City As Living Laboratory (CALL), a non-profit foundation created by the Land Art Movement leader Mary Miss, creator of Greenwood Pond: Double Site in Des Moines, IA, will be hosting a three-part discussion that will help create new windows of understanding for CALL's key projects and broader mission. The first session will be at 6 pm, on November 7th, at the New York City home of Tom Bishop and Katie Ford.
CALL/Conversations Part 1 will focus on Mary Miss’ 1996 project Greenwood Pond: Double Site, covered numerous articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and this recent one in Art in America, among others. Former museum director Max Anderson, arts attorney Christine Steiner, and Charles Birnbaum, President & CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, will consider the issues raised by the proposed removal of this landmark environmental sculpture commissioned for the Des Moines Art Center’s permanent collection. Join the first session at 6 pm, on November 7th, at the New York City home of Tom Bishop and Katie Ford.
The second conversation will take place on February 12, 2025, and highlight Greenwood Pond: Double Site as a fulcrum point that led to shifts in Miss’ practice and the conception of CALL. The third event in mid-April 2025 will focus on two major CALL initiatives – the urban scale projects WaterMarks in Milwaukee and the Cloudburst Project in New York City.
These events will help CALL support artists to work with scientists and communities to address critical environmental challenges. The importance of the work lies in CALL's framework – CALL's working processes. This fundamental framework is incremental, long-term, and difficult to capture and share. Through conversation, they can convey their first-hand knowledge as well as consider the larger fields and impacts of CALL's work.
