Leap Year Project
Leap Year Project
2012-2015
Participatory launch event 2pm, Tuesday 18 September
Have a picture taken of yourself leaping, flying or levitating!
Ever heard the one about getting the Chinese to all jump at once...
Artist Yan Wang’s positive take on the idea of the Leap Year.
‘Being Chinese, the idea of a leap year is a strange one to me. Just follow the moon; it works for 1.3-billion-plus of us! So, thinking about the moon, I decided that this year would be one giant leap. In fact, it’s lots of little leaps, one every day, for you to enjoy!’ Yan Wang
Yan Wang is a UK based artist whose recent work focuses upon the female form and the relationships between observation, orientation, imagination and time. In LEAP YEAR, a significant 2012 project, Yan has collaborated with a number of photographers, to create a sequence of images – a daily photograph which broadly fits within the concept of a ‘Leap Year’. By December 31st 2012, Yan will have 366 images of wherever she happened to be on each day of that year. We will be exhibiting Yan’s Leap Year project in the Richmond Atrium and encouraging people to join in during the last 3 months.
http://www.wangyanstudio.com/_/Leap_Year/Leap_Year.html
Please take a picture of yourself leaping, flying or levitating and send it to: leap@wangyanstudio.com Jump to it!
366 leaps, 2012
18 September 2012 – 22 February 2013
Richmond Atrium, University of Bradford, UK