Friday, September 25, 2009

Goodbye Waterpod: Sept 26+27

Waterpod's Final Weekend
World's Fair Marina
Flushing, Queens
http://www.thewaterpod.org/

Saturday, September 26
1pm: Christopher Robbins & Douglas Paulson: Jerry-Rigging 101: Build your own boat from urban detritus / Knot tying
(bring stuff that might float)
2pm-5pm: Artist Hector Canonge's Latitude S. public workshop.
7pm: Latitude S. media projections
3pm: Secret School and the K.I.D.S. host a "Wild Tea Party": A workshop on making jam and tea from foraged wild edible fruit
4pm: Lecture with Terreform founders Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim discusing The Future of the Carborexic City
6pm-8pm: Jérémie Gindre and Frédéric Post, special art ceremony in-progress sculpture with sound performance, co-curated by Espace Kugler

Sunday, September 27: Goodbye Waterpod
11am-11pm: "I Remember Future": All day Goodbye Waterpod™ Party in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art (Trolley Service from QMA to Waterpod™)
12pm: Barbara Flanagan talks about the future of water and her new book Flanagan’s Smart Home: 98 Essentials for Starting Out, Starting Over, or Scaling Back. (Workman, 2009) lecture and book signing
1pm: Christopher Robbins & Ian Warren: Making portable gardens, cereal banks (D.I.Y. protectionism) and food preservation
3pm: Cassie Thornton presents Barter System Beauty Salon: Get your palm read and your nails did
4pm: Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Response Systems
6pm-8pm: Lauren Rosati organizes an evening of sound and sea vessels with artist Dylan Gauthier and artist David Gatten
4pm-11pm: James Case Leal's Ascend Planetarium video installation in the great dome and broadcast installation at the Queens Museum of Art
8pm- Midnight: Live Performances by Black Swan Green and MNDR and DJ Trent of WFMU