Moon Viewing Platform

Moon Viewing Platform is an interdisciplinary public installation that will transform an inhospitable and disused stretch of open-air land into a large-scale performance/gathering space featuring regular acts of caring, a stage, and building-sized nighttime video projections featuring an episodic series of short films. The garden/installation references the karesansui (Japanese dry landscape garden), as it becomes a set for a series of short videos and musical performances, inviting audiences to enter another world through the senses and the imagination and provides the opportunity to engage in intimate commemorative gatherings that celebrate compassion, creativity, and community as essential components of human life.

Moon Viewing film series, featuring:
New Moon…Harold E. Smith
Waxing Crescent…Sarah McEneaney
First Quarter…Cristina Martinez
Waxing Gibbous…Itzela & Elio Wiley
Full Moon…Anja Suib-Hironaka
Waning Gibbous…Cat & Pigeon
Third Quarter…Thomas Patteson
Waning Crescent…Connie Yu

Acknowledgements
Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media; The Academy of Natural Sciences: Michael Kaczmarczik;
All Seasons Landscaping : Ed Kauffeld, Steve Ganz; American Composers Forum: Gene Coleman, Stanford Thompson; Anja Suib-Hironaka; Apiary Studio; Ben Miller; Community College of Philadelphia: Al Tomlin, Derrick Sawyer, Dr. Donald Generals, Ed Orner, Erica Harrison, Jacob Eapen, Jerome Wilkerson, Tyreice DuPass; Connie Yu; Dan Punshon-Smith; DBS Audio System; Friends of the Rail Park: Kevin Dow, Shawn Sheu; Genevieve Delaney; Japan Foundation, New York; Jeff Brown; Jen Brown; Jim Christensen; Maddie Hewitt; Marina McDougall Vella ; Mural Arts: Jane Golden, Judy Hellman, Todd Bressi; Rodin Market Partners; SEPTA; Yoko.

Artists

Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib

Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib are Philadelphia-based artists who have been collaborators since 2008. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Their work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media and Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor and department chair of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hironaka and Suib are represented by Locks Gallery. The couple, along with their daughter and one cat, reside in South Philly.

Eugene Lew

Eugene Lew is primarily engaged in the production, management, transformation, design, performance, (attempted) capture, storage, and playback of sound/music—preferably in collaboration with others, in real life. The fleeting moment, aggregate independent decision-making, and stochastic phenomena are especially fascinating and vital to his practice and general existence. He seeks experiences that cannot be captured (or sought) but might be witnessed/overheard if one just so happens to be in the right place at the right time to step into the constant cycle of remembering/forgetting/reconstructing. He has resided and worked in Philadelphia for over 20 years, and is committed to the city and the communities of which he is fortunate to be a member.

Artists

Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib
Eugene Lew

Location

Viewable from 465 North 18th Street & 401 North 17th Street

Viewing sites are wheelchair accessible. Projections on view every night dusk–midnight.

Dates

Saturday
October 5, 2019
Saturday
October 12, 2019
Saturday
October 19, 2019

Alert:

Revealing the Rail Park / Oct. 5–19, 2019