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“The opportunity to work within the global industrial supply chain provided us with the best studio we could imagine. We spent our days reading on the bridge, filming from the deck, and…
Container Artist Residency ranks among some of the most unusual artist residencies.
“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
BBC’s Cultural Frontline with Tina Daheley and Maayan Strauss.
“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
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)
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.
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