References — Container Artist Residency

References

This page contains a growing list of links to related projects and artists.

Art Handler

A new print and online publication that deals with the social and cultural impacts of behind-the-scenes labor in the art world.

The Arts of Logistics

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.

Darren Almond

Transport Medium (2000) exhibition focused around the movements of a shipping container turned into a digital clock

Keller Easterling

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (2014), a book about the intricacies of political power in our globalizing world

Rose George

Ninety Percent of Everything (2013), a book about the shipping industry and Rose George’s experience of traveling on a container ship

Constance Hockday

 Boggsville Boatel (2011) was a floating hotel and performance space originally part of the Sea Worthy Exhibition curated by Flux Factory in Jamaica Bay Queens. The installation hosted more than 5000 people over three months and utilized 6 boats and a floating platform stage. The Boatel held nightly lectures, movie screenings, and storytelling by nautical enthusiasts, as well as a meeting with the city planners.

Peter Hutton

Peter Hutton was an American filmmaker who spent many years of his youth at sea in the US Merchant Marine. His celebrated films, widely acclaimed for their luminous integrity, blurred the divide between still photography and cinema. (BOMB Magazine)

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been the artist-in-residence for the NYC Department of Sanitation for the past 30+ years. During this time she has orchestrated a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances that took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.

Marc Levinson

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2006), a book about how the intermodal shipping container changed the global economy

Marie Lorenz

The Tide and Current Taxi is a rowboat taxi, made and operated by the artist Marie Lorenz. In July and August of 2016, the Taxi is navigating the Erie Canal from Buffalo to New York City.