Art, Environment, Action! Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons Hosts
an Environmental "Artshop" |
Editor's Note: A full list of programs and artist bios is available for download by clicking here. NEW YORK, August 28, 2012--On September 27, a member of the Staten Island collective, 5 P.M. (Poop Machine), will be assisting artist Tattfoo Tan in a workshop on raising urban chickens. This work should come naturally to the 5 p.m. member, because she is, in fact, a chicken. The opening reception reflects the nature of the unusually interactive and interdisciplinary laboratory taking place this fall at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design, Art, Environment, Action! Over its nearly four-month run, this creative laboratory will bring together a diverse cross-section of artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists, working at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology. Designed as a “toy box” of possibilities, the gallery will be continually transformed through dynamic programs that will rely on public participation. Visitors are invited to sign up for workshops, off-site explorations, walks, dialogues, and other interactive exchanges led by the artists, encouraging their active engagement as makers and thinkers. Artifacts of these exchanges will seed subsequent dialogue and interaction in the gallery. “We see the galleries as spaces with which to think, rather than as venues for display,” says Radhika Subramaniam, Director and Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and the curator of the lab. “Art, Environment, Action! is about catalyzing a culture of conversation, creative experience, and action. It is co-created by participants and artists.” The show continues the SJDC’s ongoing commitment to environmental issues as seen in its past exhibitions on urban agriculture and food systems (Living Concrete/Carrot City, Fall 2010) and climate change (U-n-f-o-l-d, Fall 2011.). Programs include: • Chez Panisse chef Jerome Waag, of the art/food collective, OPENrestaurant, will trace the ecology of the Atlantic Ocean through a culinary exploration of cod that includes a food-gathering safari and a cooking class. Visit the SJDC website for a full list of programming, and to sign up for the workshops and other activities. The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center is an award-winning campus center for Parsons The New School for Design that combines learning and public spaces with exhibition galleries to provide an important new downtown destination for art and design programming. The mission of the Center is to generate an active dialogue on the role of innovative art and design in responding to the contemporary world. Its programming encourages an interdisciplinary examination of possibility and process, linking the university to local and global debates. The center is named in honor of its primary benefactor, New School Trustee and Parsons Board Chair Sheila C. Johnson. The design by Lyn Rice Architects is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/sjdc. ### |
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