Please join us for an in-person event to celebrate Lucia Monge’s residency.
Copies of Lucia Monge’s publication, Plantón Móvil will be available for purchase throughout the event. There is no pre-registration required for attending this FREE event in-person. If you would like to join the panel conversation virtually via zoom from 4-5pm, sign-up here.
We do ask all participants to wear a securely fitting face mask throughout the event in consideration of the health and safety of all.
About the Publication
Plantón Móvil is a participatory performance where people and plants walk together and then plant in public space. This publication brings together the different stories, pictures, and collaborations that have made this walking forest possible. Lucia started this ongoing project in 2010 and has walked with different plant and human communities in Lima, Providence, Minneapolis, London and New York.
About the Event
2:30-4pm— Making: Drop-in for a paper-making workshop and make seeded paper that you can plant and watch bloom. Participate in a collaborative writing project using tree-writing tools and plant dyes.
4-5pm— Talking: Panel conversation with resident Lucia Monge, and contributors to the publication: artist Ellie Irons and curator Patricia C Phillips. They will talk about Plantón Móvil and other branches related to the project such as: plant and human collaborations, the role of care in ecological artwork, public green areas, environmental justice, and overall plant love.
About the Panelists
Patricia Phillips is a writer, curator and educator. She is the author of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art (2016); Ursula von Rydingsvard: Working (2011); and It is Difficult (1998), a study on the work of Alfredo Jaar; she is also editor of City Speculations (1996). Her curatorial projects include exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art, Institute for Contemporary Art/ PS1, Katonah Museum of Art and Queens Museum (New York). Recent work includes writing a major essay for a forthcoming book on Ann Hamilton published by the Fabric Museum and Workshop/Prestel Publishing.
Ellie Irons is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living on Lenape land in Brooklyn and Mohican land in Troy, New York. She works in a variety of media, from walks to WIFI to gardening, exploring how human and non-human lives intertwine with other earth systems. Irons holds a PhD in Arts Practice from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is on the advisory board for NATURELab at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, and is a co-founder of the Environmental Performance Agency and the Next Epoch Seed Library.
Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist whose work explores the way humans position ourselves within the natural world and relate to other living beings, especially plants. She has collaborated with mycelium communicating underground, white cedars walking down the streets, and potato seeds orbiting around Earth to envision multispecies and anti-colonial futures. Monge has shown her work internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, Whitechapel Gallery, Queens Museum, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference.