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The annual climate event, Climate Week NYC, returns with over 600 in-person and virtual offerings to accelerate progress and advocate for ongoing climate change awareness and solutions. The Seaport Museum is joining climate-conscious organizations in support of this city-wide initiative by presenting a free public art exhibition and an artist talk. Climate Week NYC is organized by the Climate Group in conjunction with the United Nations and the City of New York.
Learn how you can come enjoy the Seaport Museum’s free public art exhibition and artist talk here.
Art at the Edge Exhibition - September 22–October 5 | Pier 16 | Free
“Tide” (2024) by Michael Krondl ~ placed on the wooden deck at the eastern end of Pier 16
“Tide” interjects a (virtual) tear or crevice into the center of Pier 16, so that the East River appears to be bubbling up and over the surface—as it undoubtedly could with rising sea levels. Viewers will physically participate with the artwork by being put into a situation of having to cross this break in time, this snapshot of the future.
“Anxiety Tower” (2024) by Sari Nordman ~ on Pier 16, close by the Museum’s lightship Ambrose.
This fiber-arts installation discusses the problems of single-use plastics. The tapestries in the installation are made using recycled plastic film, some of them communally-made. The project by Sari Nordman seeks to elevate public awareness of the single-use plastics problem, advocate for people to minimize their use, and consider creative recycling and repurposing solutions.
“Shadows at the Water’s Edge” (2024) by Singha Hon and Denise Zhou ~ along the railings of Pier 16, close to the Museum’s schooner Pioneer
“Shadows at the Water’s Edge” is a collection of windows into what was, and what could be, in the area we know today as the Seaport. Draped along the railings of Pier 16, haunting, speculative storytelling elements stitch together layers of colonial and capitalist violence that have amassed to lay waste to air, water, and land. “Shadows” invites passersby to contend with the necessity of reorienting our relationship to the natural world—severing ourselves from exploitation, ownership, and profit, and inviting collective responsibility, interconnectedness, and repair.
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all ages
