Dinner Here is a collaborative project between Kyle Duske and Jenipher Hur. In 2007 Hur invited Duske to participate in the Invite Me To Your Dinner project. When an invitation to this project is accepted, the participant is expected to host a dinner for Hur. In reciprocation, she walks from her home in Port Moody to the chosen dinning location. The dinners are most often held in Vancouver.

In 2009, Duske accepted the invitation. The dinner will be held on February 13th, 2010 at 221A ARC. There will be a private reception from 6:00 – 9:00pm viewable through 221A’s store front windows and an open reception will be held 9:00 – 11:00pm. This project explores social structures, relationships and traditions through the act of dinner and all of its parts from invitations to remnants.

Private Dinner
Feb 13, 6:30 – 9:00pm

Open Reception
Feb 13, 9:00 – 11:00pm

Panel Discussion
Mar 6, 2:00pm

“Isomorphism – Olympiad 2010” is a performative installation engaging two distinct but intersect paths that reflect urban navigation, spatial experience and state of being while exploring aspects of connection, disconnection, mobility (staying/leaving) and decision-making. The introspective walk concurrently functions as a mind-expanding exercise.

While we celebrate the spirit of sportsmanship during the Winter Olympic games within Vancouver, a large number of women remain missing. Were it not for the efforts of a few, their names might have been forgotten.

In articulating this dual urban consciousness within her evolving “Isomorphism” series, Judy Cheung creates an event-specific version that reflects the psyche of downtown Vancouver grid for which artists Peggy and Karen Ngan will conduct a symbolic tribute to the city’s missing women, as an performance event. Audiences and viewers are invited to participate in the proceedings. The process of interactivity serves as a mean to nurture confluent energy, channel logic and engender community fortitude.

Isomorphism is a series of navigation walks morphing into various themes. A recent performative event, “Isomorphism – the 9th Step” was conducted on a pastoral field in rural Thailand as part of artist-in residency program, in collaboration with Buddhist monks from a local temple.

BIOGRAPHY

Judy Cheung received a BFA degree from University of Calgary and an MFA degree from Pratt Institute, New York. Exhibited across Canada and Asia, her on-going project, “Love is in the Air- SkyLink” (2000-present) was selected for the 9th Havana Biennial. Her new-media teleportation portal, “freeLink”, was staged at Surrey Art Gallery, Tech Lab, 2006. Cheung’s work involves the continuous experimentation and investigation of perceptual reality in the realm of social and urban movements. Installations she constructs are often interactive; rendered in a form that propels the audience into a journey. By organizing sensory stimulating environment in public spaces, Cheung instigates situations and exchanges, inviting individuals and groups to participate in collaborative experiences while establishing their codes of social dynamic.