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Dearest Margaret:
I am delighted to be writing you from aboard the ocean-going exhibition Sea Worthy, chartered by the respectable companies Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Flux Factory and Gowanus Studio Space. We are due to sail on June 10th, and there is a public reception planned from 6-8 pm at the EFA Project Space to see us on our way. It has been raining now for weeks. Hopeful it will clear...
Your beloved--
R
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Sea Worthy: An Exhibition
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EFA Project Space
June 10 – July 29, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10, 2011, 6 - 8 pm
EFA Project Space, in collaboration with Flux Factory and Gowanus Studio Space, presents an exhibition featuring artists who approach water navigation as subject, pushing its potential as a mutable open platform for social experimentation as well as metaphor for personal, artistic, and collective freedom. The show includes installations, models, prints, drawings, photos, videos, and various other musings by artist-seafarers who generously impart their experience of the sea in order to refresh our perception of the land.
Artists included in the Sea Worthy Exhibition are: Michael Arcega, Rachel Bacon, Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw, George Boorujy, Matt Bua, Adriane Colburn, Heather Dewey-Hagborg & Thomas Dexter, Amze Emmons, Jason Gandy, Richard Haley, Haley Hughes, Sarah Julig, Jonathan Kaiser, Marie Lorenz, Orien McNeill, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Anne Percoco, Natalia Porter, Duke Riley, Tod Seelie, Reid Stowe, Swimming Cities, and Swoon.
Curatorial Committee: Jean Barberis, Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, Michelle Levy, Georgia Muenster, Kendra Sullivan, and Sally Szwed.
Sea Worthy: An Exhibition, Workshops & Excursions
Part I: An Exhibition on view at EFA Project Space, June 10 – July 29, 2011.
Part II: Workshops at the Gowanus Studio Space. Ongoing: May - July, 2011.
Part III: Excursions brought to you by Flux Factory. Ongoing: July - September, 2011.
EFA Project Space, Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space present Sea Worthy, an exhibition and series of public screenings, performances, lectures, workshops and artist-led excursions on the water. With 72 islands and over 700 miles of coastline, New York City is a formidable archipelago. This project invites discussion about water access, activates the largest open space in the city, and engages maritime themes in contemporary art practice. Sea Worthy brings together artists from here and abroad – in consultation with boat builders, world-class mariners, historians, writers, activists, and ecologists – to make new work about, around, and on the waterways of New York City in the summer of 2011.
Sea Worthy presents work by artists who employ the boat as a platform for collective action, private reflection and liberatory possibility. The sea voyage suggests both an opening and a crisis – the expanse is daunting, uncontrollable, and full of dream potential. To explore this terrain, the artists take to the high and low seas, metaphorically, virtually, and in reality.
For complete information on all Sea Worthy events, including workshops led by Gowanus Studio Space, and excursions led by Flux Factory visit the Sea Worthy website.
For images and press inquiries, please contact Michelle Levy, Director, EFA Project Space at michelle@efanyc.org.
Related Events at EFA:
Take to the Water! A Discussion with Artist-Nomads on the Aquatic Open Field
Thursday, June 16th, 6:30 - 8:30pm
An evening of presentations and conversation focusing on three significant creative movements that involve the rejection of land-based conventions in order to establish platforms for new possibilities on the ubiquitous waterways.
Kon-Tiki (1950) Thursday, July 21, 6:30 - 8:30pm
A rare screening of Kon-Tiki in conjunction with Sea Worthy: An Exhibition. The Academy Award-winning documentary film chronicles Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 adventures across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Islands.
Press
Seaworthy Exhibit Allows New Yorkers to Channel Their Inner Pirate by Bonny Hulkower for Treehugger.com
Seaworthy: An Exhibition by Mindy Bond for Flavorpill
Art Goes Aquatic in NYC on Artnet
Sea Worthy by Charles Schultz for The Brooklyn Rail
Far Rockaway's Far-Out Art Scene by Pia Catton for The Wall Street Journal
Check In, Swim Out: A Floating Hotel as Art by Melena Ryzik for the New York Times
EFA Project Space is located at 323 West 39 Street, 2nd Floor. New York, NY 10018. Gallery summer hours are Wed- Friday, 12-6 pm 212-563-5855 x 244, projectspace@efanyc.org
EFA Project Space is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Private funding for the program has been received from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.