andrea haenggi's presentation at the Newark Public Library for the Price Institute’s Our Newark Futures series explores body-based research on the Lower Passaic River and Newark Bay, focusing on the poetic and embodied experience of navigating the challenges of accessing restricted "don't touch it" river shore sites and the impending "loss" of intertidal mudflats and salt marshes due to proposed "clean-up" efforts. The talk examines these aspects through a non-human-centered lens, considering the perspectives of aquatic and terrestrial communities while addressing toxicity and environmental justice. Following the presentation, community members are invited to engage in a dialogue, sharing their insights and experiences related to these "alive" shoreline ecosystems.

About the artist:

andrea haenggi (she/they) is a body-based transdisciplinary artist, embodied scientist, choreographer, and dancer-improviser, born in a Swiss farming village and based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. She co-founded the Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) artist collective and engages in "ethnochoreobotanic" research practice, collaborating with land-sea, and more-than-human kin to foster multispecies communities, with a focus on decolonization, climate change, feminism, and liberation. She is currently the inaugural Sci-Artist-in-Residence at the Paul Robeson Galleries in Newark, NJ.