O(U)R Experience Opening Reception

Wednesday, Apr 3, 2024, 5:30 – 8 p.m.

Gould Gallery Foyer

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For too long the forest and city have been at odds. The one chopped down to build the other.
The Ramayana (an ancient Hindu epic) describes a forest-city inhabited by monkey creatures.It is called Kishkindha.
It is not a bucolic paradise as would be understood in the West,
but a place nonetheless where humans, flora and fauna live in immediate proximity.

What if New York could be transformed into a Kishkindha?

What if it was designed not by planners? But by the root systems of trees and mushrooms?

What if it was designed not as land but as land/water.

What if huge creatures appeared that slowly ate away the old city, and in their tracks left the beginnings of a verdant forest and a new post-human order.

What if these creatures - at first man-made, would become over time anabiotic entities living on their own, moving every further afield.

Creatures that are part bio-organic machine, part deity, destroying and rebuilding.

A shape shifting city. 

A city which is not one.

An online conversation on O(U)R work with Nicole Huber, Shima Mohajeri and Ijlal Muzaffer.