February 4, 2024
2 – 5 PM
BioBAT Art Space
140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Building A
Brooklyn, NY 11220-2521
Experience a unique fusion of traditional tea culture and contemporary art. This event invites guests to sit in Yamamoto’s “womb sanctuary” and be enveloped by radial drawings cascading from the dome's apex while bathing in the sound of the artist’s recorded heartbeat emanating from outside the tent walls. This auditory experience is paired with soft lights which pulse, synchronized with the recording of heartbeat. As you sit in the tent, the rhythmic heart-lights filter through the womb’s walls creating a nurturing, immersive ambiance.
This installation not only artistically represents our universally shared, biological beginnings inside a womb, but also seeks to unify humanity’s experience in a shared, introspective space. Yamamoto's installation is a "psychological refugee tent" for participants. Join us for this intimate, transformative tea ceremony, and for a dialogue between the tranquility of tea arts and the profound message of human connection conveyed through Shihori Yamamoto's work.
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Image: Shihori Yamamoto, inside her Womb installation, I am here to love you.
February 3, 2024
2 PM
BioBAT Art Space
140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Building A
Brooklyn, NY 11220-2521
As part of her “Biogenetic Blooms” yeast painting collaborations, Karen Ingram will make living art using a liquid handling robot, the Opentrons OT-2. The OT-2 will be deployed to make imagery with tiny droplets of genetically modified yeast on agar. The yeast will bloom into colorful, living art. Stop by the artspace to see completed living artworks, and to see the robot in the act of producing a painting.
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October 14, 2023
5 – 7 PM
BioBAT Art Space
140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Building A
Brooklyn, NY 11220-2521
Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care serves as a nexus of art, biology, technology, and ethics, raising the essential question: How can the concept of “care” extend beyond the human sphere? By inviting viewers to see care as a dynamic force that sustains and nurtures all beings, this curation encourages us to break free of the hierarchical limitations often associated with the term.
"Embodied futures," as conceptualized within this exhibition, refers to a future where bodies, ecologies, and technologies merge. The artists challenge us to imagine a world where “care” becomes an inherent part of the fabric of existence, inspiring empathy and reciprocity across species and ecosystems.
October 14, 2023 – March 2, 2024
Elena Soterakis & Eve Barro
Aradhita Ajaykumar Parasrampuria, Katie Hubbell, Elaine Young, Karen Ingram, Laura Kung, Juyon Lee, Lolo Ostia, John Roach, Iz Nettere, Shihori Yamamoto, Suzanne Head
Carolyn Hall & Clarinda Mac Low of Genspace, Junho Lee & Katherine Plourde of NARS Foundation, and DB Lampman of Makerspace
This exhibition is made possible by the collaborative efforts of Genspace, NARS Foundation, Makerspace, Sunset Park Open Studios BioBAT Inc., SUNY Downstate, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and the New York Economic Development Corporation.
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Image credit: Elaine Young, STING / (Yellow) / Honeybee, Assemblages of microscopic images.
October 13, 2023
1 – 5 PM
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sunset Park Open Studios SPOS is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events, and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Featuring hundreds of participating artists and art spaces from across the neighborhood, SPOS is free and open to the public. This year, SPOS will be held from Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Throughout the weekend SPOS will welcome visitors to meet artists, curators and researchers from around the globe, and experience the beauty and diversity of the artistic process in both studio environments and institutional contexts alike.
Sunset Park Open Studios is a project of Sunset Park Wide Open, a non-profit organization founded in Fall 2023 by Sunset Park artist studios, galleries, and community organizations to recognize and promote the vibrant creative culture of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 is presented by the following partner organizations and individual supporters: Art Cake, BioBAT Art Space, Context Space, Genspace, J&M Studios, John Avelluto, Makerspace NYC, NARS Foundation, Robert Melzmuf, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Thomas VanDyke Gallery & Yi Gallery.
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Image: Brooklyn Army Terminal’s Atrium.
May 6, 2023
9 PM
BioBAT Art Space
140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Building A
Brooklyn, NY 11220-2521
Tides of Light | After Party | BioBAT Dark Space
La Manga is a Brooklyn-based cultural identity laboratory inspired by the spirit of the modern and ancestral people of the Colombian Caribbean coast. La Manga have performed at Lincoln Center Joe's Pub, Nublu, MoMA PS1, Museum of the City of NY, Queens Theater, and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Matteo Rini
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140 58th Street
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Building A
Brooklyn, NY 11220-2521
Saturdays, 12 – 5 PM
and by appointment.
