This west coast salon will highlight and screen works from Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Humboldt Bay region that are all exploring the poetics and practicalities of making art on a bioregional scale.
About the Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series:
Eco-Social (aka Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing & Screening Series) is an event series and learning community that will convene seasonally in Philadelphia throughout 2023 where ecologically-themed artwork is presented and excursions taken. See https://ecosocialseries.wordpress.com/
About the Artists:
Cynthia Hooper’s videos, essays, paintings, and research-based projects examine and interpret infrastructural landscapes in the United States and Mexico. Her detailed investigations patiently capture the incidental and emblematic activities that define these complex places, and advocate for the credible efforts of embedded laborers, researchers, and activists. Her generously observational strategies and evidence-based narratives honor the diversity of perspectives that index the sites that she studies. http://www.cynthiahooper.com/bio.htm
Sarah Kavage is a Seattle-based visual artist who creates public projects that call attention to land, ecology, and place. In 2021, Kavage built 16 functional ecological artworks as lead artist for Lenapehoking~Watershed, an ambitious cultural initiative about the Delaware River watershed, with sites centered on Philadelphia and spanning 3 states. https://kavage.com/ABOUT
Rosten Woo is a Los Angeles–based artist and designer who works with community organizations and local governments to help people navigate complex systems and participate in group decision-making. He is a cofounder of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, winner of the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. https://rostenwoo.biz/
Image credit: Sarah Kavage (Christina Sun Catcher – Wilmington DE)
