CHIN CHIH YANG
STATEMENT:
Chin Chih Yang
performs a one-night only prayer as the The Millennial Master (Monk/Taoist
priest) of Love...to end gun violence, assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy,
and more. What can one man do? How can he do it? Will it work, and if so,
how?
Chin Chih
Yang wants to pray for people who were lately impacted by Sandy hurricane in New
York City, and also it is about the gun shooting in the USA and it is hard to
have gun control. Yang prays that the USA will be able to stop gun violence. "We
need more Love" and Yang satire out of human power to stop
Gun.
BIOGRAPHY
Multidisciplinary
artist Chin Chih Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for many
years in
New York City, where he studied at Pratt Institute and Parsons School
of
Design.
Among other honors, he has been a recipient of fellowships from the New
York
State
Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Franklin Furnace, and
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “Swing Space” residency on Governor’s
Island.
His
interests in ecology and constructed environments have resulted in
interactive
performances
and installations that have been exhibited widely in North America,
Europe, and
Asia, in such spaces as Rockefeller Center, the Chelsea Museum, the
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Exit Art, Flux Factory, Miami Art fair, Accident
gallery, Eureka, CA, Five
Flavours Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland and at the Taipei Art Fair. A great
proponent of public art, Yang enacts
projects in outdoor spaces such as the United Nations, where he infamously
projected a giant Taiwanese flag onto the building, and Union Square Park
in Manhattan, the site of events that drew audiences in the tens of thousands,
“Burning Ice” and “World Peace.”
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