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Bronx River Flotilla – May 5 – iLAB Residents in Action

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On Saturday May 5th, 2012 iLAB Residents Follow the Water Walks will take part in the annual Bronx River Flotilla.

The Bronx River Alliance will host over 200 participants as they traverse the Bronx River – beginning at Shoelace Park and ending at Concrete Plant Park. Registration is full. There will be a picnic from 12:30-4 pm at Concrete Plant Park. Welcome paddlers as they reach the finish line. Bring a blanket and picnic lunch.

Join us for our first public paddling event of the season. You and over 200 participants will paddle and glide along almost six miles of the Bronx River, from 219th Street to Concrete Plant Park. Enjoy unique views of the neighborhoods through which the river flows on its way to the sea.

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iLAND announces the 2012 iLAB Residents

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iLAB, is a residency program supporting collaborations between movement-based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within different fields/disciplines.  iLAND is pleased to announce this year’s iLAB residents:

Higher ED: Ecology + Dance

Liz Barry, director of urban environment for The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
Jessica Einhorn, dancer, urban environmentalist
Lailye Weidman, dancemaker

Higher ED: Ecology + Dance will explore the physical relationship between the wind moving through urban environments and our bodies using the connective media of kite / balloon aerial mapping devices and weather observation movement scores during outdoor research activities.  

Follow the Water Walks

Paloma McGregor, choreographer, co-founder of Angela’s Pulse collaborative performance ensemble
Damian Griffin, Education Director, Bronx River Alliance
Rebecca Boger, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College, with dual appointment at CUNY Graduate Center

Follow the Water Walks plans to use our choreographic, scientific and cultural research to develop interactive movement structures for a culminating model that will offer an embodied experience of the storm water routes and the Bronx River, with attention to what was, is and will be part of that living landscape. 

More information about the 2012 residents is here.

More information about iLAB is here.

2012 iLAND Symposium Transition

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Symposium Blog Basket
Thank you to everyone who attended the  2012 iLAND Symposium,
Moving Into the Out There:  Indeterminacy & Improvisation in Performance & Environmental Practice.
Gretchen Till, who was blogging throughout the Symposium, has created this Blog Basket, where you’ll find documents from and responses to the Symposium.
The questions that are up for comment and conversation:
  • An Indeterminate Partnering:
  • What does collaboration mean now?
  • An Index of ?:?:?: What are your constellations?
  • What do you want to return to?
  • A Shape (s) We Were In – What was your form?
  • A Thought Body – What did you read?

The resources that are up for comment and conversation: 

  • the Performances
  • the Panels
  • the Thrown Outside Workshops
  • the iLANDING Method

Visit the Blog Basket Now and Join us in the conversation!

The 2012 iLAND Symposium Begins!

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We’re off to a great start with the 2012 iLAND Symposium: Moving into the Out There.  These annual symposiums give us a taste of the interdisciplinary research community that iLAND is creating.

As is often the case with iLAND, many conversations are started that open onto much bigger discussions that we do not have time to continue in the confines of the Symposium.   Stay tuned for blog posts by Gretchen Till, who will be blogging throughout this year’s Symposium; we hope you will join the conversation in person and online.

See you tomorrow, inside the New School and Thrown Outside for transects and weather balloons!