CALL welcomes you to join us in conversation. CALL/ Conversations is a 3-part discussion series, that will help mold and create new windows of understanding for our key projects and broader mission.
In the first session, we focused on Mary Miss’s 1996 project Greenwood Pond: Double Site. Former museum director Max Anderson, arts attorney Christine Steiner, and Charles Birnbaum, who leads the Cultural Landscape Foundation, spoke about the controversy raised by removing the landmark environmental sculpture from the Des Moines Art Center’s collection.
For our second CALL/ Conversation on February 12th, we will look at Double Site as a fulcrum point that led to shifts in Mary’s practice and the conception of City as Living Laboratory (CALL).
Read more about our distinguished line-up below:
Susanneh Bieber, Associate Professor School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, and School of Architecture Texas A&M University. Her monograph American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 (Routledge 2023) addresses how Mary Miss and her contemporaries were drawn to architectural practices as they directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life.
Amy Motzny, Section Lead, Climate & Equity at NYC Department of Environmental Protection; and Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems. Amy is a landscape planner, designer, and water resource specialist passionate about data-driven solutions for regionally adaptive design, regulatory innovation, and equitable community growth.
Garnette Cadogan, MIT Tunney Lee Distinguished lecturer in Urbanism, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His research explores the promises and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism.
These events will help CALL support artists to work with scientists and communities to address critical environmental challenges. The importance of the work lies in our framework – our working processes. This fundamental framework is incremental, long-term, and difficult to capture and share. Through conversation, we can convey our first-hand knowledge as well as consider the larger fields and impacts of our work.
