I Remember Future: Please visit us for Waterpod's Final Weekend
Type
Category
Activism, Architecture, Conceptual, Curating, Desi...
Status
Archived
Deadline
September 26, 2009
Application Fee
Not Available
Host
MARY MATTINGLY
Location
United States
The Waterpod is a floating, sculptural eco-habitat and living experiment that recalls the work of Buckminster Fuller, Andrea Zittel, and Constant Nieuwenhuys. In preparation for the coming world with an increase in population, a decrease in usable land, and a greater flux in environmental conditions, the Waterpod was designed by Mary Mattingly, a New York-based photographer and sculptor, in collaboration with a multinational team of artists, designers, scientists, and marine engineers. By the end of its tour the Waterpod will have docked in all five boroughs and Governors Island. 

 

The Waterpod functions as a living sculpture that produces its own food, power, and water using permaculture design, rainwater catchment, solar power, and appropriate technologies.  It is both a public space that brings art, science, and ecology into a forward-thinking ecosystem and a model of an enclosed private space, presenting the possibility to expand into ever-evolving water communities.  The Waterpod connects river to visitor, global to local, nature to city, and historic to futuristic ecologies.

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


 

Through the generous in-kind donations by Blank Rome, Miller's Launch, the GMD Shipyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yards, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the NYC Mayor's Office of Special Projects, and numerous foundations and businesses we have successfully docked at GMD Shipyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yards; South Street Seaport; Sheepshead Bay Marina, Brooklyn; Yankee Pier, Governor's Island; West Harlem Piers Park; Brooklyn Bridge Park; Atlantic Salt, Staten Island; and Concrete Plant Park, the Bronx bringing open participation, collaboration, and environmental awareness to each stop.