Noo Arts invite you to an artists talk by our guest artists Alan Long and Michael McLoughlin.
Over refreshments, Alan and Michael will discuss the work they have developed in response to Governors Island and give a sense of their journeys through artmaking to the island this year.
Location:
Noo Arts House, 404a Colonels Row Governor’s Island, NY
Alan Long will present his previous works, processes and also give an insight into a site-specific piece for Governors Island entitled "Comfort Road" that Alan is realizing throughout May and June. Comfort Road is a site-specific piece that reverses the normal relationship between artist (Alan Long) and viewer by making the work itself the “currency” used by the artist to gain a glimpse into a moment that changed someone, either positively or negatively. Alan is placing original artworks created in 404a (NooArts House) around Governors Island.
These works are free for the public to keep, but in return he asks participants to send him a memory of a moment in their life when something transformed them as a person, and how this shaped them from that point onward. The outcome is a series of unique conversations and insights, showing how both large and small moments can have lasting impacts that change us as humans
For more information contact: alan@alanlong.art
Website: alanlong.art
Michael McLoughlin’s exhibition, Welcome to the Island; Well Done Everyone celebrates connectivity, the journeys made, and the life cycles we share. It welcomes everyone who arrives on the island. The work is based on the migration of the Chimney Swift (The Flying Cigar). Chimney Swifts spends much of the year in South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. They live on the wing, eating and sleeping in the air. Each summer, they return to the East Coast of the USA, New York, and Governors Island to nest and breed. The artworks in the exhibition place the journey of the Chimney Swift who arrive on Governors Island each May, with our own human migrations. The exhibition has been made possible with the support and funding of Culture Ireland and Limerick School of Art & Design (TUS).
**Welcome to the Island; Well Done Everyone continues at Noo Arts House until June 12th.
For more information contact: hello@mmcloughlin.org
Website: mmcloughlin.org