This is a site – specific installation at Governor’s Island, where two antique chandeliers found in the Nolan Park are rewired to illuminate the gallery using potatoes as a power source. Both futuristic and simple, the revival of the former elegant chandeliers through vegetal power suggests a compromised power grid, and the lengths we go to maintain a level of high consumerism rather than degrowth. The installation will follow the arc of the potato’s life cycle, and will be illuminated at listed times.
LOCATION: Elements! in Art and Tech exhibition
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park Governors Island
Artist Opening Saturday August 31, 2024 from 2 – 4:30 pm. Performance by Luc Vitkova at 2:45 pm.
All events are free.
Ongoing open to the public from 11 am to 5 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and by appointment.
Bio
Hostile and threatened landscapes are the sites for multimedia artist Jessica Segall’s work. While embedded in these sites, she plays with both the risk of engaging with the environment and the vulnerability of the environment itself, examining a queer ecology. She exhibits her work internationally, including at COP 26, The Fries Museum, The Queen Museum. The Coreana Museum of Art, The Havana Bienal, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The National Museum of Jewish American History and The Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery. Jessica is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Art Matters. She attended residencies at Harvestworks, Van Eyck Academie, MacDowell, Skowhegan among others. Her work has been featured in Cabinet Magazine, e-flux, and The New York Times. She received her MFA from Columbia University and her BA from Bard College. She will participate in this year’s Bangkok Biennial.
LINKS
https://www.jessicasegall.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jessicasegallstudio/
PAST INTERVIEWS AND PRESS COVERAGE
https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/575976/jessica-segall-s-human-energy
https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/artseen/Jessica-Segall-Human-Energy
https://littlesun.org/blog/2021/07/09/fast-forward-meet-jessica-segall/
About the Elements! in Art and Tech exhibition. Programmed for the annual Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building on Governors Island, the artworks in this group show are inspired by elements of light, water, earth, flower plasma and their influence on humans. Selected by the Harvestworks arts committee and the Executive Director Carol Parkinson, the works use creative technology such as audio/video spatialization, gesture, body tracking and vegetal power.
