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    The Iceberg

    2024

    Deck of cards, gameboard, table, chairs

    THE ICEBERG is a card and conversation game created by Abigail Simon and Marina Zurkow that invites players to consider the beautiful trouble of complexity, with a particular focus on climate change. Like a tarot deck, the images on the cards of The Iceberg invite the user to consider a problem, give a voice to…

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    The Dorises: Oystercraft from silicon to saltwater

    2023

    Custom software (color, silent)
    Generative, non-interactive
    93 editions, 6 artist editions, 1 publisher proof

    In collaboration with Ira Greenberg
    Oystercraft website design: Pat Shiu

    Part of the exhibition “Chain Reaction” on Feral File, curated by Christiane Paul

    Created for the online exhibition “Chain Reaction,” curated by Christiane Paul on the Feral File platform.

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    Whale Fall Feast (Dear Climate)

    2021

    Marine debris, plastic bags, metal signs, CNC cut wood, mini-golf turf

    In collaboration with Blake Goble, B-Space
    Documentation: Jakob Dahlin

    Commissioned by Putting Green, NY

    https://dearclimate.net/installations/whale-fall-feast
    This work is part of the project:

    When a whale dies and sinks, its carcass creates an entire ecosystem on the ocean floor, nourishing thousands of organisms. Ocean pollution affects this process and disrupts the food chain, impacting species from krill to whales. Whales are some of the longest living mammals on the planet, with lifespans from 10 to 200 years. When…

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    Climate Jeopardy

    2022

    Cardboard, paint

    In collaboration with Abigail Simon

    Presented at the Woodstock Farm Festival, New York

    A fun, non-didactic participatory engagement “where nobody wins.”

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    Soupy, Salty, Sonic!

    2020

    Food, ASMR, mixer and speakers, lighting, slide show

    Led by Hank and Bean
    Sound: Yotam Mann and Sarah Rothberg
    Thanks to Sunview luncheonette and Dylan Gauthier

    Presented at Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY

    This work is part of the project:

    Soupy Salty Sonic, an edible exploration of fluid ocean spaces was a beta dinner and an aural/oral experiment, in conjunction with the exhibition “Wet Logic” at bitforms gallery.

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    Eating the Map

    2019

    Food, printed fabric maps, plexiglass, prototyping materials, print graphics/texts

    Chef: Jen Monroe / Bad Taste
    Artists: Marina Zurkow with Lydia Jessup and Ashley Jane Lewis
    Documentation: Gilad Dor

    Commissioned by the Guild of Future Architects

    To kick off the Guild of Future Architects’ Future Imagination Summit, Monroe and Zurkow created an interactive, edible map and visioning workshop looking at the present and future of food equity and climate change in New York’s 5 boroughs. 50 participants ate, engaged in discussion, and played — both with their food and other art-making material…

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    Rising Seas Jellyfish Snack Shack (LAX)

    2019

    Cannonball jellyfish, ice plant, kombu seaweed, condiments, laser-cut lettering, signage, tarp, stencil, plants

    In collaboration with chef duo Hank and Bean

    Commissioned by LENS (Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategy), IOES (Institute of Environment and Sustainability), UCLA

    This work is part of the project:

    A one-day pop up jellyfish jerky snack shack on the campus of UCLA. Serving Cannonball jellyfish jerky served with a choice of seasoning condiments reflective of 5 diverse regions susceptible to sea level rise: Haiti, the US Gulf coast, Sri Lanka/ S. India, Philippines, and the Netherlands. In addition, the snack shack served “invasive” ice…

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    Signs, Wonders, Blunders (Dear Climate)

    2019

    Locust and red oak wood, vinyl plaques, lettering

    Dear Climate Collective, in collaboration with Jennie Carlisle, Curator and Director of the Smith Gallery, Appalachian State
    Fabrication: Roger Atkins of Cove Creek Woodworks
    Fresh cut locust and red oak wood donated by Ian Snider of Mountain Works Sustainable Development
    Documentation: Cheryl Zibisky

    Commissioned by Climate Stories Collaborative at Appalachian State

    This work is part of the project:

    “What do I need to know for the planet to thrive?” This question animates “Signs, Wonders, Blunders,” an installation of 13 signposts, each with three multi-directional signs, located at interesting and suggestive locations on campus. The signposts use book titles and common phrases to create a set of playful proposals for new ways of understanding…

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    Making the Best of It: Jellyfish

    2018

    Food, performance, props, slide show

    In collaboration with Hank and Bean

    Supported by Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES), UCLA, led by Allison Carruth

    This work is part of the project:

    A dinner and movable feast exploring the edible desertification of the Los Angeles region, one whose contemporary culture still holds dear the sensibility of a Mediterranean diet.

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    Climoji

    2017

    Emoji collection, available as downloadable images, icon set, instagram filter

    In collaboration with Viniyata Pany
    Disaster icons illustrated by >Manuja Waldia
    Resilience icons illustrated by Anna Lin
    iOS & Android app developed by Johann Diedrick & >Denny George
    Thanks to Richard Farren Lapham

    Supported by NYU Green Grants, in collaboration with NYU Office of Sustainability.

    https://www.climoji.org/

    The Climoji are designed to distill some of the causes and effects of climate change into tiny, potent icons.

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    Making the Best of It: Dandelion (Potlucks)

    2017

    Food, dandelions, placemats, writing materials, thoughtful company

    In collaboration with Valentine Cadieux and Sarah Libertus
    with Jim Bovino/Topos, Courtney Tchida, Tracey Deutsch
    All images courtesy Dan Marshall.

    Presented at The Good Acre, Minneapolis
    Commissioned by Northern Lights.mn and presented as part of Northern Spark, Climate Chaos | Climate Rising, 2016-2017, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation

    This work is part of the project:

    The invitation: These Dandelion potlucks provide a community meal space to gather, share food, and explore key questions connecting food and climate change. They’re a more informal chance to add to the meal story sharing toolkit that Making the Best of It has been cultivating.

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    Making the Best of It: Dandelion (Eulogies for the Human Species)

    2017

    Dandelions, beets, custom structure, sod, music, paper, costumes, banners

    In collaboration with Valentine Cadieux, Sarah Libertus, Aaron Marx
    Dandelion kvaas by Jim Bovino
    Dandelions and more from Courtney Tchida
    All images courtesy Dan Marshall

    Commissioned by Northern Lights.mn and presented as part of Northern Spark, Climate Chaos | Climate Rising, 2016-2017, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation

    This work is part of the project:

    “Join us in a ritual festivity that invites you to become more dandelion. From trans-species oration to cow eulogies to intimate ocean tributes, this is the party of Making the Best of It, a communal service compressed into the space of a toast—to how all of us are making the best of it, now and…

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    Oil Twitchers and Barge Spotters: A Field Guide to Whale Creek

    2017

    Field guide, self-guided audio tour, website

    Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies (FSDE)
    (Nicholas Hubbard, Rebecca Lieberman, Marina Zurkow)
    with Bruce Shackelford (voice), Jane Cramer (audio engineering), Justin Peake (music)

    Funded in part by a Tisch School of the Arts Dean’s Faculty Grant, and the Brooklyn Arts Council

    Focusing on Newtown Creek, the polluted and little-known waterway that borders Brooklyn and Queens, the art collective Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies (FSDE) aims to expand awareness, citizenship, and affection for this post-natural place that is currently in the final stage of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund assessment process. We have been concerned with designing…

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    A Field Guide to the Place Where You Are

    2017

    Site specific installation
    Ladder, binoculars, stake flags, laminated key, toolbox

    In collaboration with Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies (FSDE)
    (Nicholas Hubbard, Rebecca Lieberman, Marina Zurkow) with Chester Dols (fabrication)

    First created for Works on Water Triennial, 3LD, New York

    Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies (FSDE) dreams of an ongoing and open library of citizen-driven field guides. The aim of these guides is to embrace the everythingness that—like it or not, pretty or not, dirty or not—constitutes the place where we are. We believe the first step to change requires an unblinkered intimacy with the…

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    Making the Best of It: Dandelion

    2016

    Dandelion leaves, flowers, tincture, custom structures, costumes, tour guides, umbrellas, meadow

    In collaboration with Valentine Cadieux, Sarah Petersen, Aaron Marx
    All images courtesy Dan Marshall

    Commissioned by Northern Lights.mn and presented as part of Northern Spark, Climate Chaos | Climate Rising, 2016-2017, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Knight Foundation

    http://makingthebestofit.today/
    This work is part of the project:

    Over the course of 16 months in Minneapolis, geographer and social practice artist Valentine Cadieux and Marina Zurkow, with a group of collaborators and participants, explored what it might mean to “make the best of it” (“it” being climate change), using dandelions to think through eating differently, nimbly, with sadness, resilience and even joy.

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    Making the Best of It Jellyfish (Houston)

    2016

    Custom Cannonball jellyfish soup powder, caramels, snack puffs

    Food prototypes by chefs Ryan Pera (Coltivare), and Justin Yu and Ian Levy (Oxheart)

    Supported by CENHS (the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences) at Rice University

    This work is part of the project:

    Making the Best of It is the umbrella concept for a series of regional site-specific pop-up food shacks, installations, carts, tea houses, delivery drones, and designed community dinners that feature edible climate-change enabled, and often not normally eaten, indicator species as part of the menu.

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    Outside the Work: A Tasting of Hydrocarbons and Geological Time (Houston)

    2014

    Tasting/Participatory performance for 50 guests

    Collaborators: Lucullan Foods

    Hosted by Joseph Campana and Timothy Morton, with generous support from The Arts Initiatives Fund and The Humanities Research Center.

    Presented by CENHS (Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences @ Rice)

    This work is part of the project:

    A dinner for 50, co-hosted by philosopher Timothy Morton and poet Joseph Campana, that explored the concept of Deep Time and the multiple million-years-long process of fossil fuel formation, embodied in a seven course meal. The guests were primarily from the academic and arts communities in Houston. The purpose was to field test the effect…

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    Outside the Work: A Tasting of Hydrocarbons and Geological Time (Boston)

    2013

    Tasting/Participatory performance for 50 guests
    808 Gallery Boston University

    With Lucullan Foods and Michael Connor

    Presented by the School of Visual Arts, in collaboration with Boston University’s Programs in Food and Wine.

    This work is part of the project:

    The French phrase hors d’ouevre literally means “outside of the work,” that is, outside the design of the meal. Petrochemicals infuse our foods, and while these byproducts of petroleum lie outside our designs on eating, they are intimately meshed with the foods we produce, transport and consume.You are invited to a multi-course tasting that invokes…

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    Not an Artichoke, Nor from Jerusalem

    2012

    ‘Local’ dinner for 25, menu, prints

    In collaboration with Michael Connor and Alex Freedman
    Chefs: Lucullan Foods (Lauryn Tyrell, Loryn Hatch, and Albert Nyguyen)
    Foragers: Holly Drake, Oliver Kellhammer, Bun Lai, Andrew Nundel & your hosts
    Photo documentation: M.Cianfrani, M_DOK

    Commissioned by The Artists Institute

    The Invitation You are invited to “Not an Artichoke, Nor from Jerusalem,” a dinner that renders the local exotic, and the exotic all too local. We are serving a meal harvested in nearby waters or foraged on the adjoining shores. Tong-ho. Whores’ eggs. Knotweed. Sapidissima. Sumac. These words feel strangely potent in the mouth. Language…

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    Immortal Plastics

    2012

    Participatory performance

    In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg

    Premiered at New Museum IDEAS CITY

    This work is part of the project:

    Immortal Plastics (IP) Assessment Services is a performative, methodological procedure which determines the depth of participants’ relations with hydrocarbons and positions participating individuals on a timeline of plastic’s ancient past and indefinite future. 250 million years ago during the Permian Period, marine microorganisms died and accumulated in sediments on the floor of a vast saline…

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