ELAINE GAN
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Rice Child (Stirrings), 2011
An installation that experiments with visualizing time. The cultivation of rice varieties are represented as entangled and nested events, durations, and inheritances. (UCSC Digital Arts Research Center)
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The Cosmopolitans (Allegories of Capital), 2008-9
Web-sourced images are resampled and montaged as a form of cognitive mapping. The world is pictured vertically, from satellite space to subsurface extraction. (Toronto Free, ONT)
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The Madness of George, 2007-8
Public performance that questions the transformations of collective space after 9/11. Two uniformed equestrians circle a 300-year-old fence that encloses NY's first public park. (LMCC/Bowling Green, NYC)
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One World, One Dream, 2007-8
Earth transforms into a fully armored battle station in this remix of nonfictional NASA images and science fictional renderings of the Death Star.
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Walk On Red, 2004
A 152-foot walkway is built into an unnamed alley. An attempt to reconstruct a marginal and leftover space into an open social platform. (under the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn)
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Chronometers for Time Travelers, 2011-ongoing
Collaboration with artist-programmer Nik Hanselmann to code timepieces that render sensible transformations and potential synchronies of matter. (UCSC Digital Arts Research Center)
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Considering Rice (Ifugao Terraces), 2010
Assemblage of prints maps a mountain province in Northern Luzon as dynamic multispecies constellation: animals, insects, plants, land, water, wind, rice seeds and local-urban-global mobilities. (Real Art Ways, CT)
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Partial Views From An Artist's Space, 2007
Two facing walls present different worldviews. Left: prints graphically narrate uneven and sclerotic impact of globalized flows. Right: single print of NASA's "Earth Rise", 1968. (Artists Space, NYC)
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The Gamblers, 2009-10
Two-channel video about speculative futures. One presents a promotional video by NASA-CISCO. The other presents footage of slums in the Philippines. For whom are "global solutions" proposed? (Spaces, OH)
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It's A Hard Knock Life, 2004
While appearing fixed, aluminum scaffolds are designed to expand with each tree's growth. An attempt to consider human-nonhuman architectural forms. (Socrates, LIC)
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Wite-Out, 2006
Interventions in "private public" spaces: street ads are repainted white. The art of painting is reclaimed as a public gesture of performative opposition.
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Fast Car, 2007-8
Digital montages composited from image and film fragments form an allegory about asynchronous and aleatory encounters. (Shifter ejournal)
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Waiting (Allegories of Capital), 2008
An installation that considers the Modern Olympiad and its host cities as historical constructions of a globalized culture industry. (Soap Factory, MN)
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Whose Place Is It Anyway, 2009
Balloons marked with an "X" are given to pedestrians, who are encouraged to then pass them along, creating unmappable, unpredictable paths. (AiOP/Union Square, NYC)
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The Ambassadors, 2006
C-prints mounted on black plexiglass. Digital remix of fashion ads and news photos of protests published within a six-month period. (LMCC Workspaces, NYC)
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Crowd Control, 2005
Stanchions form a maze. Visitors create paths by interchanging red belts. Sociospatial control as a field for recomposition. (Sara Roosevelt Park, NYC)
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ABOUT
ELAINE GAN is interested in mapping worlds otherwise. Her current project experiments with visualizing time: digital media that seeks to animate heterogeneous temporalities. This interdisciplinary work aims to unpack collisions and synchronies between biocultural entanglements and political economies. To situate and specify these relations, Gan considers historically constituted sequences of events, nonlinear manifolds, durations, and simultaneities that emerge from and enable processes of cultivation for different kinds of rice.
Born in Manila, Gan studied critical art practice at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (NY), earned an MFA in Digital Arts/New Media at UCSC (CA) and a BA in Architecture at Wellesley College (MA).
Projects have received fellowships, grants, and generous support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, and New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Art exhibitions include the Third Guangzhou Triennial (China), Real Art Ways (CT), Soap Factory (MN), and in New York at Bronx Museum, Artists Space, Socrates Sculpture Park, Armory, PS122, LMCC Workspaces.