Ingredients of a Subway Car
Mirena Rhee during the Ingredients of a Subway Car performance, 2017
Ingredients of a Subway Car room-size installation created spontaneously over a 4 hour performance, 2017
Ingredients of a Subway Car Installation on the Subway, 2016
Ingredients of a Subway Car is a series of installations, performance and 3d simulations inspired by the New York City subway and based on a drawing of the same name. The New York City subway is a place where many different hands hang from the handles, characters perform various routines, dissimilar objects occupy the same space, and many passenger storylines converge for a moment in a subway car.
The videos of the performance, simulations, and installations were cut into six, six-minute-long videos named after six different subway lines the artist lived on in New York City: The L, The R, The 7, The A, The 6, and The 1. These videos became Mirena Rhee’s first solo show, in 2017
Ingredients of a Subway Car - The 1
Ingredients of a Subway Car room-size installation with hands wallpaper(before the performance).
The Ingredients of a Subway Car room-size installation and performance was created over four hours without a script and working spontaneously with various objects:
1. Strings
2. Brushes and paint
3. Old singing clock
4. Apple peels (I love apples, usually consume a tall bag of it daily)
5. Spinach
6. Juice
7. Juicer
8. Toy Cars
9. Ball
10. Coins
11. Wood shavings
12. Walmart flipflops
13. Staple gun
14. Belt
15. Umbrella and many other objects
Installation room and paper wearables
The installation room and paper wearables were created using cutouts from the Ingredients of a Subway Car drawing.
Performance and Installation
Watch the raw unedited performance here.
Completed Installation
Ingredients of a Subway Car installation in the subway
Ingredients of a Subway Car animations and simulations with pen and ink drawings
Ingredients of a Subway Car drawing
Ingredients of a Subway Car drawing, 30 x 30 inches, pen and ink on hot press board, 2016