PROJECTS 2004: Jo-ey Tang

 

 
10 Year Itch

September Sensitivity

September 11, 2002

Jo-ey Tang and Chris Sollars first met at Copy Central in San Francisco in 1999. These two hopeful romantics who occasionally cry in front of other people as well as in their art, will meet again to use crying as a point of departure. Come see Jo-ey and Chris relish in the crying game of 667Shotwell: a constellation of sensitive gestures through photos, drawings, videos, sounds, and ephemera. Tissue provided.

 
       
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Left: NYTimes Pile 2002 JT
pile of newspaper with news removed

Right: Collapse drawing 2002 CS

 
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Left: Blast From the Past 2002 JT

Right: Erased Map: All the places I want to forget and Why. 1999-present JT
pencil, eraser, SF Muni map

 

 
     

Blast From The Past 2002 JT

   
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Photo corners and photo of first kiss.
 

 

 
     
     

Lint Drawings 2002 JT

   
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Lint lifted from Jo-ey's Family Closet.
 

 

 
       
Cry Beard 2002 CS      
map trashabove Photos mounted in medicine cabinet with audio whimpering from beard trimmings in waste basket.  
       
       

Pile 2002 JT & CS

   
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Videos

   
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Tearjerk 1998/2002 JT
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She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
1999 CS

Petal by petal I ask this question, starting in a state of numbness and finishing in heavy emotion. I then start again with a new bouquet.
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Jo-ey Tang formerly an Oakland based artist from Hong Kong who graduated with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 now lives in NYC. He was recently included in RxD = [eros] x [ethnicity] at the Intersection for the Arts