Brooklyn street artist Swoon’s latest project is currently floating down river to a dock near you. Swoon and her buddies created seven boats from salvaged materials to take on the road sea. Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea started out in Troy on August 15th and have already hit Albany, Saugerties and Kingston. I don’t see Beacon on the official list, but here they were last Sunday. Guess we were hard to resist.
Musical and theatrical performances take place from the boats, which themselves are works of “art”. Oh, did I use quotations? My bad. Actually, Swoon’s prints are real perty. It’s the pile of crap I have a problem with.
They’ll be stopping in Croton on the 27th, Nyack on the 28th and finally landing at Deitch Studios, LIC September 7th through 13th.
Performance collaborators include Lisa D’Amour, Dark Dark Dark and Sxip Shirey.
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The Beacon performance was a bit sleepy but the boats are pretty at night and the music was enjoyable. A bit more Mad Max/Burning Man action and a little less “representing” at the podium would have been good. The real stars of the show were the flocks of geese flying overhead and the perfect breezy evening.
Comment by James — August 26, 2008 @ 9:12 am
Yeah, I got a sense that it wasn’t my cup of tea judging from the artists and their boats. Sounds like a nice evening out though. Too bad I was in bed by 8:30pm that night.
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