INDETERMINACY

FESTIVAL

Governors Island

June 7 - 8, 2024

For the 2024 season the New York Arts Program is partnering with the Indeterminacy Festival's Artistic Director Stanzi Vaubel and inviting artists to participate in a network of performances at Governor’s Island called Fourteen Porches

Premiers will take place on June 7 and 8 as part of a two-day festival line-up including new work by Melanie Aceto, Emilie Clark, Volkmar Klein, Simon Lee, Eve Sussman, Lili Maya, and James Rouvelle. The Festival, Directed by Vaubel, will open with a site-specific performance, Fourteen Porches, from which it takes its name. With original music by Philip Treuille and Vaubel, involving a community choir, chamber orchestra, youth musicians, dance, and New York Arts Program apprentices. The performance will be set on fourteen porches across Nolan Park.

Fourteen Porches

Indeterminacy Festival 2019 - PASTFUTURE/FUTUREPAST, The Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Preserve

FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH

7 - 8pm

Nolan Park, Governors Island

Fourteen Porches Premiere

Please gather in Nolan Park upon arrival, portable seating or picnic blankets encouraged.

There is limited seating on existing picnic table benches.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH

Trace Reverb Trace — installation by Lili Maya and James Rouvelle

Nolan Place — audience-activated performance by Eve Sussman, Simon Lee & Volkmar Klien

2 - 6pm

Nolan Park, House #17

Governors Island

Indeterminacy Festival 2018 - Emergence, Silo City, Buffalo NY

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Indeterminacy Festival was founded in 2016 by artistic director Stanzi Vaubel. IF is a site-specific festival hosted on unusual locations such as grain silos and fossil parks. Using these locations as inspiration for the creative process, Vaubel brings together an ensemble of artists to stage new work on location. This June 7th and 8th the festival will be hosted in association with the Governors Island Trust and in partnership with the New York Arts Program.

In preparation for the 2024 edition, established artists will collaborate closely with a small team of apprentices from May 28-June 6th to create new work for the public. Premiers will take place on June 7th and 8th including work by artists: Melanie Aceto, Emilie Clark, Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, Volkmar Klein, Lili Maya, and James Rouvelle.

The festival opens with a performance entitled Fourteen Porches featuring a new composition written by Stanzi Vaubel (on cello) and Philippe Treuille (on piano) orchestrated for choir and chamber ensemble. Breaking the rules of a traditional orchestral arrangement, the Fourteen Porches score situates musicians on fourteen separate porches that wrap around the park where a site-specific dance will take place choreographed by Melanie Aceto. Returning to the intention of a porch as a communal meeting ground visited by neighbors, this project re-connects to the social dimension of the creative process.

Following Friday’s premiere, Lili Maya and James Rouvelle will show a new installation in an abandoned house on Governors Island (17 Nolan Park) on June 8th. Trace Reverb Trace envisions a self-sustaining artificial ecology reclaiming its built environment. For this piece, Maya and Rouvelle will be working with a group of New York Arts Program apprentices in a collaborative process that explores the concepts of a community and the collective through making. Thus, Trace Reverb Trace will be generated from the oscillation between the parallel efforts of individual members of the community and the integrated efforts of the collective with a common goal.

Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, and Volkmar Klein riff on the form of quintessential American soap opera, Nolan Place — a new audience-activated performance — imagines the tightly knit community on Governors Island to create a circular narrative taking place in and around House 17 in Nolan Park on June 8th. New York Arts Programs apprentices and members of the public use in-ear monitors to receive FM transmissions that communicate their roles in an intrigue that weaves through the house.

Following the culmination of the 2024 edition of IF, invited artists will participate in an incubator program from June 10-August 9th focused on developing new work for the 2025 Indeterminacy Festival.

GETTING TO THE ISLAND

Governors Island is accessible by ferries operated by the Trust for Governors Island run daily from the Battery Maritime Building, located at 10 South Street in Lower Manhattan. Click here for schedules and tickets.

NYC Ferry, the City's public ferry service, also serves Governors Island daily year-round via the South Brooklyn Route. The Trust for Governors Island does not operate NYC Ferry. Visit their website at ferry.nyc for more information and tickets.

All ferries going to and from Governors Island, as well as the grounds of the island itself, are accessible to those in wheelchairs. Not all buildings on the Island are wheelchair accessible. Building 110, located next to Soissons Landing, is wheelchair accessible. All restrooms are wheelchair accessible.