If you are free at any point this weekend (9.26, 9.27), come out to the Waterpod in Flushing, NY… Lots of stuff going on.
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 (website) Latitude S. public workshop. Media projections at 7pm
3 PM Secret School and the K.I.D.S. (website) host a “Wild Tea Party”: A workshop on making jam and tea from foraged wild edible fruit
4 PM Lecture with Terreform (website) 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 the Queens Museum of Art (Trolley Service from QMA to Waterpod™)
All Day: Eve K. Tremblay, artist partner and co-curator of the Waterpod will be presenting her slide show .: The Formation, Evolution, Anatomy & Behaviors of the Water Pod` in the cabin where she lived (www.evektremblay.com), and David B. Smith, Artist-in-Residence, will be presenting The Waves, Three channel sound installation, 2009, in the Artist-in-Residence cabin.
12 PM 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 PM Christopher Robbins & Ian Warren: Making portable gardens, cereal banks (D.I.Y. protectionism) and food preservation
3 PM Cassie Thornton presents Barter System Beauty Salon: Get your palm read and your nails did
4 PM Natalie Jeremijenko‘s 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 DJ Trent of WFMU
9 PM – 11 PM Live performances by Black Swan Green and MNDR
