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What people said:

Jack Waters, Co-Founder Allied Productions, Inc.

Andrew Dolan, Electric Ladybug Community Garden Member

Jack Waters, Co-Founder Allied Productions, Inc.

"Truly AMAZING! Congratulations on this deeply moving creative action whose expression is now embedded in our hearts, the soil, and the surrounding nature of this urban environment!"

Joanna Macy, Ph.D, author & teacher

Andrew Dolan, Electric Ladybug Community Garden Member

Jack Waters, Co-Founder Allied Productions, Inc.

”The installation you are making is like nothing I have seen. It needs to be taken to every city.”

Andrew Dolan, Electric Ladybug Community Garden Member

"I got lost in it in a way that allowed me to take/make my own journey, prompted, inspired by the images and sound. As I looped between the installations, I found new images as new north stars and set off. It was a unique thrill."

An interactive video and sound installation

Bring the installation event to your community.

We live in a time of unfathomable loss to our natural world and we are reeling from chronic illness and lost loved ones from the pandemic. Bring us to your community and we will gather among the trees to honor what we have lost and to connect with the regenerative power of the Earth. We are adapting the installation for each unique location.

Summary

An interactive site-specific video and sound installation event by Nicole Betancourt and Bray Poor with Video Engineer Jeremy Allen exploring the interconnection of the human body and the Earth through the experiences of loss and illness. Grieving for the ravages of climate change, like grieving for lost abilities with a chronic illness, is ongoing and often involves fears about an uncertain future. “Unfixing” refers to moving out of a fixed position created by fear as a reaction to pain – a shift in perspective allowing pain, but also wonder and connection.

Team

Video Artist: Nicole Betancourt

Sound Artist: Bray Poor

Video Engineer: Jeremy Allen

Associate Producer: Kyrie McCormick, Liza Miller

Advisor: Juan Carlos Zaldívar

Graphic Designer: Liza Miller

The installation is part of THE UNFIXING film's community engagement project, Women Make Movies is the fiscal sponsor, supported by the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust and NYSCA.

Harlem Event Filmed by Braulio Jatar

Memorial prompt from Joanna Macy and The Work That Reconnects

Harlem event Hosted by the Electric Ladybug Garden community and East Village event hosted by Green Oasis Community Garden

The artists acknowledge that these events were held on unceded indigenous land of the Lanape people.