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Phoenix Rising: Xu Bing at the Cathedral Winter 2013–14 1047 Amsterdam Avenue Volume 13 Number 63 at 112th Street New York, NY 10025 (212) 316-7540 stjohndivine.org Winter2013-14 at the Cathedral Phoenix Rising: Xu Bing at the Cathedral he largest gothic Cathedral in the world will shell, a swallow’s throat and a fowl’s bill. The Feng-Huang’s The Cathedral exhibition also includes preliminary models for the soon be visited by what, it can safely be feathers are the five essential colors (the primary colors plus phoenixes, made of polyamide, and Background Story, a large assumed, are the largest phoenixes in the black and white) and its song is composed of the five notes of lightbox presenting an illusion of a traditional Chinese landscape world: two 6-ton, 100-foot sculptures made the Chinese harmonic scale. The bird does not die and rise from painting. Go around the back, though, and the three-dimensional by Xu Bing, one of the most prominent its ashes, but is rather immortal and secludes itself in the artwork has a very different appearance and effect. artists in China, former Brooklyn resident, mountains most of the time. Some legends say the Feng-Huang These phoenixes will hang from a sturdy scaffolding; Cathedral and a MacArthur Fellow. These are massive, only appears in times of peace and prosperity, others that it engineers were still working out the details of installation and scary-beautiful pieces of art. Sinuous and elegant, sharp-edged arrives to mark the beginning of a new era. placement when this issue went to press. Their effect on the daily Tand scrappy; the phoenixes are myth made flesh for our times, Xu Bing’s phoenixes tend more to the latter interpretation, life of the Cathedral—services, celebrations, and the solitary walk- with the flesh being metals, chemicals, industrial tools and parts, showing us the dark side of the myth: the mystery, elegance and throughs of visitors—will be profound, and can as yet only be and the dream/nightmare of explosive growth. They are birds of power of the eternal bird are still present, but the raw force imagined. What will these great birds tell us of the future, the past, modern China—powerful, resurgent, rough, magnificent. They are needed for resurrection, and the violence of radical change are the present, of human hubris and the mystery of resurrection? also a reminder of ancient, medieval and early modern China, of clearly represented in this sculpture. Two years in the creation, the many great dynasties that have come and gone. the phoenixes are made entirely from what can be found at The envy, admiration and concern many in the West have felt construction sites in China: steel beams, hoses, shovels, towards China’s elevator-to-the-top rise is experienced much hardhats, fans, wheels and gears. The artist has used charged more personally by Xu Bing, who was born in 1955, grew up cultural debris before, including a bicycle flattened by a tank in Beijing, lived through the Cultural Revolution (as a young in Tiananmen Square and dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center adult, he was relocated to the country side for two years) and destruction. These birds get to the heart of the matter, using the Tiananmen Square. After the latter event, his art received harsh stuff of the global economic expansion to bring attention to criticism from government, and he emigrated to the United States. humanity’s brazen assertion of immortality. The artist went back to China in 2007 and was profoundly Xu Bing’s early work was deeply involved with language as affected by the huge and fast-paced changes—the most rapid communication, miscommunication, obfuscation and mystery, industrialization the world has ever seen, with concomitant as a medium of exchange that is sneaky, transformative and often social upheaval. In the last ten years, China has gone from pitiless. In A Book from the Sky (1988), he invented characters having industrial production less than half that of the United that look Chinese but correspond to no alphabet; for Square States to surpassing it by a comfortable margin. The effects on Word Calligraphy (1994) he created a “Chinese” text for English the society, people, and land have been profound. speakers: one-block words made of English letters written in the Photo by Marion Kahan style of Chinese characters. In 2012, he wrote a novella, Book In Western mythology, the phoenix is associated with the sun WHAT’S INSIDE from the Ground: From Point-to-Point, in pictograms that can be and symbolizes rebirth and resurrection. The divinely beautiful read by anyone—though one critic confessed her children found it bird lives for a thousand years, then builds a great fire, throws Cathedral Christmas Hunger Clock far easier to follow the story than she did. itself within and is consumed; from the ashes rises a new, young Autumn in New York American Poet's Corner phoenix. In Chinese mythology the legendary bird is the Feng- His work during his U.S. residence also includes live installation Huang, which is said to have first appeared to Emperor Hung Ti, art with animals (the Silkworm Series, a Case Study of Dean's Meditation The Cathedral Invites You to in approximately 2600 BCE, and is one of four celestial beings Transference and The Net, using, respectively, silkworms, pigs, Take a Pause Looking Ahead connected to creation. Feng is a male name, and Huang is and sheep) as well as installations, like this one, that draw on the Spirit of the Season female: the bird is two-in-one, yin and yang. Other attributes of symbolic meanings of real and mythological beasts. He currently Dreaming in Stone the phoenix echo this iconography of completion: its body is resides in Beijing, where he serves as the vice president of the Close Friends Threads of Silver made up of the parts of other animals—which parts and which Central Academy of Fine Arts. Regents animals vary according to source. One such list is: a snake’s neck, Great Music in a Great Space a crane’s forehead, a dragon’s stripes, a fish’s tail, a tortoise’s Keep in Touch The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine Cathedral Christmas The Right Reverend Andrew M. L. Dietsche Bishop of New York Christmas at the Cathedral means familiar A brief Google search will turn up many people she read her story The Fox at the Manger pleasures—the Cathedral Crafts Fair, the Christmas who have written about the Cathedral’s effect on surrounded by a circle of the youngest children. The Very Reverend Concert, the Christmas Eve Festival Eucharist and their Christmases. New York novelist Emma It was her second reading at the Cathedral. Dr. James A. Kowalski New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace—that are made Straub wrote an essay in 2011 for The New York “The Dean wants to start a tradition,” she said, Dean of the Cathedral new every year by the hard work and imagination of Times’ “Townies” series, an essay which she according to The New York Times, “but I told Pentagram many people. The Crafts Fair, held on the first describes in her blog this way: “It’s all about him none of us lasts forever.” Graphic Design weekend in December, features beautiful handmade Christmas, and the Cathedral of St. John the Indeed. But as long as we’re here, let’s celebrate jewelry, textiles, wood and glasswork, as well as Divine, and my 6th grade boyfriend, and where Margaret Diehl the gifts of the Christmas spirit: love, family, other surprises that make unique gifts and honor the I’m going to be buried.” The Daily News, also in Writer friends, festivity, and music. tradition of handcrafts, which is an integral part of 2011, quoted Cathedral staff member Wildenson Isadora Wilkenfeld the Cathedral. For those who prefer to give a special Dejesus as saying that Christmas Eve is the Editor experience, a Vertical Tour of the Cathedral is an workday he looks forward to all year. A blogger, unforgettable gift, as is Nightwatch’s sleepover at escapingartist.com, noted in 2009, “It might Newsletter ©2013 the Cathedral—Knightwatch Medieval—for children have been Philippe Petit who sold me on this by The Cathedral Church ages 6–12 and their adult companions. Holiday particular church, or the doorman who told me not of Saint John the Divine concerts are a time of community and spiritual to be afraid, that cathedrals are for everyone, but A non-profit institution; openness: rousing, solemn, exhilarating and joyous. I thought it might be enlightening, interesting, or contributions and gifts are The Cathedral is always crowded with happy faces entertaining to attend midnight mass on Christmas tax deductible to the extent and glad hearts at these events. Consider a ticket to Eve. The two hour, forty-five minute service was permitted by law. the New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace—or one of our definitely every one of those things.” many winter and spring concerts—as a stocking Schedule of Daily Looking a little further back, in January of 1977, stuffer. Or browse the Pop-Up Shop for a tee shirt, Liturgical Services Pamela (P.L.) Travers, Jungian scholar and writer handsome black tote bag, or environmentally-friendly of the six Mary Poppins books, visited the Sunday water bottle. Cathedral. At a special service attended by 200, 8 am Morning Prayer & Holy Eucharist Photo: Cathedral Archives 9 am Autumn in New York Holy Eucharist 11 am SPRING FEVER Choral Eucharist 4 pm A sunny September with just the right mix of warm Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music, gave a recital following night, the life and work of Daniel Hoffman Choral Evensong and cool weather got us all in the mood for new art, that included Mendelssohn's Sonata IV in B flat major, (1923–2013), Cathedral Poet in Residence from new music, new theater and ideas.
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