<100 days of daily practice>
100 Ways to Skin a Whale
(100) 6” x 8” physical collage works – meditations on sperm whales, toxicity and feats of non-human engineering.
I worked on this Jan-April 2017, and it was instrumental to have the support of fellow daily practitioners - thanks to Katherine Dillon’s class at ITP. Every person’s work reflected a beautiful, durational, act of fortitude and faith!
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<Investing in Futures>
Artists Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu and I started More&More Unlimited in 2016 as a way to learn about and parse some of the overwhelming complexities of present-day logistics and global production/consumption patterns (especially around issues of oceans).
Last summer, while we were in residence at LMCC/Governor’s Island, we initiated a world-building project. Since the election (coincidentally, but ugh, a great spur), we’ve been play-testing this new project: Investing in Futures. It’s a set of 150 playing cards that operate as design constraints, giving you frameworks to help dream up parallel futures that you might actually want to live in. We've held workshops at the studio and at NYU, the NADA Art Fair, Haverford College, and the University of Rochester. We ran a Kickstarter campaign in February, and sold about 250 decks of these cards, which will be finished in September 2017.
(You can still buy cards by using this link)
Let us know if you want to host a workshop! We can set you up or come and help.
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<FSDE / Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies>
Media artists and writers Nicholas Hubbard, Rebecca Lieberman and I are the Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies, a collective devoted to encouraging citizenship within the Newtown Creek watershed at the Brooklyn/Queens border. This month, we launched our multi-part work on Newtown Creek, A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek.
Phase 1, A Field Guide to Whale Creek, offers tools to get to know the Newtown Creek Nature Walk, a post-natural jewel of a park adjacent to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility in Greenpoint Brooklyn.
On our website, you can download a field guide and a 30 minute self-guided audio tour.
Throughout June, we are part of the exhibition Works on Water, a triennial of time-based visual and participatory artworks, featuring 11 artists working on the waterways in NYC. The exhibition and play (Not) Water are at 3-Legged Dog in NYC. We are also ran in-person tours of the Newtown Creek Nature Walk on June 13 and 17.
If you’re interested in co-organizing an expedition with our audio and print materials, let us know and we can help.
We have 3 more phases of the project, if you’d like to get involved. These include green infrastructure, microbiology, and olfactory experiences. For these new projects, we will be joined by architect Chester Dols, scientist Elizabeth Hénaff and landscape architect Ian Quaite.
If you are interested in the Creek, check out the Newtown Creek Alliance or come to an EPA superfund meeting through the Community Advisory Group.
(Newtown Creek aerial photo: Hazen & Sawyer)
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<Making the Best of It: Dandelion>
Over the last 12 months, as part of Minneapolis-based Northern Lights.mn's initiative Climate Chaos/Climate Rising, I collaborated with MN artist, activist and food systems geographer Valentine Cadieux - creating projects for two large-scale public art festivals and holding several potlucks. These gatherings examined ways to “Make the Best of It,“ exploring grief, nimbleness, and food systems among other topics.
Dynamo Sass LIbertus joined us this year as producer, and we survived another all-night Northern Spark festival on June 10, 2017. Last year we spoke with many people (both sober and tipsy) about climate change until dawn, and offered them dandelions to eat, reconsidering food availability and lawn culture. This year, we held a memorial service for the human species. Stay tuned for more images soon.
(photos: Aaron Marx, Sean Smuda, Dan Marshall)
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<summer work>
Cape Cod Modern House Trust residency
Curated by Dylan Gauthier and Kendra Sullivan, this is a year-long residency through the Cape Cod Modern House Trust working with the Cape Cod National Sea Shore / National Park Service, and culminating in an exhibition on the Cape in 2018.
I’ll be out in Stanford, CA for a month in July/Aug in residence in the Stanford MFA studios and making some thematic art / potluck dinners happen. Email if you're out there. Come visit.
<fall events>
Mesocosm (Wink, Texas) will be featured at the Moscow Biennale
More&More Unlimited’s Investing in Futures will be at Out of Time, the 2017 SLSA conference in Phoenix, AZ
<links>
In summary…
until this work is added to my site, here are links to works that I co-produced in the last 16 months:
More&More (the invisible oceans):
- 2016 exhibition at bitforms
- books / exhibition catalogue and A Guide to the Harmonized System
- web site: moreandmore.world
- kickstarter for Investing in Futures
Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies’ A Field Guide to Whale Creek
Dear Climate
This collaboration with Una Chaudhuri and Oliver Kellhammer continues!
We've made some new posters and will be adding new audio meditations in the fall.
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