PLANT

Title: Bicycle Tour of Edible Gardens
Location: Departs from Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: June 28
End Time: 3pm
Description: Where can Rochestarians find good food, community fun, great smells, and exercise all rolled up in one urban experience? Edible inner-city gardens of course! Join avid amateur gardeners, Colleen Buzzard and Hucky Land, for a bicycle tour of some of Rochester’s community garden treats. $1 / free for members Departs from RoCo, Sunday, June 28 @ 1pm.

Title: Land Art Performance: A talk about Performance/ Earthworks
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: June 14th
End Time: 2pm
Description: Land Art Performance
A talk about Performance/ Earthworks with Rochester artist James Holland. Fault lines traditionally subdivide the art world landscape into either/ or determinations about medium and practice. In this talk James Holland will share some of his views about artists whose work he feels effectively straddles categories, especially those of so-called ‘earthwork’ and ‘performance.’ Issues of documentation, relating to ephemeral artistic practice, will be an important element of the overall discussion, and documents of artist’s own work will be used as a touchstone in this regard.

Artists' Talk

in between at RoCo April 4 - May 17

Title: Artists’ Talk by exhibiting artists Ricky Sears & Malin Abrahamsson
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: April 4th
End Time: 2pm
Description: Join Artists Ricky Sears and Malin Abrahamsson and Director of Planning at the City of Rochester, Chuck Thomas, for a discussion of the artists’ work and its relationship to specific aspects of Rochester’s landscape. The artist’s current work was significantly influenced the unused parcels of residential land (and the 6″x6″ barriers that surround them). Sears and Abrahamsson encountered these upon arriving in Rochester. This complex yet not often discussed aspect of the Rochester’s landscape will form a starting point for the discussion of their recent work.

As the local expert on abandoned and vacant properties, Chuck Thomas will further inform the discussion with facts and details relating to the unused parcels of residential land in Rochester.

The exhibition in between presents paintings and sculptures by Brooklyn based artists Malin Abrahamsson and Ricky Sears. The works in this exhibition are influenced by the artists’ first encounters with Rochester NY’s landscape. They relate to construction, demolition and the passage of time within complicated urban spaces. A common theme running through this ‘outsider’s portrait’ are the 6”x6” posts that encircle unused and abandoned parcels of urban land in Rochester. In between navigates emptiness and identifies potential in the often ignored corners of our city.

in between runs in conjunction with the PLANT reading room and Sunday coffee hours. PLANT is organized in collaboration with George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and The Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of The Annenberg Foundation.

Fallen Fruit Tree Adoption at Machine Project Gallery in L.A.

Janet Owen Driggs

Sunday Coffee Hour in the PLANT reading room

Title: Agri(c)ulture: What’s Growing in LA?
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Date: March 22
Start Time: 1pm
End Time: 2pm
Description:
Los Angeles is frequently billed as a place where culture grows small in the shadow of a flourishing entertainment industry. However, with its increasing focus on cultivating sustainable civic, social and public spaces through the action of growing food, L.A. culture is not just burgeoning, but positively flowering.
L.A.-based writer artist and curator Janet Owen Driggs will present projects that are growing (or have recently grown) in L.A, including Not A Cornfield, Farmlab Fallen Fruit, Islands of LA and Edible Estates

Janet Owen Driggs’ recent publications include texts for ArtUS, RiM magazine, the Hammer Museum, Art Review, and the anthology Kolibri. Most recently she has edited History, Site, Document, a book about Not A Cornfield, an art project that took place in Downtown Los Angeles, 2005-6.

Owen Driggs has curated and organized events with, among other institutions, MOCA, Los Angeles; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; and the Hong Kong Art Center. As an artist she has exhibited most recently in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Mexico City. Before transitioning to collaborative and participatory practice she exhibited for over a decade as an individual artist, with projects appearing in solo and group exhibitions at venues including: Beaux Arts, Delfina Studios, and the Camden Art Center (UK), Shoshanna Wayne and Flowers West (US), Sandberg Institute (Netherlands), Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (Brazil), and ArtPool (Sweden).

Owen Driggs is currently a member of Adjunct Faculty at the USC School of Fine Arts and Studio Writer at Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation.