Lower East Side Drifts #4 - Ofri Cnaani: Photo Op

Sunday, December 14, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PST)

We take pictures of ourselves all the time. Our real lives took over the show. Framed, staged, and so good-looking. Better oversaturated. The real is ready to share, wants to be liked, tagged, and recycled.

Walking through the old and renewed Lower East Side, we will search for alternative photo-opps: From Xerox machines and scanners to photo salons; from mobile phones stands to surveillance control panels. We will drift along hidden places and won’t miss any opportunity to be seen, while asking ourselves what is meaning of ‘being present’?

Artist Bio: 

Ofri Cnaani is an artist and educator. She works in time-based media, live-cinema performances, and large-scale installations. She also teaches at the School of Visual Arts and International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Cnaani's solo exhibitions and performances include: Metropolitan Museum of Art , PS1/MoMA, NYC; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; The Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Kunsthalle Galapagos, NYC; Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Pack Gallery, Milan; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Herzlyia Museum of Art, Israel. Group exhibitions include: Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol, UK; Tel Aviv Museum; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Prague Triennale.

The Lower East Side Drifts:

The Lower East Side Drifts is a series of 5 artist-led perambulations through the Lower East Side that invite the public into poetic meanderings and performative explorations of the neighborhood in this present moment in time. Each of the 5 drifts will invite participants to activate their perception, their physical bodies and ultimately their own presence, in an episodic yet cumulative journey of immersing into the locality of the Lower East Side. We invite you to join us with an open mind and in the spirit of co-creation and discovery.