Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
59,411 - Opening + Walk
About
Named for the number of steps it is rumored to take to walk the perimeter of the island, 59,411 is an evolving, multi-part project examining the history, aesthetics, possibilities, and politics of walking, curated by Laurel Ptak. Unfolding throughout summer and fall, 59,411 opens at the Annex with a reception and artist-led listening walk by medium-sized on Thursday, July 9th.
6:00pm Reception
Cocktails on the deck. Artworks and walker’s library on view. Installation, video, and publication by Lighthouse Works alum medium-sized (artist Hai-Wen Lin + writer Margaret Wright) tracing their two-day walk circumnavigating Fishers Island.
6:30pm Walk
Medium-sized (artist Hai-Wen Lin + writer Margaret Wright) lead a collective listening walk following Fishers’ shores, paths, and streets. This one-hour walk begins at the Annex and ends at the Ordnance. Each walker receives an artist-made audio guide to accompany them. Join us.
Artists
Bio
medium-sized (Hai-Wen Lin + Margaret Wright) is a meeting of object, language, and documented performance. Hai-Wen and Margaret met on Fishers Island; their first collaborative project was walking the perimeter of the island.
Bio
Hai-Wen Lin is a Taiwanese-American artist currently based in Chicago. They are an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and earned a Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where they were selected as a Fashion Future Graduate by the CFDA upon graduating. They have received fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, and the Ox-Bow School of Art and attended residencies at the Wassaic Project and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Lin has performed publicly at the Chicago Cultural Center and MU Gallery and has exhibited work in a variety of places including Prairie, in Chicago; Queen, in Bellingham, Washington; the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; the Pittsburgh Glass Center; the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, in Gimpo, South Korea; 3S Artspace in New Hampshire; the walls of their home; their friend’s home; on a plate; on a lake; on their body; in the sky.
Website
https://www.haiwenlin.com/Bio
Margaret Wright is a writer and teacher from New Jersey. Her work has received support from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Monson Arts, Princeton University, and New York University, where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. Her writing can be found at Words Without Borders and in Ploughshares Magazine. She is currently working on a documentary poetry manuscript chronicling a 30-year water rights battle in Nevada. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
