Ecologies of Care at Socrates Sculpture Park

Installation. Through Nov 15. As part of her Adobe Creative Residency at MoMA, artist Lizania Cruz presents Ecologies of Care, an interactive kiosk at Socrates Sculpture Park that investigates the interdependent relationships among people, wildlife, and the built environment in the Sculpture Park. Throughout the project, park visitors are invited to contribute to a collective map, creating a living archive of the many connections they encounter. A series of pamphlets will guide visitors along themes of nature, climate resilience, and community care through the lens of ecological relationships: between monarch butterflies and milkweed, the shoreline and water, and the park and nearby residents. Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist and designer who confronts systemic issues embedded in the public sphere by investigating notions of belonging and otherness. These inquiries have led her to study the formations of language, mythmaking, and documented histories. Through research, oral history, and audience engagement, she develops projects that expand and share pluralistic narratives on migration and place. Socrates Sculpture Park is a community-engaged New York City waterfront park in Long Island City, Queens, dedicated to supporting artists in the production and presentation of public art. Socrates was an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dump site for decades leading up to 1986, when a coalition of artists and community members, under the leadership of artist Mark di Suvero, transformed it into an open studio and exhibition space for artists.