Image: Color Transparency: A four minute projection, 38 images.
Exploration. Simon Sterling staged a performance on the waters of Scotland's Loch Long. He piloted a twenty-foot wooden steamboat as his shipmate cut the boat into many pieces, then fed the wood into a firebox. It is a reference to humans willful consumption finite materials, a burnout as we progress in time. Loch Long located near the birthplace of James Watts. His notable improvements to the steam engine revolutionized ship and locomotive travel, a significant development the Industrial Revolution in the UK.
Parrish Art Museum, "Radical Seafaring".
Now through July 24th, 2016.
Archival Pigment Print.
Libertation. Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout created AVL to re-imagine an object's basic purpose in this case to a floating hospital for women's reproductive health care. In collaboration with "Women on Waves" (WOW) founded by Rebecca Gomperts to provide reproductive health care to women with strict access. The WOW vessel transports women to the hospital to receive necessary care, in international waters.
Parrish Art Museum, "Radical Seafaring".
Now through July 24th, 2016.
Ballpoint pen on paper.
Fieldwork.Bluedorn, a native to the East End, explores the increasing harmful relationship man vs. natural habitats. Osprey nesting homes humans have encroached including those he captured on Gardiners Island.
Parrish Art Museum, "Radical Seafaring".
Now through July 24th, 2016.
Inkjet prints on archival rag paper.
Speculation.
Photo depicts a scene the 1971 performance Mr Smithson's "Floating-Island-Barge" in Manhattan.
Mr Smithson a Post-Minimalist and early proponent art designed to question viewers where and how art exhibits. His floating island barge is a mirror to New Yorkers who in the 1970's observed barges loaded with garbage on its way to disposal.
Parrish Art Museum, "Radical Seafaring".
Now through July 24th, 2016.
Video still capture, "Open-Sailing", 2009 video. Collection of the artist.
SPECULATION. Harada's speculative ocean-based farming system, "seastead" declares "instinctive architecture". A drifting village powered by the wind, solar and wave power.
Parrish Art Museum, "Radical Seafaring".
Now through July 24th, 2016.
Digital Chromogenic print. Collection of the artist and Vito Schnabel New York.
EXPLORATION.
BHQF artists in 2004 artfully restaged "The Raft of Medusa" [Theodore Gericault, 1818-1819] using shipping crates, carpet pads and a shopping cart in place of historically depicted old shipping beans and timbers.
BHQF an artist collective young artist inspired by artists Robert Smithson, Chris Burden, Jean-Claude & Christo, etc. aim to agitate art - where and when, as 21st-century zeitgeists. In questioning art and their influence, they look inward as artists the affordability of living as artists in ever-increasing costs gentrification.
Parrish Art Museum, "Radical Seafaring".
Now through July 24th, 2016.