYC. Dress Daring! A free-flowing, experiential art celebration ! /
Lets party.n paint mm..ok?
The very Awesome Chashama GALA:
Thursday, November 18th
6pm-midnight
144 West 43rd Street, NYC
Dress Daring
Tickets link: https://chashama-gala-2021.eventbrite.com
A free-flowing, experiential art celebration featuring 300 performers and interactive installations.