The majority of this past weekend was spent moving into our fantastic new apartment in Chinatown. Located on a quiet street off the Bowery, it's in close proximity to dozens of Chinese markets selling delicious meat, fish, and produce.
All this time spent in Chinatown made me recall a project by one of my favorite artists, Mark Dion. Mark Dion's "art imitating science" methodology was initially why I was attracted to his work. The majority of Dion's work deals with socially and biologically constructed taxonomies and whether he is excavating forest sites in the Amazon, or creating beautiful curiosity cabinets, his practice is something I truly admire.
In this installation/perfomance by Dion, he worked as a pseudo-biologist working in a ficticious New York City bureau of marine classification. Using the gallery space as office headquarters, he collected, identified, and preserved various fish collected from Chinatown markets using methodologies similar to true naturalists.
All this time spent in Chinatown made me recall a project by one of my favorite artists, Mark Dion. Mark Dion's "art imitating science" methodology was initially why I was attracted to his work. The majority of Dion's work deals with socially and biologically constructed taxonomies and whether he is excavating forest sites in the Amazon, or creating beautiful curiosity cabinets, his practice is something I truly admire.
In this installation/perfomance by Dion, he worked as a pseudo-biologist working in a ficticious New York City bureau of marine classification. Using the gallery space as office headquarters, he collected, identified, and preserved various fish collected from Chinatown markets using methodologies similar to true naturalists.
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