{"id":53612,"date":"2025-08-08T03:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53612\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:51:10","slug":"high-line-art-and-chanel-culture-fund-to-partner-on-film-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53612\/","title":{"rendered":"High Line Art and Chanel Culture Fund to Partner on Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHigh Line Art<\/a>, the art commissioning body of Manhattan\u2019s beloved disused-railroad-turned-suspended walkway, is headed in a new direction, and it\u2019s getting there in good company.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeginning this September, High Line Art and the Chanel Culture Fund<\/a> will co-commission rising artists working in digital and\u00a0time-based media for High Line Originals, a film series hosted in the park\u2019s covered passage at 14th Street (better known as the High Line Channel). The partnership marks a landmark shift for the program: from a biannual to an annual commissioning cycle that aims to offer a \u201cbreakthrough moment\u201d for artists as well as passerby, Taylor Zakarin, the High Line curator overseeing this commission, told ARTnews.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cEncountering art in a public setting like the High Line empowers audiences who might feel out of place or intimidated by a white cube gallery,\u201d Zakarin said. \u201cThat goes tenfold when you\u2019re talking about a medium like video art, any time-based media really, which more so than painting or sculptures can be hard for people to approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPast channel artists count Tourmaline (who inaugurated the video series in 2019 with Salacia), Zineb Sedira,\u00a0Jacolby Satterwhite, and Sky Hopinka. Each cycle is a mix of solo and group presentations. Its fourth cycle officially kicks off on September 10 with the premiere of Groundless Flower \u2013 \u0f68 (2025) by Frank Wang Yefeng. The Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based artist is an apt pick for the program: fresh off a residency at the Shanghai Museum of Glass and presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong, with a multimedia practice that often mines how urban landscapes can exacerbate or ease social estrangement. Sounds like the High Line; once an unruly industrial ruin darkening the sidewalk beneath, now an idyllic (if occasionally crowded) stretch of shade and greenery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGroundless Flower \u2013 \u0f68 will play daily on loop until November 2025, after which it will screen in London as part of the Window, the Chanel Culture Fund\u2019s site-specific public art program. The work is titled after the Tibetan letter \u201c\u0f68,\u201d and explained by the artist as \u201cthe primordial vowel signifying the \u2018beginning of all things.\u2019\u201d Viewers can expect something like a glimpse into his deep dream, in which cultural motifs from the East and West, as well as images from the artist\u2019s nomadic journeys through the Gobi Desert, Qingzang Plateau, and New Mexico\u2019s Badlands, churn and collide.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, the program will feature the U.S. premieres of Cao Fei\u2019s DUOTOPIA 2, Lu Yang\u2019s DOKU Pieces, and Triglav of Berl Berl by Jakob Kudsk Steenson on September 8 and 9. Petra Cortright\u2019s wet sunlight Paradis \u2018pomme de terre\u2019 3D, which first screened at the Window, will be shown in an upcoming High Line Channel group show in November 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrank\u2019s work has a technical inventiveness that really captures the experience of rootlessness, of universal themes like global fluidity and the digital change,\u201d Yana Peel, President of Chanel Arts, Culture & Heritage, told ARTnews. \u201cWe always ask: What can artists that are commissioned by the High Line or showing at the Window, do in terms of furthering the limits of human imagination?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High Line Art, the art commissioning body of Manhattan\u2019s beloved disused-railroad-turned-suspended walkway, is headed in a new direction,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,36117,356,75,36118],"class_list":["post-53612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chanel-culture-fund","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-high-line-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}