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We are happy to share a few moments from the premiere of When the Smoke Clears at The Flea Theater, in February 2026. Thank you to everyone who joined us for these evenings of poetry, music, movement, and reflection - and to the incredible artists, collaborators, and audience who helped bring this subterranean world into being. Set beneath the surface of a world undone by war, When the Smoke Clears follows a community that has fled the devastation aboveground and descended into the earth’s sheltering womb. There, in darkness and suspension, they sing - carrying songs of destruction, dissonance, dust, and fragile hope. When the Smoke Clears Poems by Colin Greer Music by N. Scott Johnson Choreography by Alice Reys Directed by Danilo Gambini With: Victor Caccese · Chris Cardozo · Madeline Healey · N. Scott Johnson · Alice Reys Light Design: Nic Vincent Costume Design: David Mitsch Produced by Artists with Evidence Photos by Alexia Haick  #whenthesmokeclears #artscience #performance  #chamberopera  #nycevents

Today we highlight Zoom Session II: Multispecies Justice, Evidence, and Governance. This online panel explores legal, ethical, and evidentiary frameworks for understanding multispecies relations and environmental justice, expanding how governance might account for more-than-human actors and systems. Moderated by Justine Woods (Parsons), the session features: Maria Celeste Jimenez Riveros (Centro Carbonell) on constitutional proposals for multispecies families; Ines Montalvao (Artists with Evidence) on multispecies practices across art and science; Minakshi Das (AnthroTech Framework) on human–mushroom co-creation through technology; and Herizo Robin (DAGO Collective) on mapping non-human stakeholders within fashion extraction systems. Together, these talks reconsider how justice, evidence, and governance can be reimagined through a multispecies lens. This is a virtual event, please register via the Zoom link in the program in our bio. How might legal and governance systems shift when non-human actors are recognized as stakeholders? ⚖️

🎧 Episode #2 is live! We’re so happy to share the second episode of Live from the Threshold: an Art–Science Conversation — this time, an intimate exchange with interdisciplinary artist and bioart pioneer Kathy High. In this episode, AwE Program Director Ines Montalvao visits Kathy at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy. Recorded in the Sanctuary’s radio room, the conversation unfolds at the intersection of art, biology, and technology—where questions of empathy, animal sentience, ethics, and biopolitics are not abstract, but lived and practiced. Kathy High’s work moves across laboratories, communities, and species boundaries. As Professor of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, she maintains a lab within the Center for Biotech and Interdisciplinary Studies, cultivating new forms of relation between art and the life sciences. Artist and educator Ellie Irons also joins briefly, adding further resonance to this conversation on ecological attention and collaborative practice. If Episode #1 brought us underground into a resonant public gathering, Episode #2 brings us into a quieter, intimate threshold—where care, community, and more-than-human thinking take center stage. Welcome to the threshold. Enjoy. ✨ Listen via the link in bio. and stay tuned for what’s next in our AwE Podcast! _______ This podcast was produced by Ben Larsen. The music for Live from the Threshold is Song for Barbara, composed and performed by N. Scott Johnson in honor of his friend, the artist Barbara Hammer. #livefromthethreshold #artscience

Very excited for this one! A couple of years developing this piece with an extremely talented group of people. Friday Feb 6 and Saturday Feb 7, 7PM at The Flea!!! Come!!! “WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS - a new chamber opera” with poems by Colin Greer, music by N. Scott Johnson, and choreography by Alice Reys - poster art by Neo Avila

We’re thrilled to share the upcoming premiere of When the Smoke Clears, a chamber opera–poem produced by Artists with Evidence. Set beneath the surface of a world undone by war, When the Smoke Clears follows a community that has fled the devastation aboveground and descended into the earth’s sheltering womb. There, in darkness and suspension, they sing. Their voices carry songs of destruction, dissonance, dust, and fragile hope—moving to the rhythms of breath, seasons, and tectonic time. As they wait to resurface, they reckon with what happened, and what led them there. Intimate and elemental, When the Smoke Clears imagines a community not at the end of history, but buried inside its beginning: a seed waiting to rise, grow, and begin again. WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS Poems by Colin Greer Music by N. Scott Johnson Choreography by Alice Reys Directed by Danilo Gambini With: Victor Caccese · Chris Cardozo · Madeline Healey · N. Scott Johnson · Alice Reys Light Design: Nic Vincent Costume Design: David Mitsch 📍 The Flea (20 Thomas Street, NYC) 🗓 February 6 & 7 ⏰ 7:00 PM Get your tickets via our Link in Bio #whenthesmokeclears #artscience #performance #nycevents

🎧 The wait is over - episode #1 is live! We’re excited to finally share Live from the Threshold: an Art–Science Conversation — now released as a podcast. Emerging from a collaboration between Artists with Evidence and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the series brings our live, in-person conversation, held on October 23rd in NYC, into your ears. Recorded underground at The Gym at Judson, this first episode captures a resonant public dialogue at the intersections of art, science, and society—where sensing becomes a method of inquiry, and boundaries between human and non-human, body and environment, known and unknown, begin to blur. 🎙️ Episode 1 Curated and moderated by Ines Montalvão (AwE), the conversation moves from underground ecosystems to interspecies listening, from soundscapes to embodied storytelling—exploring how artists work across geological, sensory, and social thresholds to reimagine care, belonging, and coexistence. Ines is joined by three remarkable voices in art-science: Cara Hagan, Linda O’Keeffe, and Nikki Lind. Positioned at the threshold between disciplines and ways of knowing, the series asks how we might learn to sense differently in times of ecological upheaval and technological acceleration. Welcome to the threshold. Enjoy. ✨ Listen via the link in bio. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes! _______ This podcast was produced by Ben Larsen. The music for Live from the Threshold is Song for Barbara, composed and performed by N. Scott Johnson in honor of his friend, the artist Barbara Hammer. #livefromthethreshold #artscience #awepodcast

a few pictures from Live from the Threshold in October at The Gym at Judson, in NYC a huge THANK YOU to our incredible speakers Cara Hagan, Linda O'Keeffe and Nikki Lndt for sharing your practice, to Ines Montalvao from AwE for the thoughtful curation and moderating, and Brendan O'Donnell from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with whom we are thrilled to collaborate with. We are also grateful for the performance after the conversation by Scott Johnson, Alice Reyes and Chris Cardozo, who are part of an upcoming performance produced by AwE. and of course a special Thank You to the audience and everyone who supports Artists with Evidence in our journey. STAY TUNED as we will be releasing this wonderful art-science conversation as a podcast episode in the Live from the Threshold series - and for more conversations that will inspire everyone! @carahagan_art @lokeeffe75 @nikki.lindt @i.montalvao @boell_us @artistswithevidence

What is your practice craving at this time? What needs pruning, watering, or planting?   Gardening postcards is a series of one-on-one sessions for artists and cultural workers offered by Candama, a platform created by artist and curator Daniela Pascual Esparza.  Drawing on There’s nothing old under the sun, a performance and plant deck she created for Helsinki’s Winter Garden in 2020, Daniela invites you to discuss your work through the intermediary of a plant.  Daniela has transformed her deck into a set of postcards and, in collaboration with AwE, she is offering free consultations to artists and cultural workers. You will pick a postcard and we’ll unpack together the questions it has for you!   Gardening postcards will take place on Sun 30.11 at Café Lasipalatsi, in Helsinki. Each consultation lasts approximately 1h. We have 3 spots available:  Sun 30.11 at 12:00  Sun 30.11 at 14:00  Sun 30.11 at 16:00  If you would like to attend, please register through the link in bio!  _______ Gardening postcards is part of a curatorial exchange between AwE and Candama, a platform initiated by Daniela. In Spring 2025, Ines Montalvao, AwE’s program director, offered a 2-day seminar within Each day hides a grain of Sunday vol.2, an artist laboratory hosted by Circus Maximus and Candama. Gardening postcards is its counterpart.  @mariadecandama @artistswithevidence @i.montalvao Credits Daniela's photo by Laura Salazar Bogoya @salazarbogoya

Each day hides a grain of Sunday vol.2 offered a framework for developing existing work while inviting artists to explore the role space could play in their practice. My deepest gratitude to everyone who’s made it possible!   This artist laboratory came to life amidst severe financial cuts. Thank you, @teattericircus , for trusting me with all the changes and allowing me to wrap this curatorial journey as Candama. Thank you, @sonjislaine , @joaoluisperc , @francesca.bogama and @olga_spyropoulou for being generous with your trust and feedback. It has been wonderful getting to know your processes and seeing you connect, review, play and transform what you carry with you. I see traces of you everywhere in Helsinki! This year, we tried something new: institutional partnerships. I want to thank everyone at @arkkitehtuuri_ja_designmuseo for welcoming us and introducing us to their archives. Special thanks to @i.montalvao from @artistswithevidence for being our discussion partner and sharing with us her enthusiasm and knowledge in art-science. Thank you, @realityrescen , @arkadia_bookshop , @songscapes.fi , Henry Lämsä, and @pyrykan for also being part of this journey and contributing to it. Thank you, @onurtayranoglu , @mechebalarezo , @onlyphan.zip , @cal.doga , @maya.oliva , @matilda_aaltonen and Maija Linturi for your support and work at Circus Maximus. It’s been great having you as colleagues. Our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who attended the public showings this summer and early autumn. Your presence makes the difference. One more year has passed, and I still believe there is nothing sexy about curating. This cycle, however, has taught me an important lesson: better ready than perfect. It’s a wrap! 📸 Here goes to the memories: 2-3 Tracing II: Near the edge but not even close by Sonjis Laine. Images: Phan Nguyen. 4-5 Traces we inhabit, fragments that hold us by Francesca Bogani Amadori. Images: Henry Lämsä. 6-7 SOLO – Porto Helsinki Sound Promenade Project by João Luís Matos Lopes. Images: Ana Piedehierro. 8-9 Still like dust by Olga Spyropoulou and Pyry Kantonen. Images: Pyry Kantonen.

✨ Meet the Speakers: Nikki Lindt  ✨ Nikki Lindt is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sound, and video. Her practice focuses on environmental stewardship, more-than-human perspectives, and our deep—often fragile—relationship with natural spaces. Bridging art and research, Nikki collaborates with scientists and has worked at renowned field stations including Toolik (Alaska), Abisko (Sweden), and the Urban Field Station (New York City).  Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, and public spaces, and featured in outlets such as The Financial Times, Forbes, NPR, and CBS Sunday Morning. Recipient of the Pollock-Krasner, Puffin Foundation, and Brooklyn Arts Council grants, Nikki continues to explore how art can reveal the unseen infrastructures of life and foster ecological care. At Live from the Threshold: an Art-Science Conversation, Nikki will bring her deep engagement with underground and natural environments to reveal the hidden ecologies that shape our world — inviting us to listen to the land, sense its transformations, and imagine new forms of stewardship and coexistence. 🌍 Live from the Threshold is a live podcast conversation that invites audiences into a space of embodied encounters, where listening and sensing become forms of inquiry and resistance. Curated and moderated by Ines Montalvao (Artists with Evidence), the event launches a new collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and gathers outstanding voices from the art-science field. Together, they will explore underground ecosystems, interspecies listening, and the politics of access and care — not only as themes of discussion, but as active participants in the dialogue. 📅 23 October 2025 | 🕖 7pm | 📍 The Gym at Judson, NYC Free entry (registration via Link in Bio) #livefromthethreshold #artscience #artistswithevidence #heinrichboellfoundation #nycevents

Still like dust lingers here. These photographs function much like rhythm in poetry, a bridge between one life and all others across time.  Thank you, Olga and Pyry, for your work, and everyone who joined the living poems on September 14th. Still like dust by @olga_spyropoulou and @pyrykan was part of Each day hides a grain of Sunday vol.2, an artist laboratory curated by Candama (@mariadecandama ) for Circus Maximus. A collaboration with @artistswithevidence and @arkkitehtuuri_ja_designmuseo . Supported by @helsinki . Photography by @pyrykan .

Live from the Threshold: an art-science conversation 🗓 23 October 2025 📍 The Gym at Judson, NYC 🕖 7pm (approx. 2h) Free entry — registration required via Link in Bio (limited seating) Artists with Evidence (AwE) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, are thrilled to launch a new art-science collaborative program with this first event in 2025. Live from the Threshold invites audiences into a space of embodied encounters, where sensing becomes a form of inquiry and resistance. Through conversation, listening, and presence, this live podcast will explore the porous edges between human and non-human, body and environment, the known and the unknown. Together, we will consider underground ecosystems, interspecies listening, and the politics of access and care — not only as subjects of study but as active participants in the dialogue. Curated and moderated by Ines Montalvao (Program Director, AwE), the evening brings together three outstanding voices in art-science: ▪︎ Cara Hagan · brings embodied knowledge working through movement, performance, and interdisciplinary storytelling, centering the body as a site of ecological and cultural memory. ▪︎ Linda O’Keeffe · works at the intersection of sound, environment, and feminist technoscience to open new channels of listening across species and amplify the politics of care and access. ▪︎ Nikki Lindt · painter whose interdisciplinary practice draws deeply from the subterranean world, to explore and reflect on the rapidly shifting ecosystems of the earth. At this threshold moment — where traditional frameworks are no longer sufficient — artists and scientists are called to think, sense, and respond together. This gathering gestures toward new imaginaries, where attention, care, and transdisciplinary practice help us inhabit uncertainty with integrity and imagination. Join us in person for this unique event — the conversation will be recorded and published later as a podcast. See you soon NYC!!! #livefromthethreshold #artscience #nycevents #artistswithevidence #heinrichboellfoundation