Works on Water / Underwater New York residency on Governor’s Island

For four weeks in July and August I was in residence again on Governors Island, this time with Works on Water and Underwater New York. I had a studio with artfully peeling walls on the top floor of one of the old officer’s houses in Nolan Park. For the first two weeks I was in residence with Meredith Drum as half of our Oyster City collaboration. For the last two weeks I worked on my Place of the Big River research and film project and edited an “extended trailer” for Survivalist Cinema. The trailer was made from clips borrowed from 1970s ecological disaster and survivalist films that I process with analog signal processing tools in January at the Signal Culture residency.

The community of artists (51 residents in total over the summerand fall!) working with and on water that the residency brought together is impressive and “buoying”. I am grateful for and impressed by the generosity of all the organizers for making it happen and for their generative, collaborative spirit.