Worldwide Storefront / Situation NY

October 4 – November 21, 2014 Opening Reception: October 3, 2014, 7pm An installation by Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY On the occasion of the launch of the World Wide Storefront / wwstorefront.org / World Wide Storefront is a multi-locus project of ten alternative spaces around the globe and a digital platform (WWStorefront.org) designed by Pentagram interwoven with a commissioned installation, Situation NY, designed collaboratively by artist Jana Winderen and architect Marc Fornes. The installation considers the interconnectivity of the projects and reflects on the contemporary condition between the digital and the physical. Situation NY, the collaboration of Winderen and Fornes, collapses sound, light and form in an object with intrinsic sensorial behaviors, inviting the visitors to question the properties of matter and the built environment surrounding us. The installation is a vibrating sound experiment that aims to transform the architecture into animated sensible form. Conceived as a sound object that absorbs and contrasts the site specificity of the Storefront Gallery with abstract spatial, formal and acoustic variations and compositions, Situation NY raises questions about context, sensorial readings, estrangement and the uncanny. storefrontnews.org