Edgar Arceneaux
Inside one of the houses on Colonels Row, Arceneaux will create an installation using infrasound cannons that emit an inaudible sound that is known to create the illusion of fleeting and ghostly images. The vibrations will create the sensation of an uncanny or ominous presence inside the house, which from the outside seems like an idyllic home.
AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs
AA Bronson and his collaborator Peter Hobbs will orchestrate his Invocation of the Queer Spirits, a series commisioned by Creative Time with previous previous performances in New Orleans and Winnipeg, Canada. MEDIA CONTACT: Nicholas Weist, nickw@creativetime.org
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Bruce High Quality Foundation will produce an original film shot in several New York art institutions and culminating on Governor’s Island, telling the story of a zombie invasion. The film will be screened for the public in the islandʼs Fort Jay Theater.
Adam Chodzko
Adam Chodzko’s video installation on Governors Island — sited in an underground officers club in South Battery — recalls, condenses, reenacts, and imagines the island’s historical and future relationships with the ideas of exchange and transformation.
Tue Greenfort
Greenfort will fence off a courtyard in the island’s Brick Village, recontextualizing the soon-to-be-demolished architecture into a pseudo-archaeological site. A series of signs will give the history of the Brick Village and the transformation of the island into a public park, asking visitors to consider how we designate structures for preservation or demolition.
Jill Magid
For the exhibition publication, Magid will provide a proposal for an unrealized project for the
Governors Island ferry.
Teresa Margolles
Tying violent events in her native country of Mexico to Governors Island’s complex military
history, Margolles will transport a cinderblock wall — the scene of a drug-related murder —
The wall will be constructed by a team of Maxican mansons on the opening of the project.
Anthony McCall
Housed inside St. Cornelius Chapel, McCall’s installation for Governors Island will explore the artist’s themes of time and sculptural and cinematic properties of light.
Nils Norman
Drawing on the visual languages of the Manhattan developer, 19th-century utopian pioneers, and 1960s Yippie and counterculture movements, Norman will create an encampment of communal, architectural structures for protest activities in an outdoor location on the island.
Susan Philipsz
Philipsz will create an original sound installation on Lima pier, on the southern end of the Island; to be experienced from the waterfront pathway.
Patti and Jesse Smith
Patti Smith will collaborate with her daughter Jesse to compose an audio piece to be experienced on portable audio players while walking around the island.
Tercerunquinto
The trio will initiate a simple action that is charged with a certain amount of violence: throwing a rock through the glass window of a historic building on the island. The final installation will include documentation of this action and an accompanying archive of their working process.
Tris Vonna-Michell
Using his characteristic blend of storytelling, lecture, and performance, the artist will conceive a weekend performance—one tailored to the culture and history of Governors Island and that directly engages visitors individually and in groups.
Mark Wallinger
Wallinger will create an intervention on the Governors Island ferry, consisting of two signs referencing the biblical association of sheep and goats with good and evil, respectively. Approaching the symmetrical ferry, visitors will be confronted with this duality and asked to consider the ways we distinguish right from wrong.
Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber will install an oversized dark wind chime on Governors Island. It is designed to produce sonic patterns based on the Tritone—a musical interval consisting of three whole tones, which is often used as the main interval of dissonance in Western harmony, also known as the “devils interval.”
Lawrence Weiner
Weiner’s textual installation, AT THE SAME MOMENT, will appear on the wooden fender racks of the Manhattan ferry slip, evoking ideas of simultaneity, arrival, and of past and present discovery. The piece will be the first and last image visitors will encounter as they depart for and return from Governors Island.
Judi Werthein
Werthein will screen an original film, La Tierra de los Libres, made in 2008. The film will be shown throughout the summer in a military residence in Nolan Park, Governors Island.
Guido van der Werve
Two of the artist’s films will be installed and screened throughout the run of the exhibition.
Krzysztof Wodiczko
The artist will create a multi-sensory installation in which the projection of a moving flame responds to the recorded voices of soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan recounting their experiences of wartime and its aftermath.