Institute of Contemporary Art Miami ICA Miami

Christy Gast is an artist whose work across media stems from extensive research and site visits to places she thinks of as “contested landscapes.” She is interested in places where there is evidence of conflict in human desires, which she traces, translates or mirrors through her art practice. An oversized beaver boats through Venice, elongated denim legs loop through tree limbs, an inflatable western wear landscape dances while eroding, and the artist “twins” with the Herbert Hoover Dyke while dancing around Lake Okeechobee. Since 2010 she has worked with Ensayos, a collective research practice working on issues of political ecology in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Performa, Artist’s Space, Harris Lieberman Gallery and Regina Rex in New York; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Bass Museum of Art, de la Cruz Collection, Locust Projects, and Nina Johnson in Miami; as well as Mass MoCA, the American University Museum, L.A.C.E., High Desert Test Sites, Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Chile), the Kadist Foundation (Paris) and Milani Gallery (Brisbane). With Ensayos, she contributed to Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol, Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2022. She has received grants and awards from the Art Matters Foundation, Funding Arts Network, South Florida Cultural Consortium, Tigertail, the American Austrian Foundation Hayward Prize, and the Joan Sovern Sculpture Award from Columbia University.

Dr. Camila Marambio is a curator, researcher, and writer who delights in telling circular stories. In 2010, she founded Ensayos, a collective research initiative focused on ecopolitical issues impacting Tierra del Fuego/Karukinka and other archipelagos. Since 2011, Marambio has been experimenting with performance creating solo and collaborative pieces concerned with issues of human and non-human health. What’s He Building in There? premiered at The Watermill Center in NY (2011), So.La premiered at nadalokal in Vienna (2013), Making Time: A Meth(odology) Lab premiered at IMA in Brisbane (2017), Peat Porn premiered at Performance Art Space in NY (2023), and Transit in the House of Cancer is ongoing as part of El Caldo at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zürich (2021-2024). Camila received her PhD in Curatorial Practice from Monash University, Australia, in 2019; a Master of Experiments in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po School of Public Affairs, Paris in 2012; and a Master’s in Modern Art: Critical Studies from Columbia University in 2004. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow of The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm and curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale. She teaches Art & Ecology within the Confluence MFA at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and is co-author of the books Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja with Cecilia Vicuña (Errant Bodies Press, 2019) and Sandcastles: A Queerfemme Proposition with the Danish gender studies scholar Nina Lykke (forthcoming, 2024).