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Much of the crew has created art pieces for this retrospective of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima journey. If you’re in NYC, please join us Friday or come see the show until January 1!
UPDATE: Just listed in Time Out NY, Please RSVP to rsvp@anonymousgallery.com
Keeping it militaristic, a ragtag band of punk soldiers invades Anonymous Gallery after successfully taking Venice. Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima (169 Bowery between Broome and Delancey Sts; 646-238-9069, anonymousgallery.com; 6–9pm, free with mandatory R.S.V.P. to rsvp@anonymousgallery.com) is a retrospective of artist Swoon’s expedition across the Adriatic Sea. She sailed with 30 others on three DIY vessels from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, making a splash at the Venice Biennale.
PANKABESTIA
Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities
A retrospective of “Swimming Cities of Serenissima”
Anonymous Gallery 169 Bowery New York, NY
Opens Nov 20 6-9pm
As the 53rd Venice Biennale enters its last days and the world’s art community reflects, Anonymous Gallery, curator Spy Emerson and the artist SWOON provide a glimpse of what critic Jerry Saltz called “…The most moving moment I had at the Biennale…”
“Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” is a retrospective of artist Swoon’s “Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” her recent invasion of the Venice Biennale. Traveling from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy, Swoon and 30+ artists braved the waters of the Adriatic Sea and navigated a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels. Continue reading ‘PANKABESTIA OPENING: SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA CREW SHOW FRIDAY 11/20/09′
I’m back in New York from an awesome float on the Swimming Cities of Serenissima and I took lots of pictures! Check them out here. In the time I was there we set out for Venice on the Adriatic Sea and got caught by the Bora, a crazy ancient wind that has been wrecking boats since time eternal and can blow up to 125mph. The video of Alice (the boat) getting through the waves doesn’t do it justice, but you can kinda see them getting tossed around toward the end of it.
the chart! the swimming cities have made it halfway!, originally uploaded by antlered.
This is the chart Porter is using to navigate the Adriatic by. The Swimming Cities have made it halfway!
Porter gets to Trieste.
I saw Porter off yesterday for the Swimming Cities of Serenissima. You can follow their exploits closely on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/SWOONS-SWIMMING-CITIES-OF-SERENISSIMA/60327004576
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