Harvestworks

Curator-Led Dialogue: Paula Vilaplana with Itziar Barrio and Sara Stern

June 28, 2026

2:00pm

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

Nolan Park, Building 10a
Governor’s Island, NYC

As part of Outside Linear Time, join curator Paula Vilaplana for a conversation with artists Itziar Barrio and Sara Stern on Governors Island. Beginning at 2 PM with Barrio’s The moment when you stop looking for them and continuing to Stern’s MARSH, the group will move through the exhibition together, engaging with the works in situ.

Through dialogue and close looking, the artists and curator will explore questions of technology, ecology, transformation, and non-linear time. From Barrio’s speculative installation examining algorithms, materiality, and the relationship between ancient philosophy and emerging technologies, to Stern’s stop-motion ecological opera set within the shifting landscape of a Provincetown salt marsh, the conversation will consider how both works challenge human-centered perspectives and imagine alternative ways of understanding our changing world.

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MARSH
MARSH
The moment when you stop looking for them 
The moment when you stop looking for them 
Outside Linear Time
Outside Linear Time

Itziar Barrio

Itziar Barrio is an interdisciplinary artist producing long-term research-based projects that involve different agents and collaborators. By rewriting the dominant narratives through which our societies, identities, and realities are constructed, her work opens up new futures.

Sara Stern

Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her recent projects prod varied histories of landscape and urban development with speculative fiction. She works between and across multimedia performance, moving image installation, sculpture, architectural intervention, and animation.

Paula Vilaplana

Paula Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator, designer, and scholar based in New York. Her work focuses on exhibition spaces and cultural initiatives, with an emphasis on media, technology, and bodily practices. She currently holds a Curatorial Associate position at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and teaches at Syracuse University. Previous roles include serving as Assistant Director of Exhibitions at Columbia University GSAPP and The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, a researcher at Performa and a lecturer at The New School Parsons, Columbia University, and Bard College. Paula Vilaplana has developed projects for institutions such as the Shanghai Art Biennial, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Venice Architecture Biennial, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Princeton University, Triennale Milano, and Ca2M among others. Her work has been published in MoMA Magazine, New York Review of Architecture, the Invisible Culture Magazine at Rochester University, Arquine, and the Het Nieuwe Instituut and her projects have been featured in the press internationally. She has developed visual strategies for Columbia University, the XIII Shanghai Art Biennial and Spore Initiative in Berlin. Her research has been sponsored by MoMA, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, and La Caixa Foundation among others.