I-Park 2017 Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale Set for June 4th

I-Park is pleased to announce its sixth international, multi-disciplinary Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale begins May 15. The three-week residency culminates with a ticketed fundraising preview event on June 2, and a public exhibition on June 4.

The residency is devoted exclusively to the 12 artists who have been invited to create new works for the exhibition. I-Park views site-responsive art as a multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory field – at its most impactful when the installations and performances are developed and experienced in-situ. The term ‘site-responsive’ is construed broadly to encompass the various aspects of the project site: natural, built, social – and sensitive to the various dimensions of time. All works are ephemeral in character.

The public exhibition on June 4 coincides with Connecticut Trails Day. As part of the Connecticut Trails Day celebration, join us for an afternoon exploring I-Park’s 26 trails and experience the exceptional natural beauty that they reveal. You will be able to get up close to see, hear and experience the 12 new site-responsive, site-specific installations and meet the artists from around the country and world who created the artworks during their 3-week residency.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to see, hear and experience art + meet the artists who created the works + enjoy walking the beautiful trails at I-Park's 450-acre nature preserve, which are not typically open to the public.

Tickets to the 2017 Site-Responsive Art Biennale - Exclusive Preview on Friday, June 2, from 6-9 pm are $50 per person. You can chat with the participating artists over wine and hor d'oeuvres and preview the new art installations. Some evening surprises are in store. Proceeds help fund the Site-Responsive Art Program. CLICK HERE for tickets.

I-Park's 6th Site-Responsive Art Biennale on Sunday, June 4, from 2-6 pm is a free public event, but a ticket is required for admittance. CLICK HERE for tickets. Due to parking limitations at I-Park, the number of tickets will be restricted.

To prepare for the June events, I-Park is holding its Spring Volunteers Day on Saturday, May 20, from 9 am to 3 pm. Meet and assist the artists participating in the Site-Responsive Art Residency - and help with preparations for the June 4 public exhibition. Lunch is on us. Please contact Lisa Simonds at 860.873.2468 if you'd like to spend an enjoyable, productive day and help make the artists' residency experience, and Biennale, even better. Or, CLICK HERE to sign-up.

The following artists are joining us for the three-week residency (May 15 – June 5) and will be presenting new works at our Site-Responsive Art Biennale on June 4:

Kristin Cammermeyer, Sound Art/Installation, California

Xia Gao, Visual Arts/Installation, Michigan/China

Alexander Hanson, Visual Arts/Installation, Michigan

Hugh Livingston, Sound Art/Installation, California

Herb Parker, Visual Arts/Installation, South Carolina

Alessandro Perini, Sound Art/Installation, Sweden/Italy

Julie Poitras Santos, Site-Responsive Walk, Maine

Bridget Quinn, Text-based Installation, Michigan

Andrew Ranville, Architectural/Inter-disciplinary, Michigan/U.K.

Sam Stockter, Visual Arts/Installation, Japan/U.K.

Hannah Streefkerk, Visual Arts/Installation, Sweden

Erica van Loon, Cross-/Inter-Disciplinary Practice, Netherlands

ABOUT I-PARK

I-Park is both an open-air and a closed-studio laboratory for individual artistic pursuits in the fields of music composition/sound art, the visual arts, architecture, moving image, creative writing and landscape/garden/ecological design. From insights developed in the laboratory setting, it also develops and sponsors specially-themed cross-disciplinary projects of cultural significance – and brings these discoveries to light in the public domain.

I-Park supports these individual and collaborative investigations through its international artists-in-residence program, the aesthetic engagement of its natural and built environments and with on-site exhibitions, performances and collegial exchanges. Since its founding in 2001, I-Park has sponsored over 800 fully-funded artists’ residencies.