BioBAT l Water Stories
Wednesday, October 9
United States: 8am HDT, 11am PDT, 12pm MDT, 1pm CDT, 2pm EDT
Europe: 19:00 BST Australia: 5am AEDT
Water Stories is an immersive exhibition that addresses the poetic essence and ecological significance of water, highlighting stories of local waterfronts, coastlines and waterbodies in New York City. The artworks place visitors in a conversation with global narratives, historical legacies, and imagined futures. Curated by Elena Soterakis, the large-scale installation includes works by members Keren Anavy and Christopher Lin. Please join us as we explore Water Stories live from BioBAT in Brooklyn, New York.
Elena Soterakis, Keren Anavy, Christopher Lin
Each presenter will have approximately 15 minutes to discuss their work, with Q&A to follow.
Image caption: ©Water Stories installation shots including work by Keren Anavy and Christopher Lin, at BioBAT, Brooklyn, New York.
Member presenters
Elena Soterakis is an artist and Co-founder/Executive Director of BioBAT Art Space, a nonprofit gallery dedicated to the intersection of art and science, located within BioBAT Inc., a biotech incubator at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in NYC. Her artwork and curations explore themes of ecology, environmental degradation, and the relationship between nature and technology. Soterakis's artwork has been exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Museum of Art and Design in Atlanta, and the Torrance Museum. In February 2024, her open-source project documenting the COVID-19 pandemic, The Great Pause, was permanently placed on the Moon’s South Pole as part of Arch Mission’s Lunar Library. Soterakis has collaborated with notable institutions, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Tokyo University, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and Twist Bioscience, blending scientific research with artistic expression. Her 2021 project, To Space, From Earth — DNA Capsule, was sent to the International Space Station, where it encoded digital art into DNA. biobatartspace.com
Keren Anavy is multidisciplinary visual artist working in drawing, painting, installation, performance and video. Artist Member at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts- EFA Studio Program, NYC. Her research-based practice scrutinize issues of the dynamic relationships between nature, culture and sites. Challenging the boundaries of painting and drawing often as a form of installation, her paintings are the point of departure for large scale site-specific installations and, or performance that operate on an architectural scale. Anavy's work reflects social and personal narratives, and has been discussed extensively in these contexts in a recent publication: Keren Anavy's Garden of Living Images: Transnational Landscapes as Spaces of Ecological Order, in the Anthology: Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK (2023). She exhibited widely in New York, Mexico and Israel. Anavy holds MFA from Haifa University, Israel, and a BA in Art History from Tel Aviv University, Israel. kerenanavystudio.com
Christopher Lin is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator with a background in research science. Fueled by a lifelong obsession with fossils, his experimental installations, sculptures, and performances question the world we inhabit and envision the one we will leave behind. Often collaborating with non-human organisms and wider ecologies, his time-based works synthesize elements of environmental ecology with Zen poetics to explore the interconnected nature of our material world. After receiving a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Hunter College, Lin received the C12 Emerging Artist Award in 2016. He has shown work and performed throughout New York City, including at: Recess Art, Flux Factory, Wave Hill, the United Nations Headquarters, the Bronx Museum, and the Queens Museum. He was a 2020 Bronx Museum AIM Emerging Artist Fellow, a 2022 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Artist-in-Residence, and a 2023 Swale Lab Resident Artist. He currently teaches at Hunter College and Parsons, The New School. christopherlinstudio.com
This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.
