485 Ma premiers at In Plain View, group exhibition
In Plain View, group exhibition banner and 2 screenshots of 485 Ma - Freshkills, Memphis, Lago de Texcoco 
485 Ma - Freshkills, Memphis, Lago de Texcoco, a new video from the The Same Sun /Calendar series is premiering in In Plain View: Transforming Frshkills from Landfill to Lanfscape, a group exhibtion at Parsons School of Design in New York City. It is a follow up to the original project The Same Sun / Calendar which debuted at @tsa_ny in 2018. This new series takes as a departure point my residency with Freshkills Park: Field R/D at @freshkillspark in 2018-2019. While at the residency, we explored various aspects of the landfill. I did propose several other project which I still have sketches of and might post later. But in the end, I decided to express my experience at Freshkills Park residency through the format of The Same Sun/ Calendarˆ, which if you recall, is a video series that explore various sites on deep-time maps. The map of the earths land mass 485 million years ago, reminiscent of the shape of Staten Island itself, sets off a series of poetic explorations and metaphors that weave together histories of garbage, waste, and refuse within this deep time map. 485 Ma unites Freshkills, Memphis, and Lago de Texcoco.
*Keep in mind, the video exhibited in the exhibition In Plain Viewis a special edit, a longer multi-channel video is in the works! Check back later for more information.
Exhibtion info:
In Plain View: Transforming Freshkills from Landfill to Landscape
January 27–March 2, 2025
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 5–8 PM
Aronson Gallery Sheila C. Johnson Design Center P
arsons School of Design,
66 5th Avenue New York, NY 10011
In Plain View: Transforming Freshkills from Landfill to Landscape highlights the transformation of Staten Island’s Fresh Kills landfill into a vast ecological park. Featuring projects by Sound the Mound and Freshkills Park: Field R/D artists, the exhibition blends art, ecology, and technology to explore Freshkills’ evolving identity. Multimedia works and archival materials address waste, renewal, and urban transformation, inviting visitors to consider the future of spaces once considered “irredeemable.” Through playful, dystopian, and utopian lenses, the show presents a narrative of resilience and recovery shaped by a longstanding curatorial collaboration.
Curated by:
The exhibition is curated by Caroline Dionne, John Roach, and Andrew Shea of Sound the Mound, Mariel Villeré and Dylan Gauthier of Freshkills Park: Field R/D, and the Spring 2024 students from Curating Design at the Intersection of Art, Ecology, and Technology: Vardan Babayan, Lauren Brown, Veronica Chen, Jac Clayton, Lara Damabi, Bingxue (Yoyo) Dong, Kerry Fusco, Jeniffer Isakbaev, Xin (Daisy) Li, Emeline Louis, Dina Pritmani, Catalina Vizcarrondo, El Weinstein, Chengyue (Sia) Zhao, Danqi (Nini) Zhao.
Artists:
Markley Boyer, Nathalie Conn, Dufala Brothers, sTo Len*, Jen Liu*, Mary Mattingly, Lize Mogel, Nancy Novacek, Antonio Serna, Andrew Shea, Audrey Snyder & Joe Riley, and Mare Liberum. With photographic contributions by Jo Cavallo, Shannon Curley, Michael Falco, Michael McWeeney, and Mona Miri.
* Alumi/residents at Freshkills Park 2018–2019