Upon landing in Odessa, Ukraine, Ferenc visited the 7th Kilometer Market, a market constructed entirely out of shipping containers. The market’s name is derived, not from the size of the market, but…
“Container Artist Residency 01 is what happens when an artist-in-residence program partners with an international cargo ship company.”–Cat DiStasio in inhabitat
Daniel Scheffler in Wallpaper on Container Artist Residency 01
Ferenc Gróf departed from the port of Haifa, Israel on March 30, 2016. Below are a series of photos of his departure courtesy of ZIM.
BBC’s Cultural Frontline with Tina Daheley and Maayan Strauss.
Mari Bastashevski departed from Odessa, Ukraine on March 25, 2016 en route to her first stop, the port of Istanbul, Turkey. She will travel to Haifa, Israel; Nhava Sheva, India; Port Klang, Malaysia; Da Chan Bay, China;…
“One of the most unusual, and intrepid, artist residency programs will launch this spring: on board a series of commercial cargo ships.”–Gareth Harris in The Art Newspaper
Michael Epstein on Container Artist Residency 01
Antwaun Sargent covers the Container Artist Residents in Vice Magazine’s Creators Project
Laura McLean-Ferris interviews Container Artist Residency 01 Curator, Prem Krishnamurthy.
Ninety Percent of Everything (2013), a book about the shipping industry and Rose George’s experience of traveling on a container ship
Wet Land (2015) is a mobile, sculptural habitat and public space constructed to explore resource interdependency and climate change in urban centers.
The Arts of Logistics conference brings together scholars, activists, and artists from across the humanities and social sciences to interrogate how social movements and the arts respond to a world remade by logistics.