PLEASE NOTE: We have two launch locations, the Boathouse at 165 2nd St. / off Bond St. and the Bunker at the end of 19th St. off of 3rd Ave. The starting place for each activity is listed with the event listing. In general, guided tours leave from 19th St. Walk-Up paddling may be at either location, depending on the current status of the work in the canal. It takes about 35 minutes to walk between the locations and about 10 minutes to drive. PLEASE CHECK the location to ensure you are not late to a timed tour. Trips can not be joined once the group leaves the dock.
[ Rain 30 min. Prior to start time may cancel event and dates +30 days in the future are subject to change ]
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The Beginning of Swimming Season at the End of the World
June 16, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A participatory archival activation about swimming, flooding, and water relationships created for the 2024 Culture Push symposium. Visit the archive. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories.
The Beginning of Swimming Season at the End of the World is part of a research and public art project about swimming, flooding, and water relationships called Open Water. So far the project has been conducted on the coast of Red Hook and shores of Coney Island Creek.
During the symposium, in collaboration with Interference Archive, the Gowanus Dredgers, Faith Toran (climate adaptation specialist, artist), and Jordan Packer (urban ecologist), we will install an interactive archive that will change and expand through the course of the symposium. Visit the archive. Learn about water experiences and practices, urban swimming, and coastal ecology. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories.
We’ll be recording anonymous oral histories, annotating a non-scientific map of NYC waterways, inviting additions to our incomplete climate action emergency toolkit, and asking questions emerging from research and an ongoing dialogic and somatic exchange that has been ongoing with the videographer iki nakagawa for the past year.
Curated by Nora Almeida
