A participatory assembly led by Chloe Smolarski, artist; Tasha Darbes, ethnographer; and Edge Effect Media Group
Free and Open to All. Please RSVP here.
Remember: the planet is an archive. On April 24th, join together with people of different experiences as we engage the climate crisis through art, embodiment, and conversation. Participants will interact with archival material as interlocutors, as they observe one another’s stories of climate change effects.
This assembly will contribute oral histories to an archive of collective grief, as we recover the past, acknowledge the present, and dream about the future of our climate. Embedded within and inspired by the exhibitions Holding Water and When Home Leaves You: Archiving Living Memories of Climate Change our space centers collective grief, as a way to transcend alienation and imagine responses.
Chloe Smolarski is an interdisciplinary research-based artist, media maker, and educator. Smolarski is a current Social Practice CUNY faculty fellow.
Dr. Tasha Darbes is currently Associate Professor of TESOL and Bilingual Education at Pace University. She has a variety of experiences as a qualitative researcher, designing multimedia projects and curricula, and as a teacher educator.
Their collaborations include the research-based art installation When Home Leaves You: Immersive Oral Histories of Climate Change and Adaptation at the Swale House on Governors Island, Community Response / La comunidad responde, a participatory media lab that trained multilingual youth to be oral historians of COVID-19, and the documentary Admissions: Student Stories from Undocumented America.
Edge Effect Media Group is a “think and do tank” that creates participatory experiences for individuals to share knowledge across personal, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Co-founded by dramaturg Jess Applebaum and director/scenographer Nic Benacerraf (both doctoral students in Theatre & Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center), EE’s process is deeply rooted in the edge-blurring practices of devised theater. Each project unites a polydisciplinary community to study a transcendent issue of our time, who then creates original multimedia performances for new communities to deepen the investigation. This event is part of their ongoing Mourning Machine series. https://www.edgeeffectmedia.org/
Thanks to SPCUNY and New Media Lab
