Trust for Governors Island’s vision for a potential climate change research hub
Credit: WXY architecture + urbandesign / bloomimages|Image Courtesy: "The City"
The Arts Center Residency at Governors Island (2026)
Curator Statement
Dr. Darla Migan's independent curatorial practice takes up an interdisciplinary approach to creating aesthetic experiences, wherein to philosophize also means learning from artists. As a participant in the LMCC Residency on Governor’s Island, Dr. Migan will study ‘climate change' through the lens of her current research on Black disinheritance to curate an exhibition on flourishing.
How does flourishing manifest (especially in Black life worlds) in spite of hundreds of years of dehumanizing subjugation exacerbated today through the contemporary lived experience of inequities such as deepening wealth stratification, increasing levels of surveillance, environmental racism, and food apartheid?
How do we keep learning to live well grounded in ancestral knowledge to keep on keepin' on? What does love feel like living in alignment with earth in this present moment? How do we conjure long horizons of joyful abundance long into the future?
