About this Event
Hope is a discipline
Curated by 2024 Curatorial Fellow Meghana Karnik
Hope is a discipline inhabits the words of Mariame Kaba, who proposes that hope is neither just a feeling nor horizon but something we do together, using the resources we already have. The exhibition features an ensemble of artists foregrounding memory and political inheritance, who work with collectively held archives—physical and intangible—from documentary record to oral history, ancestral memory to intergenerational learning. Transmitted through textile, installation, video, theater props, artist books and ephemera, Hope is a discipline relays the question: how do we find, remember, and share in the struggles of ancestors?
Artists: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Kyuri Jeon, Suneil Sanzgiri, Bread and Puppet Theater, Maggie Wong.
Co-curated with Eugene Hannah Park (ISCP Curator-in-Residence, New York/Seoul), Marina Christodoulidou (de Appel Curatorial Fellow, Amsterdam/Limassol), and Billy Fowo (Curator, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Yaoundé).
Tropical Frequencies
Curated by: 2024 Curatorial Fellow Kiara Cristina Ventura, Founder of Processa
Tropical Frequencies is an exhibition featuring painting, sculpture and installations by artists from the Caribbean who channel and engage with alternate realms in their practices. These spiritual and intangible realms are heavily influenced by diasporic Caribbean culture, the tropics, ancestral stories, and the artists’ African and/or Indigenous roots. The repurposed organic and manmade materials used throughout the exhibition such as wood, sand, seashells, and recycled clothing, act as a medium to channel the artist's ancestral homes and the nuanced histories of the Caribbean.
Artists: Cheyenne Julien, Emily Manwaring, Bony Ramirez, mosie romney, Quiara Torres, Tiempo De Zafra.
Also on view:
Love Tapes by Wendy Clarke
Cafe Gallery
Exhibited as a part of LMCC’s World Views residency program in 1980 at the World Trade Center, Love Tapes by Wendy Clarke is one of the earliest and actively ongoing projects that LMCC has supported.
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.
For the 2024 exhibition season, LMCC will present digitized archival footage of Love Tapes on our social media platforms and on site at the Arts Center at Governors Island. We will also explore themes of love through a series of public workshops that focus on this deep emotion through our environment, music, and machines.
Accessibility
The Arts Center is accessible by ferries to Governors Island departing to and from Lower Manhattan. For complete ferry schedules and directions to ferry terminals, visit the Governors Island website. All ferries are wheelchair-accessible. The Arts Center is wheelchair accessible, and further accessibility and health & safety information can be found here. For questions about accessibility needs, please contact Kasie Kirkland at [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, 110 Andes Rd, New York, NY 10004, United States
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