Opening Reception, "Living Matter, Shaping Futures"- NYC Climate Week

BioBAT Art Space

Living Matter, Shaping Futures brings together a dynamic group of artists and researchers whose practices bridge biology and technology.

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Please note- this event is taking place in the main lobby of Building A of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. DIRECTIONS Ferry -South Brooklyn Line leaves Wall St/Pier 11 at 5:46 pm and arrives at Sunset Park/BAT at 6:07 pm.Subway- N, R trains to 59th Street in Brooklyn.________________________ LIVING MATTER, SHAPING FUTURESExhibiting Artists Antía Iglesia Fernández, Danielle Parsons, Fiona Bell, Interspecies Library, Lolo Ostia, Peter YeadonCurated by Elena SoterakisIn an era that asks us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world, and in celebration of NYCEDC’s climate innovation hub and circular economy initiatives at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Living Matter, Shaping Futures brings together a dynamic group of artists and researchers whose practices bridge biology, technology, and design. As visitors move through the exhibition, they are invited to imagine how these new material frontiers and multispecies perspectives might redefine the future. What emerges is a hopeful vision, one where resilience, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence reshape our place within the web of life.Antía Iglesia Fernández’s installation magnifies the hidden beauty of handmade paper derived from invasive plant species and its microstructures. These scanning electron microscope images, carefully hand-colored, evoke an alternative organic terrain, inviting viewers to speculate on ecologically desirable futures. Danielle Parsons’ video micro-installations capture the subtle choreography of self-organizing systems, encouraging reflection on humanity’s entanglement within vast, intelligent ecologies. Lolo Ostia pushes the boundaries of bioplastics and natural pigments, imagining vibrant material alternatives to petrochemical-based colorants.Fiona Bell’s pioneering 3-D printed bio-based forms merge computational systems with biodesign, introducing regenerative production methods that blur the boundary between digital and organic life.Interspecies Library, an independent archive curated by Oscar Salguero, presents original bookworks that reimagine bookmaking and publishing as living matter. The selection includes works by artists from Chile and Thailand who are experimenting with bacterial cellulose, biowaste paper, and fungi-derived inks. The Interspecies Library invites us to reflect on the entangled relationship between species, storytelling, matter, and memory. Finally, Peter Yeadon’s circular and self-sufficient designs reimagine deep space food systems and remote environments, while highlighting the sustainability of insect-based nutrition.Together, these works illuminate our deep interdependence with living systems and challenge us to expand the limits of human-centered design by embracing beyond-human intelligence. This paradigm shift recognizes cognition, agency, and creativity across nonhuman species,microbial networks, and technological ecologies. As artist and author James Bridle suggests, intelligence emerges not from individual dominance but from collaboration, interrelation, and adaptive responsiveness. The artists in this exhibition ask us to listen closely to these broader networks of planetary knowledge.

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