iLAB 2007 Artist in Residence Program

iLAND- interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance announces the public engagement of the iLAB 2007 Artist in Residence Program: The City From a Plants Perspective: Mapping NYC as Native Flora.

Collaborators:
Lise Brenner, Choreographer, NYC
Ulrich Lorimer, Curator, Native Plants, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, NYC
Katrina Simon, Landscape architect and visual artist, Sydney, Australia
Jonathan Zalben, Composer and sound artist, NYC.

iLAB 2007 is based on the concepts that most people organize their activities via mental maps (wait for the train here; get off in front of the stairs at 14th Street) and that maps are creative projects, capable of uncovering unseen aspects of even the most well-traveled landscape. Tracking native plants in New York City makes for an exponential rise in perceiving (and valuing) vacant lots, wind and migratory bird patterns, and some of the city’s many obscured histories. iLAB 2007 uses the presence of poplars, pokeweed, and Indian hemp as the horticultural trigger for movement-based, sound-based, and design-based data collection about the urban habitats of these and other native plants. Join iLAB 2007 on one or both excursions to the outermost edges of the outer boroughs for creative field study and collective map-making.

Dates, Times, Location:

12 – 5pm Sunday, September 30, 2007 at Floyd Bennett Field / Ryan Visitor’s Center and 4 – 7pm Friday, October 5, 2007 at Coney Island / Nathan’s

Events are FREE and open to the general public and will happen rain or shine.

Directions and Transportation:

Floyd Bennett Field: 2 to Flatbush Avenue/Brooklyn College, then Q35 bus to the Ryan Visitor’s Center/Aviator Sports Complex. We will meet inside the Ryan Visitor’s Center. For more information on Floyd Bennett Field, see www.nyharborparks.org/visit/flbe.html

BIKE: Greenway (Class I bike route) along Flatbush Ave.

CAR: Take Belt Parkway to Exit 11S, then Flatbush Ave south.

Coney Island: D, F, N, Q to Stillwell Avenue. Follow the exit signs to Surf Avenue. You will see Nathan’s across the street. We will gather at the seating to the right of the food services.

For more information, click here or call 212-375-8283.

iLAND is a not for profit organization conceived and formed by choreographer Jennifer Monson in 2004. The organization’s mission is to investigate the power of dance, in collaboration with other fields, to illuminate our kinetic understanding of the world. iLAND, a dance research organization with a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context, cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields.

iLAB 2007 is supported in part by the Robison Foundation.

Jennifer Monson
Artistic Director
iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance