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Visual Art | Supported by Manhattan Community Arts Fund
Amanda Levi — Harvest Dome
- Location
- Inwood Hill Park Inlet (Right off the northern end of 218 st and Indian Road)
- Dates & Times
- Sunday, October 23, 2011, 3–5PM
For the Harvest Dome, Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi have gathered discarded storm-snapped umbrellas, littered seasonally throughout Manhattan, and assembled them into a giant twenty-four foot diameter, light-gauge spherical dome, to float on the waters of the Inwood Hill Park inlet, as a physical revelation of the city’s accumulated waterborne debris. The inlet, a remnant of Spuyten Duyvil Creek’s marshland, reconfigured and dredged in 1895 to create the Harlem River Ship Canal, holds brackish water and is home to saltwater cordgrass, a species particularly adept at trapping flotsam and converting it into the nutrient-rich mud called detritus, which supports abundant life on the marsh. Harvest Dome reveals and transfigures the workings of this ecosystem at Manhattan’s northern tip, once prevalent on the island, and calls attention to the particularities of its tides—which reveal the mud flats twice daily—through hands-on engagement with the water and the real-time harvesting of the city’s manufactured debris into a large-scale curiosity of urban nature. Harvest Dome is being constructed in collaboration with youth from Inwood Community Services. It will remain on view through November 13.
In case of Heavy Rain, event will take place on October 30, 2011 at the same time listed above
This event is free and open to the public.
