Emergent Ecologies Art Exhibit
April 30th -May 21st, 2016
Kilroy, 283 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, 11238
Curated by a swarm: Eben Kirksey, Lissette Olivares, Ellie Irons, Grace Glovier, Cody Kohn, Kayli Marshall, Greg Umali, Alexandra Palocz, Jeffrey Bussolini, and Cheto Castellano.
Emergent Ecologies featured bioart installations, living sculptures, paintings, photographs, and digital media. Rather than be a static exhibit, that stayed the same from the opening and closing dates, our project involved playing with the “hap” of what happens. Happiness, in the Old English sense of the word, means having “good hap” or fortune. We conducted experiments with happiness and glass, breaking down boundaries (and constructing new ones) to see what ecological communities would emerge.
Past Events
Emergent Ecologies Exhibit Closing: Saturday, May 21st
Open gallery hours: 2pm-12 midnight
2-3pm Discussion: “Hope in an Era of Extinction” (James Hatley, Ashley Dawson, Eben Kirksey, and others TBA)
3pm Performance: “Endangered Frog Giveaway” (Eben Kirksey)
3:30pm Performance: “elephant museum part II with apoetry and contra currency release” (Juan Olivares)
4-5pm Discussion: “Dying Oaks & Grief” (Ruth Wallen & Ellie Irons)
5pm Performance: Cookie, therapy dog diva (Tatiana Carino, diva handler)
5:30pm Film screening: “ENTRETEJIDO” (Patricia Alvarez)
6pm Film screening: “Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story” (Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens)
7:30pm-12midnight, Queer Circuits in Archival Times, with performances by Sandy Stone, Nica Ross/Ginger Brooks, + DJ set “Signal Chain: Transduction Function”
Saturday, May 14th: 7-8pm Performance
“I Hate America and America Hates Me ” (Cheto Castellano)
This auto-ethnographic performance will explore the conflicted affects of life as an immigrant in the United States of America. In this new iteration Castellano turns to both the figure and embodied history of the Coyote, referencing the border crossers who participate in human trafficking across State borders, and the plight of the real animal, who is systematically hunted as a pest in the US borderlands.
“Scenes from Paradise” (Lenore Malen)
“This Woman Sexual Fantasy Series” ( Elena Tejada Herrera)
“ENTRETEJIDO” (Patricia Alvarez)
“Doves and Birds Feeding Together” (Alonso Cedillo)
“Diotheo Dep” (Maria Thereza Alves)
“Emergent Ecologies: Parasites” (Eben Kirksey)
“Blued Trees” (Aviva Rahmani)
“handholds” (Kara Wentworth)
Including Performances and Workshops by: Corinne Cappelletti and Eva Perrotta, Christopher Kennedy, Lucia Monge, Artemisia vulgaris, and Andrea Haenggi.
Saturday, May 7th: 7-10pm Film screenings
“Carrie, the World’s Most Famous Dancing Dog” (Sin Kabeza Productions) NY Premiere
“Wine Dark Plastic Sea” (Anand Pandian)
“Lil Bub & Friendz” (VICE) with guest appearance by Jeffrey Bussolini
“My BBY 8L3W” (Neozoon)
“Untitled” (Nao Bustamante & Fufu)
“Madame Butterfly” (David Khang)
“El Enemigo Interno (Eli Neira)
“Oveja Negra” (Regina José Galindo)
“On Eating Cows”(Alonso Cedillo)
NYC Emergence: Emergent Ecologies Opening, April 30th
Virtual traces on Facebook
“The Elephant Museum” (Juan Olivares)
“Cricket Shelter” performative collaboration by Robyn Shapiro (The Lowline) with Terreform ONE
“Mutant Fruit Fly Exchange” (Eben Kirksey)
“Exciting Pressure Release” followed by “OS Fermentation” (Cary Peppermint & Leila Nadir, EcoArtTech*). This EcoArtTech installation was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by The SHS Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and general operating support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
“Bipolar Flowers” (Adam Zaretsky)
Larval Emergence + CloudServices Release
Saturday, June 18th: 6-11pm
Kilroy, 283 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, 11238
Cloud Services is a proposal for using the atmosphere as media for data storage and transmission. Clouds teem with microbes which are transferred worldwide in air masses and water cycle. Data encoded in their DNA can be universally distributed. We will conduct a field test of Cloud Services technology by releasing microorganisms into the atmospheric biome. Our release party will be accompanied by tunes produced by the Larval Rock Stars and other special events.
Emergent Ecologies, February 29th-March 31st, 2016
Princeton University, Butler College, Studio ’34 Cafe.
Hope in a Time of Extinction, February 24th, 2016
James Gallery, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
