{"id":45222,"date":"2020-11-14T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?p=45222"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:44:43","slug":"the-leaf-episode-2-show-and-tells-from-friec-collective-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/2020\/11\/14\/the-leaf-episode-2-show-and-tells-from-friec-collective-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"The LEAF Episode 2: Show and Tells from FRIEC Collective Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Want to explore\u00a0diverse and connecting threads in urban ecological arts? In the LEAF, three FRIEC Urban Arts Collective members share something from their ideas and work for 10 minutes each, followed by Q&A.<\/i><\/p>\r\n

Presenters:
Christina Freeman, New York
Lucie Lederhendler, Montreal
Paula Nishijima, Amsterdam<\/p>\r\n

18 November<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To watch the recording: <\/b>https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/rec\/share\/3wpOZ6sby72KzNuWXcOUTC4VwTVO1w4nsbO3MpH3uxVJPc3DDsqo-19Z8mDpHB1J.fySX4bwCajMWzn3e<\/a><\/strong>
Passcode: 0qQ1@Y*3<\/p>\r\n

The theme of this episode is<\/span>: Place<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Christina Freeman<\/strong>, New York. I will share work from my cooperative and participatory practice. As an artist and curator, my projects challenge pre-existing cultural value systems such as definitions of waste, and the normalization of competition as inherent. Most recently, I worked with the USDA Forest Service\u2019s New York City Urban Field Station (NYC UFS) and Pratt Institute\u2019s Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI), to organize Who Takes Care of New York?<\/i> \u00a0Presented at Queens Museum in September 2019, this exhibition highlights the wide range of environmental stewardship throughout New York City. An online version of the exhibition will be presented by TNOC very soon!<\/p>\r\n

Lucie Lederhendler<\/strong>,\u00a0Montreal. Within the framework\u00a0established by Roland Barthes that “myth is a type of speech chosen by history” (1970\/1991 trans), I’m going to review a few past projects that tried to unearth neglected but extant mythologies by highlighting the traces of\u00a0Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montr\u00e9al’s industrial past. Building on that approach, I will introduce my current, nascent\u00a0research trajectory, which deals with the incontrovertible existence of sea monsters, ghosts, and the complexity of void spaces.<\/p>\r\n

Paula Nishijima<\/strong>, Dieman.
I\u2019ll share my ongoing artistic research\u00a0and series of works \u201cGame of Swarms.\u201d The project draws on theories\u00a0about self-organisation and swarm intelligence\u2014common in\u00a0the\u00a0collective behavior of decentralized systems in nature,\u00a0e.g.\u00a0social insects and slime molds\u2014and materializes into\u00a0an audio-visual piece and a cooperative\u00a0game. I propose the swarm as\u00a0a framework to discuss how the world is tackling global issues, such as the environmental\u00a0crisis,\u00a0while claiming the self-organised and auto-poetic forces of living\u00a0matter.\u00a0GoS\u00a0seeks\u00a0to stress a non-hierarchical relationship among living organisms that work\u00a0together through local interactions to achieve a global harmony. It is\u00a0an initiative to spark new ways of thinking inspired by the behavior of\u00a0swarms in nature.<\/p>\r\n

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The FRIEC (Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures) Urban Ecological Arts Collective is a global group of almost 100 artists and creatives interested in the connection between nature and people in cities. The LEAF is a monthly webinar in which three Collective members spend 10 minutes describing an ideas or motivation central to their work, followed by discussion and Q&A with the audience. The idea to get to know the work of the Collective members, and to explore creativity and imagination in urban ecology.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Interested in being part of the FRIEC Collective? Write us at friec@thenatureofcities.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\r\n
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Banner image: A drawing of my empty street corner during COVID, by Lucie Lederhendler.<\/div>\r\n

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about the writer
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Lucie Lederhendler is the Artistic Director of the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, a community-engaged, contemporary public art gallery, where she began as curator in 2021. Her research is concerned with the ecosystems of mythologies and the mythologies of ecology. She is a lecturer in art history at Brandon University.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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about the writer
\n Paula Nishijima<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Paula Nishijima is a Brazilian visual artist whose research-based practice unfolds on the crossroads of life science, technology and participatory social practice. Exploring individual and collective motivations, either through happenings or longer processes of interaction, her production materialises into different digital media, such as video, web applications and photography.\r\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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