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Floating Art Town: Swimming Cities Of Switchback Sea
Swimming Cities Of Switchback Sea
Swimming Cities Of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the stretch of the Hudson River between Troy and the New York harbor this August 15th - September 7th. Imagined as a hybrid between boats and bits of land mass broken off and headed out to sea, the Switchback vessels will make stops in towns along the river bringing performances and music.
Swoon’s “Swimming Cities” brought a collection of artists, carpenters, musicians, filmmakers, seafarers and hangers-on to Troy, N.Y., to build the flotilla and prepare for its journey down the Hudson to Deitch Studios in Long Island City. Each raft is powered with alternative energy sources, including bio-fuels and solar power. The boats use recycled motors, one from a 1968 Mercedes, another from a Volkswagen Rabbit, one uses a gasifier, which burns organic waste materials. Swoon’s larger-than-life “invented landscape” installation at Deitch Studios will receive the fleet September 7. The show opens to the public that day.
For information on Swoon and Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, see the website switchbacksea.org
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