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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.

iLAB 2014 Announcement

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2014 ilANDing Laboratory Initiatives 

We are pleased to announce that we have chosen 8 proposals to present workshops, community events, and expeditions as part of our 2014 iLANDing Laboratory Initiatives. These events will take place in the spring between February and July of 2014. Specific dates and a full calendar will be announced later.
Patch-Work-Walk-Picnic-Dance – Athena Kokoronis
  • Take a walk and share a picnic with choreographer Athena Kokoronis and ecologist Leila Mougoui Bakhtiari to learn about trees in local parks. Participants will develop scores based on walks and combine them in an improvisatory quilt with others.
Expedition to White Island – Charles Dennis
  • Join Charles Dennis on a canoe trip to Gerritsen Inlet in Marine Park, Brooklyn and explore the natural landscape. After group improvisation, take time to read, meditate, and journal.
Wayfaring – A Poetic Walk Through Public Space – E.J. McAdams, Douglas Manson, and Virginia Millington
  • EJ McAdams, Douglas Manson and Virginia Millington will take us on a guided walk of a transect within the urban landscape, exploring poetry, pacing and environment.
Creating Habitat, Form & Function – Kathleen McCarthy
  • Help rebuild habitat at the Bronx River Salt Marsh by planting wetlands and discussing threats to urban wildlife.
Navigating the Queens Plaza Transportation Hub Street Level without an SmartPhone or Other Prepared Map – Lise Brenner
  • Complete a journey using landmarks, interaction with others, and intuition to guide you. Then work with others to propose new plans for easier navigation to City Council.
Repetition / Series, Dialogue / Transposition – Kate Cahill and Maggie Bennett
  • Explore collaboration and the methodology of practice through a workshop of movement, writing, modeling, and construction.
Temporal Dislocation: Body Gates through Stars, Water, and Land – Moira Williams
  • Join choreographer Jill Sigman, astrophysicist Tony Faddoul and multimedia artist Moria Williams for an exploration series for stargazing, a design charette, collaborative walks, and a potluck picnic panel.
Liminal Narratives: From Context to Text – Sonal Modi
  • Investigate a commercial street and notice multiple narratives at each liminal junction. Develop a coherent narrative yourself using a variety of multi-media.

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.

 

Art/Science Speed-Dating with Jennifer Monson

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Art/Science Speed-Dating with Jennifer Monson
Wednesday, November 6th at 6:30 PM

Back by popular demand, this event is designed to bring artists and climate scientists together to determine if there are “sparks” for future interdisciplinary collaboration.  The event will be moderated by Eli Kintisch, and begin with two first dates between Gavin Schmidt & Annea Lockwood; and Jennifer Monson & Shahid Naeem. Space is very limited. Click this link to RSVP.

PositiveFeedback’s upcoming November events are part of Marfa Dialogues / NY, an examination of climate change science, environmental activism and artistic practice happening this October and November, 2013 in New York City. A collaboration between the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Ballroom Marfa and the Public Concern Foundation, Marfa Dialogues / NY will feature 18 Program Partners and a spectrum of exhibitions, performance, and interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of the arts and climate change. www.marfadialogues.org/

Movement Research Studies Project Vulnerable Systems: Moving Beyond Sustainability

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The reality of climate change has brought an increased awareness around the fragility of our environment and a heightened interest in sustainable practices. How do we move beyond sustainability towards resiliency, a term currently in broad use in the social sciences? How do we address the current crisis from its roots, rather than perpetuating unworkable systems? Is change a value or an action? How can our practices within the dance community serve as models for adapting to change? We will discuss different framings of sustainability from the perspectives of various fields, including social science, economics, and urban ecology in a roundtable conversation which invites the dance community and the larger public to explore concrete ways to create resilient systems in their own communities and beyond.

This discussion is conceived in partnership with Jennifer Monson and Movement Research. More information on the discussion HERE. 

Sky Room Concert with Jennifer Monson and Jeff Kolar

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565x565x1Programmed in conjunction with “Performance Archiving Performance,” a presentation of works that engage archive as medium, on view in the Fifth Floor Resource Center from November 6, 2013–January 12, 2014.

Accompanying an improvised performance by Jennifer Monson, composer Jeff Kolar provides a sound design that responds to the delicate and sophisticated atmospheres and shifting spatial parameters of bodies in relationship to one another on-site in the New Museum’s Sky Room. The soundscape for the performance is generated live through field experiments in AM/FM, shortwave, citizens’ band, and unlicensed radio spectrums. The instrument arrangement of hand-built radio transmitters and receivers responds directly to external weather phenomena, wireless technology systems, and human activity. The body of the dancer and the shifting bodies of the audience, in concert with constant shifts in environmental conditions inside and outside of the New Museum, generate interference that provides the raw material for an improvised composition.

Live Dancing Archive at the New Museum

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Performance Archiving Performance Exhibition at the New Museum
November 6-January 12

Jennifer Monson is part of the exhibition Performance Archiving Performance at the New Museum this fall that opens November 6.

Performance archives seek to preserve some legible record of live art’s imprint on culture for future study; however, many argue that archived representations of performance cannot fully capture the nuances of ephemeral experience so essential to the form. Projects by a canary torsi, Jennifer Monson, Julie Tolentino, and Sara Wookey acknowledge these concerns by conceiving of the relationship between performance and archives as unique systems. Within these systems, the acts of recording, storing, indexing, and redistributing are as much a part of the work as the performance itself. As a result, the site of performance—its position in time, space, and form—is placed in question so that the actual process of archiving may be interpreted as its own mode of performance, its own singular event.

“Performance Archiving Performance,” a presentation of projects that engage archive as medium, is organized by Travis Chamberlain, Associate Curator of Performance, and on view in the Fifth Floor Resource Center from November 6–January 12.

Panel Discussion with Artists of “Performing Archiving Performance
November 16 2-4pm

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.

iLANDing at Earthdance

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iLAND will host a rural retreat for the 2013 iLAB Residents at Earthdance from May 17-23, 2013.

The collaborators will spend a week at Earthdance to immerse themselves in the development of their collaborative process and to engage in the different kinds of questions and methods that arise in a rural environment. The residents will be working with Jennifer Monson (founder and artistic director of iLAND) and other iLAND community members on the development of practices that help address these questions through iLANDing – a model for interdisciplinary collaboration with a strong emphasis on the role that dance and somatic practices play in environmental and aesthetic understanding.

Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

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Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

February 14–16, 8pm and February 21–23, 8pm

“What does it mean when an artist gives everything to pursue an idea to the bitter end? Of course it’s rare, but in this case it’s also a work delivered with supreme elegance.” – Gia Kourlas, New York Times

2011 iLAB Resident Update: ‘PARK Scores’ at Fresh Kills

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PARK Scores at Fresh Kills
by 2011 iLAB Residents
Kathy Westwater, Jennifer Scappettone, and Seung Jae Lee

September 23, 2012 at 1 pm

www.kathywestwater.org

PARK Scores is presented by the Council on the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island.

It will be part of Sneak Peak at Freshkills Park, hosted by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Freshkills Park.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/freshkills-sneak-peak

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PARK collaborators Kathy Westwater, Jennifer Scappettone, Seung Jae Lee, and Tamio Shiraishi will be in residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts’ Group Residency from September 28-October 3, 2012.

http://www.millaycolony.org/residencies

PBS IdeaLab blog features 2012 iLAB residents, Higher E.D.

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2012 iLAB Resident Team, Higher E.D., hosted a solar balloon and kite building workshop in early July.

Higher E.D. collaborator, Liz Barry, writes about the experience HERE on the PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog.

“What you may not be expecting to hear is that half of the workshop attendees were dancers or choreographers, organized by Lailye Weidman and Jessica Einhorn, two fellows of iLAND, an organization dedicated to collaboration between dancers and scientists.” 

Read more here:

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/08/movement-based-arts-inspire-public-labs-diy-environmental-science222.html

Lailye Weidman, 2012 iLAB Resident, performs at The Aviary (Boston)

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2012 iLAB Resident (Higher E.D.), Lailye Weidman, performs in Body Mic: Dance and Performance.

August 14, 2012 – 7:30 pm

The Aviary Gallery in Boston, MA

“Dance in your face–it’s happening. The Aviary is a beautiful intimate space for art and performance, and Lailye will be performing up close and personal with Hana van der Kolk in a duet conceived and directed by Teilo Troncy. Lailye will also show a duet that was co-created with Allison Ross.”

http://www.facebook.com/events/388281557894136/

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From Current iLAB Resident Lailye Weidman:
I want to invite you to an upcoming evening that I am curating and performing in at the Aviary Gallery in JP on Tuesday Aug 14th at 7:30 PM. It is a beautiful intimate space and this will be no ordinary night of performance. Hana van der Kolk and I will be performing material from a new duet directed by Teilo Troncy, exploring fluctuations in gender and relationship, tenderness and force. In another duet, co-discovered by Alli Ross and myself, we will reveal secret oracles and nonsense as we translate unknown messages through each others bones. In addition, I will be sharing a participatory weather dance conceived by the collaborative project Higher ED.

Aviary Gallery
Jamaica Plain, Masschusetts
Tuesday Aug 14th at 7:30 PM
aviarygallery.com

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2011 iLAB Resident: PARKscores @ LentSpace

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    Rules of Conduct for LentSPACE

PARKSCORES at LentSpace   
choreography KATHY WESTWATER
music TAMIO SHIRAISHI
poetry JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE
set JAE LEE
performance HADAR AHUVIA, TESSA CHANDLER, HILARY CHAPMAN, BELINDA HE, and KATHY WESTWATER  
In 2010 and 2011, at Fresh Kills Westwater created scores that respond to and evoke the experience of the site in its current liminal state — no longer landfill and not yet parkland. PARK scores continue to be re-imagined and remade beyond the iconic landfill site, including now at LentSpace. LentSpace is owned by Trinity Wall Street and licensed for use to Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for temporary art installations. It is also the vacant land Occupy Wall Street attempted to inhabit after Zuccotti Park.
Tuesday, July 17, 1pm   
LentSpace @ Canal Street and 6th Avenue 
FREE 

more info: here, here & here
left photo “PARK: Fresh Kills movement/installation”, 2011  credit: Anja Hitzenberger  right, credit: Kathy Westwater 

Friday July 6th – Office of Recuperative Strategies at the Gowanus Canal

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Join writer Rachel Levitsky, Landscape Architect Elliott Maltby and Translator/Poet ElizabethZuba for an expedition to collectively recuperate latent  words, meanings, objects and gestures from the Gowanus Canal and then re-embed them in the group show To the Stars on the Wings of an Eel, Brooklyn and the world. To the Stars on the Wings of an Eel is a show organized by OoRS officer Ethan Spigland along with several others we admire. The show begins June 29. Its impressive roster of participants and events can be found at the Gowanus Ballroom website.

Everyone is welcome to join this walk. It’s free. Sign up in advance is encouraged but not required. Email yoors@oors.net to let us know you are coming.

FRIDAY, JULY 6th
We will meet at 5:00 PM at The Gowanus Ballroom
55 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

There will be lots of signs but feel free to call us if you have any trouble: 917 495 7075
Walk 5 -7 PM
Embed/Imbibe 7 PM onward

FRIDAY, JULY 6th
7pm–3am, $10 after 9pm

DJ Dirty Finger
Office of Recuperative Strategies (Elliott Malby, Elizabeth Zuba, Rachel Levitsky)
Matthew Silver: the Great Performer
Hungry March Band
Pendulum Swings
The Big Ship

SATURDAY, JULY 7th
3pm–3am, $10 after 9pm

DJ James Mulry
Panoply Performance Laboratory
Miru Kim
Mike Haar the Barber
Clydesdale Erotic
Matthew Silver: the Great Performer
Apocalypse Five and Dime
Consumata

July 14th – City of Water Day – iLAB Residents in Action

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Follow the Water Walks will offer a full river paddle in the morning and then support a community group with their Soundview Festival.

On the Water, For the Water
Saturday, July 14, 2012 • 10am to 4pm
Governors Island, NYC
Liberty State Park, NJ
& In Your Neighborhood
Presented by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance

A FREE day of entertainment, education & adventure 
celebrating the potential of our waterfront!
From the upper Hudson to Raritan Bay, we are a City of Water—yet too many of us are cut off from this tremendous resource. Help revitalize the waterfront with a festival for the entire family.

http://www.cityofwaterday.org/

Kite and Solar Balloon Workshop with Higher E.D.

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iLAB Residents, Higher E.D., will host a Bamboo Kite and Solar Balloon Workshop THIS WEEKEND! 

Training Session: June 30, 2012, 11am – 5pm

Public Workshop: July 1, 2012, 11am – 5pm

Location: 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, at Broadway Triangle.

Directions: Once at 630 Flushing, walk to Thompkins Ave and enter the parking lot behind the Pfizer building. The main entrance has a small overhang and bicycle parking. We will be on the loading dock.

http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/bambootyvek-kite-and-solar-balloon-construction-workshop

Join Public Laboratory members Mat Lippincott, an extraordinary floating and flying object sculptor visiting from Portland, Oregon, and Leo Famulari, an extraordinary kite designer visiting from Miami, Florida, for a hands-on workship on design principles and construction of Solar Balloons and Bamboo Kites. These can be used for taking aerial images and other aerial data gathering, or for your pure enjoyment. This workshop is part of iLAB—an interdisciplinary collaborative project between PLOTS staff member Liz Barry and two dance artists: Jess Einhorn and Lailye Weidman. They will share a bit about their research on Sunday. Upon the completion of the workshop, you can either take your kite or solar balloon home, or add it to the PLOTS NYC lending library (including the floating gallery project, part of the 2012 iLAB Higher E+D fellowship).

Please bring your own lunch — we will provide snacks! For questions, please email liz@publiclaboratory.org or call 336-269-1539. Hope to see you there or in the air.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/271019926338370/

Announcement: Bamboo Kite and Solar Balloon

2012 iLAND Retreat/Lab

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The 2nd annual iLAND Retreat/Lab is happening this Sunday, June 17th from 10 am until 4 pm at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in NYC.

20 members of the iLAND community, including past and present iLAB Residents and iLAND Board Members, will gather to participate in iLANDing along the Hudson River and discussion at Eyebeam. This event is at capacity. 

These images are from the 2011 iLAB Retreat, which was generously hosted by the Bronx River Art Center.

 Thank you to D’Agostino’s for their continual support and quality fare!

Events Next Week with Jennifer Monson and others

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Hello iLAND community,
     The next week is full of some exciting events. Please check out theMovement Research Spring Festival. I’ll be hosting a sensory walk in Central Park and performing in stillness-action-sweat-effort on Wednesday night. I will also be presenting at the Earth Matters on Stage conferencein Pittsburgh with iLAND board member, Julia Handschuh. Also, check out the AMAZING Post Plastica, a NEW and outstanding creation by Alina and Ela Troyano. I will be speaking about the BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration tour at the pre-show talk, along with a beekeeper! I’m so excited!
     I also want to encourage all of you fearless people to sign up for Pooh Kaye’s Wild Fields’ workshop at Movement Research’s Summer MELT. This was one of the first pieces I made with Pooh Kaye. It is an amazing work and Pooh is incomparable artist. This is a rare and wonderful opportunity.
      We will be sending an update about the 2012 iLAB Residents soon!  The initial news from the collaborative teams is titillating.
     ENJOY the summer and I hope to see everyone multiple times in the gorgeous NYC environs.
Love,
Jennifer Monson
Founder and Artistic Director of iLAND
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Movement Research Spring Festival

Performance Event:   

stillness-action-sweat-effort

Wednesday May 30, 2012 | 10PM  | $5

The Center at West Park, NYC 

165 W. 86th Street
(West Park Presbyterian Church, corner of Amsterdam Avenue)

A performance experiment where the duet is charged with the exploration of stillness, action, sweat and effort. Participants were chosen based on their choreographic approaches and aesthetic differences that touch these categories. Performances can be rehearsed, improvised, score-driven or otherwise. The collaboration can be collective, competitive, a battle, a fusion, or indeterminate.

PARTICIPANTS: 

Aretha Aoki
devynn emory
Niall Jones
Jennifer Monson 

Central Park Sensory Walk

Led by Jennifer Monson

Saturday June 2, 2012 | 11am | FREE

CENTRAL PARK
Meet at the entrance on West 81 Street & Central Park West.

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Earth Matters On Stage

PANEL:  “Performance & Pause: Developing Kinesthetic Exchanges with Urban Environments”  

with Julia Handschuh, Jennifer Monson, Courtney Ryan, Arden Thomas
Thursday May 31, 2012 | 3:00-4:30 pm
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Pittsburgh, PA
A panel of papers aimed at facilitating an eco-conversation between artists and scholars on the subject of human engagement with the urban environment.  Topics discussed will include the work of iLAND and performer Julia Handschuh’s work in collaboration with iLand, and the work of artists Mark Bamuthi Joseph and Vlatka Horvat.
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PS122 and El Museo del Barrio present 

Post Plastica 

by Carmelita Tropicana & Ela Troyano
Featuring Carmelita Tropicana, Becca Blackwell & Erin Markey
May 31 – June 3, 2012
El Museo del Barrio (5th Ave at 104th St)
 
Part live performance, part video installation, this piece offers a glimpse into a future in which celebrity culture has pitched
a battle between the primacy of virtual and artistic lives; in which revolutionaries keep bees in a secret underground;
and in which a half-woman, half-bear scientist has gained the upper hand…

Pre-show talk at 6 pm on June 2, 2012
BIRD BRAIN with Jennifer Monson, choreographer and artistic director of interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance (iLAND)

and Urban Beekeeping with Guillermo Fernandez, of NYC Beekeeping

2 for 1 tickets in advance with discount code FF241.

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Movement Research 

MELT

July 9 – August 10, 2012
MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer (5 weeks) and winter (3 weeks). Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recognized faculty as well as acclaimed guest artists, these workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with some of the most highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today.
Pooh Kaye

July 9 – July 13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
3:30 pm-6:00 pm $130
Danspace Project
Wild Fields: Radical Strategies for Movement and Composition