EVENTS
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EVENTS 〰️
Office of In Visibility will have a table at A New World Fair, a current reimagining of the World’s Fair, combining qualities of the past with innovations for a better future. The fair brings together many local start-ups and innovative businesses in the sustainable space, community organizations, and local artists interspersed with talks on subjects such as community solar and hydroponics.
COASTAL PERSPECTIVES Lecture
Tuesday April 18th 7:30pm
Avery Point Auditorium
1084 Shennecossett Road
Groton, CT 06340
Office of In Visibility Presents: SAN TV (Sanitation Art Network Television) is a video installation by artist sTo Len, who is currently a Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, which is part of a municipal residency program created by the Department of Cultural Affairs. While in residence at the Department’s Central Repair Shop in Woodside, Queens, Len began working in a defunct television studio, where he has been using the antiquated video equipment to activate hundreds of hours of forgotten films and videos in various formats; together they span more than a century of documentation capturing the New York Department of Sanitation’s work. Located in the Museum’s Media Lab within Behind the Screen, SAN TV includes a sampling of Len’s reworked discoveries, and with a green screen, viewers have the chance to report from various shuttered waste sites in New York City, such as the Fresh Kills Landfill.
The Office of In Visibility (OOIV) is an ongoing project that bears witness to the labor of the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and its extensive role in New York City history and local lives. Len has been using OOIV as a platform to publicly research and remix DSNY archival materials into his artwork. From film and video to silk-screen posters, artifacts, and ephemera, these reflections offer a glimpse into New York’s history while highlighting the path that led us to the environmental issues we face today.
On Saturday, January 28 at 4:00 p.m. in the Fox Amphitheater, sTo Len will be in conversation with Assistant Curator of Public Programs Tiffany Joy Butler to discuss his artistic practice of remixing DSNY’s media archives, and his residency at the New York Department of Sanitation.
This installation is part of a Media Lab Artist Takeover, which features media-making activities in the Museum’s Media and Game Labs that thematically relate to an artist’s work. Click here to learn more about the Media and Game Labs.
Join us for a conversation between historian and journalist Jessica Hester and artist sTo Len, exploring the topic of waste and its impact on human systems through the intersection of art, science, and history.
Jessica, author of the recently released book “Sewer,” leads readers through the past, present, and future of the system humans have created to deal with our own waste and argues that sewers can be seen as a mirror to the world above at a time when our behaviors are drastically reshaping the environment for the worse. Sifting through the muck offers a fresh way to approach questions about urbanization, public health, infrastructure, ecology, sustainability, and consumerism- and what we value. Without understanding sewers, any attempt to steward the future is incomplete.
Sto, Artist-in-Residence at the New York Department of Sanitation, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has centered on collaborations with abused landscapes that have included printmaking polluted waterways, 3D scanning Fresh Kills landfill, recycling waste into art materials, and performing at Superfund sites. This in-person event will engage these two related approaches while also revealing unexpected connections between them.
This in-person event will be held at Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th St, 3rd Floor, on Wednesday, November 16 at 6:30pm. Participants are required to follow CBA’s Covid-19 health and safety measures; masks required at this in-person event.
Join DSNY Artist in Residence sTo Len for an artist talk and hands-on workshop that asks us to think and use our trash in unexpected ways!
Have you ever wondered what happens to your waste after you put it out on the curb? Join us for an artist talk and workshop with Public Artist in Residence for the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY), sTo Len.
In this hands-on afternoon of artmaking, participants will explore sTo's waste-inspired art practice, our individual and social relationship to the trash we create, and the people who collect and process our trash.
This workshop is a part of Privy Pit, a participatory waste study project under the Office of In Visibility (OOIV), a multidisciplinary public art project in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs and DSNY that brings attention and understanding to the DSNY’s critical but often invisible workforce.
While all ages are welcome to this workshop, it is designed for those 16+ and older.
All participants are asked to bring at least one piece of trash with them. Prompts can be viewed on the Office of Invisibility website ahead of time for inspiration. Other art-making materials will be provided!
Below are just a few examples of the projects you can choose to explore:
Make an altar for the objects you intend to abandon
Imagine an ideal afterlife for an object you threw away and write about it or draw it
Make a costume of something you threw away
Imagine making a home for all of the objects you have ever thrown out
Write a poem for an object you are throwing away
Location: 2240 Richmond Ave, Staten Island, NY 10314 - The artist talk will be indoors and the art-making portion will be outdoors, so please dress accordingly.
Transportation: The site is accessible by car or the S44, S59, and S94 buses at the Richmond Ave/Travis Ave and Richmond Ave/Draper Pl S stops.
Artist Talks + Screening + Book Release in conjunction with the group exhibition, Beyond Codex: Living Archives
Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th St, 3rd Fl New York, NY 10001
6-6.30 Reception and catalogue release
6:30-6:50 Film screening Some Writers give you two heartbeats
6:50-7:20 Yusuf Hassan in conversation
7:20-7:30 Intermission
7:30-8:00 sTo Presentation: Residency at the Department of Sanitation and Archival Screening
8:00-8:30 Betsy Damon Keepers of the Water Presentation
8:30-9:00 Panel with Q&A: sTo and Betsy
Beyond Codex: Living Archives is a meditation on the crossing and diverging pathways between personal narratives and public records, as well as the notion of accessibility within organized systems. From family records to online indexes, Beyond Codex includes works that challenge the conventions of publishing and archiving, while generating needed space for often-times under-recognized cultural heritage and texts.
Artists: Michael Rakowitz; Mina Shoaib; Hardworking Goodlooking; Jumbo; Matjaž Tančič; Mindy Seu; Betsy Damon; Liliana Farber; Irmak Canevi & Marie von Heyl; Abie Franklin; T. Shanaathanan; Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, & Zeng Xiaojun.
Bruce Museum
1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157
Exploring our Waste: A Creative Workshop with Artist sTo Len
MFTA Third Thursday
Thursday, May 19, 2022
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Join us for a workshop exploring our relationship to waste and the workforce that keeps our city clean and thriving with sTo Len, Public Artist in Residence for the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY). Alongside DSNY and the Department of Cultural Affairs, Len is launching the Office of In Visibility (OOIV), a multidisciplinary public art project that brings attention and understanding to DSNY’s critical but often invisible workforce.
Enjoy an evening of art-making at Materials for the Arts as Len leads a series of creative prompts, encouraging us to dive deeper into the items we discard and the people who process them. Learn more about Len’s residency with DSNY including ride-a-longs on Sanitation trucks, early morning roll call, and trips to waste processing centers across NYC.
