RESIDENCY ARTISTS, 2017/18
Art/Science Collaborations.
Cape Cod Modern House Trust and the National Park Service (NPS) collaborated on this residency which invited artists to work alongside NPS scientists in the field.
Guest curators, Dylan Gauthier and Kendra Sullivan, visual artists, and members of the Brooklyn-based art collective Mare Liberum selected a group of ten artists and writers working at the intersections of art, science, ecology, and land and water-based practices. The visiting artists were here in May and in October 2017 and May of 2018.
From mapping the sea floor and tracking the health of marshlands, to studying Hognose snakes and Spadefoot toads, there are over 70 science research projects going on at any given time in the Cape Cod National Seashore.
The Modern houses also served as laboratories for their original inhabitants who sought empirical data to inform new approaches to visual art, curation, and the design of furniture, housing, and urban spaces.
This project was inspired partly by the work of artist and MIT professor and Wellfleet summer resident, Gyorgy Kepes, who sought to bridge the gaps between art, design, and hard science to catalyze fresh insight.
The two-year residency concluded with an exhibit at the Kugel-Gips house and the publication of a book, Between Species/Between Spaces, Art, and Science on the Outer Cape.
See the entire book by clicking on the cover below:
