The New York Permaculture Meetup
This fall, Mary Miss/City as Living Laboratory continues its BROADWAY: 1000 Steps project with a series of public walks initiated in 2012 at the invitation of the Municipal Art Society. Two days of walks, in October and November, will be led by artist/scientist teams and followed by a panel discussion a week later. Beginning at three hubs along the 18 mile length of Manhattan's main artery, Broadway, at Bowling Green, 23rd Street, and 168th Street, the artist and scientist duos will discuss a variety of environmental challenges along the Broadway corridor, with particular focus on surrounding neighborhoods.
WALKS:
Sunday, October 27, 12-4PM beginning at Bowling Green
Sunday, November 10, 12-4PM beginning at Broadway & 23rd Street (at the SW entrance to Madison Square Park)
PANEL:
Shifting Domains: Artists Respond to the Threatened Ecological Commons
Tuesday, November 19, 6PM at the Robert Rauschenberg Project Space (455 West 19th Street)
The WALKS will be followed by a panel discussion on Tuesday, November 19, 6PM, at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) Project Space (455 W. 19th Street), entitled Shifting Domains: Artists Respond to the Threatened Ecological Commons. Participating artists and scientists, to be determined, will speak, along with art historian Julie Reiss, author of From Margins to Center, The Spaces of Installation Art. Suzaan Boettger, art historian and critic, whose longstanding research focus has been contemporary land and environmentalist art, will moderate. Together they will reflect on the erosion of traditional distinctions between art and utility and emerging hybrids of artistic, social, and ecological functionality and how various artists' strategies are recasting the role of the artist as an effective catalyst for social and environmental change.
The CaLL/WALKS have been made possible with support by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in partnership with Marfa Dialogues/NY, an examination of climate change science, environmental activism and artistic practice taking place this October and November 2013 in New York City. Marfa Dialogues/NY is a collaboration between the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation and will feature more than 20 Program Partners, including MM/CaLL ~ BROADWAY: 1000 Steps, and a spectrum of exhibitions, performance, and interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of the arts and climate change. www.marfadialogues.org
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS/SCIENTIST TEAMS
DAVID BROOKS & JOHN WALDMAN
Desert Rooftops (2012)
David Brooks
has exhibited nationally and internationally at Miami Art Museum; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Dallas Contemporary; Bold Tendencies, London; James Cohan Gallery Shanghai; Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK; and, in New York, at Storm King Art Center, Sculpture Center, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Tanya Bonakdar, and Marlborough Chelsea. He was featured in the 2010 Greater New York at MoMA PS1 and in the 2012 Changwon Sculpture Biennale in South Korea. In 2011, he showed his critically acclaimed Desert Rooftops in the Last Lot in Times Square, sponsored by Art Production Fund. Forthcoming shows include solo exhibitions at American Contemporary, New York and the Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg. Brooks received his BFA from the Cooper Union in New York, and his MFA from Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.
John Waldman, Ph.D. is a professor of biology at Queens College. Author of the acclaimed Heartbeats in the Muck, an ecological history of the New York Harbor, Waldman's major research interests are the ecology, evolution, and conservation biology of temperate North American fishes, especially the diadromous forms that migrate between fresh and salt water. In his twenty-years as a scientist with the Hudson River Foundation he worked primarily on better understanding and managing New York Harbor and the Hudson River Estuary - a system with myriad environmental problems. Waldman's latest book, being released in October, looks beyond the Hudson and is titled Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and their Great Fish Migrations.
MARCO ANTONIO CASTRO & FRANCO MONTALTO
Bus Roots (2010)
Marco Antonio Castro is a New York-based artist, curator, and designer of cultural experiences. He combines his experience in art, technology, and design to explore healthy lifestyles and sustainable technologies and has partnered on many projects to revitalize communities and encourage collaboration. His projects have used art and art programs to revitalize neighborhoods of the city, bringing immigrant communities together, using innovative digital tools to advance new ways of seeing the world.
Dr. Franco A. Montalto P.E. is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Department of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Lab. He is also the Founder and President of eDesign Dynamics LLC, a NYC-based environmental consulting firm specializing in planning, modeling, and design of green infrastructure and natural areas restoration projects. Montalto received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Environmental Engineering, in 2003.
ELLEN DRISCOLL & BENJAMIN MILLER
Distant Mirrors (2011)
Ellen Driscoll createssculptures, drawings, and installations that explore resource consumption and material lineage. Recent works include "Distant Mirrors", a floating archipelago of forms in the Providence River for 6 weeks in 2011. Co-produced with Waterfire, this work was created in partnership with the Roger Williams National Memorial and the Rhode Island Resources Recovery Corporation. Her multi-part, multi-year project, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL highlights the relationship between water and oil consumption and was displayed at the Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Anonymous Was a Woman, the LEF Foundation, and Radcliffe's Bunting Institute. Her work is included in major public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art. Ellen Driscoll is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
Benjamin Miller is the senior research associate for Freight Programs at the University Transportation Research Center, Region II. He has conducted research and prepared policy reports for a range of public-sector, non-profit, and academic agencies, has served as the director of policy planning for the New York City Department of Sanitation (where he was the project manager and principal author of the City's first Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan/Generic Environmental Impact Statement), as deputy director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Environmental Coordination, and has held adjunct teaching and research positions at City University, Columbia University, Hunter College, and New York University. He is the author of Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York, the Last Two Hundred Years and of numerous articles on environmental policy issues.
JAN MUN & SABINE MARX
Bee Village (ongoing)
Jan Munis a media artist creating social sculptures living in Brooklyn, NY. Mun is an amateur mycologist, microbiologist, and beekeeper working in collaboration with anthropologists, choreographers, composers, activists, and scientists to develop ways to communicate with each other and the larger public. She works with community organizations including: Newtown Creek Alliance, New York Beekeeping, New York Mycology Society, and Genspace (community microbiology laboratory). She is working on a long-term project called ProfileUS: Invasive Species, which examines the biopolitics of the migrations of non-native plants and people in the United States and considers which populations are authorized to thrive and which are repressed through institutional laws. Using a combination of artistic and scientific processes, ProfileUS: Invasive Species is a social reflection and critique of our political and social systems.
Sabine Marx is a Research Scientist at The Earth Institute and the Managing Director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), Columbia University. Prior to joining CRED in 2005, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the Department of Psychology at Columbia. She has received her Ph.D. in medical history from Carnegie Mellon University (2002), and holds a combined undergrad and Masters degree (Diplom) in Sociology and Pedagogy, with a minor in Psychology and Art Therapy from the University of Cologne, Germany (1994). The work of Sabine Marx falls in the area of decision making under climate uncertainty and environmental risk. Her research focuses on the use of climate information in agriculture, public health, and disaster preparedness and management. She is especially interested in the integration of climate science and social science, communication of climate information, and outreach to decision makers.
MATTHEW JENSEN & PATRICK KINNEY
Nowhere in Manhattan (2009)
Matthew Jensen
is a conceptual landscape artist based in New York City. His p
hotographs of landscapes often develop into metaphors with recurring iconography, such as spruce trees, landscaped boulders, the sun, clouds, and blue skies. Spending a great deal of time in the landscape - walking and exploring - is essential to his process.
Dr. Patrick L. Kinney is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciencesand Director of the Columbia Climate and Health Program. Dr. Kinney's teaching and research address issues at the intersection of global environmental change, human health, and policy, with an emphasis on the public health impacts of climate change and air pollution. His work in the 1990s on air quality and environmental justice in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx led to important new insights into the impacts of diesel vehicle emissions on local air quality. Dr. Kinney has carried out numerous studies examining the human health effects of air pollution, including studies of the effects of ozone and/or particulate matter on lung health and on daily mortality in large cities. More recently, he developed a new interdisciplinary research and teaching program at Columbia examining the potential impacts of climate change on human health. Dr. Kinney was the first to show that climate change could worsen urban smog problems in the U.S., with attendant adverse health impacts. He also has projected future health impacts related to heat waves in the NYC metropolitan area. In a new research initiative, Dr. Kinney is working with clinicians at Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital to understand how past and future climate may affect pollen-related allergic airway diseases.
KRISTIN JONES/ANDREW GINZEL & NINA LAUREN BASSUK
Luminalia (2007)
Kristin Jones / Andrew Ginzel are long term collaborators, they maintain both private studio and collaborative public practices, working across disciplines to create site-specific, time-based projects that frame natural phenomena against the built environment. Their grand scale ephemeral and permanent installations, works on paper and time lapse photography have been exhibited internationally. Most recent public commissions include Fluent, for the newly renovated Hoboken Ferry Terminal and Fathom for the new library at Snow College in Epharim, Utah. Exhibitions include, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Museo Capitolina and Accademia degli Arcadi in Rome, the Blue Mountain Center in upstate New York and Lower Manhattan's River to River Festival. Jones is founder and artistic director of TEVERETERNO, a long term multi-disiciplinary project aimed at the revival of Rome's Tiber River. Together Jones/Ginzel are working towards the development of BEHOLD, a series of ephemeral installations in partnership with NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation celebrating one 'great' tree in each of the five boroughs of New York City.
PANELISTS
Suzaan Boettger (moderator) is an art historian, critic and lecturer based in New York City. A specialist in earth, land, and environmental art, Dr. Boettger's Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties (University of California Press, 2003), noted in the New York Times Book Review as the "definitive history." She has contributed articles, essays and reviews to numerous periodicals, anthologies and exhibition catalogues and lectured widely. She is Associate Professor at Bergen Community College; her bookon contemporary artists' environmentalism is in process. http://bergen.academi...
Julie Reiss is an associate professor in the masters program in modern and contemporary art at Christie's Education, New York where she teaches the Historiography and Methods of Art History seminar, and lectures in the Modern Art Survey course. She received her BA in art history from Reed College, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Curatorial Fellow by the Guggenheim Museum, and subsequently was Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum, New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Christie's, she taught courses on twentieth-century art at Hunter College and SUNY Purchase. Dr. Reiss has lectured extensively on modern and contemporary art, and is a regular lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A pioneering scholar in the field of installation art, she is the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999). In addition to her teaching at Christie's, she has taught seminars on site-specific art at the Cooper-Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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New York, NY 10011 - USA
Tuesday, November 19 at 5:45 PM
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