LIVING MEMORY

Asher Young

LIVING MEMORY features a volumetric fog display designed to represent memory and its simultaneously ephemeral and corporeal nature. Community members are invited to submit photos and stories of lost loved ones to an online portal. The installation then generates holograms of those individuals who have passed, creating a piece where viewers are invited to inhabit the same physical space as their memories.

A CYI studio piece created by Asher Young with Noah Kernis and Angeline Wang.

About the artist: Asher Young is a New York-based artist, director, designer, and producer who started his artistic career as a magician and creator of theatrical haunted houses, later expanding into designing and directing theater and music shows. Credits include original works Nevermore, Inferno, Reverie; creative direction for concert tours for DPR and Opia; and large-scale installations such as a projection festival with the Beinecke Library, living artwork for Sotheby’s with collaborators as diverse as A$AP Rocky and the Edward Albee Estate, events with Virgin Voyages, the reimagination of Big Apple Circus, and Pathways at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Asher graduated from Yale University with a degree in Computing and the Arts and received the Susan J. Smith Prize for Outstanding Contribution in the Arts.

Asher is the founding artist of Challenge Your Imagination (CYI Studio), a creative direction, design, and producing studio based in New York, which he leads alongside producer Angeline Wang. The studio creates work ranging from immersive theater to concert tours to art installations. Every piece invites audiences to be the protagonist of the work.