CHASHAMA - Chashama helps create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate. After signing a partnership agreement with Chashama I’ll be set to task to enhance and activate spaces throughout Upstate New York.
The first activation - Nov - Dec 2023 Vessel #3 by Tina Zagyva - Mitzpah Towers 215 E. Jefferson St. Syracuse,NY 13202
From the Artist Tina Zagyva:
I am a designer of ‘instances’ - moments of intense and lasting emotion, of intellectual complexity, of primal and visceral sensation.
Vessel #3 is an immersive environment, or, living sculptural object intended to elicit and weave together phenomenological components (such as light, sound, texture, smell, temperature) within the viewer’s intrinsic psychological machinery (fear & security; wonder & awe; calm & calamity.) This system inherently triggers the collection/re-collection of one’s own network of memories and imaginings through experiential movement within the immersive environments. Interaction creates (not just notates) an experience that situates the viewer in a liminal zone of trepidation – an uncomfortable meditative state that forces the viewer to develop new senses when the old ones fail, recycling theories of one’s self into new potential narratives.
Grant provided by Chashama x New York State Council on the Arts
* Photos provided by Ethan Nasiff, Tina Zagyva, Videos by: Michael Calibrisi (Perfectly Still)
