Counterflow: Told from the perspective of the land, my artistic exploration invites nature into the historical record where art and improvised dreamlike elements weave into the way we compose time.
This past July 4, I co-led a community activation “A River Runs Through Us” with Holes in the Wall Collective. In celebration of the history of the land, we carried water from the Hudson and East Rivers to the site of the Collect Pond in Lower Manhattan. The experience I had was in communion with a tree whose bark felt like the currents of a river frozen in time and went something like this… the tree is a dream of the waters, and the boat is a dream of the tree. I then made a series of boats from twigs and twine that float on cork bark.
Jo Wood-Brown • She/Her • New York, NY
Jo Wood-Brown is a multimedia artist and painter who has lived and worked in Lower Manhattan since 1980. Arriving as a young artist, she initially began performing time-based works that would become foundational to the Ecofeminism movement. Recent projects include The Lost Voyage Collective/Lake Eden, (RE:) Happenings Festival; “Canal Dreams Night and Day,” video, tracing 13,000 years of post-ice-age history along Canal Street. She co-led “A River Runs Through Us,” community activation on July 4 where participants carried water from the East and Hudson Rivers to the historic site of Collect Pond where the audio experience and image were generated.
