Interview with us on Fish Stories
Check out an interview with me and Meredith about our Fish Stories Community Cookbook project. It is part of the Making of Paths to Pier 42 series. Thanks to Hester Street Collaborative, one of the Paths to Pier 42 partners, for interviewing us.
Site-Specific Doc at Visible Evidence 22
Last weekend we had a great panel/workshop at the Visible Evidence 22 conference in Toronto: Site on Screen: Emerging Technology and Site-Specific Documentary Practice
Track: Expanded Documentary and Immersive Technologies.Type: Workshop Keywords: Mobile media, Locative media, Site-specific, Participatory, Collaborative, Psychogeography, Documentary, Experimental, Socially engaged, Interactive
In this workshop, documentary media artists Laura Chipley, Sarah Nelson Wright, Samara Smith, A.E. Souzis and Rachel Stevens will discuss site-specific documentary practice, highlighting their individual and collaborative location-based documentary projects and exploring how site-specific documentary practices have evolved with changing mobile and locative technology. All of the documentary projects to be discussed are site-specific explorations of physical spaces that augment or invite public participation in chronicling the physical world with mobile media. Technologies explored will include: audio, SMS messaging, augmented reality, sensors, go-pros, underwater cameras and aerial photography. Each presenter will open with a short overview of her body of site-specific documentary work focused on the central questions of the panel: How has your site-specific documentary practice evolved with new mobile technologies? How have new technologies influenced concept, form, collaboration, participation, interaction and audience experience? How do new technologies expand documentary audiences? Each artist will reflect on a body of experimental documentary work that demonstrates an evolution in engagement strategies blurring the lines between subject/audience and location/screen to expand the traditional documentary form and experience. After brief introductory presentations, the panel will engage in a discussion exploring questions central to the documentary work and evolving technologies: How do new and emerging technologies serve or complicate each project’s themes, motivations and goals? How does moving away from traditional narrative toward non-linear structures and “user-driven” mobile technology experiences impact documentary form and experience? How does it change or expand the documentary audience? What is unique about site-specific documentary practices? What is the relationship between screen/site and audience/subject/director? Projects discussed in brief opening presentations will include Oyster City, The Newtown Creek Armada, Architextour and COMMotion. Collectively, these projects draw on a variety of mobile technologies to increase interactivity and participation.
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
August 1st (12-5) and 2nd (11-4) 2015
South Windham, VT
An exhibition happening next weekend! Survivalist Cinema will be returning, this year with a line-up of experimental shorts called Anthroposcenic.
More on the 2 Chairs website.
On the screening:
ANTHROPOSCENIC
A program of moving image work to be screened in the Survivalist Cinema, a solar-powered micro-cinema housed in a wilderness lean-to. These experimental shorts reimagine the ‘figure in the landscape’ trope, calling upon consumer objects with mystical properties, “machinema,” low-tech sci-fi performance, post-production, and decomposition to augment or devolve bodies and personhood in relationship to the landscape.
Peggy Ahwesh, She Puppet (2001, video, 15 min.)
In She Puppet Ahwesh edited hours of playing the game Tomb Raider to redirect the narrative of the character Lara Croft from a goal-oriented tour through obstacle-laden adventure-scapes to one more dark and speculative.
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin, ARK3: THE WATERWAY SCENARIOS (2015, video, 13 min.)
This newly edited piece furthers Burns’ and Martin’s research into “diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, crypto-utopian musicals, appropriated horror genres, paranormal phenomenon, re-animation choreographies, cos- play, and trans-human love stories.”
Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 3 (2004, video, 7:33 min.)
Moulton’s pained alter ego Cynthia interacts with household objects that operate as channels to surreal experiences or transcendent New Age epiphanies.
Jennifer Reeves, Landfill 16 (2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 9 min.) Reeves temporarily buried outtakes from her 16mm double projection When It Was Blue to “let enzymes and fungi in the soil begin to decompose the image. [She] then hand- painted the film to give it new life.”
Brian Zegeer and Rachel Frank, Far Rockaway (2012, mixed-media animation, digital video, 4:53 min.)
This music video was filmed at Dead Horse Bay, a Far Rockaway landfill that has since erupted onto the beach surface. Made in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the film imagines a vengeful nature at odds with human endeavors.
Fish Stories at the NYPL Mulberry St. Branch
We’ve been really busy soliciting recipes and stories for the Fish Stories Community Cookbook. In the past few weeks we’ve held workshops or shown up to talk with people at the Hamilton-Madison House Senior Center, the fishing clinic at the Lower East Side Ecology Center, the P.S. 184 Shuang Wen School Summer Carnival Fundraiser, the after school program 2 Bridges Kids! at Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, the Loisaida Festival, Family Day at the Vladeck Houses, Weinberg Center for Balanced Living at the Manny Cantor Center, a performance at Pier 42 by Arm of the Sea Theater and, most recently, held a seafood recipe exchange at the Mulberry Street Branch of the New York Public Library.
Wow, we’ve met a lot of great people and received many great recipes. Talking to people one on one is much more effective than directing people to the forms on our website for soliciting recipes, as you might imagine. At yesterday’s recipe exchange Judy Hiller-Schwartz gave me recipes for Gravlox with Mustard Dill Sauce, Gifilte Fish and ‘Jewish Style’ Halibut “Creole.” She also told me about her trials and tribulations starting up a business making knishs. A favorite place of hers to buy fish in the Lower East Side is Rainbow Fish in Essex Market and she suggested talking to Ira.
A very special thanks to Sherri Machlin, the librarian who helped to organize, promote and champion the event. She has a book of her own – American Food by the Decades.
Three walks for the Pier 42 City of Water Day Summer Celebration
On July 18th we animated some waterways in Lower Manhattan with some performative, experiential walks at Collect Pond, tracing the path of Old Wreck Brook to the East River through some interstitial and public/private urban spaces and then on to the ‘CSO theater’ at Corlear’s Hook.Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration and City of Water Day
Saturday, July 18, 2-6pm
Pier 42
The 2015 iLAB Residency groups, Water & Im/migration and The Urban Backstage, invite you to Pier 42 on Saturday, July 18th, to join in the Paths to Pier 42: Summer Waterfront Celebration and City of Water Day. As part of the Waterfront Alliance’s larger City of Water Day celebration, Paths to Pier 42 will host an afternoon of family-friendly activities including the iLAND events listed below.
2PM The Urban Backstage: Collect Pond Park performance
Location: The performance begins at the southern end of Collect Pond Park
The first of three linked walking and talking performances about the city and its relationship to water. Visit the place where Collect Pond used to be, and imagine the city when it was the primary source of fresh drinking water and a place of leisure and escape.
2:45PM The Urban Backstage: Wreck Brook / East River walk
Location: The walk begins at Foley Square and ends at Pier 42
The second of three linked walking and talking performances: walk the trail of the former Old Wreck Brook from Foley Square to the East River exploring the links between natural and engineered water systems.
4PM Water & Im/migration: Shore of Hope – Part II
Location: Pier 42
Enjoy arts activities for all ages, including a calligraphy workshop, a choral performance by members of the Open Door Senior Citizen Center, and movement sharing to explore the themes of Water and Immigration (for ages 7 and older).
4:30PM The Urban Backstage: CSO Theater
Location: Starts at the Pier 42 welcome tent
The last of three walking and talking performances: travel from Pier 42 to the East River Amphitheater where ideas about what’s hidden–under our city, and in ourselves–take to the stage.