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Water Stories: Opening Reception

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Join us at BioBAT Art Space for the opening of Water Stories, an exhibition curated by Elena Soterakis, running from June 8, 2024, to May 3, 2025.

Explore the poetic and ecological significance of water through immersive installations and interactive artworks by Anne Hollænder, Arantxa Araujo, Christopher Lin, DB Lampman, DLX Design Lab, Edrex Fontanilla, Elizabeth Hénaff, Heather Parrish, Keren Anavy, Léonard Roussel, Nathan Kensinger, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Sara Kostić, Sarah Nelson Wright, Seth Wenger, Yan Shao, and Yoko Shimizu.

Inspired by the vital work of the Interstate Environmental Commission (IEC), "Water Stories" highlights local and global narratives of our waterfronts and waterbodies, inviting you on a reflective journey that underscores the critical importance of water in our lives.

Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care: Artist Panel Discussion

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Dive deep into the themes of interspecies collaboration, post-humanist ethics, and environmental stewardship that have shaped our current exhibition, "Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care," through a meaningful dialogue with an incredible panel of artists.

Moderated by

Elena Soterakis & Doug Chapman of BioBAT Art Space

Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care: Closing Reception

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Come celebrate with us!

Join us for the final hours of our exhibition. There is a lot to celebrate and we want to share this incredible journey with you. We're immensely grateful for our growing community and the shared passion that brings us all together. Let’s raise a glass to the artists, the fusion of Art & Science and ecological care that has fueled our this exploration.

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.