{"id":1201,"date":"2019-09-06T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2019-12-31T04:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T04:33:38","slug":"futurity-island-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Futurity Island, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, are&nbsp;co-presenting the&nbsp;<em>Futurity Island<\/em>, an infrastructure for interspecies communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concept: Nomeda &amp; Gediminas Urbonas; co-organized with Christine Shaw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sound: Nicole L\u2019Huillier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Architecture: Indr\u0117 Umbrasait\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In collaboration with Tobias Putrih&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Land acknowledgement: Sadada Jackson; Opening Performance: Erin Genia, Nicole L\u2019Huillier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-322x215.jpg 322w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_5366-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Nancy Valladares<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A network of water\/sewer pipes,&nbsp;<em>Futurity Island<\/em> is assembled into an artificial skeleton that channels the sounds of \u201cnature.\u201d As an instrument used to drain swamps, the pipe is a metaphor for human-centered ecology and environmental domination, and a prime symbol of the Anthropocene.&nbsp;<em>Futurity Island<\/em>&nbsp;appropriates the pipe to bring humans and non-humans into a more symmetrical, collaborative relationship, aimed at listening to and hearing the silenced voices of our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9810-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1229\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9810-scaled.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/?attachment_id=1229\" class=\"wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9810-450x600.jpeg 450w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-242x322.jpg 242w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3172-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9798-650x488.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9798-650x488.jpeg 650w, 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thought for the era of environmental collapse. The <em>Futurity Island<\/em> provides participants a space to speculate on interspecies ecologies and probe the usefulness of the concept \u201csympoiesis\u201d imagining and working together in radical inter-disciplinarity toward desirable futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-650x488.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-650x488.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-322x242.jpeg 322w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-133x100.jpeg 133w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_9990-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, the generous donors to the 2018 McDermott Award Gala, hosted by the Council for the Arts at MIT, the School of Architecture and Planning, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, Musket Transport, Canada Council for the Arts\u2019 New Chapter program, and IPEX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Futurity Island<\/em>, 2018 was commissioned by Blackwood Gallery for <em>The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea<\/em>, curated by Christine Shaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_2218-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1216\" 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