Please join us for Shared Grounds x Chance Ecologies, a curatorial presentation and panel discussion looking at two exhibitions sited at Hunter’s Point: Shared Grounds (2025) and Chance Ecologies (2015). The evening brings artists and curators together to reflect on their projects and consider new potentials for artistic research and collaboration in Hunter’s Point; given the fruition of rezoning and development along the Newtown Creek in the past decade. This event is co-organized with Finnish Cultural Institute in New York (FCINY).

Participants

Introduction: Klaudia Draber, Director of Programs, FCINY
Curatorial Presentations: Catherine Grau & Nathan Kensinger, Co-Curators, Chance Ecologies; Meghana Karnik, Co-Curator, Shared Grounds / Curator & Exhibitions Director, Flux Factory
Panelists: Dylan Gauthier, Artist, Chance Ecologies; Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Shared Grounds; Nat Roe, Executive Director, Flux Factory

Exhibition Histories

Chance Ecologies (2015) was a framework for artistic gestures and research projects exploring the un-designed landscapes and wilderness found in abandoned spaces, post-industrial sites, and landfills. The main trajectories of the project are to create research and discourse around the value of wild spaces in the urban environment; to document, learn from, and commemorate the naturally occurring ecosystems that are being lost to development; and to articulate contemporary readings of and new forms of relating to (urban) wilderness. The exhibition was curated by Catherine Grau, Nathan Kensinger, and Stephen Zacks. https://chancecologies.org/

Shared Grounds (2025) was an experimental exhibition that gathered performative works by Carmen Balthazar, Kastehelmi Korpijaakko, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jemila MacEwan, and Lotta Petronella—three Finnish artists and two New York-based members of the Flux Factory artist collective. Informed by eco-feminist thought, the project speculates on placemaking via interspecies alliances and knowledge production, and gives way to the potential for neighborly relations, codes, and customs in a public realm defined by humans and nonhumans alike. The exhibition was curated by Elina Suoyrjö and Meghana Karnik, and co-presented by FCINY and Flux Factory. https://www.fluxfactory.org/shared-grounds/