SEA WORTHY
10 June – 29 July 2011
EFA Project Space, Flux Factory & Gowanus Studio Space, New York
A three-part project with an exhibition of nautical works, public boat-building workshops, and a series of excursions on the waterways of NYC.
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 excursion 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.
Participating artists include: Michael Arcega; Rachel Bacon; Gabriela Basterra, Andy Bichlbaum & Jeff Day; Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw; George Boorujy; Matt Bua; The Brooklyn Pirates; Laurie Churchman; Adriane Colburn; Heather Dewey-Hagborg & Thomas Dexter; Meredith Drum & Rachel Stevens; Amze Emmons; Andrew Eutsler, Shane Heinemeier & Alison Ward; Jason Gandy; Richard Haley; Crystal Heiden; Constance Hockaday; TJ Hospodar; Haley Hughes; Sarah Julig; Jonathan Kaiser; Adam Katzman; Marie Lorenz; Mary Mattingly; Orien McNeill; Nick Normal; Ciaran O’Dochartaigh; Anne Percoco; Natalia Porter; Duke Riley; Tod Seelie; Jessica Segall; Gina Siepel; Reid Stowe, Swimming Cities; Swoon; A’yen Tran; Emmett Walsh; Ian Warren; Brindalyn Webster; and Charles Westfall.
Curatorial Committee: Jean Barberis, Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, Michelle Levy, Georgia Muenster, Kendra Sullivan, and Sally Szwed.
Read about the Sea Worthy gallery exhibition in the Brooklyn Rail and Constance Hockaday's Boggsville Boatel in Make.
A’yen Tran, Boat for Singing Together. Photo courtesy the artist.
A’yen Tran, Boat for Singing Together. Photo courtesy the artist.
Exhibition gallery view. Photo courtesy EFA Project Space.
Exhibition gallery view. Photo courtesy EFA Project Space.
Constance Hockaday, Boggsville Boatel. Photo courtesy of Flux Factory.
Constance Hockaday, Boggsville Boatel. Photo by Alita Edgar.
Artist talk with Reid Stowe aboard the Anne.