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| General Information iLAB 2010 iLAB 2009 - StrataSpore - Waterways: fluid movements in a liquid city iLAB 2008 iLAB 2007 iLAB 2006 | |
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iLAND is proud to announce the selections for the 2009 iLAB residency program. The 2009 residencies have been awarded to BIG CAAKe's StrataSpore project and to the League of Imaginary Scientists and E.K.K.O.'s Waterways: fluid movements in a liquid city. BIG CAAKe, a collaborative team including Chris Kennedy, artist, engineer, educator; Athena Kokoronis, choreographer and cook; Caroline Woolard, artist and designer; Kate Cahill, architect; and Gary Lincoff, mycologist, will develop a collaborative process through their project StrataSpore. StrataSpore, using mushrooms as both metaphor and material, will develop approaches to performance and create discussions about infrastructure, networks, and latent potential. StrataSpore is BiG CAAKe's platform for collective knowledge about local NYC ecosystems and urban sustainability. The platform will cultivate "spores" of knowledge by combining elements of task/performance-based art, experiential learning, and experimental design practice The League of Imaginary Scientists and E.K.K.O., a collaborative team including Lucy Hg, artist; Matt McBane, composer; Annie Kwon, architect; David Garin, environmental researcher; and the Danish choreography collective E.K.K.O - Karina Dichov Lund, Emma Nordanfors, Klara Elenius - will create a collaborative process through Waterways: fluid movements in a liquid city. Waterways: fluid movements in a liquid city is an interdisciplinary research project that examines water through environmental and sociological study and transforms that information into choreographic actions that engage New Yorkers. This year, iLAND received an extremely strong pool of proposals. The selection committee, which included board members John Waldman, Phaedra Doukakis, John Monson, E.J. McAdams, Barbara Bryan, Jennifer Monson as well as Jennifer McGregor, curator at Wave Hill, was excited to see such a high level of inquiry evolving in such smart and creative ways. iLAND is able to fund only two complete residencies this year, as we lost substantial funding for this project from the Jerome Foundation. We hope to secure new funding in the coming years, enabling us to support more residencies in the future. We will keep you posted as we hear about the development of several of the competitive projects that we were unable to fund this year. Through its many programs, including the iLAB residency, iLAND continues to develop a community of artists, scientists, and environmentalists involved in collaborative inquiries into New York City's ecologies. Please join us in the upcoming public engagements for iLAB Residency 2009 and stay involved through our ongoing discussion on the iLAND Symposium blog. We have new updates monthly on the symposium and other issues pertaining to art and science collaboration. |