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Vibrant Matter: Opening Reception

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Vibrant Matter is a solo exhibition by Japanese bio-artist and researcher Yoko Shimizu that features a selection of the artist's work exploring the dynamism, agency, and expressive potential of living systems. Working with plants, microbial organisms, and natural phenomena as subject matter, material, and artistic collaborators, Shimizu's work probes and reveals the invisible intra-acting forces that animate processes of creation, adaptation, growth, and transformation in all organic matter.

Exhibition Dates

October 8, 2022 – April 26, 2023

Artist

Yoko Shimizu

Curated by

Elena Soterakis

Live Performance, Sychrony, by Lorena Mal

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Please join us for the live presentation of Synchrony, a concert by Lorena Mal with piano performers Lauren Aloia, Ian Miller, Daniel Rudin and Madeline Smith.

This composition is based on the heartbeat data of all living organisms found publicly to date on scientific literature, as polyrhythmic relations to experience different bodies across states of sleep, hibernation, calm and activity.

This concert is presented at BioBAT Art Space’s main lobby gallery located on the Brooklyn waterfront entrance.

Pianos sponsored by Steinway & Sons.

*This event is free and open to the general public.

COMMON FREQUENCIES: Opening Reception

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Common Frequencies presents the work of a group of multidisciplinary Mexican artists focusing on active listening and invention to envision new collaborative systems.

This six-month bi-lingual exhibition will include a series of musical performances, art-sci workshops, guided visits and other events that will be free and open to the general public.

Exhibition Dates

May 1, 2021 – October 15, 2021

Curated by

Elisa Gutiérrez

Exhibiting Artists

Marcela Armas, Tania Candiani, Gilberto Esparza, Interspecifics, Lorena Mal

Unraveling: New Animations by Laura Splan

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Animations Made With Molecular Visualization Software and SARS-COV-2 Protein Structures.

Laura Splan’s solo exhibition is running in conjunction with the start of her 9-month artist residency at BioBAT Art Space. Unraveling is a new series of animations developed in collaboration with biotech company Integral Molecular during her uCity Science Center Bioart Residency.

Project support provided by The Science Center, Integral Molecular, and The Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.

Exhibition Dates

August 15, 2020 – October 31, 2020

The Mutable Archive Panel + Reception

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BioBAT Art Space is pleased to host an interdisciplinary panel on "The Mutable Archive", a multi-layered performance video project by Patricia Olynyk, which speaks to the problematics of human archives and renewed nationalistic obsessions with Othering and difference. By interrogating the mechanics of storytelling, the work probes the biological body and its cultural entwinements, the fragility of human life, racial profiling, and gender bias by demonstrating the fictitious foundations of human taxonomy itself.

Olynyk invited collaborators – artists, musicians, scholars, historians, a medical ethicist, a philosopher, an opera singer, and a spiritual medium – to write speculative narratives from an inventory of photographs of human specimens collected by 19th-century Viennese anatomist, Dr. Josef Hyrtl. Each performed script, a 4K cinematic video, exposes the roles of assumption and subjectivity in science.

A wine and cheese reception will follow the panel discussion.

Panel

Artists: Shimon Attie, Ellen K. Levy, and Monika Weiss
Curator and Art Historian: Hannah Klemm
Cultural Historian: Rebecca Messbarger

Moderated by

Artist: Patricia Olynyk