Enter behind the curtain and we’re at sea, alongside 19 men and 4000 containers full of (electronic, car, animal) parts, heading to Nigeria. One contains frozen tilapia fish now crossing the sea…
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen departed from the port of Hong Kong on April 9, 2016, after being delayed for a day due to smog in the Hong Kong Harbor.
Sea Worthy (2011) was an exhibition and series of public screenings, performances, lectures, workshops and artist-led excursions on the water organized by the Flux Factory, EFA Project Space, and The Gowanus Studio Space. The project invited discussion about water access and engaged maritime themes in contemporary art – in consultation with boat builders, world-class mariners, historians, writers, activists, and ecologists.
Ninety Percent of Everything (2013), a book about the shipping industry and Rose George’s experience of traveling on a container ship
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