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Tracing Obsolescence |
Public Program - NYC | |
| An afternoon with Sto Len: Performance and installation at the Newtown Creek Center of Visual Research Saturday, October 20, 2018, 2:00 - 5:00 pm RSVP for Event Location Maspeth, Queens In conjunction with Tracing Obsolescence, artist Sto Len welcomes the public to a site along the Newtown Creek to see a new installation, followed by a special sound performance on the river. This event is free and open to the public. Sign up for a reminder. |
 Sto Len in his boat. |
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Artist Sto Len investigates urban sprawl and the illegal dumping of toxic waste in natural habitats through a series of monoprints pulled from the water’s surface. At the same time, his process-based sound performances investigate the sound of everyday objects, amplifying the voice of the unconsidered materials in our daily lives, while drawing attention to waterways as vital resources that are in dire need of protection and even reverence. Join him for a two-hour performance at the Newtown Creek in Maspeth, Queens, one of the most polluted bodies of water in the U.S., and one of the sites for his Pollution Print Archive currently on view in the exhibition Tracing Obsolescence.
Sto Len is a Brooklyn-based printmaker, painter, installation and performance artist with interests in improvisation and experimentation within a variety of media. His current body of work transforms the traditional printmaking art of Suminagashi (floating ink) into an experimental collaboration with nature and a site of discourse on environmentalism and art activism. Recent collaborations with pollution in the waterways of New York, Colombia, and Vietnam, have enabled his studio to become as large as a river and his practice nomadic and global. apexart’s program supporters past and present include the National Endowment for the Arts, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Kettering Family Foundation, the Buhl Foundation, The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Spencer Brownstone, the Kenneth A. Cowin Foundation, Epstein Teicher Philanthropies, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., William Talbott Hillman Foundation/Affirmation Arts Fund, the Fifth Floor Foundation, the Consulate General of Israel in New York, The Puffin Foundation, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and administered by LMCC, funds from NYSCA Electronic Media/Film in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. |
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