See Stream: Chapter 3
Stream: Chapter 3, our exhibition in South Windham, Vermont on August 4th and 5th was super. You can see the work in context by visiting the links below. Like Two Chairs on Facebook to get future updates on Two Chairs projects.
FOREST
artists here: Yu Jin, Juneau Projects, Zoe Walsh.
STREAM & AROUND
artists here: E.E. Ikeler, Yu Jin, Louise Lawler, Arrow Mueller, David Nash.
MEADOW
artists here: Peggy Ahwesh, Annie Berman, Kenneth Pietrobono, Rachel Stevens, Marina Zurkow.
Stream 3 is almost here
Two Chairs has organized a third year of the exhibition taking place in Vermont around a stream. This year we have an official Two Chairs Facebook page and a successful Kickstarter campaign!
Artists this year: Peggy Ahwesh (US), Annie Berman, (US), E.E. Ikeler (US), Yu Jin (China), Juneau Projects (UK), Louise Lawler (US), David Nash (UK), Kenneth Pietrobono (US), Rachel Stevens (US), Zoe Walsh (US), Marina Zurkow (US)
Signal Fire residency: Unwalking the West
I am truly excited to participate in a residency this June with Signal Fire (not to be confused with the “media project of the Maoist Communist Group” nor the reimagined venture capital firm, two entities with the same name) called Unwalking John C. Frémont. It is part of their Unwalking the West theme this year. We (ten artists and two artist-guides) will be hiking, camping and backpacking in the Upper Klamath Basin region of southern Oregon while taking a deep dive into environmental, social and political issues that affect the area. Such a terrific opportunity to research and connect with a landscape in the far west for this native of Northern California who has been living the NYC life for maybe too long.
Description from their site:
What Western U.S. city doesn’t have a street named after “The Pathfinder,” John C. Frémont? This trip revisits portions of the route of Frémont’s calamitous Second Expedition (1843-4), a foray into empire-building conducted under the guise of exploration. Frémont’s journey provides an entry point to learning about an exceptional and very contested place: the Upper Klamath Basin.
We will begin our trip in the ancestral land of the Modocini, Mak’Lak and Yahooskin tribes (comprising The Klamath Tribes). Our contextual materials will include an introduction to Klamath’s ecological “knot” as well as focus on Indigenous Survivance and sovereignty, from the Modoc War to the contemporary fight for Indigenous water and fishing rights. We will introduce content about the current political landscape of a place that sees very different communities working together to solve conflicts over vital natural resources.
Both local and visitors’ voices will contribute to our understanding of the forces that have shaped the Basin: dams, grazing, and land theft, as well as problem solving through patient and resourceful strategies. We’ll spend the first half of the trip in the former Klamath reservation at Chiloquin, Modoc Point and traveling along the Sprague River, visiting important cultural sites and meeting with visiting presenters. Then we’ll head into the Lava Beds National Monument to visit the strongholds of the Modicini where Kintpuash (Captain Jack) and a band of Modocs successfully fought off the U.S. Government troops for 5 months in the late 1800’s. The second half of our trip will include a short backpacking adventure in the mountains surrounding the Klamath Basin—wildlands whose waters feed this oasis.
Three walks for the Pier 42 City of Water Day Summer Celebration
On July 18th we animated some waterways in Lower Manhattan with some performative, experiential walks at Collect Pond, tracing the path of Old Wreck Brook to the East River through some interstitial and public/private urban spaces and then on to the ‘CSO theater’ at Corlear’s Hook.Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration and City of Water Day
Saturday, July 18, 2-6pm
Pier 42
The 2015 iLAB Residency groups, Water & Im/migration and The Urban Backstage, invite you to Pier 42 on Saturday, July 18th, to join in the Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration and City of Water Day. As part of the Waterfront Alliance’s larger City of Water Day celebration, Paths to Pier 42 will host an afternoon of family-friendly activities including the iLAND events listed below.
2PM The Urban Backstage: Collect Pond Park performance
Location: The performance begins at the southern end of Collect Pond Park
The first of three linked walking and talking performances about the city and its relationship to water. Visit the place where Collect Pond used to be, and imagine the city when it was the primary source of fresh drinking water and a place of leisure and escape.
2:45PM The Urban Backstage: Wreck Brook / East River walk
Location: The walk begins at Foley Square and ends at Pier 42
The second of three linked walking and talking performances: walk the trail of the former Old Wreck Brook from Foley Square to the East River exploring the links between natural and engineered water systems.
4PM Water & Im/migration: Shore of Hope – Part II
Location: Pier 42
Enjoy arts activities for all ages, including a calligraphy workshop, a choral performance by members of the Open Door Senior Citizen Center, and movement sharing to explore the themes of Water and Immigration (for ages 7 and older).
4:30PM The Urban Backstage: CSO Theater
Location: Starts at the Pier 42 welcome tent
The last of three walking and talking performances: travel from Pier 42 to the East River Amphitheater where ideas about what’s hidden–under our city, and in ourselves–take to the stage.
Fluid Histories, Neighborhood Practices: Rehearsing a Changing Waterfront
We had a great time at this year’s iLAND symposium: Fluid Histories, Neighborhood Practices: Rehearsing a Changing Waterfront – a gathering around movement, science and the environment in New York City.
Our workshop, The Urban Backstage took people through a series of actions, spaces and prompts (or mini scores) to explore the boundary between performance and backstage, both within the urban landscape and infrastructure and in people’s everyday gestures and emotions. The final presentations of the movements generated from “rehearsing” the series of scores were fantastic.
In the photo of Eric Sanderson of The Welikia Project during his presentation at the panel he is gesturing at Collect Pond, one of our favorite topics.
