I-Park Preserve for Collaborative Habitations is an installation and performance created on the banks of the I-Park pond, for the open house on the evening of October 13th, 2007. Relying on dialogue as a generative act, artists Brian Zegeer and Tova Carlin have collaborated in building on the theme of the Utopian City, producing several sculptural installations that speak to one other from across the expanse of water. Internally illuminated during the evening of the open house, these variable structures — beacons that map the pond’s circumference—initiate a game of call and response with one another, a constellation of forms in generative potency in the shared space of night.

Brian Zegeer’s paintings and digital animations have been exhibited at such venues as the Delaware Museum of Art, Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., (NY), Jack the Pelican Presents (NY), Vox Populi, (Philadelphia), and the Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia). Brian has initiated various collaborative projects, including Dance, Millipede, a touring shadow theater collaboration with the band, A.C. Unit. Recent projects also include a performative digital animation, and an artist’s book collaboration with the poet Okla Elliott, funded by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. Brian received
an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. He lives and works in NY.

Tova Carlin is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. She writes and curates as part of her practice. Shows include, among other places, NY, Los Angeles, Boston, Providence, and Korea. She favors gardens, and collaborations with friends. Her current pet project is a series of slide exchanges between artists, called Slide Rulez. MFA RISD 2004.