Triangle is excited to announce a weekend of special events on Governors Island
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23rd
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24th
In conjunction with the island-wide event Pumpkin Point 2021


Click for directions to the Triangle site, Nolan Park House 7B.
Ferry schedules and more info on visiting Governors Island here.

All guests will be required to wear masks indoors, observe 6 feet social distancing, fill out a COVID-19 tracing form, and show proof of vaccination before entering the building.

SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE

“Junkanooacome to Governors Island to Crown the Governed”
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Saturday, October 23rd
1-2:30 PM

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Junkanooacome, 2018-ongoing, performance with mixed media. Photo by M. Charlene Stevens.

Jamaican-American artist, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow presents a live performance of her series, “Junkanooacome” followed by a costume design workshop for kids of all ages. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is an interdisciplinary artist who often stages live and lens-based performances. She constructs narratives with wearable sculptures, drawings, and prints that aim to highlight the lost traditions and stories of her own heritage(s), cultural ideologies and the effects of migration, globalization, and climate change. Using urban and natural landscapes, some of which are culturally significant, she places the audience as the role of witness to her reclaim. This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.

“Thesmophoria”
Ariel Kleinberg
Saturday, October 23rd
3-5 PM

Ariel Kleinberg is a painter and performance artist creating theatrical installations and mythological interventions throughout the city, from the depths of subways to the heights of skyscrapers. She is interested in journeys to the underworld and trances to make humans divine. Throughout the afternoon, she will be conducting a series of creative mystery rituals inspired by the Thesmophoria, an ancient Greek festival celebrated in the fall to honor the descent of Persephone to the underworld and her return to earth. Using organic materials collected from the island and painterly tools from the studio, they will explore the divine forces of darkness and light in the creative process and the cosmic cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

“Slow Healing Tent”
John Bjerklie
Saturday, October 23rd
1-5 PM

John Bjerklie, Slow Healing Tent, 2012-Ongoing, mixed media installation.

John Bjerklie was born in Los Angeles and lives and works in Elmhurst NY. Bjerklie’s practice involves a wide range of activities that contextualize the act of making paintings and sculpture. Using in-situ environments as hosts for sculpture and painting, while at the same time being the stage for his multiple actions, Bjerklie uses surveillance cameras and monitors in order to play with the ambiguities of time and space, fiction and reality, live and recorded footage. The SlowHealingTrain is a mobile studio that is intended to create a platform through which the artist who occupies it may observe and interact with the environment and the community in which it sits. The artist who is currently assigned to work in these studios is the character known as BigHat. In the pandemic shutdown of 2020 BigHat set up the SlowHealingTent as an outpost to continue the SlowHealingTrain project. More information on the project can be found here.

“Because Not Everything Is Apparent”
Ye-eun Min
Sunday, October 24th
1-3 PM

In the Triangle house on Governors Island, Ye-eun Min has inserted an otherworldly anchor bolt through the masonry skin of the building and into the space outside the building; it expands and holds onto the emptiness outside, tethering the space of the studios to the firmament of the surrounding reality. The gentle flaccidity and quiet throbbing of the inflatable sculpture belie its epic intentions...An anchor bolt is commonly used when something needs to be bolted into a wall within which there is little material on which to grasp or gain traction. The casing of this particular kind of bolt expands, creating a firm hold in a weak substrate, and allowing a screw to stay securely in place. What kind of connector, or bolt, is needed to adhere to two adjacent objects that exist for the most part as philosophical concepts though? In “Because Not Everything is Apparent” the compositional components of figure and ground are targeted for this conjunctive process...we can’t really get our heads around Min’s mysterious black object occupying our space and then dangling precariously out the window, but it isn’t a situation that’s further resolved by exiting the building and staring at the other half of the sculpture emerging from the exterior: the sculpture can only achieve completeness philosophically.

Adapted from the essay "Figure is Ground," on Ye-Eun Min's work, by William Corwin (2020).

Ye-eun Min's work begins with the concepts of contradiction, discomfort, disorder, dispersion, dissonance, interference, and so on which arise from heterogeneous culture. Min received her bachelor's and master's degree from École Supérieur d’Art Clermont Métropole in France and was an artist in residence at Triangle Arts in 2019.

The installation will be on view in conjunction with a virtual interview with
Ye-eun Min, moderated by John Bjerklie and Julia Adler. Join the virtual conversation at 1:45PM on our Instagram Live at @trianglenyc.