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July 29-Aug 2: Jennifer Monson at TicTac Art Centre in Brussels!

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SYSTEMS/SCORES PRACTICE/PROCESS
by Jennifer Monson

for full registration info visit:
https://tictacartcentre.com/2018/12/31/jeniffer-monson/

We will investigate how we make scores out of the systems that we live in, observe and are attracted to. In this work, a score is an open structure that creates improvisational choices for a particular context. We will create systems for movement that can be layered into performance scores. This will be our practice. How does the practice influence our approach to performance? How do we observe and shape this process? How can our practice of making scores help us to observe the possibilities in movement and choreographic systems? We will work on presence, states of moving and scales of sensation and time. We will perform our scores daily.

Times:
11.00 – 17.00

Price:
250 Euro

Registration fee of 80 euro required (as part of the 250)
Performance: TBA
Time: 20.00

Performance: Date in negotiation
Solo Improvisation by Jennifer Monson
Time: 20.00
Duration: 20 to 60 minutes

This workshop is also part of the Special Summer Package of 4 weeks of Improvisation coached by 5 different dance artists of 5 different continents. If you want to book this package, it costs only 800 Euro (or 960 Euro with daily lunch included).
www.tictacartcentre.com/2019/03/31/summer-package/

IN KINSHIP: Archives & Performance Fellowship – due Apr 10

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See below a fellowship opportunity from our friends at Open Waters!

For more info: http://openwaters.org/fellowship

ABOUT THE ARCHIVES & PERFORMANCE FELLOWSHIP

What possibilities emerge when we look at social repair and environmental care as public, creative acts? The Archives & Performance Fellowship is a year-long opportunity with stipends for four Fellows that follows the tradition of Wabanaki Guiding, connecting Native and non-Native people to place through experience, language, and story. Fellows will experiment with research and performance approaches to understand stories and histories of the Penobscot River and watershed. They will collaborate to create new work, inspired by their learning, that addresses ecological recovery and social justice. Fellowship activities will be led by Penobscot Nation partners and will center indigenous knowledge and experience.

The Fellowship year will include a regular check-in schedule, workshops and skill-shares, two intensives that immerse Fellows in research and performance methods, and a public performance and/or presentation of work created. This work may take many forms including but not limited to narrative play scripts, research papers, multi-media and video-based performance, spoken word, movement-based work, music and songwriting, cross-genre journals and/or any combination of forms and formats. Fellows will receive a $1500 stipend, dramaturgical/research support, connections with the broader In Kinship community, photo and video process documentation, and space to present their work.

The broad goal of this project is to activate potential for richly layered research, cross-discipline dialogue, and creative process to shift public understanding of our shared environments and histories. It is driven by a desire to understand how the (hi)story of the Penobscot River is preserved and told and, at the same time, to work against linear, progress-based narratives of the river that represent the past as something static that is disconnected from the present and future.

Jan 19-25: Jennifer Monson teaches workshop with MELT @Movement Research and MoMA

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iLANDing – researching context and aesthetics through embodied score techniques

Dates:

  • 1/19 1-4pm, 122 Community Center
  • 1/20 1-4pm, MoMA
  • 1/22 6-9pm, MoMA
  • 1/23 6-9pm, MoMA
  • 1/24 3-5pm, MoMA
  • 1/25 3-5pm, MoMA

Registration: click here
Cost: $150

Description: This workshop will use the framework of the iLANDing scores to research some of the art works in MOMA’s collection. What happens when we propose that the artwork itself is an ecological system that we inhabit? What kinds of movement emerge from this investigation? What new conceptual possibilities between performance and visual art are activated through this embodied process of the score? The art work becomes performance, the performance becomes the artifact, everything is experienced through movement. We will start by working with the iLANDIng scores outdoors then bring that experience into the museum to research particular artworks. From that we will create performance events as artifacts of this exchange of the resonance between movement, form, scales of sensation, time and experience -locating new aesthetic value in artistic frames for inhabiting our world.

The materials explored in this workshop will culminate with a public manifestation at The Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done. Participation in the workshop does not require you to participate in the manifestation at MoMA.

Location (venue, city, state, country): 122 Community Center and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

[Photo: Performers Jennifer Monson and Mauriah Donegan Kraker in bend the even at Chocolate Factory Theater, Photo by Ian Douglas]

Oct 29-30: Jennifer Monson in Montpellier, France

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Full Flyer here: INVITATION COLLOQUE ADD

Jennifer Monson heads to France next for ENSAM’s Architecture Dance Design Conference!
See a rough translation from their website:

MONDAY OCTOBER 29: BODY IN MOTION, SHARING WORKS AND A  CONTEXTUALIZED ARCHITECTURE: WHAT SENSIBLE APPROACH?
RESTITUTION OF EXPERIENCE AS RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY

TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER:
AT THE CROSSING OF THE DISCIPLINES, INTERROGATE THE SPACE GENERATED AND SHARED. PERFORMANCE SPACE AND EPHEMERAL COMMUNITY OF GESTURES:
WHAT ARE THE RECIPROCAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DANCE, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN?

SYMPOSIUM
ENSAM, in partnership with ICI-CCN, La Sapienza and the French Institute of Rome, organizes the Architecture Danse Design conference.
This symposium puts in conversation several disciplines around theory and practice, research and creation, pedagogy and transmission, and retraces the experiences of the organizing institutions in connection with the resident artist.
Guest sessions led by: Emmanuelle Huynh, Jennifer Monson, Mathias Fish – choreographers, Francesco Careri, founder of Stalker, collective of architects, Alix de Morant, lecturer in theatrical and choreographic studies at the Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3.
Free RSVP at: ADDreservation@montpellier.archi.fr

Oct 20-22 : FEVERISH WORLD at University of Vermont

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FEVERISH WORLD (2018-2068): Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival will be a three-day symposium and convergence intended to catalyze the building of bridges between the arts and the sciences, and between academe and the broader community, to help prepare UVM and the Burlington region for the next 50 years of anticipated “feverishness.” (Fill in your own blanks about the likely sources of that feverishness–climate and ecological changes, resource wars, movements of refugee populations, clashing political paradigms, and so on.)

FEVERISH WORLD will include panels and roundtables, keynote talks and conversations, as well as public art and music performances, a “tent city” encampment of TentWorks installations, a parade, and more. Among the featured speakers and artists will be
– anthropologist and philosopher of science Bruno Latour, whose Burack Lecture on “The Politics of Gaia” will take place on Monday October 22 at 4 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel;
– Brazilian sculptor Nele Azevedo, whose Minimal Monument ice sculpture will be installed on the back steps of City Hall Park on Sunday October 23;
– painter, sculptor, and installation artist Torkwase Dyson, whose art works will be exhibited at Williams Hall (and potentially the new Cohen Building) and whose Molly Ruprecht Talk will take place on Monday October 22 at 7 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel;
– environmental philosopher and jazz musician (known for his recordings with animals) David Rothenberg, whose keynote talk will take place on Sunday October 21, with a musical performance on Saturday evening;
– Burlington City Arts artist-in-residence Pauline Jennings, who will lead a performative urban wilderness walk/game on Saturday October 20;
– eco-artist and engineer Natalie Jeremijenko, director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University, who will be in residence at the Green House Residential Community for the week leading up to and including Feverish World;
– UVM composer David Neiweem, whose church bell compositions will be heard at various sites and times over the three “feverish” days;
– Abenaki historian and archaeologist Frederick Wiseman, who will speak on the history of this land on Sunday October 21;
– Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, co-hosts of the award-winning public radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge”;
– Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord, artist and eco-arts theorist Linda Weintraub, ecology and religion scholar Bron Taylor, musicians including cellist Anne Bourne, Rural Noise Ensemble, Metamorph, Pantet, and others.

The event is being organized by a group of UVM faculty and Burlington and area activists working under the auspices of the EcoCulture Lab, with generous support from the Gund Institute for Environment, the UVM Humanities Center, the Rubenstein School and the Steven Rubenstein Professorship, the Dan and Carole Burack Lecture Fund, the Molly Ruprecht Fund for Visual Arts, and from UVM departments and programs including Environmental Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Global and Regional Studies, Art and Art History, as well as the Fleming Museum, Champlain College, Burlington City Arts, the McCarthy Art Gallery at St. Michael’s College, and the Shelburne Institute.

A partial list of speakers and guests can be found here (others are still being confirmed):
https://ecoculturelab.net/speakers/

A tentative schedule of events (to be updated with more detail in the coming weeks) can be found here:
https://ecoculturelab.net/program/

Feverish World will be free and open to the public, though select events, as well as roundtable paper access, will require pre-registration

If you are interested in volunteering or in coordinating classes with any of the visiting artists or programs, please contact us at ecoculture@uvm.edu.

Jennifer Monson – special guest @ TicTac Art Centre in Brussels in August 2018!

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JENNIFER MONSON/SCORES AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING IMPROVISATION
09:15-11:15am, Mon-Wed, Aug 13-15

FROM THE 12TH-19TH OF August 2018 David Zambrano and Mat Voorter will finally open TICTAC Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium.

From Sunday 12 until Sunday 19 August 2018, we will be celebrating the opening of TicTac Art Centre with a non stop of daily art activities:

  1. Master Classes by Marlon Barrios Solano, Jennifer Monson, Yoshiko Chuma, Terence Lewis, Archie Burnett, David Zambrano, Horacio Macuacua, Enano, and TimSon.
  2. Performances:  Every evening will be improvisational performances by a selection of a long list of invited artists. The performances will be announce on the same day each day on the website and Facebook page of TICTAC ART CENTRE.
  3. Exhibitions by local and international visual artists will be presented throughout the TicTac Art Centre spaces. 

More info: http://tictacartcentre.com

March 5th: Public Meeting for Ridgewood Reservoir

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Ridgewood Reservoir Public Meeting

Monday, March 5th, 2018 @ 7 PM
Redeemer Lutheran Church – 6907 Cooper Ave, Glendale, NY

Join us to make your voice heard to protect the Ridgewood Reservoir’s unique ecology. The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will be holding a public meeting to discuss the proposed Ridgewood Reservoir wetlands delineation. NYC H2O encourages all Ridgewood Reservoir neighbors and enthusiasts to attend this meeting and speak in favor of the wetlands designation.

DEC has found that “The majority of the western basin (Basin 1), as well as the majority of the southern half of the western basin (Basin 3) contain forested wetlands that are seasonally flooded. The majority of central basin (Basin 2) contains open water, surrounded by emergent wetlands…” The comment period on the wetland designation starts today and will close on March 22nd. A copy of DEC’s The Ridgewood Reservoir Wetlands Report is available for download here.

Comments should be emailed to kenneth.scarlatelli@dec.ny.gov or mailed to:

Regional Administration, Region 2
47-40 21st Street
Long Island City, NY 11101-5401
Attn: Ken Scarlatelli

Source: NY State Department of Environmental Conservation
Map of the Ridgewood Reservoir

 

Colin Gee responds to in tow!

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A little over a year ago, in tow premiered at Danspace Project. This work continues to feed new processes, teaching, and collaborations. Jennifer has had several conversations with performance artist and writer Colin Gee about in tow over the past year. These conversations have led to the beautiful essay you’ll find below. He brilliantly gives voice to some of the larger philosophical questions of the work.

Please read it with care: ColinGee_intowResponse_2017

 

Process Workshops with Pier 35 Festival Commissioned Artists

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Photo from June 1 Workshop with Tatyana Tenenbaum and Andy Luo

The Pier 35 Festival is happening in June 2018 in partnership with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Two Bridges Neighborhood Council. This project is supported by a Building Demand for the Arts Implementation grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. These workshops are supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
[Read more…] about Process Workshops with Pier 35 Festival Commissioned Artists

Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration City of Water Day

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Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration and City of Water Day
Saturday, July 18, 2-6pm
Pier 42
The 2015 iLAB Residency groups, Water & Im/migration and The Urban Backstage, invite you to Pier 42 on Saturday, July 18th, to join in the Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration and City of Water Day. As part of the Waterfront Alliance’s larger City of Water Day celebration, Paths to Pier 42 will host an afternoon of family-friendly activities including the iLAND events listed below.
 
 
2PM  The Urban Backstage: Collect Pond Park performance 
Location: The performance begins at the southern end of Collect Pond Park
The first of three linked walking and talking performances about the city and its relationship to water. Visit the place where Collect Pond used to be, and imagine the city when it was the primary source of fresh drinking water and a place of leisure and escape.
 
 
2:45PM   The Urban Backstage: Wreck Brook / East River walk 
Location: The walk begins at Foley Square and ends at Pier 42
The second of three linked walking and talking performances: walk the trail of the former Old Wreck Brook from Foley Square to the East River exploring the links between natural and engineered water systems.
4PM    Water & Im/migration: Shore of Hope – Part II
Location: Pier 42
Enjoy arts activities for all ages, including a calligraphy workshop, a choral performance by members of the Open Door Senior Citizen Center, and movement sharing to explore the themes of Water and Immigration (for ages 7 and older).
 
4:30PM  The Urban Backstage: CSO Theater
Location: Starts at the Pier 42 welcome tent
The last of three walking and talking performances: travel from Pier 42 to the East River Amphitheater where ideas about what’s hidden–under our city, and in ourselves–take to the stage.
 

Paths to Pier 42 Spring Waterfront Celebration

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You are invited to help kick off the 3rd and final season of Paths to Pier 42 programming at the Spring Waterfront Celebration.  Enjoy Spring on the East River Waterfront, pack a picnic, and participate in activities with the 2015 artist and designers. Free! All are welcome!

We’re thrilled that the Urban Backstage iLAB residency group will be sharing their research by leading two public engagement activities as part of this event. The day’s activities will include:

1pm & 3pm: The Urban Backstage
Which spaces in the city allow us to remove our masks, to make mistakes, to expose [or hide] things, thoughts and actions that may not be allowed elsewhere? What else lies behind the scenes? Join a walking and talking exploration of the waterfront where we will look at connections between the personal and the communal, and the informal and formal through space and language.
Time: Walks depart from the Pier 42 welcome tent at 1pm and 3pm and last up to one hour.
Route: Pier 42, Corlear’s Hook, East River Amphitheater and back to Pier 42
Artists: Julie Kline, Elliott Maltby, Clarinda Mac Low, Jeremy Pickard, Shawn Shaffner, Rachel Stevens. The Urban Backstage activities are part of iLAB East River.

2pm: Welcoming remarks — what to expect on the Pier this summer and in the future
2:30pm: Performance by Faye Driscoll: Thank you for coming: Attendance
All day activities: Drawing activity with Fish Stories Community Cookbook project, a touch tank to explore river ecology by Lower East Side Ecology Center, family-friendly science experiments with Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, BioBus mobile science lab, a mobile wifi-tower demonstration by Wifi-NY, and composting lessons just upriver by LESEC and OpenBin NYC.

2015 iLANDing Laboratory Program

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2015 iLANDing Laboratory Program

Following the successful inaugural year of the iLANDing Laboratory Initiative, we had the pleasure of programing a second year. The 2015 iLANDing Laboratory Program occuipied the Spring and Summer seasons with a series of experimental workshops/laboratories designed by members of the iLAND community and those who are aligned with the values of iLANDing. [Read more…] about 2015 iLANDing Laboratory Program

Coyote Walks

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Coyote Walks

Led by Dillon deGive

Sunday February 22 1pm & Thursday April 9 at 7pm

Central Park

On Sunday February 22 participants will explore terrain that “Hal” the 2006 New York City coyote occupied during his stay in Manhattan. Working with the input of an expert, we will mimic the path that a resident coyote of Central Park (if there was one) might walk while considering the intersections of the urban and natural. Meet us at Central Park at 103rd Street and Central Park West, accessible via the B and C subway.

From April 4-6 Dillon de Give will hike for three days with a small group to trace Hal’s possible route. This journey will connect Central Park with the wilderness via green space corridors. A team will be assembled in the months prior to the walk. If you are interested or want to learn more see more please visit: https://coyotewalks.wordpress.com/

On Thursday April 9 participants in the longer Coyote Walk invite you to join several short walking and movement exercises and to discuss the findings of their journey. As the workshop progresses, we will make our way north through Central Park. This session is formatted to accommodate mixed leadership and dialogue amongst the group. Please come with one story of an animal encounter (grand or banal).  Meet us outside Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Central Park. We’ll be at the bottom of the stairs just inside the park, north of Central park South and 6th Ave.

 

Dillon de Give is an artist and educator acting in a spirit of humane experimentalism, staging subtle alterations to everyday performances such as walking or telling jokes. His work is based in research and social exchange. He has presented with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Portland Art Museum, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Proteus Gowanus, Flux Factory, Catch! Performance Series, Guapamacátaro (Michoacán, Mexico), and The Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM among others. Dillon is a co-founder of the Walk Exchange, a cooperative group that develops creative and educational group walks. His long-term Coyote Walk project investigates footpaths between the city and the wild. His recent publication Do I Know What I’m Doing? is a study of the intersection of liability insurance and socially engaged art. Dillon was a writer and Thinker in Residence for the Art in Odd Places Festival in 2014. He holds a BS in Film from Northwestern University and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. He lives, works and helps to raise a child in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Use Values: Re/Imagining Urban Waste

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Use Values: Re/Imagining Urban Waste

Led by Zena Bibler, Katarina Jerinic, and Juliette Spertus

Saturday May 2 1-4pm & Sunday May 10 1-5:30pm

Island between exit 30 off the eastbound BQE and Classon + Flushing Avenues in Brooklyn

This two-part workshop takes place on a leftover piece of land at Exit 30 off the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a site maintained by volunteers through the Adopt-A-Highway program which, according to the program’s mission, is devoted to “beautification or other aesthetic-related activities.” During the workshop, we will use this location as a laboratory for exploring the role of waste, refuse, and acts of discarding in the formation of the urban landscape. We will play along the spectrum of owning, consuming, and throwing away, and follow the paths of objects beyond the moment at which they are initially discarded. In addition to studying the combination of systems that act on the landscape, we will take time to reorganize and reimagine the site through functional and aesthetic lenses. Finally, we will host an open house to share food and discussion with other workshop participants and visitors.

May 2 1-4pm: Collect & Analyze In this first session, we will examine the ways the site is shaped by the movements of animate and inanimate material in and around the island triangle. What are the discernible forces acting on the site? How does this site participate in broader urban ecosystems? We will document our findings in the form of movement scores and maps that will be shared with future visitors in a letterbox onsite.

May 10 1-4pm(Open House 4-5:30PM): Sort & Select In the second session, we will clean the site—collecting, re-organizing, and displaying discarded material. In addition to working with our observations of the site as we encounter it, we will also develop other possible uses for the site and its materials. We will conclude the session with an open house for visitors to experience the re-organized space and share food and discussion.

Please meet us directly at the site. Participants can take public transit to the site using either the G train to Classon Ave and walking to the site, or by taking the bus (B48, B69, or B44). Please wear clothing that covers your arms and legs and that you don’t mind getting a little dirty. We will be working with trash! Gloves will be provided. Bring any desired forms of documentation (camera, sketchpad, etc). We will provide all materials that are necessary, but participants are invited to contribute to documentation in their desired format.

Check out the Use Values Blog: http://usevalues.tumblr.com/ to see updates about the project.

Zena Bibler creates dance structures that use the moving body as a means of experiencing diverse environments, phenomena, and modes of being. Much of her recent activity is centered on collaborations with the Movement Party (co-founded in 2010 with Katie Schetlick). Her work has been presented at Movement Research, NADA Hudson, Gibney Dance Center, Dixon Place, Lublin International Dance Theatre Festival (Poland), Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (Egypt), Museum Perron Oost (Netherlands), and Sesc Vila Mariana (Brazil). Her dance films have been featured in Dance Magazine, Dance Films Association, and Moviehouse Brooklyn, and have screened nationally and internationally. As a teaching artist, she has developed workshops in the areas of sensory attunement, improvisation, choreographic viewing, and integrated techniques for Fleet Moves Dance Festival, New York University, Yale University, University of Virginia, the Floating Library, and Studio 303 (Canada), among others. She has had the pleasure of dancing in the work of Katie Schetlick, Brandin Steffensen, Athena Kokoronis, Anne Zuerner, Steve Paxton, Mariangela Lopez, and the Movement Party.

Juliette Spertus is an architect and co-founder of ClosedLoops, an infrastructure strategic planning and development firm. Her experience as a designer in Boston and New York inspired her to explore the integration of invisible support infrastructures, including the networks that bring goods and remove wastes, into urban design. In 2010, she created the exhibit Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities and the online resource fasttrash.org. Fast Trash led to two NY state-funded studies on the costs and benefits of pneumatic waste collection in New York City, which she led with researchers from CUNY’s University Transportation Research Center. She has presented her research on waste and urban design in conferences, design studios, papers, and articles in the US and Europe. She received a BA in Art History from Williams College and an architecture degree from l’Ecole d’Architecture des Villes et des Territoires in Marne-la-Vallée, France.

Katarina Jerinic’s photography, mixed-media projects, and public space-based installations respond to and intervene in built environments in order to draw attention to our interactions with surrounding spaces. Jerinic has been a resident at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (2008); the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (2010); Tokamak at Helsinki International Artist Program, Helsinki, Finland (2013); and the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY (2003); and participated in the Bronx Museum of the Arts Artist in the Marketplace program (2005). Her work has been included in exhibitions and programs at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY (2014); Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2006); Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (2009, 2010); Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY (2013); NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY (2009); BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2008, 2011, 2013, 2015); the Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY (2012); the Conflux Festival, New York, NY (2010); Temple Gallery at Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2011), as well as other spaces and places near and far. Jerinic’s collaborative, participatory project with Naomi Miller The Work Office (TWO), a re-interpretation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for New York City artists, has been awarded grants from the Black Rock Arts Foundation (2009), the Brooklyn Arts Council (2010), Chashama (2009), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space (2010), and the Times Square Alliance (2011). She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and BA from American University in history. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

 

2014 iLAND Program Highlights

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2014 was a fruitful year for iLAND filled with new growth, sharing among the community, and fallow time. As we enter 2015 we reflect on highlights from our past year.

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We relish in the fallow time that was created during theMovement Research Spring Festival/iLAND Symposium. There was talking, walking, poetry reading, dancing and listening to wild sounds of the night out at Floyd Bennet Field during two days of unstructured time. We were joined by the Thabiso Heccius Pule and Thami Manekehla from South Africa, who gave a stunning performance walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. There were various free workshops and open processes, a discussion/meal with Justine Lynch and Tom MaCauley ofMountain, a rambunctious night of performing at Issue Project Room, and more. Check out the Hadley Smith’s blog about the festival.

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This year iLAND initiated the iLANDing Laboratories as a vehicle to support continuations of the community’s interdisciplinary collaboration. From March through July, Laboratories such as kayaking to White Island in Jamaica Bay, stargazing in Inwood Park and a poetic walk across the Willis Ave bridge were offered. These workshops expanded the iLAND community and provided an opportunity for artists and scientists to develop ideas from past residencies in New York City’s urban ecology.

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This year Live Dancing Archive was remounted at New York Live Arts and The House is Open Exhibit at Bard College. Niall Jones, Tatyana Tenenbaum and Val Oliveiro joined the original cast and their generous creative contribution allowed for Live Dancing Archive to continue to evolve. Thanks to all of you joined the celebration and toast on opening night! If you missed it, check out the New York Times review and the Brooklyn Rail review.

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LAND partners with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to support three iLAB Residencies this year. Last Summer we hosted three workshops that initiated this new program, which will engage interdisciplinary artists, activists, and local community members. The project focuses on the East River Waterfront/Pier 42 and is generously supported by the Doris Duke Foundation’s Building Demand for Audiences grant.

What an exciting year it has been!
Please consider donating TODAY to support the future of iLAND!

 

Happy New Year! Donate to iLAND Today

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Dear Friends,

As the year comes to a close, we write to reflect on the past year and to look forward to 2015. It is the time of year when we reach out to ask for your support which will be directed towards iLAND’s various public programs. Please consider giving a contribution to bolster the future of interdisciplinary collaboration in New York City. 

Your support will sustain the eight iLANDing Laboratories scheduled for next Spring and Summer, the annual iLAND Symposium, and three iLAB Residencies that will activate areas along the East River (presented in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council). Jennifer Monson’s creative work will continue to develop through in tow – a new evening length work with DD Dorvillier, Zeena Parkins, David Zambrano, Susan Becker, Val Oliveiro, and Rose Kaczmarowski, that will have various residencies and performances throughout 2015 (including Rauschenberg at Captiva Island and Vermont Performance Lab).

Thank you for the many ways you have shown support for us in the past. We look forward to seeing you at an iLAND event in the spring!

iLAND Board & Staff

NPR and WNYC Present Water±

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Water±

Monday November 10 at 8pm

Tribeca Performing Arts Center 

Water± brings together Tony-Award winning directorKenny Leon, award-winning NPR Science CorrespondentChristopher Joyce, and award-winning theater writersArthur Yorinks and Carl Hancock Rux with an original sound score by acclaimed violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR). The unique storytelling experience pairs actual coverage from NPR and WNYC news reports with live music and poetry.

 

Hosts:
Amy Eddings (WNYC)

Arun Rath (NPR)

Cast:
Jason Dirden (A Raisin in the Sun)

Lucas Caleb Rooney (Boardwalk Empire)

Michele Shay (August Wilson’s Seven Guitars)

Tamela Alridge (One Life to Live)

Roberta Colindrez (Unforgettable, Girls)

Carl Hancock Rux (poet)

Daniel Bernard Roumain (composer and violinist)

Live Dancing Archive

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Live Dancing Archive

Friday November 21 at 8pm, Saturday November 22 at 3:30pm, Sunday November 23 at 3:30pm

Fisher Center at Bard College

This fall Jennifer Monson will perform Live Dancing Archive at Bard College as part of The House is Open, an inquisitive and playful pop-up exhibition that transforms the Fisher Center will be transformed into a temporary museum, hosting the work of major artists who are working at the fast-changing intersection of the performing and visual arts.  Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive is an evening-length performance featuring a visceral exploration of the dancing body as a physical archive of experience and place. Drawing from more than a decade of dance-based environmental research, Live Dancing Archive was choreographed using material from video documentation of the BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration (2002)—an 8-week dance project along the Atlantic Flyway—as well as improvised scores accumulated over the past decade. Originally premiered at The Kitchen in 2012 as a solo, this newly remounted iteration  will expand to feature three new collaborators, Niall Jones, TatyanaTenenbaum  and Valerie Oliveiro along with Monson and composer Jeff Kolar, lighting designer Joe Levasseur and costume designer Susan Becker. The project is accompanied by a video installation by Robin Vachal and a digital archive by Josephine Young Jae Bae that query the process of archiving as well as the shifting nature of dance and environmental phenomena.

On Saturday the Fisher Center Coach will be taking a group from New York City to Bard for a round trip fare of $20. Buy tickets for the bus HERE.

Live Dancing Archive Opening Night Benefit Party

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Live Dancing Archive Opening Night Benefit Party

Wednesday October 15 at 9pm

New York Live Arts

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We hope you’ll be able to join us to celebrate the evolution of iLAND by toasting Jennifer Monson after the opening night of Live Dancing Archive at New York Live Arts. On Wednesday, October 15, we’ll gather as a community for wine and light fare in the lobby of New York Live Arts immediately following the performance.

We’ll be hosting an auction with fantastic works of art and adventures donated by the iLAND Board. Some of the items up for bidding include:
               Surfcasting Fishing Trip to Breezy Point with Elliott Maltby
               Photographs by Meredith Ramirez Talusan
               Embodied Rat Mapping Walk with Jason Munshi-South
               Screen Prints by Sable Elyse Smith
               Selected Bottles of Wine from John Monson

Tickets for the Opening Night Benefit Party are available for $25 HERE.
All tax-deductible proceeds will support the development of iLAND’s programs.

Tickets for Live Dancing Archive at New York Live Arts are available HERE.
Please note that performance tickets must be purchased separate from Benefit tickets.

Donate to iLAND HERE.

All tax-deductible proceeds will support the development of iLAND’s programs.

We’re so grateful for your generous support of these endeavors and hope to see you on October 15 to celebrate together.

Warmly,

The iLAND Board

Barbara Bryan – Kate Cahill – Carolyn Hall – Elliott Maltby – Jennifer Monson – John Monson – Sable Elyse Smith – Jason Munshi-South – Meredith Ramirez Talusan – Or Zubalsky

Off the Grid

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Off the Grid

Saturday September 27 3:30-6:30pm

The Studio Museum in Harlem

In anticipation of Charles Gaines’s first live performance of Manifestos 2 (2013) at the Museum of Modern Art, join us for a workshop and field trip beginning with a brief tour of Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974–1989, followed by an interactive movement exercise enacted as participants travel to MoMA in time for the performance and discussion.

Led by Elliott Maltby—a designer and founding partner of thread collective, a collaborative design studio that explores the seams between building, art and landscape—the movement workshop will encourage participants to adapt and apply the arbitrary, rule-based systems that underpin Gaines’s works. Participants will animate the unique grid of Manhattan, calling on and channeling the themes of conceptualism that will be explored more in depth in MoMA’s theater by panelists Sean Griffin, Stuart Comer, Naima J. Keith and Charles Gaines himself.

The tour and movement workshop are free with Studio Museum admission and will begin in the Museum lobby. Participants will, however, need to pay for their own subway fare. For more information click here. 

Please RSVP to programs@studiomuseum.org to reserve a space!

For tickets to Charles Gaines: Manifestos II at MoMA, please visit http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/tickets/events/21846.

 

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Request for Proposals – 2015 iLANDing Laboratories Initiative

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Request for Proposals – 2015 iLANDing Laboratories Initiative

Dear iLAND Community Members,

Following the successful inaugural year of the iLANDing Laboratory Initiative, we are pleased to announce that the program will continue for a second year. The 2015 iLANDing Laboratories will continue in an experimental format as a series of workshops/laboratories designed by members of the iLAND community as well as those with a strong interest in proposing a Laboratory that aligns with iLAND’s mission and the values of iLANDing (for more information please see appendix below). The Laboratories will serve as focused forums and platforms for a reflective, advanced discourse around urban ecology, kinesthetic experience, and new approaches to interdisciplinary creative processes and draw on the history of iLAND programming which has been cultivated over the past eight years through the iLAB Residency program, iLAND Symposia, and the development of the iLANDing Method.

This Request for Proposals is open to all past iLANDing Laboratory participants, iLAB Residents, iLAB applicants, Symposium participants and others with a strong interest in proposing a workshop that aligns with the values of iLAND. New combinations of collaborators are welcomed and encouraged. Past iLANDing Laboratory residents are welcome to reapply for continued support in order to deepen into the process of a previously presented workshop. Laboratories should take on the structure (forum, workshop, walk, charette, tour, discussion, performance, potluck, experiment) and duration (two hours, two days, a month of Sundays), which will best support the proposed investigation. Laboratories will take place between March-July 2015.

An honorarium of $250 will be awarded to accepted proposals to assist in covering workshop expenses. iLAND will assist with online and print promotion for the Laboratories and provide planning support and mentorship in designing the laboratories

Proposals must be submitted to info@ilandart.org by October 20, 2014. Please limit your proposal to a two pages and send as a PDF attachment. If you have questions, please contact Jennifer Monson at 917-860-8239 or jennifer@ilandart.org. Final decisions will be announced on November 20, 2014.

We hope these workshops will provide an opportunity to share your current work and interests as well as to revisit and expand upon ideas that might have been initially explored during previous iLANDing Laboratories, iLAB Residencies, and/or iLAND Symposia.

Yours,

 

iLAND Board & Staff

 

APPENDIX: iLANDING CORE VALUES

iLANDing  is a collaborative methodology that is constantly evolving as it is practiced.

iLANDing Core Values: The exchange of knowledge through collaborative process; engagement with landscape/system or site as an active collaborator; the re-orientation of knowledge production through embodied, kinetic experience; fostering innovative connections across disciplines in order to gain new perspectives and understandings of complex systems; integration with public discourse as a means to craft and activate ethical, indeterminate practices that value the reciprocal nature of human actions and natural systems.

iLANDing is a platform to:

  1. explore, revise, and re-imagine and expand individuals’ understanding of their own disciplinary methods, practices and processes
  2. develop new interdisciplinary / hybrid methods and practices from the experiences of sharing process, language, and on-site experience
  3. engage the site/ecosystem as collaborator and in the long term shape an informed and in depth understanding of the relationship between the site and human action
  4. create meaningful public engagements that activate kinetic, as well as scientific approaches to understanding urban ecologies

In over ten years of iLANDing we have found that there are six components to every process that all interdisciplinary teams had to address in the process of working together.

Focus: Using a well-defined research topic to facilitate and inspire collaborative research

Research Methods: Exploring, using and re-crafting research methods from different disciplines as well as developing hybrid research practices in the process of working together

Common Language: Facilitating communication within the group when words have different meanings for people of different backgrounds

Component of Site: Working on (and with) a particular site and treating the site itself as a collaborator in the process; negotiating the relationship between working on site versus working remotely (such as studio)

Individual versus Collective: Finding a balance between individual space and working collectively

Documentation: How you document the process and capture moments of insight or inspiration when something new begins to emerge

 

For more information about the 2014 iLANDing Laboratory Program visit the program page HERE

New Hope for Ridgewood Reservoir

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We are so happy to hear that the Ridgewood Reservoir may be saved thanks to the continued efforts of environmental activists. The Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens is an important water supply source that is one of the few remaining areas of wilderness in the NYC metropolitan area. Earlier this year the NYC Parks Department proposed to build breaches in the reservoir, building roads, and cut down numerous trees in the area. After protests and petition from local activists, as well as increasing support from government officials, NYC Park officials have decided to change their plans and protect the reservoir. You can learn more about the Ridgewood Reservoir at their activist blog here.

iLAND supported iMAP (interdisciplinary Mobile Architecture Performance)/Ridgewood Reservoir with choreographer Jennifer Monson, architect Gita Nandan and landscape architect Elliott Maltby of thread collective, and composer Kenta Nagai. We’re thrilled that this incredible site will be saved!

Live Dancing Archive

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Live Dancing Archive

October 15-18 at 7:30pm

New York Live Arts

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This fall Jennifer Monson will perform Live Dancing Archive at New York Live Arts. Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive is an evening-length performance featuring a visceral exploration of the dancing body as a physical archive of experience and place. Drawing from more than a decade of dance-based environmental research, Live Dancing Archive was choreographed using material from video documentation of the BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration (2002)—an 8-week dance project along the Atlantic Flyway—as well as improvised scores accumulated over the past decade. Originally premiered at The Kitchen in 2012 as a solo, this newly remounted iteration  will expand to feature three new collaborators, Niall Jones, TatyanaTenenbaum  and Valerie Oliveiro along with Monson and composer Jeff Kolar, lighting designer Joe Levasseur and costume designer Susan Becker. The project is accompanied by a video installation by Robin Vachal and a digital archive by Josephine Young Jae Bae that query the process of archiving as well as the shifting nature of dance and environmental phenomena.

Wednesday October 15 at 9pm Benefit Party: Join iLAND in toasting Jennifer Monson on opening night of Live Dancing Archive. Buy tickers HERE or pay $25 at the door.

Thursday October 16 at 6pm Come Early Discussion: The Body as Archive with Travis Chamberlin, Associate Curator of Performance at the New Museum. 

Friday October 17 Stay Late Discussion: Environment of Self in Time – Jennifer Monson in conversation with La MaMa ETC Archivist and Historian, Rachel Mattson, PhD.

Arts East River Waterfront

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Arts East River Waterfront

Jennifer Monson and iLAND Work with LMCC


Beginning this summer Jennifer Monson will be partnering with LMCC’s Arts East River Waterfront to inspire the local public in the LES East River Waterfront neighborhood around Piers 42 and 35 by connecting them to artists, new ideas and perspectives, and other art-lovers to demonstrate the role that artists play in creating vibrant, sustainable communities.
 
Building upon years of community advocacy and interest in the development of these new waterfront sites as an amenity for local residents, LMCC seeks to model arts and cultural activities that respond to the unique features of these sites, and reflect the needs, interests and history of the neighborhood –taking into account community priorities for the waterfront that range from leisure uses to resiliency planning in the wake of Super Storm Sandy. 

City of Water Day July 12

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City of Water Day

July 12, 2014 10am – 4pm

Maxwell Park in Hoboken, NJ and Governors Island, NY

FREE

A FREE day of entertainment, education & adventure celebrating the potential of our waterfront!

On Saturday, July 12th, thousands from throughout the metropolitan region will make their way to the waterfront for the annual City of Water Day, presented by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.  A FREE day of entertainment, education, and adventure celebrating the world-class potential of our waterfront, City of Water Day will be held in Maxwell Park, Hoboken, NJ, and Governors Island, NY.  Event highlights include FREE: narrated boat tours, ferry transit between Maxwell Park and Governors Island, kayaking, paddle-boarding, Cardboard Kayak Race, fishing, the Waterfront Activity Fair, special children’s activities, live music, and more!  Food vendors will sell their delicious specialties.  Please visit www.cityofwaterday.org for all of the exciting details, sign up to be an exhibitor and volunteer.

Jennifer Monson Teaches Systems/Scores: practice/process MELT Workshop

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Systems/Scores: practice/process

Movement Research MELT Summer Intensive Workshop

August 4-8, 3:30-6pm $140

In this workshop we will investigate how we make scores out of the systems that we live in, observe and are attracted to. A score is an open structure that creates improvisational choices for a particular context. We will create systems for movement that can be layered into performance scores. This will be our practice. How does the practice influence our approach to performance? How do we observe and shape this process? How can our practice of making scores help us to observe the possibilities in movement and choreographic systems? We will work on presence, states of moving and scales of sensation and time. We will perform our scores daily.

Register online at Movement Research HERE. We hope to see you there!

Movement Research Spring Festival in Collaboration with iLAND

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Movement Research Spring Festival in Collaboration with iLAND

FALLOW TIME

Tuesday May 27 – Monday June 2

Curated by Elliott Maltby, Jennifer Monson, Alicia Ohs, Tatyana Tenenbaum

For more information check out the Fallow Time Brochure or the Movement Research website

 

A fallow field is one that is plowed – it is prepared but then left open. fallow time is a festival that invites emptiness or the unanticipated. The festival is prepared space and time for open action, or inaction, to take place. It creates a platform for participation, intergenerational meetings and intersectionality to support all bodies in their creative potential. We are providing time for concrete and insubstantial ideas to be tested, to take hold and grow…or fail. fallow time is a time of rest, where unexpected actions and materials make contact and allow for new forms and systems to flourish: a chance for us to be together that is not dictated by any need to produce. The festival examines both urban ecologies and artistic production in our society. Inviting the multiple meanings of sustainability to rub against a range of creative practices, we will enact scenarios for thriving in our increasingly unpredictable environment. fallow time allows us to ground ourselves and to recuperate the values that are so central to dance: the values of the body to listen, feed, touch, see, taste, deliver, heal, digest, produce, die.

 

iLAND SYMPOSIUM

Tuesday May 27 – 11-6pm – Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the Queens Museum – Free

Through Earth, Through Body, Through Speech Join Fantastic Futures and Jason Munshi-South for the workshop and per formance listed below, a continuation of their summer 2013 iLAB residency in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Willets Point. The collaboration uses a cross-pollination of ar tistic practice and scientific method to engage the local community in a conversation around personal and family histories of the park and their visions of the park’s future.

Workshop – 11am-3pm

Meet at the north end of the Unisphere. Rain or Shine.

A movement and mapping exercise based on Munshi-South’s study of white-footed mice, “Urban landscape genetics: canopy cover predicts gene flow between white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) populations in New York City.”

A light informal lunch will be provided. Activities are appropriate for all ages.

Performance – 4-6pm

In the Queens Museum of Art A multi-channel sound installation and per formance that represents the scientific concept of an urban to rural gradient. Field recordings of the park are layered with interviews in which visitors are asked to express their memories and hopes for the park, and with a spoken narrative from a mouse’s perspective based on urban landscape genetics. participants in both workshop and performance: Fantastic Futures (Julio Hernandez, Huong Ngo, Phuong Nguyen, Solgil Oh, Sable Elyse, Or Zubalsky) and Jason Munshi-South.

For additional information for Tuesday’s events, email info@ilandart.org or call 917-860-8239.

 

REST-WALK-DRAW-FISHTALK- MOVE-REST

Wednesday May 28-May29 – All day and night, arrive and leave as you wish – Floyd Bennet Field – Free

Two nights of camping for up to 30 people. Open time to engage with the littoral edge of New York City. Dawn walks, star gazing and gentle research activities. This is restorative time. Tent, sleeping bag and food required for those staying the night.

Public Transportation: Take the 2 or 5 train to Flatbush Ave / Brooklyn College. Transfer to the Q35 bus south to Floyd Bennett Field. The bus ride takes about 15 minutes. Floyd Bennett Field is also easily accessible by bike and car.

RSVP required for those staying the night.

For details, please contact info@ilandart.org.

 

SENSING TO KNOW / /ANALYZING TO IMAGINE

Saturday May 31 – 2-4pm – Issue Project Room – $5 suggested donation

A talk and walk exploring the dual perspective of the artist-scientist. Visual, aural, and kinesthetic modes in science and art will be explored by par ticipants who have experience as both scientists and artists. The first hour will be dedicated to discussing the participants’ understanding of the intersection of these seemingly discrete disciplines and the impact of this dual perspective on their current practices. Following the talk, each participant will lead a section of a walk to the Brooklyn waterfront, reading the landscape through their par ticular lens. Moderator Jennifer Monson will draw upon her own work, and the insight of 10 years of iLAB residencies, which have developed novel ways of examining New York City’s urban environment.

Participants:

Amy Berkov: Visual artist, tropical biologist and professor of Biology

Kathleen McCarthy: Sculptor and restoration ecologist

Jason Munshi-South: Professor of Biology

Hara Woltz: Visual artist, landscape architect and conservation biologist

Moderated by Jennifer Monson, artistic director and founder of iLAND

Jennifer Monson Wins Doris Duke Impact Award

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Congratulations Jennifer!

Jennifer Monson is among 20 artists who received the Doris Duke Impact Award. In its inaugural year, these dance, theatre, and jazz artists are the first to receive this award. Each recipient of a Doris Duke Impact Award receives $80,000–including an unrestricted, multi-year cash grant of $60,000, plus as much as $10,000 more in targeted support for audience development and as much as $10,000 more personal reserves or creative exploration during what are usually retirement years for most Americans. Doris Duke Impact Award recipients have the opportunity to participate in professional development activities, financial and legal counseling, and regional gatherings through Creative Capital, DDCF’s primary partner in the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards.

Jennifer is thrilled to be a Doris Duke Impact Awardee and is grateful for this support that will allow her to continue making work that generates knowledge and meaning through movement.

World Water Day Celebration This Weekend

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Join our friends at the Waterwheel for the 4th annual World Water Day Symposium this weekend!

The theme revolves around water, how water embodies extremes and contrasts: oceanic depth or shallow rivulet, transparent or opaque, flowing or still. Water cycles through the living systems of the planet: water bodies, life forms, atmosphere. This symposium has been exploring questions about how we are living, and will continue to live, with water and its contrasts.

The symposium has locations around the world and is streamed free online. Check it out HERE. The event has 15 live nodes, in Brisbane, San Francisco, New York, LA, Buenos Aires, Tunis, Berlin, Coburg, Poznan, Torun, Paris, Syracuse, Athens, Hydra and Cairns, all streamed online. 300 scientists, artists, academics, engineers, activists, and others have presented papers, panels, performances, and presentations.

Tomorrow there will be musical performances and presentations from Australia, India, Chile, France from 12-3pm and performances and presentations from Montreal, Australia, China, India, and closing statements from 3-8pm. We hope you’ll join us in exploring questions about how we are living, and will continue to live with water.

Surviving Sandy Panel Discussion at Bronx River Art Center

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Surviving Sandy Panel Discussion

Friday February 28 6-8pm

Bronx River Art Center

Come to the panel discussion + presentation Surviving Sandy on Friday February 28th at 6-8pm sponsored by the Bronx River Art Center. Artists, activists, and community members will meet to discuss how individual and communities interpret, cope with, and survive extreme events. The panel will be held at 305 E. 140th Street.

A unique group of artists, activists, planners and community members take part in an eye-opening panel discussion and presentation on the topic “Surviving Sandy”.  The panel event comes at the end of the Bronx River Art Center’s current exhibit “BRURAL: Shattering Phenomena,” a group show in which Russian and New York artists explore the impact on local communities and individuals of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite and Superstorm Sandy.  This is a FREE event. We hope to see you there!

iLANDing Laboratories 2014

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2014 iLANDing Laboratories
March-July 2014
In celebration of iLAND’s 10th anniversary, the 2014 iLAB residency will take on an experimental format as a series of workshops/laboratories designed by members of the iLAND community.  These workshops are focused forums and platforms for a reflective, advanced discourse on ideas about urban ecologies, kinesthetic experience, and new approaches to interdisciplinary creative processes as cultivated throughout 8 years of the iLAB Residency Program.All of these programs are FREE and open to the general public. However, some events have limited space and so we ask you RSVP to info@ilandart.org to reserve a spot. For all other programs reservations are encouraged, but not required.  We are excited to share these workshops with you and hope to see you at an event this spring!
Click on the event titles below for more information:
Funding for the 2014 iLANDing Laboratory Series is provided with support from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Robison Foundation and private individuals.
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Portland Ecologists Unite: Art and Ecology Discussion

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ecologistsJoin Toby Query and other members of Portland Ecologists Unite for a discussion on Art and Ecology hosted by Portland Ecologists Unite on January 16th from 5:30-7:30pm at PICA. They have an exciting group of speakers lined up including: Linda K. Johnson, Adam Kuby, and Stephen Hayes. We hope that this discussion will enlighten ecologists on the combined power of art and ecology, while encouraging them to meet each other and discuss further. For more information visit HERE.

Check out The Volta: The Trash Issue

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pic-landfill-ncole1Check out the most recent issue of The Volta: The Trash Issue. This multimedia project of poetry, criticism, poetics, video, conversation (audio), and interview has contributions by several iLAND community members including: past SEA reader Jonathan Skinner, iLAND residents Kathy Westwater, Jennifer Scappettone, and Seung Jae Lee, and poets Allison Cobb and CA Conrad, and  a TRANSECT shot by EJ McAdams at Dead Horse Bay.

End of Year Appeal

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Dear friends of iLAND,

As the year comes to a close, we move into our second decade of creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary research of New York City ecologies. With the evolution of iLAND, we will continue to experiment with new forms, practices and methods between dance and other disciplines. 2014 marks a change in the iLAB residency program. In an effort to deepen the ongoing work developed over the past 8 years, we have asked past iLAB residents and community members to propose a new series of laboratories, which will be launched in the New Year. They are intensive, focused and available for all to attend! This year we are also excited to announce iLAND’s role as part of the curatorial team for the Movement Spring Festival, which will focus on a critical examination of Sustainability in our community and beyond. The iLAND symposium will be a part of this exciting series of events in May 2014.

As we look back on 2013, we celebrate the presentation of Live Dancing Archive in NYC, Illinois and its inclusion in the Performance Archiving Performance Exhibit at the New Museum as well as the continued evolution of iLANDing through retreats at Earthdance, SMU/Taos and various workshops throughout New York City. We are thrilled to have worked with Fantastic Futures and Jason Munshi South in this year’s iLAB residency – Through Body, Through Earth, Through Speech.

Next year along side of the Laboratories, Artistic Director Jennifer Monson will continue to develop her new project, in tow. Live Dancing Archive will also be performed again at New York Live Arts in the Fall 2014.

As the year closes, we would like to take this opportunity to ask for your financial support of our activities. Most of our events are free to the public so we depend on donations from people like you to keep our programs growing.  To donate to iLAND, please click HERE!

We are incredibly grateful for all of the support, creativity, and collaboration you have shared with iLAND in our first decade and we look forward where the next decade will take us!

Yours,
Jennifer Monson
Artistic Director/ Founder
iLAND

New Museum First Saturday’s for Families

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First Saturdays for Families: Movement Scores for FamiliesDecember 7, 2013 10-12pm

New Museum, 235 Bowery, between Stanton and Rivington St

On Saturday December 7th from 10-12pm, iLAND will host a FREE First Saturday’s for Families program in conjunction with the exhibition “Performance Archiving Performance” at the New Museum. Join Kate Cahill, architect and iLAND collaborator, for a series of experiments and activities that investigate location, navigation, and orientation inspired by animal migration. Participants will engage in different exercises, including map making and movement games that draw on their personal experiences. This program occurs in the Sky Room only.
New Museum First Saturdays for Families are free of charge. This program is designed and recommended for families with children aged between four and twelve years, and includes free New Museum admission for up to two adults per family. No preregistration is required. Space is limited and tickets are given out on a first come, first served basis. More information on the program HERE.

Panel Discussion with Artists of “Performing Archive Performance”

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On Saturday November 16th from 2-4pm, there will be a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition “Performance Archiving Performance” at the New Museum. The discussion surveys different artists’ approaches to the concerns of archiving performance and how those concerns might be taken up and addressed by museums and institutional archives. The artists included in “Performance Archiving Performance” discuss the development of and future goals for their individual archiving projects with the curator. Participants include Yanira Castro, Kathy Couch, Jennifer Monson, Julie Tolentino, Sara Wookey, and Travis Chamberlain, Associate Curator of Performance. More information on the panel discussion HERE.