We’re thrilled to share the schedule for iLAND’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, taking place October 10–18 across New York City.
For 20 years, iLAND has brought together dance, environmental practice, interdisciplinary research, and community through the development of iLANDing and the work of an extraordinary network of artists and collaborators.
To celebrate, we’re bringing people together for a week of performances, workshops, iLANDing activations, archival projects, walks, and gatherings that revisit iLAND’s history while creating space for new encounters.
OCTOBER 10
4–5 PM | Spanish iLANDing Workshop Sharing + A Dance Party with Los Lil Kumbia
Espíritu Tierra Community Garden, 203 S. 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY
In partnership with El Puente,
Facilitators: Martita Abril, Rafael Cañals, Efrén Olsen-Sánchez, Daniela Castillo
OCTOBER 11
11 AM–2 PM | move thing performance
La Guardia Playground, corner of South 5th Street and Havermeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY
Performers: KJ Holmes, Jessica Ziegler, Jennifer Miller, Julia Santoli, Mads Mellinger, Courtney Cooke, Martita Abril, Rafael Cañals, Carolyn Hall, Anh Vo, Jennifer Monson
OCTOBER 12
2–5 PM | iLANDing Scores Activation
Marsha P. Johnson State Park, by the waters edge, North Side of the Park, 90 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Facilitators: Jennifer Monson and the iLAND team
OCTOBER 14–16
1–6 PM | iLAND Archival Activation
gmtc 金鑛商社
210 Canal Street, room 310, NYC, NY
Archival Activation with sTo Len and iki nakagawa
iki will facilitate an “edit session” where she invites an audience, one by one and by appointment, to scan through iLAND digital archive, make selections, and edit their choices into a work of their interest and desire. The outcomes will be screened at the party at CAVE on October 17th. Sessions may include chatting, moving from scores, vocalizing and drawing as ways to make selections. Anyone is invited to witness and/or seep into the process during the session. If you are interested in becoming an editor, please email editwith@ikinakagawa.com.
Multidisciplinary artist sTo Len will be creating a live collaborative score inspired by the iLANDing Field Guide and in particular, “A Collaborative Observation of a Site.” For his iteration, this observational score invokes a dreamlike state through a sound bath that opens a portal in a pineapple bun where time is nonlinear and anything is possible. The participant emerges back to the gallery and then back out to Canal Street to sleepwalk through Chinatown, mindfully documenting their observations through various means, and then returning to the gallery for further processing, sharing, and archiving. This evolving score becomes a type of research that acts as a performable activation of the space to reveal the intertwined elements of this site as recorded and remixed by our senses.
In addition to these activations, videos of Osprey Migration (2002) and Choreographies of Disaster (2020 -22) will be on view October 14 & 15, 1-2pm and 5-6pm and October 16, 1-2pm.
OCTOBER 17 — A Full Day of iLANDing
7–11 AM | Bird Walk — Williamsburg East River
Lead bird guide: Eddie Monson with support from Mark Iantosca, Elizabeth Monson, John Monson and Susie Helfrey.
South End of Domino Park by the Williamsburg Bridge, close to the dog park, if you come late and want to find our location, please call 917 860 8239. Rain or Shine.
2–3 PM | River to Creek — Grand Street Park, end of Grand Street and the East River, Brooklyn, NY
Facilitators: Carolyn Hall, Clarinda Mac Low, Paul Benney, Kathleen McCarthy
3–4 PM | (Parenthesis) — Grand Ferry Park, End of Grand Street at the East River, Brooklyn, NY
Facilitator: Catalina Hernandez
4–7 PM | Closing Party — CAVE, 58 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY
Catering: Athena Kokoronis
Poetry by E. J. McAdams, video screening by iki nakagawa and Dillon de Give, plus others
Zines of new score iterations, collaborative installation of score invitations, activations and materials from sTo Len.
OCTOBER 18
1–3 PM | Ridgewood Reservoir: An (anti-)kinematic walk
Meeting point: Broadway Junction Subway Stop, Queens
Facilitators: Kate Cahill and Elliott Maltby
More details about each event are coming soon. Save the dates and join us as we celebrate 20 years of movement, landscape, collaboration, and experimentation.
For More information, updates and exact locations if you miss the starting point email:info@ilandart.org or call 917 860 8239,
iLAND’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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