Event

Join us for a discussion around Taryn Simon’s new interactive sculpture Kleroterion.  The program will begin with an introductory conversation between Taryn Simon and Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Nora Lawrence. The conversation will then turn to a discussion of lottery in democracy with Tomás González Olavarría, founder of Tribu, and Philip Lindsay, leader of the Democracy Innovation Hub at Bard College.

• Free with admission, no registration required
• Meet near Kleroterion by Taryn Simon, #850 on the visitor map

BIOS
Taryn Simon directs our attention to the unseen forces shaping the worlds we inhabit. Her projects, using photography, sculpture, text, sound and performance, center on storytelling, secrecy, and the hidden contours of power and authority.
Her multi-year projects are informed by research with varied institutions such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the International Commission on Missing Persons, the Fine Arts Commission of the CIA, Playboy Enterprises, and the New York Public Library.
Her work is currently on view at Cisternerne in Denmark, and in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Guggenheim, New York; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.

Tomás González Olavarría  is an economist, entrepreneur and the founder of Tribu, a nonprofit focused on advancing innovations and institutional reforms to modernize democracy. He led the first deliberative democracy process that used a nationally representative civic lottery in Latin America and has provided technical assistance to all the local governments of Chile that are part of the Open Government Partnership.
He is also a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute and serves on the advisory council to the Governor of Santiago. Previously, he was part of the Summit for Democracy’s working group on deliberative democracy. Among other honors, Tomás has been recognized with the World Summit Youth Award and the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

Philip Lindsay leads the Democracy Innovation Hub at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Over the past three years, the Hub has hosted annual national gatherings for advocates and practitioners of citizens’ assemblies in the United States. These gatherings led to the first major use of sortition in New York City in 2023. Philip co-taught the course “Democratic Innovation and Citizen Lotteries: from Ancient Athens to the French Climate Assembly,” which is available online. He also organizes the “Doing Democracy Differently Teacher Fellowship” which trains educators on how to bring deliberative democracy into the classroom.

Nora Lawrence is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Storm King Art Center. Lawrence curated Taryn Simon’s exhibition Kleroterion along with Curatorial Assistant, Adela Goldsmith.

PROGRAM ACCESSIBILITY
Restrooms
Accessible portable restroom stalls are located near the South Picnic area. There is about 100 feet of mostly level, mown grass between the paved pathway and the restroom enclosures. An ambulatory restroom stall with grab bars is available in the bathrooms on Museum Hill.

Terrain and Getting Around
Museum Hill can be accessed via paved paths as well as the elevator near the South Parking lot. The program tent will be on mostly level grass and will be a short distance from the paved pathway.

ASL interpretation is available with two weeks’ advance notice. Every effort will be made to meet requests made with less notice.

If you have questions or need other accommodations, please email info@stormkingartcenter.org.