Category: Public Projects and Artworks
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Environmental Performance Agency
Read more: Environmental Performance AgencyThe Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) is an artist collective founded in 2017 and named in response to the ongoing rollback of Federal environmental policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Appropriating the acronym EPA, the collective’s primary goal is to shift thinking around the terms environment, performance, and agency – using artistic, social, and embodied practices…
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Multispecies Care Survey
Read more: Multispecies Care SurveyThe Multispecies Care Survey is an Environmental Performance Agency public engagement and data gathering initiative meant to provoke and articulate forms of environmental agency that de-center human supremacy and facilitate the co-generation of embodied, localized plant-human care practices. This continues the EPA’s work in response to the dismantling of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under…
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Chance Ecologies
Read more: Chance EcologiesLocation: Queens, NY Collaborator: Amplifier Inc., Catherine Grau, Stephen Zacks, and Nathan Kensinger Chance Ecologies is a framework for artistic gestures and research projects exploring the un-designed landscapes and wilderness found in abandoned spaces, post-industrial sites, and landfills. The main trajectories of the project are to create research and discourse around the value of wild…
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Environmental Health Clinic
Read more: Environmental Health ClinicAs a Research Assistant at NYU, I contributed to the development of The Environmental Health Clinic, a cross-disciplinary lab that develops and prescribes systems that improve human and environmental health. Founded by Natalie Jeremijenko, the Clinic includes a range of projects, actions, and speculative designs exploring issues of biopolitics, environmental health, sustainability and design. In…
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Solar Energy Commons
Read more: Solar Energy CommonsA collaborative project with designer Elliott P. Montgomery to connect a 4.8 kW rooftop solar array on the roof of Elsewhere museum with the streets of downtown Greensboro. The final design is a public charging station called the Solar Energy Commons, which also doubles as and solar karaoke kiosk after dusk. The project also included…
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Strataspore
Read more: StratasporeStrataSpore is a platform for collective knowledge about mushrooms. Initiated by Kate Cahill, Christopher Kennedy, Athena Kokoronis, Caroline Woolard, and mycologist Gary Lincoff, Strataspore uses mushrooms as material and metaphor for latent potential and unseen infrastructure. Right now, mushrooms are eating oil spills, connecting old members of Fluxus, feeding communities, and growing as alternative packaging…
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No War on Plants
Read more: No War on PlantsGlyphosate is one of the most common herbicides used across the US and world, first developed by chemist Henry Martin in the 1950s for the company Cilag. It was not widely used until 1974 when Monsanto (acquired by Bayer in 2018) brought it to market under the brand name “Roundup”. Although celebrated for its ability…
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Nomadic Field Station
Read more: Nomadic Field StationA collaborative project with designers Janette Kim and Josh Draper to develop a Nomadic Field Station and Library prototype that can be deployed in dense urban areas . Re-imagining the idea of a reference desk and of what we classically consider the function of a library, the Field Station allows participants to exchange their local…
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City Skins: A Survey of Transient Urban Surfaces
Read more: City Skins: A Survey of Transient Urban SurfacesCity Skins documents urban streetscapes and surfaces in transition, making visible alterations to human habitats and public spaces. The Survey includes photographic documentation, surface rubbings, and movement-research that document evidence of neighborhood change, gentrification, and the disturbance of urban environments. In collaboration with Ellie Irons. City Skins documents urban streetscapes and surfaces in transition, making…
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hiway/hiway
Read more: hiway/hiwayhiway/hiway is a site-specific investigation of the Flushing Creek at the intersection of the Long Island and Van Wyck Expressway in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The project explores the value of unmediated weedy landscapes that surround highway interchanges and on-ramps, and considers how transit systems act as habitat, repository, and conveyance for seeds, pollutants, water and…
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Perennials
Read more: PerennialsA series of sculptures and installation developed for the exhibition Perennials at the King Street Gallery, Montgomery College in Washington DC, curated by Suzy Kopf. Ruderal Street Bundles No. 1 – 9 2017, Variable sizes (~5x4x18 in) Spontaneous urban plants, street debris, twine and string Curatorial Statement: A perennial is broadly defined as a plant…
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Environmental Empathies
Read more: Environmental EmpathiesA silkscreen poster designed in collaboration with Kimberly Reinhardt for the exhibition Environmental Empathies at the Callahan Center Art Gallery at St. Francis College. They Tried to Eradicate Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Weeds On every continent and in every bioregion, weedy species find a way to survive. Their resilience is at once inspiring while also…