Pathways

As a land-based project, one of the ways we invite community members and visitors to spend time is via Pathways – miles of walking trails immersed in the ecology of 110 acres in Delaware County, NY on traditional Haudenosaunee territory. Over time, the paths will take the walker through woods, fields, streams, and meadows.

PUBLIC WALKING HOURS

HOURS FOR 2024 TBA

PATHWAYS EXHIBITION

The Succurro Collaborative will be in residence on the land throughout June, trading sessions and exploring process and art-making together, culminating in an exhibition and series of workshops from June 24-September 23. More info coming soon.

Pathways is a metaphor for many things: neural pathways, mycelial networks, information fields, root systems, branching streams. By traveling these Pathways, we intend for participants to dwell in inquiry, a state of curiosity. In this container, can a walk, or many walks, on these paths open the door to experience the plasticity of the nervous system, explore beyond linear and binary sensing and thinking, feel the space within a collective network? In what ways do these experiences shift perspective, behavior and action? Walking itself become initiatory.

Art and artists play a role in addressing the human capacity for change, flexibility, and openness, and to encourage shifts in perspective through creativity and various forms of communication. These walking trails are home to works created while in Residency at Succurro.

The Pathways project intersects with several activities at Succurro – in particular the Artists Residency. The Artists Residency program invites between 4-8 artists per season, who are a part of the Succurro community and demonstrate dedication to process-oriented, land-based, socially-engaged creative practices that serve the collective and push boundaries in perspective on place, role, and understanding of ‘human’. Often this means explicitly and implicitly exploring what cannot be seen or linearly understood, inviting an audience into a liminal space of not-knowing.

Each artist is asked to create a small-scale public work over the course of 3-4 weeks in direct response to being present on the land. The artworks created are located on, or directly related to, the Pathways. These trails are open to visitors, students, and the local community to spend time in contemplation and acknowledgement of their integral, reciprocal part of the landscape, as well as honor what exists beyond human perception, assumptions, and expectations.

Documentation

In 2022, we began documenting the process of Artist Residents and will continue this mini-documentary series on art as an exploration of what cannot be understood linearly.

DEAN RUCK

Born in Hamden, Connecticut on March 4, 1962, Dean Ruck has lived and worked in Houston since 1987, and is represented by Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston, TX. The artist works in all mediums, creating large and small sculptures, ambitious installations, and unconventional two-dimensional “drawings.” His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the City of Houston, Cranbrook Art Museum, and numerous private collections.

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ZAIDA ADRIANA GOVEO BALMASEDA

Zaida is an artist working out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, interested in the alchemical quality of handcrafts, the versatility of fibers and textiles, the spaces they hold, and the stories they tell us. Through these, she studies, represents, and honors the symbiotic relationship we have with ourselves, our materials, what we create, what we eat, and our environment. Her exploration is often rooted in traditional artisanal techniques to which I have a cultural or familial connection; and it is developed through experiments with organic, recycled, or gathered fibers, the rituals and movements of conscious and meditative creation, energy and plant medicine, what happens when we come together and observe each other, silence, and our perception-of and relationship-with time.