Art On The Threshold - A New Exhibition

March 8 Opening Party Features Additional Performances and Site-Specific Installations for One Night Only, March 8, 7-11pm. Liminality: Art on the Threshold, a new exhibition at the Exploratorium, on view from March 8 - June 3, 2007, builds on a rich history of boundary-bending. Projects that play with the Exploratorium's home, the airplane-hangar-like Palace of Fine Arts interior.

Liminality: Art on the Threshold experiments with the Exploratorium's public space using the metaphor of thresholds as a unifying theme. This exhibition will feature large-scale artworks, created by Seattle and Bay-Area artists, that create an artistic drama and a heightened awareness of the architecture within the Exploratorium.

A special, one-night-only event and celebration on Thursday, March 8th includes additional artists from a variety of disciplines, who will be invited to create site-specific performances and installations that animate the Exploratorium's cavernous space for that night only, from 7-11pm. Artists for the exhibition include Lead Pencil Studio of Seattle (a.k.a. Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo), Erica Gangsei, Alex Clausen, and Paul Andrew Hayes. Opening night installations and performances TBA. Liminality is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium.

The word "liminality" is often used by anthropologists to describe the imaginative psychological space engendered by rites of passage. At this exhibition, visitors will be able to enter this "free mind" place of transitions and think about how the treatment of architecture affects the way we feel within the space, and how it does, or does not, encourage us to relate to the space, as well as to each other.

Works include Erica Gangsei's architectural crocheting in the rafters of the Exploratorium. Alex Clausen will create stacked large-scale assemblages that seem to defy gravity. Paul Hayes' hanging large-scale aerial works use delicate materials like fine wire and crumpled paper to make a huge statement. Lead Pencil Studio of Seattle will be in residence. Their outcome is to be determined.

By www.exploratorium.edu