7-10pm
The New Museum
235 Bowery
(Sky Room)
Heide Hatry’s Icons in Ash Book Party-Death Related Breathtaking Art, Music, Dance, and Spoken Word Performances.
With Jonas Mekas, Avital Ronell, Queen Esther, Jennifer Elster, Leah Schrager, Jane LeCroy, Danielle Blau, Nora Fox, Ulrich Baer, Christine Isherwood, Hot Glue & The Gun, Lutz Rath, and others.
This event takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Heide Hatry, Icons in Ash at Ubu Gallery, 416 E 59th St., NYC Closing on May 16, 2017
More information at IconsInAsh.com, UbuGallery.com and HeideHatry.com
ICONS IN ASH
The art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object – the icon – often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results reminiscent of ancient sacred and secular traditions and their complex, even mysterious function to, say, calm, enrich or transform our experience? Icons in Ash includes twenty of Hatry’s portraits and twenty-seven contemporary writers who explore this phenomenon in original and engaging meditations on death, the dead body, art, relics, psychology, philosophy, religion, mourning, evolution, transformation, and immortality. Contributors include, among others, Hans Belting, Mark Dery, Eleanor Heartney, Siri Hustvedt, Jonas Mekas, Rick Moody, Mark Pachter, Steven Pinker, Wolf Singer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Peter Weibel.
