A city-wide exhibition and series of events curated by Mare Liberum’s Dylan Gauthier, Kendra Sullivan, Jean Barberis and presented by EFA Project Space, Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space

Part I: Exhibition on view at EFA Project Space
Exhibition Dates: June 10 – July 29, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10, 6-8 pm

Part II: Workshops at The Gowanus Studio Space
Ongoing: May through July, 2011

Part III: Excursions brought to you by Flux Factory
Ongoing: July through September, 2011

        

With 72 islands and over 700 miles of coastline, New York City is a formidable archipelago. This project invites discussion about water access, activates the largest open space in the city, and engages maritime themes in contemporary art practice. Sea Worthy brings together artists from here and abroad – in consultation with boat builders, world-class mariners, historians, writers, activists, and ecologists – to make new work about, around, and on the waterways of New York City in the summer of 2011.

Sea Worthy presented work by artists who employ the boat as a platform for collective action, private reflection, and liberatory possibility. 

The sea excursion suggests both an opening and a crisis – the expanse is daunting, uncontrollable, and full of dream potential. To explore this terrain, the artists take to the high and low seas, metaphorically, virtually, and in reality.