Miwa Koizumi: Miwa Koizumi - artist portfolio

Miwa Koizumi

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Summary

Installation, food performance, map + menu.

Ice cream stand installation mapping the tastes and smells from NYC's different tribes into a comestible frozen liquid.

Description

Since moving to New York I have enjoyed the incredible variety of small tribes which co-exist in these five boroughs and their cultural and edible particularities . I am constantly on the sniff for new mixtures and essential tags. I would like to create a project which highlights the cultural diversity of New York City.

I have already done food performances which include Borsch ice cream, goat-cheese and fennel ice cream and congee ice cream. All these flavors are good, I do not seek to gross anyone out. But putting tastes out of context in a familiar material (ice cream) makes you rethink the flavor, definitely brings attention to the details that may get lost in the common presentation.

I would like to extend these flavors and make a more deliberate mapping to the cultural diversity of NYC. Parmegan and olive oil, curry, Williams-burger etc etc. I'll make a map of NY to explain the different tribes and match an ice cream taste to each community.

NEWS

upcoming:

Peekskill Project08

/PET Project and NY Flavors Ice Cream /

Sept. 13 - Nov. 23rd 2008

Peekskill, NY

Miwa is installing some PETs on the piers and will be serving a new flavor of NY Flavors Ice Cream for 2 days at the opening

Working Space 08

/Curated by Tatiana Arocha/

Aug 2 - Sept 20, 2008

Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space

Artists employing a wide variety of media, from AAI's Rotating Studio Program, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. Curated by Tatiana Arocha

Kite Flight

/on the roof of Port Authotity/

Sunday Sept 21st, 2008 12:00-3:00 pm

Fashion Center

Catch a flight from a Manhattan rooftop! the Fashion Center BiD invites you to let your imagination soar at our fourth annual Kite Flight. Join us on the top of the port Authority Bus terminal for an afternoon of kite-making, kite-flying, crafts, and free food, music and fun!

current:

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

/3-logy Triennial 2008/

August 22, 2008 to January 6, 2009

Price Tower Arts Center

In Bartlesville, OK in the only high rise building built by Frank Lloyd Wright, Miwa is participating in a show of "creative repurposed or ‘upcycled’ objects"

recent:

Cool

/Summer Invitational/

Jul 10 - Aug 15, 2008

George Adams Gallery

A New York Flavors Ice Cream performance at the opening of a show called "Cool" at the George Adams Gallery in Chelsea. Miwa will be serving a new New York Flavored Ice Cream "34th St Herald Square" (kimuchi !).