Careful Infrastructures for Reassembled Lands (No.2)
Sangamithra Iyer
2022, Cut steel sign on custom support
One of four signs on the waterfront, a text based installation running along the water’s edge, a speculative infrastructure suggesting how we might live in relationship to this place, its other non-human inhabitants, and each other.
Text by: Sangamithra Iyer
Project concept and design by: Lisa Hirmer
Fabrication by: Ocel Metal Fabrication
Artist Bio
Sangamithra Iyer is a writer, engineer, and environmental planner. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Pushcart Prize, and a Café Royal Foundation Grant. She has been awarded an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writer Fellowship and was a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize in New Environmental Literature. She served as an editor of Satya magazine, focused on animal advocacy, environmentalism, veganism, and social justice and worked on water supply protection for over a decade. She writes at the intersections of art and science and personal and planetary grief. Her first book is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.
This artwork was created through the Waterfront Artist Residency, supported by the Waterfront BIA and Waterfront Toronto.
