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ClimART Cafe

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In this art-exhibition-meets-Climate-Cafe, you’ll have the opportunity to share your emotions about the climate crisis with a caring, concerned community, while being surrounded by artwork at the intersection of biology, technology, and care. Art has the capacity to resonate with our deepest emotions. This purposeful pairing with the exhibition “Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care” at BioBAT Art Space will make for a unique Climate Cafe experience.

Embodying Ecological Futures: Health, Happiness and Identity

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What can we learn about building healthy global futures from the traditional relationships indigenous communities practice with their ecological systems? In this talk, Baines shares what she has learned from indigenous Maya and Garifuna communities from Belize during her 15 years of anthropological research, focusing on how embodying ecological practices are linked to healthy communities and healthy lives. In the context of change (temporal, environmental, geological, climate), she takes a sensory approach to highlighting relationships with the land, the forest, and wild and domesticated plants and animals, and the links between relational practices and health, broadly defined. She defines heritage as a fluid and changing set of practices and, as such, is critical in our consideration of ecological future-making and building cultures of care.

Kristina Baines is a sociocultural anthropologist with an applied medical/environmental focus. Her research interests include indigenous ecologies, health, and heritage in the context of global change, particularly in Belize, New York City and Los Angeles, in addition to publicly engaged research and dissemination practices. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, Guttman Community College, Affiliated Faculty at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the Director of Anthropology for Cool Anthropology.

Performance by the Foulbrood Orchestra

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John Roach, Thessia Machado, and Ranjit Bhatnagar perform with unconventional instruments to evoke life within a beehive. The audience will be led on a sonic exploration through a number of remarkable spaces in the iconic 1919 Brooklyn Army Terminal, culminating in the reverberant 18,000-square-foot Dark Space.

Arrive early to explore the exhibition ‘Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care’, sample a honey-based beverage, purchase some extraordinary honey-confections by B-Line Ice Cream (while supplies last), and receive a special bee-themed door prize!

ALIVE / DEAD | Projection Mapping Meditations + Pop UP

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How do the ways we care for biological life change between their living, semi-living and non-living states? from birth to death? across industries as a source of information and material? in public and private conversation?

‘Meditations’’ brings these questions to life by projection-mapping hand-painted text originally printed on an upcycled military uniform. Scrolling text spills from the ceiling through the headless and handless figure into a pool of words melting through the floor. Join Elaine Young | STUDIOPHORIA for an artist talk. Deep dive into: why Faust, Icarus, Prometheus and Essay on Blindness appear on capsules of her DNA; and how all the ways the act of breathing was portrayed in the media during covid inspired her latest fashion collection - which launches today, the first day of the Year of the Dragon. Happy Lunar New Year! Come through to shop the pop-up!

Brewing Serenity: A Tea Ceremony in Shihori Yamamoto's Womb Installation, with Tea Arts & Culture

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Experience a unique fusion of traditional tea culture and contemporary art. This event invites guests to sit in Yamamoto’s “womb sanctuary” and be enveloped by radial drawings cascading from the dome's apex while bathing in the sound of the artist’s recorded heartbeat emanating from outside the tent walls. This auditory experience is paired with soft lights which pulse, synchronized with the recording of heartbeat. As you sit in the tent, the rhythmic heart-lights filter through the womb’s walls creating a nurturing, immersive ambiance.

This installation not only artistically represents our universally shared, biological beginnings inside a womb, but also seeks to unify humanity’s experience in a shared, introspective space. Yamamoto's installation is a "psychological refugee tent" for participants. Join us for this intimate, transformative tea ceremony, and for a dialogue between the tranquility of tea arts and the profound message of human connection conveyed through Shihori Yamamoto's work.