Please Join Us from Thursday, September 17 to Monday, September 28 Waterpod™ will be docked at the World's Fair Marina in Queens, with a focus on the future of mobility and mobile structures. We are open to the public Thursday 8 - 4 PM, Friday - Saturday - Sunday 11 AM - 7 PM
Subway Directions: From Grand Central Station take the 7 train to Willets Point Blvd - Mets Station. Head towards Citi Field. Take the sidewalk to the left of Citi Field until it ends. Cross the Whitestone Expressway and the World’s Fair Marina Pier 1 is across the street and to the right. Waterpod™ is located at the end of Pier 1.
We will CELEBRATE the closing of our amazing four-month journey with "Future of Mobility, Urbanity, and Water(pods)" at the http://www.worldfairmarina.com/" target="_blank">World's Fair Marina Pier 1 in Flushing, Queens from September 26 - 27th.
On Sunday September 27th we will conclude with an all day http://www.thewaterpod.org/lecture.html#irem" target="_self">I REMEMBER FUTURE goodbye http://www.thewaterpod.org/about.html" target="_self">Waterpod™ party from 11 am - 11 pm in conjunction with the http://www.queensmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Queens Museum of Art, featuring http://www.thewaterpod.org/lecture.html#nj" target="_blank">Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Response Systems, a sea sound and film installation curated by Lauren Rosati, "http://www.thewaterpod.org/lecture.html#james">Ascend" a pirate television broadcast/ planetarium installation by artist http://www.thewaterpod.org/lecture.html#james" target="_self">James Case Leal, and http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32374" target="_blank">DJ Trent from http://www.wfmu.org/" target="_blank">WFMU.
LIVE PERFORMANCES by http://www.myspace.com/blackswangreennyc" target="_blank">Black Swan Green and http://www.myspace.com/mndrtronica" target="_blank">MNDR
TROLLEY SERVICE from the http://www.queensmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Queens Museum of Art to the Waterpod on Sunday September 27th, starting at Noon from Willets Point Avenue and going until 6 pm. The trolley will be making a loop from Willets Point/Citifield, Waterpod™, and the Museum continuously between 12-6pm (last leg leaves Waterpod™ for QMA at 5:45 pm, then QMA at 6pm for the subway). You can catch the trolley on Roosevelt Avenue immediately underneath the elevated 7 train stop. OR if driving, go to museum first, and either drive or take the trolley to Waterpod™.
Saturday, September 26
1 PM Christopher Robbins & Douglas Paulson: Jerry-Rigging 101: Build your own boat from urban detritus / Knot tying (bring stuff that might float)
2 PM - 5 PM Artist Hector Canonge's Latitude S. public workshop. Media projections at 7pm
3 PM Secret School and the K.I.D.S. host a "Wild Tea Party": A workshop on making jam and tea from foraged wild edible fruit
4 PM Lecture with Terreform founders Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim discusing The Future of the Carborexic City
6 PM - 8 PM Jérémie Gindre and Frédéric Post, special art ceremony in-progress sculpture with sound performance, co-curated by Espace Kugler
Sunday, September 27
11 AM - 11 PM "I Remember Future": All day Goodbye Waterpod™ Party in conjunction with thehttp://www.queensmuseum.org/" target="_blank"> Queens Museum of Art (Trolley Service from QMA to Waterpod™)
12 PM http://www.barbaraflanagan.com/" target="_blank">Barbara Flanagan (website) talks about the future of water and her new book Flanagan’s Smart Home: 98 Essentials for Starting Out, Starting Over, or Scaling Back. (Workman, 2009) lecture and book signing
1 PMhttp://www.thewaterpod.org/lecture.html#flood" target="_self"> Christopher Robbins & Ian Warren: Making portable gardens, cereal banks (D.I.Y. protectionism) and food preservation
3 PM http://www.thewaterpod.org/lecture.html#mani" target="_blank"> Cassie Thornton presents Barter System Beauty Salon: Get your palm read and your nails did
4 PM http://www.thewaterpod.org/#nj" target="_self">Natalie Jeremijenko's http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/people/natalie-jeremijenko/" target="_blank">Environmental Response Systems
6 PM - 8 PM Lauren Rosati organizes an evening of sound, scurvy, and sea vessels with artist Dylan Gauthier and artist David Gatten
4 PM - 11 PM James Case Leal's Ascend Planetarium video installation in the great dome and broadcast installation at the Queens Museum of Art
8 PM - 11 PM http://www.thewaterpod.org/www.wfmu.org/playlists/to" target="_blank">DJ Trent ofhttp://www.wfmu.org/" target="_blank"> WFMU
9 PM - 11 PM Live performances by http://www.myspace.com/blackswangreennyc" target="_blank">Black Swan Green and http://www.myspace.com/mndrtronica" target="_blank">MNDR