Overview
Surrounded by rivers and a tidal stream, Manhattan has always been a hub of maritime commerce. Seafaring is imprinted in its DNA; even the term skyscraper refers to the to the highest sail on a clipper ship.
New Yorker’s connection with the water, however, has eroded over time. Highways and industrial complexes separate the city from the water, and oceans became a scary and uncontrollable dimension
Through five interactive works, “Adventure into Emotional Liquids” invites the public to play with water and explore our relationship with it in a new poetic way.
Interpreting water dynamics as a series of joyful and meditative states, the installation combines performance, interactive installation, sculpture, and sounds evoking the power of the ocean. Water movement, barometric pressure, wind, and swell inspire a sculptural Immerse landscape that stimulate our fascination of being at sea wile bringing us close to water.
In this landscape of water reflections, walk-ways, floating-docks, and cargo containers;
wave patterns become the notes of a musical instrument to play with and swim in, New York Harbor tidal
waves expand and retract shock relievers on imaginary docking lines; hidden underwater
sounds are streamed live from the abyss of the Hudson River; water dynamics are transferred into a human scale simulator made of
millions of inflatable balloons, while isobar systems are spiral kinetic sculptures made of an intricate system of pulleys, ropes, and swivels that squeaks overhead while
mutating shape and tension based on local barometric pressure.
The work is build with a combination of new and recycled material.
For example, the 99 antique year-old organ pipes are connected to industrial blower and the cargo containers can be filled by inflatable balloons.
The audience can engage with the work as isolated pieces or as a system of causes and effects, experiencing it equally as a lucid playground or a meditative space.
