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501(c)3 social justice residency for mid-career artists, est. 2019.
🏡 Open Sat & Sun 11am-5pm
📍 Governors Island House 407b
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KODA presents ”Kathleen McDermott: Not a Gadget,” a solo exhibition by Kathleen McDermott (@kit_the_robot).

KODA House 407b, Governors Island
On view October 3-November 1, 2026
Opening: Saturday, October 3 at 3-5pm

For decades, McDermott has been hacking and recrafting consumer electronics into machines that seem to have a mind of their own. Drawing on cybernetic theory, philosophy, and the logic of the Looney Tunes, Not a Gadget probes her conflicted relationship between the body and technology, spiritualism and cynicism, community and isolation.

On view: selections from Urban Armor (2014–2019), artifacts from Repair Shop (2025), and new work-in-progress with @southbronxunite.

Image: Kathleen McDermott, Urban Armor #09: 5 O’Clock Alarm, 2019 taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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🏡 We are here! KODA House #407b on Colonels Row, Governors Island (@governorsisland). Open Fridays-Sundays at 11am-5pm. Visit us!

Exhibition on view: “Soul Culture: A film by Renée Cox” (@reneecoxstudio), from the Soul Culture series, 2015

Artist studios:
• Farideh Sakhaeifar
• Hidemi Takagi (@hidemi_takagi)
• Renée Cox (@reneecoxstudio)
• Mildred Beltré (@millie_b_) taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Happy Earth Day from our Board!☀️ Stay safe and healthy. #KODAlab taken in Brooklyn, New York by @koda.lab

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OPEN STUDIOS ! This Saturday :) taken in Colonels Row, Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Join us Saturday, October 24 at 3-5pm for “DYI Air Quality Monitoring: Sensor Design Workshop” with Kathleen McDermott (@kit_the_robot). Inspired by the advocacy work of South Bronx Unite (@southbronxunite), participants will get to explore DIY air quality sensor set-ups and take readings around the island. They will also be invited to come up with creative formats for using the sensors, such as in wearable designs or props.

Duration: 2 hours
Participant limit: 9 people
RSVP: link in bio! taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Open Studios! This Saturday, October 17 at 11am-5pm at
KODA House 407b Governors Island (@governorsisland)! Artist studios: Roya Amigh (@royaamigh), and Kathleen McDermott (@kit_the_robot).

Exhibition on view “Kathleen McDermott: Not a Gadget” where a theme of anti-productivity runs throughout, a quiet protest to a quantification-obsessed work culture enabled by modern technologies as the artist shifts between observer/skeptic and active user of the tools. taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Join us for the activation of Rowan Renee’s (@brooklyntintype) ”A loom for tender(ils)” on Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 1-4pm outside of KODA House 407B, Governors Island.

Capacity: 12 people
RSVP: Required (link in bio!)

A loom for tender(ils) transforms the tree grove surrounding KODA House into a secret garden of tapestry looms designed to engage the public in deeper conversation with each other, their inner landscapes, and the natural environment.

Weaving brings attention to the body through subtle, repetitive motions, opening a channel to feelings that may be difficult to put into words. Building on Rowan Renee’s ongoing workshops and community engagement projects using weaving as a catalyst for healing, the activation invites participants to experience the work collectively through conversation, collaboration, and play.

Originally commissioned for Socrates Sculpture Park (@socratespark) as part of The Socrates Annual 2025: Up/Rooted, the installation consists of three outdoor looms situated among the trees in front of KODA House. taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Rare IRL sighting of the sunbots! Couldn’t resist the sunroom @koda.lab bonus pic of me looking exacerbated by @koda.lab

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The Power Suit installed @koda.lab originally worn on Wall Street by my dear @martolao_ and photographed by @slake856 @brinnflagg and myself by @koda.lab

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We enjoyed the OiR meet up with our Governors Island (@governorsisland) friends & neighbors! 🤗 taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Join us this Saturday, September 19 at 3pm for an Artist Talk with current Artist-in-Residence Roya Amigh (@royaamigh) & curator Monika Fabijanska (@monikafabijanska) at KODA House 407b on Governors Island.

Event organized on the occasion of Roya Amigh: Presence of the Absent, a solo exhibition examining the fragile terrain where women’s movements, personal histories, and collective memory intersect.

Amigh constructs layered surfaces from transparent paper and lace before attaching small drawings, mirror fragments, and pieces of cloth. She then cuts these surfaces apart, folds some fragments into three-dimensional forms, and stitches them back together, leaving deliberate gaps. Connections are repeatedly undone and remade, allowing relationships between fragments to shift as the work develops. Removed pieces are never discarded; what feels unnecessary in one work becomes essential in another. Through this slow cycle of cutting, mending, and reassembling, subtraction becomes a generative force, suggesting that nothing is ever entirely lost.

Photos by Argenis Apolinario (@argenisphoto). taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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Join us this Saturday, September 19 at 3pm for an Artist Talk with current Artist-in-Residence Roya Amigh & curator Monika Fabijanska.

Event organized on the occasion of Roya Amigh: Presence of the Absent, a solo exhibition examining the fragile terrain where women’s movements, personal histories, and collective memory intersect.

Roya Amigh, born in Bandar Mahshahr, Khuzestan province, Iran, is a Bay Area–based artist who earned an MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2012. She has been an artist in residence at MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, Art Omi, MASS MoCA, and The Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in academic and public venues across Korea, Greece, and the United States, including Brooklyn, Boston, Lincoln (Nebraska), New York City, and Providence.

Monika Fabijanska is an independent art historian and curator based in NYC. Her critically acclaimed Women at War (Fridman Gallery, 2022), listed among ten best art exhibitions of 2022 by both The Washington Post and Frieze, traveled to university museums in the U.S. and Canada for three years. Betsy Damon. Passages: Rites and Rituals (La MaMa Galleria, 2021) was among The New York Times' best art shows of 2021, following ecofeminism(s) (Thomas Erben Gallery, 2020), and the groundbreaking The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women's Art in the U.S. (John Jay College CUNY, 2018), which featured Roya Amigh and was ranked among the best NYC art shows in 2018 by Hyperallergic. taken in Governors Island by @koda.lab

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