Barging In To The Venice Biennale, On Garbage
Rather entertaining story from NY Magazine on some Brooklyn artists who built rafts out of New York city garbage in hopes of floating into this years Biennale di Venezia contemporary art exhibition.
The Brooklyn artist Swoon and her merry band of anarchists from deepest Bushwick are invading the Venice Biennale this week—on boats built from garbage. New York City garbage. …
Swoon and her group are emissaries from a specific underground culture: the bike-riding, Dumpster-diving, anarchist street-art movement that has flourished in Bushwick, Greenpoint, and areas near the Gowanus Canal over the past decade.
Full article here. More images after the jump.
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6.19.2009
There is no way those things passed coast guard inspections…