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Will you tow our art boats? - $1 (Long Island City, Queens)
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Date: 2008-10-16, 3:48PM EDT
We’re looking for someone willing to tow three art boats from the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in Queens about ten miles up the East River toward Long Island this coming Monday October 20. We can’t afford Sea Tow, but are willing to pay for your time and gas. You don’t need a tug, just a recreational powerboat with at least a 75hp engine. Can you help?
The boats’ dimensions are as follows: Alice 23′ x 22′ | Maria 28′ x 12′ | Althea 46′ x 8′| The boats were designed by artist SWOON and journeyed from Troy, NY around the Battery and up the East River this summer. You can read about it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/arts/design/18flot.html |
our website is here: http://www.switchbacksea.org
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DEITCH PROJECTS INVITES YOU ANN MESSNER MODERATED BY CARLO MCCORMICK THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 7 - 9 PM Selections from Todd Chandler’s upcoming film FLOOD, shot aboard the DEITCH STUDIOS It’s gonna be big! The NYTIMES says: ARTAprès le Deluge
Missed Swoon’s floating art installation, “Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea� Catch up with it tonight at Deitch gallery space in Long Island City, where the artist will talk with her artistic forebears Ann Messner and Kiki Smith. Portions of “Flood,†a documentary about the journey of Swoon’s seven art barges down the Hudson, will also be screened. “A Floating City With Junkyard Roots,†by Julie Bloom |
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maine sailing trip!, originally uploaded by antlered.
so last week porter and i went sailing around casco bay. this picture is taken on the harraseeket river, here:
We sailed around a zillion islands in Casco Bay eventually putting the boat away for the winter. Here’s Casco Bay:
On the Harraseeket River we found a guy with an oyster farm:
and shucked 18 Flying Point oysters in the boat that night:
here’s me having a sandwich while we flew the spinnaker sail
here’s porter’s boat, the andale in cocktail cove off of jewell island
FRIDAY 9/26 @ [SURREAL ESTATE]
DARK DARK DARK
The Gamut
Vampire Hands
U.S. Girls
Trillions of Gallons of Gas
Brownbird Rudy Relic
DJ DIRTY FINGER
DJ RUSTY LAZER (new orleans bounce!!)
[SURREAL ESTATE]
15 Thames St. | East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Morgan | 9pm |$5-$7 Suggested | All Ages
www.missrockaway.org
Why? Since the termination of the Miss Rockaway Armada in St. Louis last summer, former crew members have been collaborating on new creative projects that have grown out of the energy of the Mississippi river. After an installation at MassMOCA last April, the crew was invited to create an installation in Amsterdam for Program Heartland. Now we need the cash to get there and buy materials!
Here’s a map:
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That was fun!
(it was fun!)
I can’t believe it, but this is the end of the journey. Tonight is the last performance of Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, the Lisa D’Amour play that accompanies SWOON’s Swimming Cities art installation and raft project at Deitch.
Tonight! 8pm! Whoa!
Also, this awesome piece came out in Metropolis Mag today.
SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
An installation by SWOON
with a performance written by Lisa D’Amour,
created with the crew
Music by Dark Dark Dark
3 Nights Only
Thurs-Sat, Sept 11-13
Long Island City, NYC
September 11, 2008, 8pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
7 train to Vernon Jackson (First stop in Queens)
www.deitch.com
(Doyle driving Alice around the Battery)
From my friend Lisa:
Hello Friends.
We made it down the Hudson and around the Battery and up the East River. Â The Fleet pulled into Deitch Projects in Long Island City last night to hundreds of onlookers and a live brass band. Â There’s been one arrest, one hospitalization, one broken finger, 3 on-the-water citations by the NYPD, one Rosie O’Donnell drive-by beer delivery (she drove the speedboat) and 8 glorious performances on the banks of the Hudson in Troy, Albany, Saugerties, Kingston, Beacon, Croton-on-Hudson, Nyack and the 70th street pier in Manhattan.
And Beauty. Â Lots and lots of Beauty.
THERE ARE THREE SHOWS LEFT FOR YOU TO SEE. Â Part play, part dreamed documentary, part happening, part creaky river-soaked poem. Â You will be on shore, at the dock at Deitch, with the boats anchored on the water in front of you: Â a set. Â The NYC skyline is the backdrop. Â Performed by the crew who got the boats here, plus a few New York friends. Â Live music by Dark Dark Dark.
The performance is FREE, first come, first served. Â It lasts one hour. Â Get there early for a good seat. Â Also get there early to see the AMAZING AMAZING installation SWOON made in the warehouse to receive the boats. Â You will leave ready to rock.
There are some great pictures in the slideshow here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/arts/design/18flot.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=swoon%20floating%20cities&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Performance details below. Â I’m so proud of this one. Â Come check it out.
All My Best,
Lisa
SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
An installation by SWOON
with a performance written by Lisa D’Amour,
created with the crew
Music by Dark Dark Dark
3 Nights Only
Thurs-Sat, Sept 11-13
Long Island City, NYC
September 11, 2008, 8pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
7 train to Vernon Jackson (First stop in Queens)
www.deitch.com
photo: view from the rafts of the Staten Island Ferry aboard which a passenger freaked out and thought we were pirates
We made it through New York Harbor alive and well and didn’t miss a single show on our tour! This has been a crazy journey. Now I have a bone to pick with the NYPD. For the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea we painstakingly obtained a permit for a Marine Event through the US Coast Guard. We got Hull Identification Numbers, NY registration and all the necessary safety equipment for our boats. We made all of our captains take a NY State Boating Certification Course. The Coast Guard notified everyone on the water that we were coming with a repeated radio announcement AND inclusion in their publication ‘Local Notice to Mariners.’ Rather than pay attention to that, the NYPD pulled the fleet into the Navy Yard, delaying us dangerously while the current speed of the East River picked up. Here are some pics of us getting hauled in. On the water, the NYPD said “we may choose to terminate this voyage,” without letting us direct him to the appropriate officer in the USCG. When they realized we were legit they sheepishly apologized for the delay and after inspecting the vessels they let us go. Some of the tickets they issued were fair and completely our oversight: flares had been misplaced and were not aboard the proper vessel, someone left their registration at home, and their fire extinguisher was too small. Others were totally bogus: one boat was ticketed for not having a backfire flame arrestor when it was not required to have one.
Then on September 5, the 108th precinct of the NYPD actually woke up some of our crew members in the morning swearing and pointing a gun at a thirty-something press rep and mother of a young child from California. Something to the effect of “What the fuck do you think you’re doing? Get your fucking hands up!” Guns! Jeez! We’re a bunch of artists on junk rafts.
The Coast Guard has been nothing but professional and helpful and the NYPD has been nothing but aggressive and confused.
Here’s the brief NY Times note on the incident and here’s the funny Village Voice commentary.
Also, I have finally uploaded pics of the journey to flickr.
photo of Poppa Neutrino watching the debut show in Troy, NY of Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea by Tod Seelie
On September 2, the fleet Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea floats into New York City at 70th st ‘Pier I’ and the Hudson River to deliver a performance by playwright Lisa D’Amour at 8pm. This performance was just added so please spread the word! It will be the only New York City performance before we reach home port in Long island City Queens!
Other Switchback Stuff coming up:
www.switchbacksea.org
Long Island City, NYC
Opening Reception (No performance)
September 7, 2008, 6-9pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Click here for a map
www.deitch.com
Long Island City, NYC
September 11, 2008, 8pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Click here for a map
www.deitch.com
Long Island City, NYC
September 12, 2008, 8pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Click here for a map
www.deitch.com
Long Island City, NYC
September 13, 2008, 8pm at Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
Click here for a map
www.deitch.com
So I’m out floating on the Hudson River and am currently writing from the Ravena-Coeyman’s Yacht Club. Yesterday’s article by Julie Bloom in the NY times was awesome. The fleet is currently underway and arriving Wednesday in Saugerties for an amazing show at the lighthouse.
Check it out:
photo by Nathaniel Brooks for the NY Times
Justin Mott for the NY Times
Porter’s story of our bike ride across the Mekong comes out in the NY Times travel section this weekend.
The pictures are gorgeous. Read it here.
Come on up to MassMoCA if you’re free. It’s Miss Rockaway’s first art project in a museum!
Here are some pictures Tod Seelie took of the build going on there
It feels funny to say it, but it’s true, I’m really glad to come home after traveling for so long. I can’t wait to help build the massmoca show and I’m excited not to be scared for my safety. In the DR it’s impossible to walk down the street or be in public anywhere for that matter without someone mean-mugging you like crazy. you get an exorbitant number of nasty looks from local men. i hear this is called “guapa” which actually means handsome but refers to an angry girl here. i dunno. this may be something that happens to everyone, or specifically to us as tourists/foreigners. also women are fair game for sexual harassment and cat-calling and people are totally shocked if you get mad about it. there are lots of things about latino machismo which i find hard to stomach, though i find machismo repulsive in all its locations. of course getting shot at and robbed while already struggling with money, with impunity, has a way of disrupting one’s sense of safety as well.
A pic of me and muffin on Chicken’s bus driving out of New York on our first voyage to the Mississippi.
I had to do it. I´m back in St. Louis paying my respects to the boat and tearing it all apart. I´m at CAMP right now and Alexis is flamenco dancing in the next room. Mendon is fixing bikes in the bike shop and I just made a quesadilla upstairs and took a cold shower. The boat is coming apart nicely though itś sad. Why is the trip stopping you may ask? Well. The boats can´t go faster than the current below St Louis with any motor you put on them, meaning we can´t steer or dock, there are only gas fill-ups every 200 miles and you would need to bring a LOT of food & water to make it 200 miles between stops. Some folks are talking about doing the trip to New Orleans, theyŕe totally out of their minds, but I have hope that they will get a real boat, fortify the hell out of it, stock up on supplies and do the journey. Thereś a good tell-all here.
Anyway, it was nice seeing folks at the chicken hut & timeÅ› up, mccarren park, in my living room and around town.
PictureÅ› to come, seriously serious. like thousands.
xoxo
I’ve been on the river! Yesterday was so amazing! I interviewed a whole Christian biker gang called the Bond Slaves and they totally blew my mind. Not in the make-you-convert kind of way but more in the oh-my-god-that-story-was-incredible-and-you-guys-are-so-cool kind of way. I’ll get those stories online in a couple weeks. Also, my mom visited the river recently and it was lovely. I’m currently in Hannibal, MO where Mark Twain is from. The whole town is incredibly mega-Twainy. What else? I’ve spent all my money and don’t have enough money to get home. I’ve weathered tornadoes and police harassment and am still having the time of my life. Coming home pretty soon.
Here are some pictures my mom took:
Lisa and A’yen at Turtle Island on the Garden of Bling
The Garden of Bling docked at the Quincy Boat Club when they gave us space to dock to escape the tornado
Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home in Hannibal, MO
Jenny on parade in Hannibal, MO
Our new friend Grace from Hannibal, MO on parade with us
Corey Vinegar and A’yen on parade in Hannibal
Also, a poem that I like by Henry Dumas
If I Were Earth
Each tear that fell
from the crushed
moons of your face,
stabbed me,
broke and split
into a thousand pains.
But I held out my arms
and no not one did I miss,
No, not one pain.
And if I don’t let
you soak into me
and bring me up,
if I don’t let you seep
deep into me
and teach me,
then you can cry in
the morning to the sun,
and tell him to rise up
and burn me away.
—copyright by Loretta Dumas and Eugene B. Redmond
Honey Space An independently produced solo New York debut, in a formerly abandoned warehouse in the heart of Chelsea. Thomas Beale has culled the products of years of concentrated effort and woven them into a single, thick installation environment. Opening party features performance by Mickey Western, Mary Go Round, and New Orleans brass sensation Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship. Homemade intoxicants served by Miss Elixer. Exhibition continues until Independence Day with Thomas and Mickey greeting the public as their own gallery sitters. You can view images to Thomas’ work on his website.
11th Avenue, between 21st and 22nd streets, Manhattan 6-9p; $free http://www.tbeale.com
NOTE: This is going to be really good. The space is super cool, the art is really good, and you can’t beat the live performers.
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