As the final summer fling for BANK NYC, we invites you to join the closing night of the exhibition, To Save and To Destroy. On Aug 13th, curated by Lily Kwak & Qingyuan Deng, experience 3 explosive performances by Canal Street Research Association, Anh Vo, and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, embrace a perfect finale to the season.
About the Performers
Canal Street Research Association was founded in 2020 in an empty storefront on Canal Street, New York’s counterfeit epicenter. Delving into the cultural and material ecologies of the street and its long history as a site that probes the limits of ownership and authorship, the association repurposes underused real estate as spaces for gathering ephemeral histories, mapping local lore, and tracing the flows and fissures of capital. They have occupied storefronts, empty office buildings, and storage units—and are currently located in a basement under Canal Street.
The fictional office entity is operated by Shanzhai Lyric (Ming Lin and Alex Tatarsky), a poetic research and roving archival unit that take inspiration from 山寨 (shanzhai or counterfeit) goods to examine how bootlegs use mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both revel in and reveal the artifice of global hierarchies. They occupy both official and unofficial spaces including MoMA PS1, Sculpture Center, Artists Space, Storefront for Art & Architecture, and Abrons Arts Center.
Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working primarily in New York City, with a second base in Hanoi. Their practice fleshes out the body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their work is situated in the unlikely lineage convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez's unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess, Moriah Evan's speculative commitment to the depth of interiority, Tehching Hsieh’s existential sense of time, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with esteemed theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA).
Andrew Yong Hoon Lee works in the moving image, sound, drawing and sculpture and examines sensory perceptions through the use of language, experience and space. His practice explores themes that range from the relationship between sounds and meaning in language, the phenomenologies of the diasporic and how memory and migration perform new imaginaries. Materially, Lee uses the lexicon of sound as it relates to other fields of knowledge. Musicality can be attributed to a drawing and a sound installation can become a space to explore the phenomenological qualities of different modalities. Through harmony and the dissonance of intertextual and intermedia strategies Andrew investigates the social, the political and subjectivity in his work.
Andrew Yong Hoon Lee has presented works at the Center For Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY (2012), The International Symposium On Electronic Arts in Vancouver, BC (2015), The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (2016), The Vancouver Art Gallery (2017), Mono No Aware Festival of Cinema-Arts Brooklyn, NY (2018), Achtung Cinema Paris, France (2019), Kinoskop International Analog Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia (2019), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan (2020).
