iLAND collaborative residency

I am super excited to be participating in a process-intensive, collaborative residency with iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance). Meeting periodically over the space of a year with five collaborators, our Urban Backstage group is exploring the East River Waterfront in Lower Manhattan and the surrrounding urban landscape with an ear for ecological infrastructure, among other things. So far we have made a tour of the former Collect Pond that lives beneath the civil, criminal and family court buildings as well as the former Five Points neighborhood, explored the Lenape myth of the Corn Maiden and talked a lot about CSOs (combined sewer overflows). Between us our interdisciplinary activities span landscape architecture, dance, musical theater, playwriting, media art, socially engaged practice and we will collaborate with scientists. We will have at least one public engagement event, which will be on July 18th, 2015. Thanks to LMCC for collaborating with iLAND to form the three research groups. (The other two are Water and Immigration and Embodied Mapping)