Elaine Gan
2009 Swing Space Resident, 77 Water Street
Elaine Gan produces public installations, performative interventions, and multimedia narratives as different means of mapping and remixing negotiations of territory, collectivity, and subjectivity. Her work has earned grants and fellowships from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Artists Space, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astraea Foundation, and The Puffin Foundation. Her projects have been exhibited at art venues including Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Toronto Free, Ontario, Canada; 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China, and in New York City at Artists Space, Exit Art, Bronx Museum, P. S. 122, and the Armory Show. Her installations and interventions have primarily been sited in public parks, piers, alleyways, city streets, and emerging "commons" on the worldwide web.
Gan currently serves on the Artists' Advisory Committee of the New York Foundation for the Arts (Interdisciplinary Arts). She participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2006-2007 and holds a B.A. in Architecture from Wellesley College. Born in Manila, Philippines, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.
At Swing Space, Gan is working on a series of prints that examine emerging socio-spatial configurations (encounters, entanglements, and exclusions) in globalized megacities. She will be researching and collecting visual representations, then combining them into various installation formats. The series begins in New York and continues in Manila in 2010.
