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.
📅 Date: Sunday, June 28th, 2026
🕓 Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: Governors Island, Nolan Park, Harvestworks Building 10a
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.
BIOS:
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. Barrio has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship. Her survey exhibition was curated by Johanna Burton in 2018, and her monograph was published by SKIRA in 2023. Barrio’s work has been presented internationally at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, the 14th Shanghai Biennale, Salt Istanbul, ONX Onassis Foundation, e-flux, PARTICIPANT INC, MACRO, MACBA, Museo del Banco de la República, Belgrade’s Contemporary Art Museum, and Havana Biennial. She has received awards from Brooklyn Arts Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Foundation for the Arts and Ministry of Culture of Spain. Barrio is a New Museum’s NEW INC alumni and she was a recipient of the Spanish Academy in Rome Fellowship (2018-19). She has participated in residencies including Harvestworks, Skowhegan and ISCP. Barrio’s work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, ART PAPERS and BOMB. She has lectured internationally at Whitney’s ISP Program, New Museum, Yale, Hunter College and the New School. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Sarah Lawrence College in NY. She is a critic at NYU Steinhardt and Rhode Island School of Design, RISD (2025 – 2026).
Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Her recent projects prod varied histories of landscape and urban development with speculative fiction. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Essex Flowers (New York, NY), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore). Stern received a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, the Fountainhead Fellowship in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, and several residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In recent years, Stern has participated in the Fire Island Artist Residency (Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY), the Artist Residency at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center (West Rutland, VT), the Harvestworks New Works Residency (New York, NY), and The Watermill Center Artist Residency Program (Water Mill, NY). Stern is currently a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center Residency program on Governors Island.
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.