Delancey 2222 is a climate-centered audiovisual work that imagines how Delancey Street and the Lower East Side of New York will look and sound in the year 2222. Through a stereoscope, participants view paired photographs of three local landmarks (the M’Finda Kalunga Garden, the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station, and Luther Gulick Park) as they appear today and in 200 years. Using a generative AI workflow, the artist re-envisioned these sites under a high-emissions scenario, marked by different potential climate futures, including drought, flooding, and wildfire smoke. Nearby headphones play a new work by Half Moon Island, built from field recordings and an interview with local activist Bob Humber.

Delancey 2222 is a project that asks where care figures in a state of monumental crisis. How do we care for a future that seems incompatible with our past and present? And how can we enact an artistic process that cares for all of its contributors, both human and machine?