퀸즈 아스토리아의 소크라테스 조각공원(Socrates Sculpture Park)의 2022 펠로 작가가 선정됐다. 

선정된 작가는 셰옌 콘셉시온(Cheyenne Concepcion), 션 데지레(Sean Desiree), 코욜친틀리(Koyoltzintli), 랜디 레나티(Randi Renate), 그리고 다니엘 쉬에(Daniel Shieh0 등 5인이다. 

올 펠로 작가 공모엔 350여명이 응모했다. 선정된 작가는 8천달러의 그랜트와 2천달러의 사례금과 함께 공원 야외 아티스트 스튜디오를 3개월간 이용할 수 있게 된다. 이 작가들은 9월 4일부터 내년 3월 12일까지 소크라테스 조각공원에서 열리는 전시 'SINK OR SWIM CLIMATE FUTURES'에서 전시할 예정이다. 

 

 

THE 2022 ANNUAL: SINK OR SWIM CLIMATE FUTURES

 

September 4, 2022 – March 12, 2023

THE 2022 ANNUAL: SINK OR SWIM CLIMATE FUTURES

ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 2022 – MARCH 2023

 

The Artist Fellows

 

Cheyenne Concepcion

*2022 New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist Fellow

 

Sean Desiree

 

Koyoltzintli

 

Randi Renate

*2022 Devra Freelander Artist Fellow

 

Daniel Shieh

*2022 New York Community Trust Van Lier Artist Fellow

 

 

As a public park and outdoor venue Socrates is an art space particularly attuned to the effects of climate change. Applicants to the 2022 Socrates Annual Fellowship and exhibition program were encouraged to submit proposals based on the prompt *Sink or Swim with the goal of presenting a public artwork for a fall of 2022 group exhibition.

 

This year, Socrates asks artists to consider the present day ecological conditions and challenges that our globe faces. Just this August, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that 1.5 degrees C global temperature within the next 20 years is unavoidable, but there is a window of opportunity for global action to slow the current warming trend and consequential environmental destruction. 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. Or, the rising temperatures may further melt our glaciers, increasing ocean levels, leaving coastal cities under water. In this scenario, sinking is preferable to swimming.

 

While a global phenomenon, climate change does not impact all equally. The costs are greater borne on disadvantaged groups with less political power—those in developing countries, women, the young, the elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, and those without access to capital. 

 

How can we address the urgency, enormity, and challenges of climate change without falling into melancholy or paralysis? How do the matrices of race, gender, and class intersect in this Green future? What can we do to mitigate eco-anxiety surrounding these many simultaneous demands for global change? What can we learn from historically vulnerable, but thriving communities that can help us navigate this challenge?

 

ABOUT

The 2022 Socrates Annual Artist Fellows 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 – along with two curatorial advisors: Solana Chehtman, Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at the Shed and Daisy Nam, Curator at Ballroom Marfa.

 

Each Artist Fellow is awarded a $8,000 production grant, $2,000 honorarium, three months of seven-days-a-week access to the resources and fabrication facilities of the Park’s outdoor artist studio to realize their proposed project. Follow along @socratespark to see the Fellows’ projects in progress at Socrates this summer and stayed tuned for more details!