Location: 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 spaces in the urban environment; to document, learn from, and commemorate the naturally occurring ecosystems that are being lost to development; and to articulate contemporary readings of and new forms of relating to (urban) wilderness.
In 2015, I was invited to participate in the project, developing a site-specific project (Atlas of Endangered Surfaces) with collaborator Ellie Irons.
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