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Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?
An installation by Xu Bing

Co-presented with Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)

On view September 8 – October 9, 12PM – 6PM, Tuesdays – Sundays

The Spinning Wheel Building
5 West 22nd Street, New York (btw. 5th & 6th Aves.)

LMCC is pleased to present the first American installation of a project by renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing, originally created in 2004 in Cardiff, Wales utilizing the dust that the artist collected from the streets of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11. Recreating a field of dust across a floor surface, punctuated by the outline of a Zen Buddhist poem, the work explores the relationship between the material and the spiritual world, and the complicated circumstances created by different world perspectives.

This exhibit is made possible with the support of the Ford Foundation.

The exhibition space in the Spinning Wheel Building has been generously donated by the Greystone Management Corporation.

Where Does The Dust Itself Collect?
Artist Talk with Xu Bing

September 13, 6:30 - 8PM

Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street

Join Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for a conversation with renowned artist, Xu Bing on the artistic and spiritual implications of his first American installation of Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?

Also participating in the discussion is Lydia Liu, Wu Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.

Both events are free and open to the public.

This program is part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's InSite: Art + Commemoration, a series created around the tenth anniversary of 9/11 that invites artistic response to a decade of recovery and change in Lower Manhattan and beyond through exhibitions, performances, poetry, and ideas.

InSite: Art + Commemoration - Ideas

As Lower Manhattan's future continues to be rebuilt and re-imagined, LMCC invited artists to contribute to the InSite 9/11 program. They were invited to respond in the form of an observation, interpretation, or idea, which will be shared as part of an online project to inform thinking about Lower Manhattan's past, present and future. Online September 1 at http://insite.lmcc.net/ideas-home/.

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