2017 Commission

Liquid City: Desire

200 blue bottles and maps

As part of Mosher’s ongoing investigation with Liquid City, Desire invites gallery visitors to wander and explore the rich history of Lower Manhattan’s waterscape through a participatory map. Visitors were invited to take a bottle and map and enjoy the journey, creating city-scaled maps of their own.

Collaborative floor painting and single channel video of Manhattan waterways with Clarinda Mac Low.

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36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

Four-channel video installation

Duration: 12 hours, 46 minutesand 12 hours, 21 minutes, looped

Sunde pairs durational video from 36.5 / North Sea and 36.5 / Bay of Bengal where she stood in tidal bays for the full tidal cycle. A short movement piece based on the public participation for the piece was performed in Zuccotti Park on June 29.

A Field Guide to the Place Where You Are

Industrial ladder, flags, binoculars

FSDE shares a sculptural installation that invites participants to investigate their material surrounds from atop a post-natural lifeguard chair.

This new work is based on their four-part project they launched in June 2017: A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek.

FSDE led a site-specific experience on Newtown Creek on June 13 and 17.

Building a Better Fishtrap

Installation of fishnet, chairs, tables, mason jars, conch shell, archival newsprint, signage with instructions for audience.

McGregor invites the audience to interact with and experience the residue of the fishtrap world as part of her iterative performance project rooted in the vanishing fishing tradition of the artist’s 91-year-old father. A performance at New York Live Arts was livestreamed into 3LD on June 17.

Mittere

Single-channel video, 15 minutes

Mattingly premiered Mittere at Works on Water. Making this work was a personal form of letting go and a symbolic form of regeneration, as a response to her WetLand project and Waterpod—both alternative living experiences. Concurrently, Mattingly’s public floating food forest SWALE in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6: was open and free to the public.