Experience during your visit in various locations within the bldg.
Where Did They Go
Sound/Visual Art (North-front-Stairwell)
An installation that explores the void left when emotional connection remains but physical connection is lost.
Created by Onni Johnson & Sara Galassini
With the participation of: Sheree V Campbell, Peter Case, Katherine De La Cruz, Yael Haskall, Valois Marie Mickens, lim mui, maura nguyễn donohue, Caitin Nugent, Frenchie Cavallo Phelps, Nick Swenson, Jason Truco, Maya Tsou, & Katherine Yew
Posthuman Meditation Number 0
Soundscape (2nd Flr)
Sound installation exploring breath as a language for resistance.
Created by Tareke Ortiz
Library
Community (3rd flr)
Participating artists contribute to a community library of CREATURES-related texts, including script drafts, artist publications, & referential materials. Information from organizations working on our Creature Needs —air, food, water, shelter, room to move, & community – will be available.
Writing Conservation: An Interactive Book-Based Installation
Community (3rd flr)
Celebrating the work of artists, writers, & creatives around the globe who are combining art, science, & traditional ecological knowledge to study, celebrate & protect animals & their habitats. This interactive installation invites participants to view pages of conservation writing, mostly fiction & poetry, & write or sketch their own stories.
Compiled by Susan Tacent
Fire / Flies
Film/Sound (4th Flr / 7:37 min)
Re-imagines a swampland’s firefly mating season as a psychedelic video & sound installation. maura wrestles with Jack Kerouac’s “Dharma Bums” & “Big Sur” in a meeting of the beat generation’s love of nature with the complicity in feeding a culture of concrete roadways. Written in part during a residency at RDWray Trust (MA) & Big Sur (CA).
Written/Shot/Edited by maura nguyễn donohue
Narrators: Matt Nasser, Nick Swensen, Caitlin Nugent, Valois Mickens; On the Nose: Arthur Adair & Mattie BB; Sham/Man (eugene the poogene), Additional dancers: Sheree V Campbell, Katherine De La Cruz, Kat Yew, Carlos Mena, Maya Tsou, lim mui, Yael Haskal & Ponycam: Claire Bird, William Stromand Hugo Williams
With Support by PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by The Professional Staff Congress and The City University of New York.
The Bat, the Moose, & the Tamarack Tree
Soundscape/Projection (TBD)
Aural landscape with interactive shadow puppetry. Help the moose find her calf. Help the calf find her home. Build & animate your own version of the performance & learn some science. The kids love it, & so will you.
Assembled by Peter Case.
Performed by Matt Nasser, Yael Haskal, Caitlin Nugent, Peter Case, Eugene the Poogene.
WAMIMO: walk a mile in my ooze
Video/Audio/Sculpture (17 min)
Composed of elements from Stacy Dawson Stearns’ Los Angeles-based installation large slug and people you cannot see, WAMIMO suggests a mythic slug entity that brings awareness of simultaneous hermaphroditism, persistent decomposition, & molluscs as higher beings to the good people of Earth. May we all be blessed by the wisdom of those more ancient & humble.
Video, sculpture, & text by Stacy Dawson Stearns Music by Jonathon Stearns
Text performed by Stacy Dawson Stearns & Tim Cummings
large slug and people you cannot see was exhibited at CultureHub LA, August 30, 2025
Aoife’s got a mild case of Zombie. Bambi doesn’t mind. A mixed multimedia forest of creatures and movement helps them to the end. Raven. Moss. Thumper. Death. They are all here.
Playwright: (n). Directed & Designed by Peter Case.
Cast: Yael Haskal (Bambi); Caitlin Nugent (Zombie/Aoife); maura nguyễn donohue (Death); Onni Johnson (Moss); Lim Mui (Raven); Kat Yew (Monk); Peter Case (Thumper); Nick Swensen (Archer); ??? (Zombies)
Creatures Dispatch
Sound/Visual Art (TBD)
A mytho-paranormal radio station, shuffling missives from liminal beings in unstable environments.
Created by Yael Haskal
Works by Mattie Barber-Bockelman, Sheree V Campbell, maura nguyễn donohue, Erik Ehn, Ziv H., Aliza Haskal, Yael Haskal, Rob Neill, Val Ramirez, Kim Savarino,Wago Ryoichi, Róisín Tyrrell, Meredith Wright.
Informed by the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece – the sunken enclosed inner sanctum of the Temple where the oracle, Pythia, consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world, delivered her prophecy.
Created by Arthur Adair With Dakota Silvey & Victoria Villier
With Support by PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by The Professional Staff Congress and The City University of New York.
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