Sifting the Inner Belt 篩羅內環 Tamizando el Cinturón Interno: About Nail Salon Exchange Project

Artists and Authors

catherine D'Ignazio a.k.a. kanarinka
New media artist interested in collaboration, community and public space.

Contact Info:
144 Moody Street
Building 4, 4th Floor
Waltham, MA 02453
phone: (617)501-2441
email: [email protected]
Hiroko Kikuchi
A performance and public artist. Originally from Tokyo, Japan. Her work explores the formative and communicative meaning of everyday activities as a mutual "language," influenced by the social environment, tradition, and aesthetics which all co-exist within confining behavioral structures. For the last 2 years, she has been working on creating a protocol to address social and cultural matters by re-structuring the concept and form of performance art.

Contact Info:
57 Boylston St. #3 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
phone: (617)905-6323
email: [email protected]
Jeremy Chan Peng Chu
Singapore born, artist and photographer, explores cultural space production in-between the processes of change, interested in Chinese diasporal space and collaborative practice.

54 Clarendon Street Level 1
Boston MA 02116
phone: (617) 375 6399
email: [email protected]
Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu
Director of Community Programs at the Asian Community Develpment Corporation, public artist, activist

57 Boylston St. #3
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
fax: (617) 482-3056
email: [email protected]
Kim Szeto
Student at Wheaton College (Norton, MA) pursuing a self designed major in Environmental Studies.

cell: 617-957-5087
email: [email protected]
Natalie Loveless
artist, critic and theorist interested in dialogic space, performance practice, critical and cultural theory.

Contact Info:
History of Consciousness Ph.D. Program
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
phone: (617) 549-3239
email: [email protected]
William H. Ho
Community Organizer and photographer interested in how urban spaces affect and interact with the public

Asian Community Development Corp.
888 Washington St., Suite 102
Boston, MA 02111
phone: 617-953-1288
fax: 617-482-3056
email: [email protected]

Nail Salon Exchange Project is an audio archive/performance-based installation. There is a common thread between gardening and manicuring: hands that work and hands to be nurtured. As the number of nail salons has increased in the South End for social and economic reasons, this project is designed to make a link between the Boston Center for the Arts, Berkeley Street Community Gardens and communities at large. Audiences are invited to participate and experience our nail salon built in the Mills Gallery space, where free beauty treatments for your fingernails and hands are performed by invited local manicurists. Make an appointment for a manicure, check out our seasonal nail polish selection, in exchange, we ask participants to contribute stories of hands, homes and gardens to the project's archive. The Nail Salon Exchange Project is free and open to the public. Thursdays and Fridays throughout the run of the show, 4-8pm.