In conjunction with the exhibition The Land, Dark and Muddy, artist Sujin Lim will present her ongoing project exploring the vanishing landscape of the small fishing island of Yeongheung in South Korea, a place transformed by commercial and industrial development and changing tidelines. Lim has invited artist and community organizer Cody Ann Herrmann to speak with her about the impacts of wide-scale development in coastal environments, focusing on parallels between Yeongheung and New York City. They will also discuss some of the current efforts to restore and protect vulnerable ecosystems in urbanized areas today. The conversation will be moderated by exhibition curator and ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions Melinda Lang. A Q&A with the audience will follow. 

Sujin Lim is currently an artist-in-residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Residency Program for New York-based artists. Through site-specific installations and sculptures, Lim transforms actual locations into surreal images and alternative realities as a means to confront social, political and environmental injustices. Lim has exhibited work at Brooklyn Museum, New York; Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; Museum of Moscow, Russia; and MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Argentina, among other venues.

Cody Ann Herrmann is a New York-based artist and community organizer. She combines socially engaged art, political advocacy, and community science to create participatory art works and public programs. Guided by her interest in public space, participatory design methods, and urban resilience, Herrmann’s work explores urban planning processes while applying an iterative, human-centered approach to ecological problem solving. Since 2014 her work has focused on her hometown of Flushing, Queens, with projects critiquing policy related to land use and environmental planning in areas surrounding Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek. 

This program is supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.