Event

2:00PM: Artist Conversation
Join artist Anicka Yi and author Rana Dasgupta for a conversation anchored by Message from the Mud, Yi’s first large-scale outdoor installation. In their respective work, both Yi and Dasgupta consider life and interdependence in the context of human and non-human systems across vast timescales, offering new ways to understand the past, metabolize our present, and open pathways to imagine new futures.

3:15PM: Before Skeletons, Before Teeth
Following the talk, guests are invited to explore the work and enjoy Before Skeletons, Before Teeth, a prehistoric culinary experience by Anicka Yi with Care of Chan.

• Free with admission, no registration required
• Program location: meet in South Ponds by Tram Stop #2 / Map #810

Speaker Bios

Anicka Yi (b.1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American conceptual artist known for her focus on olfaction and her use of unorthodox, living, and perishable materials. Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant, and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She collaborates with researchers to create media that are often inherently political and delves into the cultural conditioning of sense and perception in a way she describes as “biopolitics of the senses.”

Her diverse installations, which draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, ask incisive questions about human psychology and the workings of society. Yi’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; among many others.

Rana Dasgupta is the author of “Solo” and “Capital: A Portrait of Delhi in the Twenty-First Century.”  His latest book, “After Nations: The Making & Unmaking of a World Order” offers a global history of the nation-state, and a diagnosis of the large-scale transition engulfing the world today.  He is the recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize and the The Ryszard Kapuściński Award.  He lives in France. 

ACCESSIBILITY
Restrooms
There are no restrooms immediately nearby the program location. The closest restrooms are located at the South Picnic Area, which is about ¼ mile from the program location, and includes an ADA portable restroom stall. There is about 120 ft. of level, mown grass between the paved pathway and the restroom enclosures. Accessible single-user and family restrooms are available at the outdoor lobby near the entrance.

Terrain and Getting Around
Please allow ample time to travel to the program location. We recommend arriving at Storm King at least an hour before the program.

The program location can be accessed via mostly level paved paths, ½ mi from the parking area. It can also be reached by taking the tram loop to Stop #2. The program tent will be on grass, approximately 100 ft. from the paved path.

ASL interpretation is available upon request two weeks in advance. Every effort will be made to honor requests made with less notice.

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