The Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave. at 47th St.
Through Friday, November 26, free, 6:30
www.thelabgallery.com
The Lab Gallery uses the vacant storefront connected to the Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown as a place where a diverse group of artists and curators hold unique installations and performance art events. Their latest creation, INTO ME SEE, continues through the end of the week in the glassed-in space that some twenty-five thousand people pass by every day. A collaboration between Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi of Nu Dance Theater and Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon of e+i Architecture, INTO ME SEE is structured around a claw-footed cast-iron bathtub that sits alone in the gallery, joined by eighty thousand feet of white nylon string dangling from the ceiling. Perrotta and Bortolussi move mysteriously in and around the bathtub, the string at times appearing to be mist or condensation, offering viewers an unusual sight as they make their way to or from Grand Central. The performance runs nightly at 6:30 through Friday.