"Social Fabric: In the Public Square" video still courtesy of Andrea Cote & Ann Robideaux, 2021.
Interdisciplinary artist Andrea Cote and choreographer Ann Robideaux will activate the Minikes Garden as a place to gather amid a video installation accompanied by live sound by Chris Jones, and curated by Christina Mossiades Strassfield, Museum Director and Chief Curator.
The project explores how we embody personal and communal movement languages, through containment and connection in domestic and public spheres. The artists invited both professional dancers and recreational movers to explore movement inside six-foot square sheets delineated with geometric forms and cosmological patterns. As we occupy this present liminal zone, the artists create a place for visitors to inhabit that is at once intimate and communal.
Reservations are not required. Simply drop in over the course of their time in the garden!
The eAT Coffee Bar will be open for drinks and refreshments!
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Andrea Cote
Andrea Cote is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, printmaking, video and performance. Her practice encompasses studio-based work, mixed-media installations, and public projects that involve community participation.
Based In Hampton Bays, New York, she has exhibited and performed her work in North and South America at venues including The Watermill Center, Guild Hall, Islip Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, Southampton Arts Center, The Print Center, The Moore Gallery, The Church Sag Harbor and PanAmerican Art Projects. She recently completed two projects for Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY - one as the featured artist of the 2024 Road Show at Bridge Gardens, followed by a Visiting Artist Initiative culminating in an installation at the museum including over 150 local participants, “The Nature of Humanity.”
Andrea Cote brings over 25 years of experience as an educator with students of all ages and abilities.
Website: andreacote.com
IG: @andreacoteart and @starwheelpress
Photo: Gary Mamay
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Ann Robideaux
Ann Robideaux is a choreographer, dance film maker, presenter, curator and educator. She has shown original and commerical work through out the U.S.A, Latin America, Europe and Asia. As a dance film-maker, her interest lies in exploring biographical improvisation in response to unusual or historic sites--most recently in the project "NYC Dances", for the "Cornell Lab of Ornithology" and on the streets of Rosario, Argentina for Rave de Danza Mestizas. As a co-artistic director of Ann And Alexx Make Dances, she has presented site-specifc work at the Frying Pan and Lilac Steamships on the Hudson River, the theater seats of Dance New Amsterdam, and the historic Eldridge Street Synogogue. Ann is currently a choreographer and dance teacher for Princeton Day School and the associate director of the Outlet Dance Project Festival at the Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey dedicated to providing opportunities for female dance artists. Apart from her unique collaborations, Ann has choreographed numerous straight plays and musicals. The founder of Asana Alphabet yoga for kids and teacher training certification, she has served as a guest teaching artist around the globe. She holds an MFA in dance/choreography from Mills College and undergraduate degrees in psychology and journalism. Scroll down for more!
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Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a composer and sound designer for television and film. His music has appeared in American Idol, Saturday Night Live, The Sopranos, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Vice, and Mr. Robot as well as ads for brands like McDonald's, Adidas, Nissan, Mont Blanc, Samsung, and Intel. He has created sound design pieces for over 150 movie trailers including Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
As a musician, Chris is classically trained in both bass and percussion, studying with Steve Reich/Philip Glass ensemble percussionist Frank Cassara and jazz bassists Bruce Gertz and Rufus Reid. He has performed everything from jazz standards to 20th Century classical to surf-punk noise to African drumming to DJing at venues as disparate as The Waldorf Astoria Hotel to CBGB's to The Roxy (LA) to Merkin Concert Hall.