U.S. Premiere
The Snow White Project
Catherine Baÿ

Opens Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Part of Crossing the Line: FIAF Festival 2008
Website: blanche-neige.fr

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which Snow White do you recall? For the ever-reflective artist Catherine Baÿ, the answer is undoubtedly the flutter-voiced, porcelain-skinned domestic popularized by Walt Disney in 1936 and etched into collective memory ever since. Adapted from the macabre world of the Brothers Grimm and scrubbed clean for mass consumption, Walt Disney’s Snow White is a folk tale-turned-Technicolor.

Through a series of site-specific performances in public spaces around New York City, Catherine Baÿ interrogates the public’s relationship to the raven-haired, ruby-lipped beauty by removing her from the animated world and placing her in the contemporary world.

Appearing in department store windows to construction sites, Ms. Baÿ’s flesh-and-blood Snow White will work to subvert traditional expectations associated with her cartoon persona, catalyzing a renewed relationship to a character imprisoned by her own image.

This event, free and open to the public, will take place at various locations and times as listed below. Additional performances and video venues will be added as they are confirmed, so please check back.

Performances
Free and open
to the public

Luxe Gallery
53 Stanton Street
Sun, Sept 21, 4–6pm

Dumbo Under the Bridge Festival
111 Front Street Gallery, Room 204
Fri, Sept 26, 7–9pm

Video Viewings
Video runs in a loop
at the site

Dance Theater Workshop (lobby)
219 West 19th Street
Wed–Sun, Sept 17–21

Chashama (window)
Ad Nauseam Lyceum @ Chashama UWS
950 Columbus Avenue
Sat–Sun, Sept 20–28

powerHouse books (inside store)
37 Main Street
Sat & Sun, Sept 26 & 27, from 12-3pm

Photo: The Snow White Project
©Hans Gissinger