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Remarks by Ivana Dama on April 25, 2026 - Harvestworks Sustaining Circle Spring 2026.
Acknowledgments:
We gratefully acknowledge Paula Cooper Gallery for generously loaning Screen Play by Christian Marclay.
We are deeply grateful for our continued partnership with ISSUE Project Room, and for co-presenting and hosting this evening. Our sincere thanks to their directors and staff for their generous support.
We are deeply grateful to the Harvestworks Sustaining Circle Committee for making this evening possible, especially Susan Gladstone, Toni Dove, Tommy Martinez, Sadia Rodriguez, Roddy Schrock, and Ivana Dama.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support and sponsorship of wine and spirits provided by VOS Selections and Pinhook Kentucky Straight Whiskey.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Zicarelli Foundation and the Jonathan F.P. Rose and Diana Calthorpe Rose Fund.
A heartfelt thank you to all of you, and especially to Harvestworks Sustaining Circle members, for your continued support of our organization and for making this evening possible.
Remarks by Ivana Dama on April 25, 2026 - Harvestworks Sustaining Circle Spring 2026.
Acknowledgments:
We gratefully acknowledge Paula Cooper Gallery for generously loaning Screen Play by Christian Marclay.
We are deeply grateful for our continued partnership with ISSUE Project Room, and for co-presenting and hosting this evening. Our sincere thanks to their directors and staff for their generous support.
We are deeply grateful to the Harvestworks Sustaining Circle Committee for making this evening possible, especially Susan Gladstone, Toni Dove, Tommy Martinez, Sadia Rodriguez, Roddy Schrock, and Ivana Dama.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support and sponsorship of wine and spirits provided by VOS Selections and Pinhook Kentucky Straight Whiskey.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Zicarelli Foundation and the Jonathan F.P. Rose and Diana Calthorpe Rose Fund.
A heartfelt thank you to all of you, and especially to Harvestworks Sustaining Circle members, for your continued support of our organization and for making this evening possible.




![July 7 Alien Star Dust
Victoria Vesna’s work has long focused on immersing audiences in installation spaces that are meant to slow down time and take us into other dimensions. This led her to work in close collaborations with musicians, sound artists, nanoscientists, biologists, neuro-scientists and buddhist monks among others. Some examples of work in the past two decades are the NanoMandala, Blue Morph, Octopus Brain Storming, Bird Song Diamond and most recently the Noise Aquarium. In this new work, together with her collaborators from the UCLA Art Sci collective and Harvestworks, she takes us on a meditative journey to outer space.
Premiering with the support of Harvestworks, this work is meant to be experienced as a guided meditation bringing to life the sensations of meteorites and micro-meteorites falling on all continents and mixing with the anthropogenic dust falling on our planet from many dimensions. Layers of sounds from inner and outer space with animations of dust and data driven by corona deaths are presented with the intent of honoring those who left their bodies without preparation and all who are suffering.
This online version was created as a meditation that is guided by the artist following the extra-terrestrial, terrestrial, and human-made dusts traveling far and wide and creating complexity that is part of an invisible reality. Most go about their daily life without being aware of ever thinking about the extraterrestrial dusts that could be on their kitchen floor, right here on earth. The alien signal is lost in the human noise and the group meditation reclaims our vision of planetary citizenship.
We are created from stardust by nuclear fusion, like our myriad siblings – animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, and viruses, and we all function together in vibratory fields – bottom up just as nature and nanotechnology works. [Alien] Star Dust rains on us every day and this piece brings these particles to our attention and reminds us of our interconnected heritage in the larger cosmos. Dust knows no borders.
Headphones highly recommended.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and mediaThe foundation Inc. July 7 Alien Star Dust](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hJmzwKgJVmA/mqdefault.jpg)





