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Mildred's Lane 2021: YEAR OF LANDSCAPE/ DEMOCRACY/ WELLNESS
Cultural producers are contributing over the years by lecturing, performing, fire making, creating events --daily life at Mildred’s Lane. These creative practitioners are in support of curriculums for new and emergent practices for the 21st-century. Artist-residencies-in-complexity at Mildred’s Lane include:
Alyson Baker / David Brooks / Nina Burleigh / D. Graham Burnett / Donna Cleary / Liz Collins / Jorge Colombo / Susanna Crum / Deborah Davidovits / Mark Dion / Sarah Doherty / Jeff Dolven / Juliet Dunn / Justin Ginsberg / Hope Ginsburg / Pablo Helguera / Aaron Hicklin / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex A. Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Leigh Claire La Berge / Joe Lerro / Candice Madey / Kristyna Milde / Marek Milde / Leonard Nalencz / Sean Owen / Claire Pentecost / Rebecca Purcell / Barry Puett / J. Morgan Puett / Joshua Quarles / Anna Riley / Rodolfo Salgado / Rachael Schmoker / Gina Siepel / Laura Silverman / Sara Smith / Dannielle Tegeder / Mark Thomann / James Voorhies / Robert Williams / David Wood / Caroline Woolard / Amy Yoes / and so many others to be announced.
Sessions 2021
Being There.
MAY/JUNE
May 17- ongoing
WORKSTYLING the WILD
Deborah Davidovitz, Donna Cleary, Sarah Doherty, Juliet Dunn, Jeffrey Jenkins, Joe Lerro, Barry Puett, Rachael Schmoker, Laura Silverman
There is a sleeping, shady garden at Mildred's Lane. We let it go after several years of competing with varmints destroying our work is heartbreaking. Reclaiming it has taken several years, we are nearly there. Previous Wilding fellows rehabilitated the soil, priming the garden for a new beginning. Others ripped out the invasive species and leveled the site. We are rethinking how to coexist, allowing for a vibrant community of flora, fauna, and creatures sharing and turning toward a wellness program.
We are working in tandem with the Outside Institute, foraging the deep forest. Listen to wisdom from the non-humans, master gardeners, botanists, beekeepers, landscapers, and herbalists. Let's get down and dirty with daily events as we rebuild a garden of medicinal rhizomes, roots, flowers, and herbs; foraging-digging-rearranging-building-planting-swimming -- come workstyle the wild with us.
JUNE
June 7 through 27
SILVER – IRON – LIGHT
Noah Doely and others to be announced
Set in the landscape with an extravaganza of 19th and 20th-century equipment, we will facilitate a series of Plein-air tintype, cyanotype, and anthotype processes using various materials hand-coated plates, paper, fabric, and plant-based pigments. You may bring your own equipment or learn to use ours. These alchemical processes combine science and wonder; collaboration and experimentation will be part of events and activities throughout the session. Participants will set up a photography studio in the field for processing and development. The work will culminate in an exhibition at The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space in nearby Narrowsburg, NY.
JULY
July 5 through 25
FOREST – BODY – CHAIR
Gina Siepel, Sara Smith, and Kate Wellspring.
A tree becomes a chair and enters our lives as an intimate partner. The relational dynamics between the forest, the human body, and the wooden chair provide an entry point for exploring nature and culture's mutuality. In the domestic environment, chairs are utilitarian objects for resting the body and are social facilitators. As we know them, Chairs can also be poorly designed for the human body, causing various physical problems. Explore Mildred's Lane's forests with a field naturalist with somatic and ergonomic movement facilitators. Working with wood directly on-site for greenwood chair construction with a woodworker. Multi-modal investigations of vernacular American furniture design will form the basis for experimentation through the sustainability of forest, body, and domestic spheres. No previous experience with movement or woodworking is required. We will end the session with an exhibition/installation/event open to the public.
AUGUST
August 2 through 9
ORDER OF THE THIRD BIRD: ATTENTION LAB
Anna Riley and Justin Ginsberg + Distinguished Associates, D. Graham Burnett, Leonard Nalencz, and Sal Randolph.
Indiscreet friends of the Third Bird Order continue their investigations into experimental protocols of Practical Aesthesis and various tactics for Sustained Attention. The Attention Lab is part guerrilla seminar and part meditative/ kinetic practicum. A discipline of the senses is pursued; the conditions of attention are investigated. Beginning with available traditions and protocols of the so-called "Birds," our aim will be to develop and test new durational practices of attention.
SEPTEMBER
7 through 27
BIBLIOPHANTICS
Featuring special author appearances to be announced.
An intensive Reading Retreat. Enchanting stays in the Mildred's Lane Library, with volumes to consume, quietly -- aloud -– socially– privately. There are Plein-air installations situated in the forest, designed for creative repose and relaxation, awakening all senses for complete comprehension – reading and thinking amongst the trees. We will take field trips to local bookstores, collecting volumes for the Library. Periods of reading grow into Plein-air evening socials, parlor games, and authors' performances in the height of the arousing autumn of Mildred's Lane.
OCTOBER
An excellent time for Class programming, retreats, Group visits; contact us to organize your program and experience. The Mildred's Lane Commons offers essential tools for the future. Mildred's Lane is an experiment in alternative pedagogies – for over two decades, institutions need more safe space. Consider the strategic possibilities for challenging creative minds–students, faculty, and colleagues– during the COVID-19 pandemic months and years ahead.
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ONGOING
Joe Lerro is a Resident-Artist-in-Complex(ity) and LAND Steward at Mildred's Lane. Joe will be leading several workshops throughout the spring and summer including soil preparation, composting, planting, and other fine arts of gardening.
Rachael Schmoker is a Resident-Artist-in-Complex(ity) and Wellness Steward at Mildred's Lane. She is the founder of the practice, Bed-ga (yoga motion suitable for the bedroom.) Schmoker defines this as 'slow flow movement, deepening understanding of our bodies by listening to alignment.' Gently moving into restorative postures using pillows and bolsters, flowing softly from mat to bed with soothing ease. Relax in the comfort of your home or from landscape bed installations. Join in this innovative movement practice focused entirely on the tender relationship with your body.
Independent Applications Welcome.
Lists of visiting and contributing artists grow throughout the year, so check the website for updates this spring.
IMPORTANT NOTICE/ VACCINES or NEGATIVE COVID TEST REQUIRED TO ATTEND.
All schedules subject to minute-by-minute pandemic guidelines. If by chance, a session cancels due to these dangers, we will reschedule your residency accordingly.