Scope Artist Collective

Everyone! We are so excited to have our friends and long time collaborators join us for this very special evening. I would tell you to buy tickets but they are already sold out! (Free RSVP still available to A Day Is a Minute, and our Reception!) --- JUNKSPACE - Brooklyn Army Terminal Adaptation Tori Lawrence + Co's JUNKSPACE is a site-adaptive dance and music performance. Past adaptations have been created in an abandoned factory in Philadelphia (PA), a stage in Northampton (MA), and a farmstead on Sweden's southern coast. This iteration will take place inside the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal. Choreographed by Tori Lawrence, the work features performers Ellie Goudie-Averill and Jungwoong Kim, alongside sound/installation designer Seth Wenger. The piece explores the relationship between architecture, environment, and the moving body, a dystopic slow build within modernization's fallout. The interdisciplinary nature of the work aims to bring a poetic awareness to our human-contaminated wrecked land and waterscapes. How to bathe within the precarity of our surroundings -- tuning in to the ever-shifting world.

Artist Highlight: Meet our choral sextet, and why they each think you should come to to this upcoming April 18 performance for ‘A Day is a Minute’: live scored, short film screenings! Formed from members of Tapestry Choir (@tapestrychoir ) & friends, they will perform two choral works paired with the premiering of our new films: • Henry Purcell – “See, See, We Assemble” (excerpt from King Arthur) • Thomas Tallis – “If Ye Love Me” Christopher Perry-Coon, tenor (@crispyc ) Emma Apsel, alto (@emmamooma ) Theo Swanson, barytone (@followme_swallowme ) Julie Thiry-Couvillion, soprano (@juliestheory ) Seth Wenger, tenor (@koos_miller ) Léonard Roussel, bass (@leo.nerd ) At @biobat.artspace , with gratitude to @alvaro.azcarraga and @elenasoterakis

Artist Highlight for 'A Day is a Minute': live scored, short film screenings on April 18th 2025 @biobat.artspace . Friends, we are getting ready for a big night of music and celebration! We hope you all can make it for the showing of A Day Is a Minute. Among others, Joseph will be live scoring Collective Scope's WIP timelapse films from the past 10 months of documentation of their exhibit CHANNEL at BioBAT ArtSpace. Joseph Brock (b. 1993, Birmingham, Alabama) is a painter and musician based in New York City. He has staged musical performances at White Columns (2024), Sara’s (2023), and CANADA (2023), and is a frequent collaborator with CultureHub (La MaMa and the Seoul Institute of the Arts) photo by teller_vini / Check out our other postings for the rest of the details on what is shaping up to be a whopper of a show.

Artist Highlight for 'A Day is a Minute': live scored, short film screenings on April 18th 2025 @biobat.artspace . Helen and Violeta will be performing "Dear Microbiome", a love letter to the tiny organisms in our midst. Image 1: Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya is the author of Because Sex Is a Story & Sex Is a Song and the forthcoming book Feels Like Trouble. Image 2: Violeta Gil @violeta__gil__ is a scenic creator and a writer. 'Así hablábamos' was her last work at the National Dramatic Centre in 2024. A new poetry book, 'Andábamos maravillados', is forthcoming in September 2025 and she is currently working on her second novel. Image 3: "Dear Microbiome" was commissioned by Collective Scope to accompany the documentation of their exhibit Precipitate for the 2023 @opensourcegallery catalog. image 4: full lineup for 'A Day is a Minute' At @biobat.artspace , with thanks always to @alvaro.azcarraga and @elenasoterakis

Tori Lawrence + Co. x Scope Collective LIVE! April 18th, 2025 7pm-10:30pm @biobat.artspace Join @torilawrenceco , Scope Collective, and Friends at BioBAT ArtSpace for an evening of Site Specific Dance, Film, and Live Performance. More details below, buy tickets / RSVP with QR code or at link in bio. >>> Junkspace <<< 7-8pm [Ticketed Performance - Limited Availability - Sliding Scale $25-75] > Doors open: 7pm > Performance starts: 7:15pm. Tickets for this event are tiered as a way to help support the production of this event. Please give what you are able! >>> A Day is a Minute <<< 8-9pm [Free Performance - Please RSVP] > Doors open: 8:00 pm (free snacks! Beer, wine and seltzer available!) > Live Scored Film Screenings: 8:15-8:45pm. Scope invites their friends to contribute Live Creative Non-Fiction, Instrumental, and Vocal Accompaniment set to timelapse footage captured over the last 10 months of CHANNEL's installation. @helenbetya @joseph_brock @juliestheory @emmamooma @crispyc @koos_miller @followme_swallowme @leo.nerd [This RSVP excludes access to the Junkspace performance] >>> Scope CHANNEL Reception <<< > 9-10:30pm [Party! - Please RSVP] Please join us for an afterparty reception to enjoy the larger Water Stories exhibit. Music, socializing, and general merriment in the striking BioBAT ArtSpace dark space. ~ Special thanks to @alvaro.azcarraga and @elenasoterakis for support in producing this event. ~

Piece Title: Channel June 8th, 2024- May 3rd 2025 Show Title: Water Stories Venue: @biobat.artspace Curator: @elenasoterakis Team: Elizabeth Hénaff, Heather Parrish, Léonard Roussel, and Seth Wenger Additional Contributions: Xena Petkanas @xenaxenaxena (lighting design), Helen Rubinstein @helenbetya (creative writing + audio), Karolina Sulich @karolinasays and Caroline Chou caroachou (sludge wrangling, installation) CHANNEL is the culmination of environmental sampling, bioinformatic analysis, field recording, multi-scale media generation, and waiting for things to grow. Multiple channels of media and materials are imagined around, and accompanied by water and living sediment harvested from the tidal system defined by the ebullient Gowanus Canal as it merges with the Bay Ridge Channel. Materials: Photographic inkjet prints, salvaged architectural iron, steel, concrete, glass containers, recycled fabric, time-lapse video, photographic image projection, spatialized audio. all photos (c) Stefan Hagen @swhagen1 image 1: installation view - print/projection wall and tidal aquarium image 2: detail view - tidal aquarium image 3: installation view - Canal sculpture, print/projection scrim, flow-through aquarium image 4: installation view - projection wall, tidal aquarium, swingset and tactile furniture image 5: detail view - flow-through aquarium image 6: detail view - biofilms formed in flow-through aquarium image 7: detail view - aquarium growth in the lab. (photo: Elizabeth Henaff)

Join us for the opening reception of CHANNEL as part of the Water Stories group show at @biobat.artspace curated by @elenasoterakis . June 8th 2024, 5-8pm

Sensuous Planet September 27th, 2024 A jar of Gowanus sludge featured as an entity in Sensuous Planet - a service and rave for eco-spirituality produced by @nocturnalmedicine x @planetgroovy Team: Elizabeth Henaff, Leonard Roussel Image credit: @nietodickens

Event: SoMad NYC April 22nd, 2024 Team: @leo.nerd , @koos_miller All images @leo.nerd

Residency at @swale_house and @urban_soils on @governorsisland August 7-18th, 2024 Team: Elizabeth Hénaff, Léonard Roussel, and Seth Wenger Experiments in light and water pigments at the SWALE house on Governor’s Island, New York City.

Venue: @opensourcegallery Date: July 28, 7-9 PM Performers: Music: @koos_miller , @leo.nerd Movement: @spornographer images (c) @cal.glorioso

Venue: @opensourcegallery Date: July 28, 7-9 PM Performers: Music: @koos_miller , @leo.nerd Movement: @spornographer Join us for a performance, artist talk, and Q&A with Nola Sporn Smith. Nola Sporn Smith is a Brooklyn-grown movement performer. She will improvise in response to the soundscape performed by Scope’s Seth Wenger and Léo Roussel, in interaction with the exhibit environment and from a place of personal history. She grew up just a few blocks from the location of Open Source, and would often explore the Gowanus Canal surroundings and take photographs of the toxic shimmers on the water’s surface. These layers of present, future and past to which PRECIPITATE draws our attention will manifest on a personal scale, through the movement of one body in the space. This event closes the exhibit PRECIPITATE at Open Source Gallery. image 1: flyer design by @leo.nerd