Melanie Crean Artist Walkthrough + Game

Join us for an artist walkthrough of the exhibition 'Melanie Crean: Thresholds' followed by a preview of 'Games To Be Played in Doorways' (2024, part of the Dante Project, in progress). At KODA House, Building #407B, Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York.

Melanie Crean is an artist and educator whose site-specific creative practice focuses on how power structures are created through media, culture, and technology and how these structures can be contested and re-patterned. For her exhibition at KODA, the artist is showing three projects spanning her career that respond to contested sites and spaces, including the body, memory and the historical archive. Each of the presented works is developed eight years apart and occupies one room.

Games To Be Played in Doorways, (2024, part of the Dante Project, in progress) is a storytelling game with a 30-second looped video and a playbook zine being created with the graffiti writer…