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<em>Crafting Sustainable Futures: Collaborative Visions</em> Exhibition Catalog: Chapter 23 - Emma Bautista

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Chapter 23 - Emma Bautista
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. Section 1 - *This Is Not A Drill* 2022 Selected Works
    1. Chapter 2 - Tega Brain
    2. Chapter 3 - Pato Hebert
    3. Chapter 4 - Karen Holmburg
    4. Chapter 5 - Irene Mercadal
    5. Chapter 6 - Richard Move
  4. Section 2 - *Crafting Sustainable Futures Visions*
    1. Chapter 7 - Andrew Hager
    2. Chapter 8 - Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz
    3. Chapter 9 - Noor Jones-Bey
    4. Chapter 10 - Trish Sachdev
    5. Chapter 11 - Farha Najah Hussain
    6. Chapter 12 - Connecting Through Color Workshop
    7. Chapter 13 - Louis Lu
    8. Chapter 14 - Juan Ferrer
    9. Chapter 15 - Sylvia Juliana Riveros
    10. Chapter 16 - Imaan Deen
    11. Chapter 17 - Darinka Arones
    12. Chapter 18 - Seungyeon Chang
    13. Chapter 19 - Eli Kan
    14. Chapter 20 - Grace Ezzati
    15. Chapter 21 - Kyejin Lee
    16. Chapter 22 - Bingyi Zhang
  5. Section 3 - 2040 Now Showcase
    1. Chapter 23 - Emma Bautista
    2. Chapter 24 - 2040 Now Student Films
  6. Chapter 25 - Exhibition Credits

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Emma Bautista

Hanging installation of multicolored sea creatures created out of found materials
Image of Invisible Neighbors.

Invisible Neighbors, 2023
Textile waste, discarded plastic, miscellaneous trash, acrylic paint, resin, 36 x 84 in.

A milieu of textile waste, shopping bags, discarded objects picked from the curb, and other plastic and common trash set an imaginative marine-scape of New York's underwater ecologies to reflect at once the diversity of life and the mindsets of disposability around water. How different these beings are from ourselves, how invisible they are to us through the saline murk and algal blooms--marine life is at once the bearer of significant human harm and largely illegible and uncharismatic to us. This work aims to enliven connections and care for local marine life and nurture intimacy with the water as part of our home. This project was created with support from the Office of Sustainability and NYU 2040 Now to collectively envision a climate-neutral institution and city and enact this dream today.

Emma Bautista is a Filipinx-American interdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer, and sustainable fashion designer born and based in New York. Their creative practice centers multispecies entanglement and art-making as acts of healing, loving, and resistance. Up against extractivist systems and relationships to spirited entities and landscapes as disposable, they often repurpose and transform trash intercepted from landfill for their work. Their mixed media sculptures and paintings, interactive installations that invite other-than-human collaborations and care, and poetic storytelling stem from an acknowledgment that power and its agendas of control and mastery construct bodies as one thing or the other, contiguous or isolated, and they seek to enliven more thoughtful ways of being in the world. In subverting the broad acceptance of these hierarchies and borderlines as essential truths, Bautista's work explores potentials for urgently expansive kinships and insists on futures of radical love.

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