Mary
Mattingly
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MARY MATTINGLY is an artist/ environmentalist
based in New York. Mattingly created the original conecpt for the Waterpod. In 2007, she exhibited “Fore
Cast”, a multimedia opera at White Box in Manhattan,
"Frontier" with Galerie Adler in Germany, and "Time
Has Fallen Asleep" at the NYPL. In 2006 her work headlined
“Ecotopia”, the triennial at the International Center
of Photography. She exhibits her artwork at Robert
Mann Gallery in New York, and is involved in many communities
focusing on art and sustainability of culture and the environment.
She has co-curated several water-based exhibitions, alongside
the Miami Basel art fair, the Venice Biennale and the Instanbul
Biennale.
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Mira
Hunter
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MIRA HUNTER is a visual and
performance artist/ environmentalist based somewhere between
Vancouver, Canada and Istanbul, Turkey. A second -generation
sufi
mevlevi semazen or whirling dervish, she
started her formal training under her father when she was 16.
He gave it to her as a gift. For the past 10 years she has collaborated
with producer/ musician/ DJ Mercan
Dede, performing at diverse events across the globe, from
Manhattan to Tokyo. Mira continues to challenge the fundamental
forms of whirling by incorporating innovative movements and
concepts, coaxing the 13th century practice into a contemporary
context. As a visual artist, she studied at NSCAD and Yale,
graduating with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2001.
She works out of studios in Vancouver and Istanbul.
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Cory
Mervis
CORY MERVIS is an artist and the Executive
Producer of the Waterpod. She has worked on large-scale projects
like “Voter
Drive,” where she transformed a bus into mobile art
(a bald eagle with the word "vote" painted across
its body), and drove across America registering voters and administering
political questionnaires, launching the journey from New York
City and driving through 30 states, the route spelling out "vote"
across the U.S. map. In 2007, she produced a life-sized re-creation
of Astor Place, New York, in the middle of Black Rock Desert
as part of a festival.
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Eve
K. Tremblay
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EVE K. TREMBLAY is an artist working between
Berlin, New York and Montreal. She is an artist, creative advisor,
and co-curator of the Waterpod. Eve is also an advisory member
of the administrative counsil of Occurence
in Montreal for the Waterpod. Her works have been exhibited
and published internationally. She has upcoming projects with
the Musée National Des Beaux-arts Du Québec in
Quebec city, Abbaye Saint-André Centre D’art Contemporain,
Meymac, France, as well as Program in Berlin. Her work is represented
by Galerie Donald Browne in Montreal, and BUIA
Gallery in New York where she recently presented in a solo
show her ongoing project Becoming Fanhenreit 451.
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