ISCP is finally following through on something they told me about in July, a walking tour along Newtown Creek built around the sound installation currently on view there. The rest of the week leans hands-on. Soldering an LED tile at NYC Resistor, the first session of a new eight-week ceramics class in Williamsburg, and Gulsum Keskinoglu back with a group show at her own Awita studio.
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ISCP pairs Rosenström's Newtown Creek sound installation with an actual walk along the creek, led by Newtown Creek Alliance's Gus Perry. The route runs about two and a half miles along the industrial waterfront to Plank Road, the same landscape that shaped the exhibition's field recordings of mussels filtering polluted water. Curator Melinda Lang opens with a short introduction before the group heads out.
Tue 5:30p -
Three hours of hands-on through-hole soldering and de-soldering, taught by member Woody, ending with a Game of Life LED tile that runs its own animations. All materials included, no experience required.
Sun 12p–3p -
Fourteen artists fill Keskinoglu's Williamsburg studio for a group show marking the last real stretch of summer, on view through September 22.
Opens Thu 6p–9p -
A new round of handbuilding and wheel classes starts in Williamsburg, small groups so you actually get individual attention on glazing and surface technique. Runs through early November, and I'd sign up for the first session if I had a free Tuesday night.
Starts Tue -
Pratt's School of Architecture kicks off its fall lecture series with a talk on AI, the first of a run that continues through November with Stan Allen and Farshid Moussavi later on the schedule.
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e-flux's Playback series hands the night to Fergus Jones for its 36th installment, an informal listening session built around unreleased material and deep catalog cuts. I'd rather sit with a set like that than catch a normal DJ night.
Thu 7p -
Boothe and Cohen melt down nineteenth-century molds and donated scientific apparatus for a show built around three hundred years of regional glass history. One recurring piece packs scientific glassware with metal oxides that collapse under heat, trapping x-ray-like drawings inside the glass itself.
Opens Wed 6p–9p
AIA New York architect William Singer leads a walking tour built around 1776, the year the Great Fire tore through a quarter of the city after Washington's retreat from New York. Capped at fifteen people, meets at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House. Most of the Center for Architecture's own programming goes dark for Labor Day weekend, which makes this one worth catching.
Hans Rosenström builds sound installations meant for one listener at a time, often through headphones, that turn a specific space into something closer to an event than an object. Born in Lohja, Finland, he trained at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and works from Stockholm. His piece at Frieze Sculpture in 2023 hid the Echo Vocal Ensemble's voices inside a 19th-century stone birdbath. His current show at ISCP, "Conspirare," turns to Newtown Creek, the industrial waterway locals call black mayonnaise for what's settled at the bottom. I like that he treats a landscape most people walk past as something worth listening to closely.
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Sam