Join artist Emma McCormick Goodhart in conversation with curator Jordan Carter to close out “sottobosco (climate remix),” which unfolds as an olfactive and haptic experience in darkness and a durational installation that will fill SculptureCenter’s lower level with ozonic mists from Thu-Sun, Dec 11 to 14. They will address and extrapolate from the project’s central themes, such as “remote sensing” across millennia and tuning to the ecologies of sensation of prehuman lifeworlds.
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Launching on this occasion is CAVE 0, Emma McCormick Goodhart’s first artist scent edition, which translates her research into archaeoacoustics, artificial caves, and “synthetic material fictions.” The scent emerges out of “ecopoetics of touch and timescale,” originally created from macerations of moonmilks, cave dirts, cicada nymph skins, and other rare earth samples to render contact with prehuman lifeworlds. The installation will also feature a multichannel sonic intervention during the launch’s evening, tied to “earamphore” (2022), a vibrotactile sound piece created with Jessika Kenney that originally was commissioned for Nottingham Contemporary’s “Hollow Earth” exhibition in 2022.
The limited edition CAVE 0 perfume, launched by McCormick Goodhart’s studio, ecdysis, and hand-numbered on mineral-hue silver paper, will be available for purchase from the SculptureCenter store.
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Emma McCormick Goodhart [EMG] is an artist, writer, researcher, and dramaturge who experiments across media, timescales, and modes of practice. Interested in fathoming deep-time developments of sensing, especially in sound and scent, alongside technosensory futures, she stages soft architectures, social ecologies, and climate fictions that attempt to retune the spaces that host them. Presentations include Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bergen Assembly, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Július Koller Society, Kunsthalle Zürich, Le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Nottingham Contemporary, Pioneer Works, Storefront for Art & Architecture, The Glucksman, and the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her writings have been published by e-flux, Flash Art, Frieze, Kunsthaus Zürich (in German Braille), Open Humanities Press, Spector Books, Sternberg Press, and Vestoj, and shared with Adidas’ FUTURE Lab and MIT’s School of Humanities. An Affiliate Artist at the Rose Choreographic School in London, she is among the commissioned artists for Counterpublic 2026.
Jordan Carter joined Dia Art Foundation as curator and co-head of the curatorial department in 2021. At Dia, he has curated exhibitions including Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved (2025), Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) (2025), Keith Sonnier (2024), Lucas Samaras (2024), Mary Heilmann: Starry Night (2024), stanley brouwn (2023), Tony Cokes (2023), and Jo Baer (2022), among others. He also curated the exhibition Cameron Rowland: Properties (2024) following the 2023 announcement of Dia’s stewardship of the artist’s Depreciation (2018) as one of its twelve sites and locations. His forthcoming projects include presentations of the work of Agnes Martin and Howardena Pindell and major new commissions by D Harding, Fujiko Nakaya, and Haegue Yang. He oversees Dia’s permanent collection and works closely on the preservation of and programming around its permanent installations, including Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76), both located in Utah. He is part of the curatorial ensemble for the 2026 edition of the Counterpublic art triennial in St. Louis.
