Open House

Please join us as the second session of Swing Space visual artists-in-residence open their studios at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center. Sixteen individual artists and two collaborative groups have been working in LMCC’s new studios on Governors Island since August, developing new projects in a wide range of media. Come see the exciting new work they have created.

Resident artists include: Lee Arnold, Gretchen Bennett, J Carpenter, Rick Caruso, David Colosi, Shingo Francis, Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly, Aoife Hand, Christina Kelly, Michael Krondl, Jessica Lagunas, Carolyn Lambert + Siobhan Rigg, Katherine McLeod, Joy Nagy, Kirsten Nelson, Raphael Perret, Evan Robarts, and Shino Soma.

More information about our current residents, including biographies and examples of their work, is available on our website.

Dates and Times

Friday, October 8, 11AM–4:30PM
Saturday, October 9, 11AM–6PM
Sunday, October 10, 11AM–6PM

Floating World

LMCC is pleased to present Floating World, a group exhibition of works created by the visual artists-in-residence in the inaugural session of Swing Space in Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island. Each of the artists who participated in this residency session has been influenced by their time on the Island, as well as the daily voyage there and back.

The collection of works presented in Floating World will reveal the artists’ diverse processes from photography to video to sculpture and installation. Some work directly interprets aspects of the landscape, the seascape, the architecture, topography, and history of the Island, while other work demonstrates the exciting response to an intense period of time in-residence on this “Floating World.”

Dates and Times

Open through October 10, 2010

Fridays: 11AM–4:30PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 11AM–6PM

iLAND: SIP/watershed

SIP is an investigation into the NYC watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region. Choreographer and iLAND Artistic Director Jennifer Monson, Sound Artist Chris Cogburn, Costume Designer Katrin Schnabl, Architect Kate Cahill, and Choreographer/Dancer Maggie Bennett will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water affecting the NYC watershed – from along the edges of NYC’s shoreline to the headwaters of the Hudson in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks.

The SIP collaborators invite the public into their process through a dynamic structure that frames and reflects the constantly shifting nature of the watershed. Each event builds a system of listening, observing, and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience - the intimacy of which is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists.

Dates and Times

Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10

10:30AM and 11:30AM: Performances will take place in the Rehearsal Studio at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center
4PM and 5PM: Performances will take place at Yankee Pier

Each performance will last 30 minutes and is limited to eight people.

Reservations are required. Please make reservations at info@ilandart.org or call 212 375-8283.

Beth Gill: See it through, a work-in-progress

Beth Gill’s two week residency at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center will be a focused work period for Gill and her dancers, Anna Carapetyan, Danielle Goldman, Jennifer Lafferty, Tara Lorenzen and Marilyn Maywald, to continue developing and investigating material for their upcoming season at The Chocolate Factory in June 2011.

About her work, Gill says:

‘This is a dance that I've wanted to make and tried to make before -- a dance that challenges me as a choreographer to craft with deliberation, sensitivity, vision and an awareness of you the viewer. It is a dance work that demands dancers with skill, confidence, and drive. With every day, we are learning more about moving and about each other. This is what I know.

Other things are coming up: patterns, geometry, femininity, color, culture and questions about whether this is old or new. If in fact it is old, why can't I let it go and move on?’

Date and Time

Sunday, October 10, 3PM, In the Rehearsal Studio at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center

The showing will be no more than 40 minutes, and will be followed by an informal talk-back during which the artists can gather feedback from the audience.