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Media Contact<\/h4>\n

Joyce Chan\nCommunications Manager\njc@socratessculpturepark.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Download Press Release\u2013><\/a><\/p>\n

Download Press Kit\u2013><\/a><\/p>\n

Image: Cheyenne Conception, Disappearing St. Malo Historiography, 2022.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Socrates Sculpture Park artist fellows presents their interpretations on climate change in Sink or Swim: Climate Futures<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n
\nThe 2022 Socrates Annual opens September 10, 2022\n<\/i><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Long Island City, NY, August 31, 2022<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Socrates Sculpture Park presents The 2022 Socrates Annual<\/a> Sink or Swim: Climate Futures<\/em><\/a>, on view Saturday, September 10, 2022 through March 12, 2023. As a public park and outdoor venue, Socrates is an art space particularly attuned to the effects of climate change. For this year, The\u00a02022 Socrates Annual Fellowship<\/a> prompted artists to create artwork from the phrase \u201cSink or Swim.\u201d<\/p>\n

We are at once on the tipping point of irreparable ecological devastation and at the dawn of a new age of Green politics and technologies. Reduction of future emissions paired with technologies for carbon sinking (*pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and trapping it in rock or water) may temper the warming phenomena. Otherwise the rising temperatures will\u00a0further melt our glaciers, increasing ocean levels and leaving coastal cities under water. In this scenario, sinking might well be preferable to swimming.<\/p>\n

The 2022 Socrates Annual Sink or Swim: Climate Futures<\/em> presents five projects addressing the urgency, enormity, and challenges of climate change. Cheyenne Concepcion, Sean Desiree, Koyoltzintli, Randi Renate, and Daniel Shieh were selected from over 350 applicants by a curatorial jury consisting of Socrates staff members, Curator & Director of Exhibitions Jess Wilcox, Executive Director Tamsin Dillon, Director of Programs & Engagement Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, and Director of Studio & Fabrication Chris Zirbes. Along with curatorial advisors Solana Chehtman, Director of Artist Programs at Joan Mitchell Foundation (formerly Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at The Shed) and Daisy Nam, Executive Director at Ballroom Marfa (formerly Curator at Ballroom Marfa). Projects were created onsite at the Park\u2019s outdoor studios with financial support and technical assistance as part of the Socrates Annual Fellowship. Cheyenne Concepcion and Daniel Shieh are the 2022 New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist Fellows, and Randi Renate is the 2022 Devra Freelander Artist Fellow.<\/p>\n

The traditional sink or swim metaphor imagines a situation where an individual is left on their own to succeed or fail, but the current climate crisis demands a rejection of individualistic thinking and an emphasis on collective action. These artists tackle how the matrices of race, gender, and class may intersect a Green future and what we can learn from historically vulnerable, but thriving communities to help navigate this challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m\u00a0thrilled by the\u00a0ambitious and powerful works these five artists\u00a0have produced for our annual fellowship exhibition this year. Their response to the theme is a poignant reminder of the evidence\u00a0of climate change that\u00a0we see and feel every day,\u201d said Tamsin Dillon, Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park. \u201cThe works represent a range of interpretations, drawing from diverse communities, traditions, natural and futuristic environments to create unique sculptures and installations. I hope\u00a0Sink or Swim: Climate Futures,\u00a0<\/em>presented by\u00a0Jess Wilcox our Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the end of her tenure,\u00a0challenges us to seek solutions and reframe our choices for a more conscious and equitable earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m heartened to have worked with such a talented group of artists who each bring a unique and compelling perspective to confronting climate change,\u201d explained Jess Wilcox, Curator and Director of Exhibitions of Socrates Sculpture Park. \u201cTogether these artists\u2019 propose social adaption and resilience, learning from natural world, and reimagining of new and old technologies as necessary steps for living in our future global climate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2022 Socrates Annual Sink or Swim: Climate Futures\u00a0<\/em>is on view Saturday, September 10, 2022 \u2013 March 12, 2023. A public opening will be held on Saturday, September 10, in conjunction with our\u00a0New Agora<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>series from 3 \u2013 7 pm, with a tour and Q&A by the Artist Fellows and an activation of\u00a0Ticnu<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>by Koyoltzintli. Socrates Sculpture Park is open 365 days a year, from 9am to sunset. Admission is free.<\/p>\n

For full details visit https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/exhibition\/sink-or-swim<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

ARTWORK DESCRIPTIONS<\/b><\/h3>\n

Cheyenne Concepcion<\/a>\n<\/strong>Disappearing St. Malo\n<\/em><\/strong>Wood, nylon nets and mylar<\/strong><\/p>\n

This work references the first Filipino settlement in the United States, founded in 1783, located in the bayous of Louisiana and now frequently submerged as sea levels rise.\u00a0 Concepcion re-imagines the settlement\u2019s architecture that resembles the bahay kubo, <\/em>stilted houses native to the Philippines, with a lifted porch and a hat-shaped thatched roof made of mylar. The work reminds us that rising sea levels threaten cultural heritage as well as private property, but also highlights the ways in which communities have adapted, survived, and thrived amid water environments and adverse circumstances.\n*2022 New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist<\/em> Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n

Sean Desiree<\/a>\n<\/strong>Let Us Keep You Warm\n<\/em><\/strong>Wood, plexiglass, aluminum cans, and brass<\/strong><\/p>\n

Utilizing reclaimed Hemlock timber and aluminum cans sourced from the neighborhood, Desiree creates a cold weather shelter for all pedestrians, but with people without homes and public transit users as the focus. Inspired to address the challenges of winter (waiting in frigid bus shelters) for those dedicated to carbon-reduction in transportation, the artist looked to communal activities for generating heat. Solar powered fans blow out the air heated by the black aluminum can composites within wind-blocking walls of the shelter. The artist\u2019s shelter segments evoke a group of figures huddling, a simple act practiced by both humans and animals alike for thermoregulation, reminding us that a sustainable carbon-regulated future depends on communal action.<\/p>\n

Koyoltzintli<\/a>\n<\/strong>Ticnu\n<\/em><\/strong>Clay<\/strong><\/p>\n

This intimate work is presented in an ovoid arrangement and calibrated to coincide with the trajectory of the sun \/ moon on the equinox of 2022 in the legacy of Andean practice of astronomical alignment. Embodying the concept of\u00a0Nepantla<\/i>\u00a0or \u201cin-between-ness\u201d from the Nahuatl word of \u201cmiddle\u201d, Koyoltzintli draws from ancestral practices of indigenous land stewardship to acknowledge climate change and initiate the process of environmental remediation. Produced in workshops with the public over the summer, Koyoltzintli presents ceramic\u00a0ofrendas<\/i>\u00a0or \u201cofferings\u201d to the Earth, in forms of local flora and fauna species that are threatened by climate change.<\/p>\n

Randi Renate<\/a>\n<\/strong>Are we psychic coral-polyps?\n<\/em><\/strong>Cedar and casein paint<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired by the anatomy and symbiotic existence of coral polyps, Renate\u2019s sustainably sourced, cedar-clad hollow is a space for collective gathering and learning. Coral are potent symbols in narratives about climate change. Rising temperatures and ocean acidification have produced massive die-offs of this fragile ecosystem, which is also the most biodiverse on the planet. The coral\u2019s cooperative mode of thriving\u2013a colony of many individual polyps together acting as a united creature\u2013is a potential model for slowing global warming and repairing the damage we have already done to our planet. *2022 Devra Freelander Artist Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniel Shieh<\/a>\n<\/strong>Passage to TOI-700 d (the New World)\n<\/em><\/strong>Steel, resin, paint, light<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shieh\u2019s sculpture takes its title from the name of a recently discovered Earth-sized planet with conditions that scientists estimate may be potentially habitable to humans, given the theoretical compatibility of water. The tunnel\u2019s futurist aesthetic evokes the science fiction trope of the human search for life on another planet as a necessary outcome of environmental degradation on Earth. A lens presents an illuminated illusion of a sun at the end of a portal-like structure suggesting that space exploration as a solution for global warming is an illusive mirage.\n*2022 New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist<\/em> Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n

SUPPORT<\/h3>\n

Major support for The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition comes from the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowships, the Devra Freelander Artist Fund, the Jerome Foundation, and public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Cowles Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n

Free artistic, cultural, and social programming at Socrates Sculpture Park is made possible by support from Agnes Gund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Charina Endowment Fund, Con Edison, Deutsche Bank, Robert F. Goldrich, The Jerome Foundation, Joel Shapiro & Ellen Phelan, Lambent Foundation, Mark di Suvero, Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowships, NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund administered by\u00a0City\u00a0Parks\u00a0Foundation, The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation, The Pinkerton Foundation, &, Sidney E. Frank Foundation, Spacetime C.C., and our generous Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

Socrates programs are also supported by public funds from the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards; the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the New York City Council and Julie Won; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n

ABOUT SOCRATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

For over 35 years, Socrates Sculpture Park has been a model of public art production, community activism, and socially inspired place-making. Over 1,000 artists have created and exhibited new works on its five waterfront acres and outdoor studio facilities. Socrates is free and open to the public 365 days a year from 9am to sunset. It is located at 32-01 Vernon Boulevard (at Broadway) in Long Island City, New York. Socrates Sculpture Park is a not-for-profit organization licensed by NYC Parks to manage and program Socrates Sculpture Park, a New York City public park. Covid-19 Updates: Socrates remains open to the public at regular hours, 9am \u2013 sunset, with free admission. Park policies and updates regarding health and safety can be found at socratessculpturepark.org\/Covid19.<\/p>\n

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