Para que haya fiesta tiene que danzar el bosque, un proyecto comisariado por Michy Marxuach en colaboración con múltiples voces transhemisféricas. Del 2 de julio hasta el 26 de septiembre de 2021 Esta exposición contiene una capa sonora de múltiples piezas a las que puede accederse a través de los móviles. Recomendamos que la visiten con…
Owning Earth at Unison Arts is a new outdoor exhibition in the Unison Arts Sculpture Garden. Duration: June 26, 2021 – June 1, 2022 Free and Open to the Public, Dawn to Dusk Daily Curator: Tal Beery Assistant Curator: Erin Lee Antonak Unison Arts Sculpture Committee Members: Matthew Friday • Sarah Warren • Eliza…
New Museum artists in residence Ensayos premiered Act I of their experimental ecofeminist drama Cucú and Her Fishes on September 1, 2020 at 6AM, 2PM, and 8PM EST. The 2PM screening was followed by a Q&A with Ensayos cast members.
Treetopping (Blake’s Hitch, Ladder Tie, Limb Loop). Denim, cotton, poly-fil, installed in a red oak tree with the assistance of arborist Dylan Walsh at Unison Arts in New Paltz, NY as part of the exhibition Owning Earth. The Arborist, a short story for Unison’s audio guide. An arborist is standing at the base of a…
New Museum artists in residence Ensayos premiered Act I of their experimental ecofeminist drama Cucú and Her Fishes on September 1, 2020 at 6AM, 2PM, and 8PM EST. The 2PM screening was followed by a Q&A with Ensayos cast members. The play begins at a country house partially submerged in a peat bog. As a group of…
As part of our residency at the New Museum, Ensayos has produced a listening series entitled Hydrofeminist METitations with episodes focusing on our work in Norway, Australia and the Americas.
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas and I made these quilts to mark time during the COVID-19 Pandemic. At the beginning of the shutdown, in March 2020, we decided to cohabitate at my home in Amenia, NY, where I had founded the Sappho Room poetry residency two years prior. We made the Sappho Room Quilts over the next year,…
As part of our digital residency at the New Museum, Ensayos produced three podcasts drawing from our transdisciplinary work. The podcasts focus on waters in different archipelagic regions, including Tierra del Fuego, New York, eastern Australia, and Norway. Journalist Catalina Jaramillo guides listeners through four acts that mirror different aspects of Ensayos’ field research: fiction, fact, somatic…
New Museum’s Department of Education and Public Engagement presents “Ensayos: Passages,” its first online artist residency, foregrounding the department’s year-round commitment to contemporary art and pedagogy centered on personal and social growth. The international collective Ensayos (translated as “inquiries,” “essays,” or “rehearsals” in English) will develop and present new work through this digital residency. Ensayos is…
Sappho Room is a poetry residency at my home in Amenia, New York, founded in 2018. Residents have included Candystore, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Charity Coleman, HH Hiaasen, Camila Marambio, Margaret Namulyanga, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Aurelia Rohrbacker, Agustine Zegers and Neslihan Çiftçi. ———- The “Friends, Lovers and Friends and Lovers of Friends and Lovers” exhibition at the Sappho…
Workroom at Swale House, Governors Island, NYC Christy Gast brings her Mobile Tinctorium to Governor’s Island to extract color from goldenrod (solidago sp.), a native plant in the aster family. Gast’s process includes transferring color from plants to fibers (foraging, dyeing, felting), sculptural installations, and exploratory, poetic, performative and collaborative actions. She will work on-site…
It’s Necessary to Talk about Trees Polly Apfelbaum, Osi Audu, Julia Bland, Mary Carlson, Nicole Cherubini, Taylor Davis, Christy Gast, Tamara Gonzales, Zach Hadlock, Padma Rajendran, Halsey Rodman, Em Rooney, Arlene Shechet, Elise Siegel, Claudio Sebastian Stalling, Josh Tonsfeldt River Valley Arts Collective is pleased to present It’s Necessary to Talk about Trees, an exhibition…
Exhibition at CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Opening: Saturday, 7 September 2019, 5-7pm Closing performance: Saturday, 28 September 2019, 2pm-4pm Taking a liquid, archipelagic approach to loosening the knot of the mystifying ways in which things come to matter, Everything is possibly an oracle unfolds the imaginative seeing techniques, languages and sensing practices that Caitlin…
Friday April 12, 2019 from 12-1pm at MoMAZoZo’s Lyric Theater. Visiting artist Christy Gast will host a Cari-blow-blow “singing practice.” Gast is a sculptor, performer and video-maker who incorporates singing (with others when possible) into her art making practice. Inspired by composer Pauline Olivaros’ deep listening exercises, we will listen to the wind and make an improvisational…
Visiting Artist Lecture at University of Rochester: 4 PM, March 5, 2019 in the Gowen Room Printmaking Workshop: 9:40 AM – 12:20 PM in Sage Art Center Printmaking Area, open to the public Supported by the UCIS Cluster Arts at UR and the Department of Art & Art History
This series of sculptures proposes poetic and tensile entanglements between human and tree limbs, with textiles as the intermediary. Behind this work is a desire to imagine and queer interspecies intimacy. Research includes a tree climbing course at Cornell University and studies of the tensile properties of arborists’ ropes and knots.
Creative Time Summit: COASTAL CURRICULUM BREAKOUT SESSION November 3, 2018, Museum Park Baywalk, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), 1103 Biscayne Blvd Ensayo #4 (Coastal Curriculum) research pods exist in Tierra del Fuego, Northern Norway, New York, and Australia. The artists, scientists, and scholars involved in each pod meet at irregular intervals to cross-pollinate and share…
Date: April 27, 2018 Time: 2:-00-4:00 PM (Friday) Location: VISTA Collaboratory, Carlson Library, University of Rochester Beaver Diasporas: Thinking with Lewis Henry Morgan Friday, April 27, 2018 2:00-4:00 PM VISTA Collaboratory, Carlson Library Computer Studies Building 160 Trustee Road River Campus A Multimedia Presentation: Laura Ogden, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College Christy Gast, Visual…
The inaugural issue of the River Rail includes my essay Admiralty Sound Expedition Report with an afterword by Dr. Bárbara Saavedra, plus essays and poetry from Ensayos collaborators Camila Marambio (The Go-Between) and Cecilia Vicuña (Con Cón, Chile, 1966 – 2006).
In the inaugural issue of the River Rail there are articles by four Ensayistas: Christy Gast and Bárbara Saavedra, Admiralty Sound Expedition Report by with an afterword by Dr. Bárbara Saavedra, Camila Marambio, The Go-Between, and Cecilia Vicuña Con Cón, Chile, 1966 – 2006. ___________ Note from the Publisher: The River Rail is a bi-annual, free publication that focuses solely on…
The anthology “The Wild Living Marine Resources Belong to Society as a Whole” contains a wide range of expressions: poems, essays, photos, articles, manifestos and artworks, all of which relate to our management of natural resources or discuss our fundamental views on nature. The book got its name from Section 2 of the Norwegian Marine…
Sunday January 21 2018 from 3-5 pm at Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo, Norway, The anthology “The Wild Living Marine Resources Belong to Society as a Whole” contains a wide range of expressions: poems, essays, photos, articles, manifests and artworks, all of which relate to our management of natural resources or discuss our fundamental views on…
On view at Middlebury College Museum of Art, January 9–April 29, 2018 As an artistic discipline, printmaking grows firmly from the crossroads of creative imagination and the grounded arena of technical skill. The exhibition 10 Years: The Cameron Print Project whisks away any assumptions of the medium as a staid or predictable one, and instead maps out a…
Wayfarers, 1109 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, December 15, 2017 to January 07, 2018 A Multimedia Exhibition That Explores Labor, Surveillance, and The Political Economies of the Individual Artist’s Voice Curated By Jasmine Dreame Wagner Featuring works by Tahnee Pantig, Hiroki Otsuka, Ivan Rivera, David Colannino, Christy Gast, Cynthia Reynolds, Samantha Robinson, Keil Troisi, David “Scout” McQueen,…
Looking at Grain at Ruene Farm (What to feed the cows?) is the result of a collaboration with Stian Haltuff of the organic dairy Ruene Farm. The project consists of a series of drawing workshops held in the farm’s grain fields; a textile design incorporating those drawings, which was printed onto canvas with the cyanotype process;…
Galleri F 15 October 21 2017 – January 17 2018 Structures in agriculture and in the natural preconditions for food production are under stress. Skiptvet is an agricultural municipality in inner Østfold, where this traditional, vital and important means of livelihood is also undergoing change. Local conditions reflect global interconnections between climate, market and culture. This…
Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University November 3 – December 4, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, November 3, 7-9 pm Curated by Andrew Oesch An upcoming exhibition at Alfred University’s Fosdick-Nelson Gallery will feature the work of four artists, which portray the relationship of people with their surrounding environment. The exhibition, “Errant Landscapes,” opens Nov. 3 with a…
Opening: October 21st and 22nd, 11 am–5 pm curated by Aram Moshayedi and Sohrab Mohebbi An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015 presents an incomplete and partial look at the organization’s fifteen-year history, based on the artifacts, ephemera, and facsimiles that have been recovered by High Desert Test Sites and past participating artists. It…
CB Radio hosts Nancy Nowacek and Jake Nussbaum interview artist Christy Gast, whose work across media reflects her interest in issues of economics and the environment, and the role of content in giving meaning to the experience and form of the work.
The title for this book, edited by Randi Nygård & Karolin Tampere, as part of Ensayo #4, is taken from Section 2 of the Norwegian Marine Resources Act where it states that the wild living marine resources belong to Norwegian society as a whole. Taking it to the next level, Nygård and Tampere dropped the…
Performing ¿’Onde va la lancha? at 6:30 PM on Friday, October 6 at Detroit Institute of Arts’ Diego Rivera Court. The Detroit Institute of Arts and James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, Wayne State University, Detroit, are pleased to present INSTRUMENTAL, a multi-media performance series featuring local and national artists who work in a…
“Dear Enemy: Interspecies Communication through Artisinal Scents,” Pioneer Works Journal, July 2017, pp. 94-109 Co-authored by Christy Gast, Camila Marambio, Giorgia Graells and Derek Corcoran. Follow this link to view online or download: https://ensayostierradelfuego.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Just_DearEnemy.pdf
2 Lost Soles was produced as the result of a series of workshops with a group of teenagers from the New York Aquarium’s Wildlife Conservation Corps, which focuses on public-facing science and ocean advocacy projects. Led by the Aquarium’s artist in residence Christy Gast, they began by employing the Plastic Census Protocol developed during Gast’s Ensayo #4…
Launch Party: July 18th @ 7 PM, Pioneer Works, Red Hook, Brooklyn Feature article DEAR ENEMY: INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION THROUGH ARTISANAL SCENTS co-authored with Giorgia Graells, Derek Corcoran, and Camila Marambio of Ensayos. Published once a year, Pioneer Works Journal is our magazine with readings that encompass art, music, science, and alternative education.
Advocacy Splash-Down Wed June 14th 7:30-9 at 80 Green At one time, art was science’s illustrator. Today, Water Art can go well beyond illustration to serve science and the natural world directly by posing questions, exposing realities, acquiring data, advocating for natural resources, and– in some cases– affecting policy change. Advocacy Splash-Down promises to be…
In Tierra del Fuego, where the Atlantic meets the Pacific, land and sea are not so much interwoven as fractured—splintered and shattered. At the southern terminus of the Andes, it is as if the mountains are using the remainder of their geological force to dive out of the deep and frigid sea. Originally published in…
Essay on Juan Downey’s Video Trans Américas for Miami Rail
From Discipline / Gertrude Contemporary announcement ¿’Onde va la lancha? is a 15-minute lecture-performance during which Gast provides a live voice-over for a video projection that was filmed in the fjords of Tierra del Fuego. … We find ourselves inside an artisanal fishing boat during a storm, its creaking and rocking provides the rhythm for a song;…
septembergallery.com PRESS RELEASE SEPTEMBER 449 Warren Street #3 Hudson, NY Post-Election Exhibition Co-Organized by Kristen Dodge and Kate Gilmore Exhibition Dates: January 28 – March 5, 2017 10% of all sales will be donated to the Staley B Keith Social Justice Center and the Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood. SEPTEMBER presents Post-Election, an exhibition of over…
WHEN SPECIES MEET 19.11.2016 -15.01.2017 Christy Gast, Søssa Jørgensen, Tove Kommedal, Jean Painlevé and Kjersti Vetterstad Curated by: Karolin Tampere It is said that the practice of different forms of art is what divides us from other species on the planet. But what happens if we open up to a wider interpretation of expressions in a…
From When Species Meet exhibition text In Christy Gast’s video Castor Magellanica, the figure of a beaver in the form of a rakish, life-size puppet cruises through the canals of Venice in an impeccably crafted wooden motorboat. Biologists know the beaver as an ecosystem engineer, able to transform forests into meadows, the faintest rivulet into…
Conversation with Carla Macchiavello in the Chilean art journal Cuadernos de Arte
Christy Gast will have three videos on view at Médiathèque du Fonds d’art contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition, “belong and observe”, features work that Gast created in Tierra del Fuego with the research collective Ensayos. From Tierra del Fuego to South Africa by way of Germany, “belong and observe” – or how to belong to the…
Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile 2016 In her first solo exhibition at Galería Patricia Ready, Christy Gast presents Field Work. The exhibition consists of a series of sculptures composed of felt and natural dyes extracted from the Patagonian forest. These works are the result of a lengthy investigation by Gast in the Parque Natural Karukinka,…
Touch & GO is an exhibition of sculpture and video that brings together a diverse group of artists whose work is connected through an investigation of materials in the specific and the metaphoric. Each of the contributing artists investigates via the hand using unconventional or invented means of making. The sensitivity and irreverence practice of making…
Playing Favorites A collaboration between A.W. Strouse & the members of Wayfarers For Playing Favorites, we invited poet and curator A.W. Strouse to explore Wayfarers members’ studios and select works that he thought might serve as points of departure for his writing. He describes the poems he has written in response as “little odes…
PRESS RELEASE–Kurant, Trømsø, Norway Wild living marine resources belong to society as a whole. 11.03 Opening 19.00 12.-13.03 Open Exhibition 12:00 – 17:00 12.03 Performance by Søssa Jørgensen 12.03 Film screening at Verdensteatret followed by a talk. The Agronaut by Kjersti Vetterstad 19:00 Svein Kristian Arntzen (UiT), Camilla Brattland (UiT), Georgiana Dobre, Jørund Aase Falkenberg,…