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Contretemps. Closing Party 3-5pm, Saturday October 30th     Join the Gallatin WetLab as we celebrate the last weekend of our fall show, Contretemps., with work by Simon Benjamin, Tessa Grundon, Jamila MacEwan, and Hanae Utamura, as well as WetLab students Rhea Barve, Jesse McLaughlin, and Kris Waymire.  … [Read more...] about Contretemps. Closing Party

Saturday October 30 2021 1:00-2:00pm 403 Colonels Row, Governors Island Join us on the porch of 403 Colonels Row for a conversation between Contretemps. artists Jemila MacEwan and Hanae Utamura as they discuss animism as a means to recover its long lost kin and reframe larger notion of life across inter species and geological entities. The talk will be facilitated by WetLab co-director and NYU Gallatin Faculty member Eugenia Kisin. … [Read more...] about Living Threads: Re-finding Lost Kin Amongst the Ruins

Jesse McLaughlin’s “eel mops” are part of his Dean’s Award for Summer Research project practicing interspecies artistic collaboration with the endangered American Eel in the New York Harbor.  Eel mops provide habitat to small species, particularly juvenile eels, allowing for easier monitoring. Typically made from frayed plastic rope and conventional concrete, eel mops can also create harmful pH imbalance and release microplastics into the water. In a partnership with the Harbor School, Jesse is developing a new eel mop model to propose to the DEC that is made with more … [Read more...] about Eel Mops and Interspecies Artistic Collaboration by Jesse McLaughlin

2 PM CURATORS’ TALK WetLab Directors Eugenia Kisin & Karen Holmberg in conversation with Curators Ayaka Fujii & Ellie New on the process of creating PHREATIC!, art-science exhibitions, and curating in times of crisis 3 PM LIVE MUSIC Featuring: Jack Helfrich, Noelle Heriveaux, Itai Beaudoin de Roca, Emma Waddell, & Bird Ring Studio 3–5 PM ARTIST-LED HAPPENINGS & KID-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES Join us for arts & crafts, small exhibition tours, and conversation with the artists … [Read more...] about Phreatic Closing Party

Interested in joining WetLab? Have a project you want to collaborate on? Contact us! … [Read more...] about Submit your own project

Call for Submissions: Open through February 11, 2021 Investigating visible and invisible experiences of climate crises Artworks of any discipline by early-career artists Digital Exhibition: Opening March 2021 Curated by Ellie New, Jasmine Buckley, and Troy Gibbs-Brown Presented by The Gallatin Galleries in collaboration with WetLab This digital exhibition will amplify the voices and works of early-career artists on the complex and nuanced experiences of living in times of climate crisis. Environmental destabilization is becoming more and more visible each year, yet … [Read more...] about Call for submissions: Visible and invisible experiences of climate crises