More About the LMCC Arts Center Exhibits & Residency:

First exhibited as a part of LMCC’s World Views residency program in 1980 at the World Trade Center, Love Tapes by Wendy Clarke is currently on view in Cafe through September 29, 2024. Love Tapes is a participatory video art project that has captured the ideas, beliefs, and stories about love from everyday people. For almost five decades, Clarke has documented these intimate and vulnerable stories amassing a collection of over 2500 tapes. Each tape is a reminder of our shared humanity and that love unites us all.

2024 Arts Center Curatorial Fellow’s culminating exhibitions, Hope is a discipline, curated by 2024 Curatorial Fellow Meghana Karnik, and Tropical Frequencies, curated by Curatorial Fellow Kiara Cristina Ventura, Founder of Processa, are now on view at The Art Center’s Upper Gallery.

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The Arts Center at Governors Island is also home to year-round artist residency programs for artists working in any discipline. LMCC’s residency programs aim to meet the immediate studio space needs of the artist community we serve by converting unconventional, vacant spaces into work and process space for artists. With the Arts Center at Governors Island, LMCC established our first permanent location for artistic process, presentation and gathering. LMCC’s residency programs are a vital part of our commitment to ensuring artists have free, collaborative space for creative development and production in New York City today and long into our shared futures.

Session 2 artists include: Bazeed, Carlos Wilfredo Encarnación, Regina Evans, GOODW.Y.N., Ruth Jeyaveeran, Juyon Lee, Jemila MacEwan, Yumiko Ono, María Elena Pombo, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Jonathan Sánchez Noa, Nature Shankar, Alexander Si, Motohiro Takeda, Vincent Tiley, Jaleeca Yancy, LIU YEFU, 劉野夫, Alexander Zev, and Erica Shires (‘23, 2024 On-Site Assistant).

More About the Other of Pearl installation:

In Oth­er of Pearl, Jen­ny Kendler (b. 1980, New York, NY) tells the sto­ry of the extrac­tive his­to­ries that form the ori­gin sto­ries of the cli­mate and envi­ron­men­tal cri­sis, while con­sid­er­ing the oys­ter and whale as cen­tral play­ers in an eco­log­i­cal entan­gle­ment between human and non­hu­man beings, water­ways, and flows of cap­i­tal.

Focus­ing on our rela­tion­ships with these two very dif­fer­ent beings, Kendler illu­mi­nates the ways in which cap­i­tal­ist sys­tems are often found­ed upon the bod­ies of oth­ers. The artist con­fronts con­tem­po­rary envi­ron­men­tal issues — cli­mate change, ocean noise, chem­i­cal pol­lu­tion, bio­di­ver­si­ty loss, and sea lev­el rise — while point­ing towards the cul­tur­al struc­tures that have allowed these cat­a­stro­phes to occur.

Oth­er of Pearl, Kendler’s first solo exhi­bi­tion in New York City, trans­forms the mag­a­zine of Fort Jay into a space for slow explo­ration. Here you will encounter sev­en inti­mate and del­i­cate works, includ­ing a hand­blown glass instru­ment where you can sing in the voice of a whale and pearl sculp­tures grown inside oys­ters. At the con­clu­sion of the exhi­bi­tion, the pearl sculp­tures will be auc­tioned to raise funds to help cre­ate a new oys­ter reef — redis­trib­ut­ing resources in a ges­ture of eco­log­i­cal restora­tion — in part­ner­ship with the Bil­lion Oys­ter Project.

By offer­ing this propo­si­tion of a more inti­mate, and bod­i­ly rela­tion­ship with the nat­ur­al world, Oth­er of Pearl pro­pos­es a new way to envi­sion who mat­ters and who we build the future for, invit­ing us to imag­ine a restored prac­tice of reci­procity between human and non-humans.

More About the NADA house:

Found­ed in 2002, NADA is a not-for-prof­it col­lec­tive of pro­fes­sion­als work­ing with con­tem­po­rary art. Its mis­sion is to cre­ate an open flow of infor­ma­tion, sup­port, and col­lab­o­ra­tion with­in the arts field and to devel­op a stronger sense of com­mu­ni­ty among its con­stituen­cy. Through sup­port and encour­age­ment, NADA facil­i­tates strong and mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships between its mem­bers work­ing with new con­tem­po­rary and emerg­ing art. The sixth edi­tion of NADA House brings togeth­er 17 exhibitors pre­sent­ing 21 artists, with par­tic­i­pants engag­ing the unique char­ac­ter of this his­toric space and exhibit­ing work in a diverse range of medi­ums. Par­tic­i­pat­ing artists and gal­leries include: