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SUMMARY:A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, 2024. Video installation: 3-channel 4K video\, colour\, generative sound\, 25 min; modular synthesizer\, electrodes\, and tree. VFX artist and software developer: Codrin-Mihail Tablan Negrei. Courtesy of the artist. \n\n\n\nA Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air\, a four-person exhibition featuring works made through innovative intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte realize the potential of communicating directly and sharing authorship with the materials they use to make their art. Their artistic practices are intuitive and collaborative\, enabling trees\, stones\, salt\, and air\, among other materials\, to inform the creative process and the resulting potential meanings. Their methods include a cloud chamber\, oral history\, bio-sonification\, LIDAR scanning\, fumage\, and saining. \n\n\n\nThe resulting works of art forge stronger interspecies connections and increased empathy and hope for the future. These innovative modes of working also raise questions: do the artists translate on behalf of the materials? How do speculation and anthropomorphism fit into these explorations of restoration\, time\, and scale? The four immersive installations engage viewers in dynamic aesthetic experiences that may linger beyond the gallery as a shift in perspective. \n\n\n\nCurated by Shana Dumont Garr  \n\n\n\nExhibition catalogue featuring essays by Shana Dumont Garr\, Doctoral Candidate\, and Martina Tanga\, Ph.D. \n\n\n\nSentientLand-Guide-webDownload
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception\, A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 21\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nMedia Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston MA \n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the opening of this groundbreaking four-person exhibition featuring artists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, who blur the boundaries between creator and material\, science and art\, human and more-than-human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience immersive installations that invite direct dialogue with the natural world. Through innovative methods including bio-sonification\, cloud chambers\, LIDAR scanning\, and ancient practices like fumage and saining\, these artists share authorship with trees\, stones\, salt\, and air itself. \n\n\n\nThis is your first opportunity to encounter works that challenge traditional notions of artistic agency and forge new pathways for interspecies connection. Witness how forests communicate at 220 hertz\, how materials become collaborators\, and how art can shift our relationship with the living world. \n\n\n\nMeet the artists and the curator\, Shana Dumont Garr\, and explore questions that bridge aesthetics\, ecology\, and empathy: What happens when materials inform their own representation? How do we translate on behalf of the more-than-human? \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nExhibition runs January 21 – March 28\, 2026Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–6 PM \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public \n\n\n\nimage: Eileen Ryan
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception-a-sentient-land-artistic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
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