Upcoming workshop series:

The Department of Preservation and Reuse: Slow Time Ecologies presents 6 field-based research workshops considering peat as archive.

Beginning this summer. Dates coming up.

Department of Preservation and Reuse is an ongoing series of collective art field trips organized around wetlands, bogs, marshes, buried waterways, and other overlooked ecologies in and around New York City.

Each gathering moves through walking, listening, observation, mapping, conversation, and response. Participants return with a form: a text, a sketch, a sound work, a walking score, a publication, an intervention, or a small act of repair.

The workshops approach wetlands as living systems of storage, accumulation, and transformation. Peatlands become archives. Marshes become thresholds. Hidden ecologies become ways of thinking about time, memory, infrastructure, and collective life.

Upcoming workshops include:

    •    Peat as Archive — bog bodies, preservation, and time compression

    •    Marsh as Threshold — instability, transition, and edge ecologies

    •    Wetlands & Climate — carbon storage and ecological systems

    •    Mythic Wetlands — folklore, underworlds, and saturated imagination

The series culminates in a public exhibition and listening environment featuring recordings, maps, texts, walking scores, sketches, and ecological traces gathered throughout the workshops.

Facilitated by Eon Meridian and Caterina Verde.

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