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Past LMCC Artist-in Residence Mary Mattingly Presents The Waterpod
2007-8 Artist-in-Residence, Mary Mattingly, is currently docked on the north side of the South Street Seaport with her project, The Waterpod, a sustainable demonstration vessel and art installation, through June 21. She will be docked at Governors Island in July.
"With this project, we hope to encourage innovation as we visualize the future fifty to one hundred years from now." -Mary Mattingly
The Waterpod demonstrates future pathways for nomadic, mobile shelters and water-based communities, docked and roaming. It embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. It intends to prepare, inform, and provide an alternative to current and future living spaces. As a malleable and autonomous space, the Waterpod is built on a model comprised of multiple collaborations. The Waterpod functions as a singular unit with the possibility to expand into ever-evolving water communities; an archipelagos that has the ability to mutate with the tides.
