Invited by the Radical Ecology Laboratory H-Lab at New York University, artist and educator Sandra Volny Ph.D. led a Fall 2020 Sound and Space Research workshop.

The workshop took place at Governor’s Island as part of Dr. Karen Holmberg’s module “Geological force, senses of control, and natural phenomena”.

Exploring “aural spaces and the poetics of listening”, participants were invited to site-specifically investigate the idea of radical ecology at Governor’s Island.

Some of the questions raised during the course of the investigations include: What counts as ecological data? What are the ways we can capture it? How do we visualize or convey it and what are the goals/implications of this?

About Radical Ecologies H-Lab

The Radical Ecologies H-Lab aims to question connections and collisions between power and ecology by incorporating materials, experimental methods, and field-based techniques into human-centered modes of social and cultural analysis. The Rad Lab will address what we call “radical ecologies,” namely, collective forms of life that question how we understand stability, indeterminacy and risk; toxicity and temporality; geo-sociality and science fiction; and multi-scalar holobionts (assemblages of different species into ecological units) and infrastructures.

Lab Team

• Tega Brain, Tandon, Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media

• Elaine Gan, GSAS XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow

• Elizabeth Henaff , Tandon, Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media

• Karen Holmberg, Gallatin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science