Bio and News
Ama Saru was born in Bucharest, Romania and currently lives and works in New York City. As a conceptual artist she works in mediums appropriate to the nature of each project. She currently collaborates with Taiwanese artist Hsiao Chen and recently completed the performance "Open Quotes" at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center through their residency in May 2009. |
| Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Hsiao Chen currently lives and works in New York City. He was a core participant of the Night School program at New Museum, an exhibition as school organized by Artist Anton Vidokle, where he and other core group participants met regularly attending and hosting seminar discussions. Together with fellow artist Ama Saru, they formed the collective Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen. They have completed a performance method project at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center. Collaborated with artist/designer Antonio Serna, co-created a one-day experimental art event “OPEN WORKS” at the Industry City Brooklyn, in an effort to provide gallery space for any artist to show work while in return, the participants engaged in critical discourse during the event. Ama Saru and Hsiao Chen will perform in the works of artist Marina Abramovic for her 2010 MOMA retrospective "The Artist is Present". |
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NEWS & EVENTS *(2010) June-July, Works From the Balcony, an alternative project space in Bucharest will be opening its doors to the public for the first time this June in parallel with the Bucharest Biennale 4. Located in district 2 of Bucharest the space is easily accessible sizing at 1000 square meters of raw space in an early 1900’s villa. Here we will be hosting a series of events and exhibitions encouraging immediate public access to cross-cultural values in the contemporary arts and culture. The inauguration exhibition will be opening with an artist discussion moderated by artist Antonio Serna (U.S) “Facing the issues of Contemporary Art” followed by a group show "Taken as Given" lasting through July. Participating artists: Tudor Bratu (video & sculpture) *In the balcony, "Faces In The Clouds" one night installation by Ama Saru and Hsiao Chen.
*(2010) March-May, Participants/Performers in Marina Abramovic's retrospective at MoMA "The Artist is Present" http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965 *(2009) December 4th, "Session_7_Words", An exhibition dedicated to words, conceived with LA based journal Material(www.materialpress.org) at Am Nuden Da, London, www.amnudenda.com *(2009) KP Poetry Volume 1 “Oh, Don’t Get Carried Away ”, 2009 *(2009) October 9th-31st, "Blytt and Rooney Curate Something Nice" at Kunst Projects, Luxemburger Str 1 D-13353, other artists included: Kristina Braein (Norway), Jan Christensen (Denmark), Charles Danby (UK), Naoshi Okura (Japan), James Sham (USA), Alexandr Skarlinsky (USA), Hans Christian Skovholt (Norway), Thorbjorn Sorensen (Norway), Jesper List Thomsen (Denmark) Magnus Vatvedt & Christian Tony Norum (Norway), Viola Yesiltac (Germany) http://kunstprojects.blogspot.com/2009/09/blytt-rooney-curate-something-nice.html *(2009) Aug 3rd-15th "Will it Happen?" curated by Kelsey Harrington at Elga Wimmer Gallery *(2009) May-June Watermill Center Residency *(2009) May 18th, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Watermill Center Panel discussion with Marina Abramovic and Herd Group http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/events/s09/watermill.html *(2009) April 23rd-30th, "After Image" curated by Antonio Serna Other artists included: Darren Bader, Kelsey Harrington, Ariel Herrera, Lansing-Dreiden, John Meyer, John Montheith, Arthur Ou, Yadir Quintana, Antonio Serna, Suzanne Song, Peggy Tan, Matthew Wilson |