Helene Aylon

The Earth Ambulance has found a permanent home in the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (open weekends to the public). The Earth Ambulance installation recalls the 1982 cross-country voyage to military sites that originated in Berkeley to “rescue”: the earth in women’s pillowcases. These pillowcases were shown in long knotted lines on the facade of the Berkeley Museum in 1995, and now have been acquired for the permanent installation surrounding the Ambulance.

Now my desire is to show the sequel multi-media installation, “Current: two sacs en route” -the 1985 river voyage of 2 sacs filled with seeds adrift on the waters of Japan, enroute to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A two minute meditation (taken from video of this installation) was screened at Sony Jumbotron, Times Sq., NY, hourly on August 6 and August 9, 1995, Hiroshima and Nagasaki days through the NY Council for the Arts, NYFA, and Art Matters. This  in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of these tragedies.

A permanent installation on the west coast is The Digital Liberation of G-d, a collaboration with Peter Samis, curator of educational technologies of the SF MoMA. It can be seen day and evening at the SF Jewish Community Center. It addresses homophobia, misogyny, specieism and militarism in biblical texts. (See Art in America Oct. 99′, pp 142-147.)