FAILE: Wishing on You

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Aug 17
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Sep 14, 2015
Broadway between 44th & 45th Sts
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Brooklyn-based artist collaboration FAILE brought FAILE: Wishing on You, an installation reimagining Asian prayer wheels in the context of Times Square’s kaleidoscopic history, to the Broadway plaza between 44th and 45th Streets from August 17 – September 14, 2015. The installation was presented in collaboration with FAILE’s exhibition, FAILE: Savage/Sacred Young Minds, which ran at the Brooklyn Museum from July 10- October 4, 2015.Drawing on European, Asian, and American traditions, FAILE re-conceived sacred forms from around the world into highly interactive public sculptures, allowing them to build on a longstanding practice of inviting play and contemplation from the audience. Emblazoned with FAILE’s visual language, Wishing on You explored contemporary patterns of consumption, desire, and myth-making. Artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller used this piece, their largest to date, to re-imagine Times Square - a sacred American landscape known both for bright lights and the gathering of many communities.The piece asked viewers to think about what spirituality and desire look like in the context of affluent global cities and create a place of spontaneity and shared experience. Even the movement of the sculpture, with each turn of the wheel powering the neon lights on the piece, was an act of collaboration and hope rather than passive viewing.In collaboration with Brooklyn Museum, FAILE: Savage/Sacred Yound Minds, July 10 - October 4, 2015.Photographs courtesy of Ka-Man Tse for @TSqArts.

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Brooklyn-based artist collaboration FAILE brought FAILE: Wishing on You, an installation reimagining Asian prayer wheels in the context of Times Square’s kaleidoscopic history, to the Broadway plaza between 44th and 45th Streets from August 17 – September 14, 2015. The installation was presented in collaboration with FAILE’s exhibition, FAILE: Savage/Sacred Young Minds, which ran at the Brooklyn Museum from July 10- October 4, 2015.Drawing on European, Asian, and American traditions, FAILE re-conceived sacred forms from around the world into highly interactive public sculptures, allowing them to build on a longstanding practice of inviting play and contemplation from the audience. Emblazoned with FAILE’s visual language, Wishing on You explored contemporary patterns of consumption, desire, and myth-making. Artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller used this piece, their largest to date, to re-imagine Times Square - a sacred American landscape known both for bright lights and the gathering of many communities.The piece asked viewers to think about what spirituality and desire look like in the context of affluent global cities and create a place of spontaneity and shared experience. Even the movement of the sculpture, with each turn of the wheel powering the neon lights on the piece, was an act of collaboration and hope rather than passive viewing.In collaboration with Brooklyn Museum, FAILE: Savage/Sacred Yound Minds, July 10 - October 4, 2015.Photographs courtesy of Ka-Man Tse for @TSqArts.

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Times Square

Broadway between 44th & 45th Sts

New York, NY 10036

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