EAST RIVER REVERSES: BECOMES NEW YORK
Brooklyn Bridge Park
10th Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival
10.15.06
On October 15, 002006, from 11-1 p.m., East River Reverses: Becomes New York offered a dynamic image of a momentous, yet largely unknown event that reshapes New York City four times each day: the East River's complete reversal of direction and its transformation from river, to estuary, to tidal flood.
Several kayakers from the New York Kayak Company anchored their kayaks in the East River off of Brooklyn Bridge park. Their kayaks swung in a large arc signaling the reversal of the river's tidal strait flow.
In our collaborative projects, we do not use media to capture, frame, or encode. We use media instead to release—to open passageways from the fixed to the emergent, from what is experienced and known through habit to what is continuously becoming else. We invite audiences of our documentations to project their imaginations not back to the forces as we experienced them, but out to the city’s—and their own—continuous emergence.
East River Reverses sets up potentials for public audiences to imagine new forms of relationality to be lived, and therefore for public space to emerge elsewhere and otherwise.
VERY SPECIAL THANKS to:
Wendy
Randall Henriksen founder of the New York Kayak Company
Erik Baard founder of the LIC Community Boathouse
Gordon and Keith Brian from West Marine
the dumbo arts center
LMCC swing space program