About this Event
The Time Being (For Robert Smithson)
By Nancy Holt, 1978
For the time being, in the interim, in the course of time, from day to day, from hour to hour, until, in due time, and in the fullness of time, time endures, goes on, remains, persists, lasts, goes by, elapses, passes, flows, rolls on, flies, slips, slides, and glides by.
Originally published in Arts Magazine 52, no. 9, Special Issue: Robert Smithson (May 1978), 144.
In this three-part workshop, designer and artist Eliza Axelson-Chidsey explores ways to create form for purpose, connecting the line between the structured, academic discipline, and the informal opportunities that we encounter all the time. Using found materials—whether they are naturally occurring or salvaged/repurposed—we’ll extend the same principles of form making.
Starting with a familiar and easy origami pattern for making paper boxes, we will expand, getting larger, looser, and more comfortable creating volume from sheet material with recycled and found materials, such as leaves.
What’s Included:
- Materials for box-making
What to Bring:
- Scissors, if you like
About Eliza Axelson-Chidsey
Eliza Axelson-Chidsey is a designer, artist, and curator based in New York City. Her interest in material culture is manifest in explorations of form, value, and ephemerality. Excited by research and concepts, and informed by her senses, she is regularly reminded how much learning is found through doing.
About Field Meridians Nature School
FM Nature School is a project to co-create an arts-based urban ecology curriculum that reflects our neighborhood in Brooklyn—aiming to generate tools for resilience.
Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kingston Avenue & Prospect Place, Kingston Avenue & Prospect Place, Brooklyn, United States
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