Brooklyn Bird Lovers
Thanks to Proteus Gowanus extending a hand (or rather, wing) to the Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives for the purpose of its “Migration” exhibition series, we couldn’t help but delve a little further into our own history with the topic of migration. As it turns out, this took a rather literal turn and we didn’t […]
Little Exiles
(from News and Events) Proteus Gowanus is pleased to announce a Migration collaboration with The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives. The Museum has loaned us a facsimile excerpt of an archive manuscript by Wallace Gold Levison, written in the early 20th C. for a book (never completed) on the early history of the Brooklyn Institute, […]
The Opening Reception Was Jammed
Last weekend’s Migration year opening reception – and end-of-summer opening of Reanimation Library – was jammed. Wall-to-wall people made it hard to view the work of our 15 contributors, as well as the many migration-related books and artifacts. So we hope you’ll return during regular gallery hours for a quiet study of what’s on hand. […]
Paper Feathers
I am sitting in a room (different from the one you are in now), observing Ami Yamasaki attach hand-torn paper feathers along the walls according to the resonant frequencies of Proteus Gowanus. Yamasaki orients the feathers to the acoustics of the space, which she tests by touching surfaces, tapping on pipes, whistling and trilling her […]
Re: previously mentioned subway dogs…
The avalanche of new science showing that animals are smarter than we (or than scientists) thought includes evidence that migratory animals learn, plan and navigate. These Moscow dogs leave the suburbs where their masters resettled, commute into the city for food and return home at the end of the day. —TP
Here We Begin
Migration is movement and change. It can be cyclical, habitual: a bird flies south for the winter; a school of fish swims upstream. Migration can be unexpected, forced, violent: the result of wartime cruelties or the indifferent destruction of natural disasters. The earth shudders, people rebuild, and somewhere overhead a bird changes course. Transhumance means […]
Welcoming
Welcome to Proteoscope, the new blog tracking the exhibitions and events at Proteus Gowanus as we embark on our seventh yearlong theme, Migration. This year we are very pleased to introduce Krista Dragomer, writer/artist/graphic essayist, as Guest Blogger and Editor for the duration of the Migration year. We were introduced to Krista through her blog, […]
