Unsolicited WhiteBox Open Call
May 1, 2024
GreenBox Environmental Summer Workshops ’24
June 6, 2024
Opening Reception Day - Wednesday, May 22, 6-9 pm
Juan Zamora, 'Isla Cambiante Performing the musical score of a NYC Leaf' May 22, 7 pm
Screening of Eugenio Ampudia ‘Concierto Para El Bioceno’ May 22, 8-9pm
Juanli Carrion & Rodolfo Kusulas – ph NYC Workshop, Friday June 7, 4-7 pm
Daniela Bertol SUNFARM Summer Solstice, Friday, June 21, All Evening
Mary Mattingly Workshop/Performance, Saturday, June 22, 3-5 pm
Jenny Marketou–Workshop: 'The Hatchery', Wednesday June 26, 3-7 pm
Jenny Marketou Book Launch & Panel Discussion: 'Futuring Waters' Thursday, June 27, 6-9 pm
MARY MATTINGLY
Blockades, Boulders, Weights, 2013-2024. Técnica mixta y cuerda / Mixed media and rope. Cortesía de la artista / Courtesy of Mary Mattingly
Curated by Blanca de la Torre
WhiteBox is proud to present Expanded Narratives on Art and Ecology, a new project in collaboration with ISLA@GreenBox, unveiling a symbolic space that addresses issues like food sovereignty, rewilding, ecofeminisms, hydrofeminisms and restorative aesthetics. With a post-anthropocentric attitude, it researches, experiments, and builds knowledge around the Democracy of the Air, Earth, and Water.
EUGENIO AMPUDIA
Concert for the Biocene, 2020. Video, 7 min. 30 sec.
Juan Zamora’s distressed Avenue B, sidewalk Spring Leaf-as-music sheet, interpreted live on Clarinet by Maestro Jorge Quevedo. May 22nd, 7PM sharp. Streamed via whiteboxnyFB
GreenBox@WBX is an ongoing program focused on urban sustainability in the inner city, where WhiteBox serves the community by engaging its citizenry, particularly youth and working-class minorities. Based on equity, inclusion, and environmental justice, this new collaboration with ISLA presents a long-term bond with this innovative nonprofit initiative from Spain, seeding a local New York Platform to establish global networks to face the besieging ecosocial crisis both internationally and locally, including the urban communities in the beleaguered enclave of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
JENNY MARKETOU
Futuring Waters: A Speculative Manifesto for and from the Water, 2023.
Book Launch, Panel Discussion and Installation
However, ISLA is also a physical environment (located in Robledo de Chavela, Madrid, Spain) and a realm of reflection and praxis, which operates as a think-action-tank for the development and production of ideas around art and ecology. In this way, the island of Manhattan, via GreenBox, joins the ISLA project archipelago to begin a long-term-bridge relationship and rethink the fundamental role of the visual arts to create, speculate and fable about new possibilities and alternatives to face the ecological and climate emergency.
JUANLI CARRIÓN + RODOLFO KUSULAS
PhNYC, 2024 Flag and participatory workshop
This project is proposed as a place to open critical spaces of dialogue and interaction to embrace improbable connections and help shape that ideal world we aim to inhabit. The works that comprise this project propose an ecocentric view that speaks of awakening new forms in the ecopolitical imagination to experiment alongside other modes of coexistence and point to the ideal of “good living” as a collective project based on ecodependence and interdependence as sine qua non conditions to inhabit the world.
NOAH FISCHER
On view - New York 2044 - The Front Window Summer Program Project
The Front Window Summer Project inaugurates a sidewalk News Kiosk.
More art> presents Noah Fischer's New York 2044, a commissioned Artwork/News/Social Sculpture at WhiteBox. Fulfilling the ethos of urban sustainability is impossible when a large part of the population continues to lack affordable housing.
New York 2044 is a speculative/humanist newspaper reporting on the imaginations of folks who made the place and imagining the city's near future. The first issue is on affordable housing, and we move through different issues through 2025. I am asking activists/politicians/
Going through August 10th, 2024.
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Expanded Narratives on Art and Ecology
Curado por Blanca De la torre
Fase I mayo 22 - junio 30, 2024
Fase II julio 1 - agosto 10, 2024
WhiteBox se enorgullece de presentar Expanded Narratives on Art and Ecology, un nuevo proyecto en colaboración con ISLA@GreenBox, que abre un espacio simbólico para abordar temas en torno a la soberanía alimentaria, el rewilding, los ecofeminismos, los hidrofeminismos y las estéticas restaurativas. Con una actitud postantropocéntrica, busca investigar, experimentar y construir conocimiento en torno a la Democracia del Aire, la Tierra y el Agua.
GreenBox@WBX es un programa permanente sobre sostenibilidad urbana en el centro de la ciudad, donde WhiteBox sirve a la comunidad neoyorquina involucrando a su ciudadanía, particularmente a jóvenes y minorías de clase trabajadora. Basada en principios de equidad, inclusión y justicia ambiental, esta nueva colaboración con ISLA se presenta como un vínculo a largo plazo con esta innovadora iniciativa sin ánimo de lucro de España, que siembra una llataforma local en Nueva York con el fin de establecer redes globales para afrontar la crisis ecosocial, tanto desde la perspectiva internacional como desde lo local e incluyendo a las comunidades del contexto, en el Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Pero, ISLA es también un entorno físico (ubicado en Robledo de Chavela, Madrid, España) y un ámbito de reflexión y praxis, que opera como un think-action-tank para el desarrollo y producción de ideas en torno al arte y la ecología. De esta manera, la isla de Manhattan, a través de GreenBox, se suma al archipiélago del proyecto ISLA como un puente a largo plazo para repensar el papel esencial de las artes visuales para crear, especular y fabular sobre nuevas posibilidades y alternativas a la hora de enfrentarnos a la emergencia ecológica y climática.
Esta exposición se propone como un espacio flexible de apertura hacia el pensamiento crítico, el diálogo y la interacción para abrazar conexiones improbables y ayudar a dar forma a ese mundo que queremos habitar. Las obras que la conforman proponen una mirada ecocéntrica que habla de despertar nuevas formas de imaginación ecopolítica para experimentar con otros modos de coexistencia, y apuntan a la idea de “buen vivir” como proyecto colectivo basado en la ecodependencia e interdependencia como condiciones sine qua non para habitar el mundo.
This project has been supported in part by funds by the New York City Department of
