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 THE NEW WOMAN AND THE MODERN GIRL The synesthetic Organ “the New Woman and the Modern Girl” is part of “SOUNDS” curated by Michael Lewis Miller at the El Camino College Art Gallery. PUBLIC RECEPTION: Saturday, September 10, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torance CA. 90506 (310) 660 – 3010 Gallery Hours: Monday & Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thursday: 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Visitors Parking is in the student lots except J or K.  SOUNDS This is an exhibit exploring sounds in contemporary art, featuring Fatemeh Burnes, Robert Hilton, Tom Jenskins, Elana Mann, Mei Xian Qiu, Peter Rice and Susan Silton. These explorations are compelling and varied, ie. creating an entire alternate musical vocabulary, birdsong as language, painting, and synesthetic storytelling.  THE NEW WOMAN AND THE MODERN GIRL is a synesthetic organ composing of 12 notes, corresponding to each month of the year of a prewar Shanghai Beautiful Girl Calendar. The Shanghai beautiful girl models represented the epitome of beauty and glamour, and at the same time Westernization, depravity, and Western commerce. Every note has an image, a corresponding sound, and variation of the fictional perfume “Shanghai 1928.” The notes are housed in a recreated hutong which invites the visitor to spend time playing the organ by seeing, listening and smelling, and finally relaxing on wooden couches and partaking of treats. The New Woman and the Modern Girl is an interactive story that allows the viewer to come to his or her own conclusions. In the “woman question” discourse in China in the earlier half of the 20th Century, the New Woman represented a positive view towards modernity and womanhood as ideal mothers and citizens, while the Modern Girl represented the struggle for women to find their own voice in a changing world.  INVITATIONThe Artist invites the Visitor inside the Hutong . The Artist invites the Visitor to view, smell and listen to each of the 12 notes. The Artist invites the Visitor to PUSH the white buttons to listen to each note.The Artist invites the Visitor to use the SAMPLE TESTER to smell each note (variations of the perfume Shanghai 1928), by. 1) smelling the stone, or 2) dripping a drop on the stone, or 3) wearing the perfume on the wrist or behind the ears.The Artist invites the Visitor to sit on the wooden couches, ponder, converse, and nibble on treats provided in the bowl.  |
