Project/Concept Director
     Tatyana Stepanova

Guest Curators
     Raul Zamudio

Exhibition Design: Jee Won Kim Architect

     Birch Forest is a rotating exhibition that serves as a kind of microcosm of the world. It conveys myriad allusions including something primeval as well as futuristic. It is not an actual forest but will consist of a host of materials such as light, as well as more tangible, solid forms. The forest is meant to be an environment of sustainability for all persons. It does not discriminate, and allows individuals a haven for their ideas, creativity, and is a site for articulating projects be they music, theatre, dance, spoken word, and the visual arts.

     The art works to be presented encompass the range of artistic possibility. The exhibition titled Birch Forest is not hindered by a certain theme or narratives, but offers total freedom to the artist (s) to explore, investigate and experiment.

     Birch Forest will engender artist practice by its very nature. In this sense the Birch Forest installation is not a site specific work; for it can be built according to the needs of a given project.

     Artists are not to be hindered in their choice of subject, form, style and media for their artworks. Birch Forest is socially coherent in that it offers artists to the possibility of working together a shared space that offers solace to the arts and nurtures them.

     Birch Forest allows diversified art works to be kept separate so that they do not clash. At the same time art works and various forms of arts coexist in the same space like stars and planets in a galaxy.

     Birch Forest is a community; it is not an artificial space where art work is exhibited, but is a social, alive entity. It is a vision of a future made concrete.

     Like the Ancient Greek agora, people tend to interact at a common square, market place, church or theatre. They walk through streets, visit shops, meet friends or just look around. Then, they reach a central Piazza where they become part of community enjoying a performance - music, song, dance or theater (video projection) The allure and generosity of the installation admits a viewer into the universe of creative artists.