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Waterpod™ is fiscally sponsored by Action Arts League, a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization.
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Our 2009 WATERPOD™ PRESS RELEASE is available to download as a PDF >>
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Waterpod™ is a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides. It will depart in the summer of 2009, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, docking at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River before continuing onward. The Waterpod™ demonstrates future pathways for water -based innovations. As a sustainable, navigable living space, the Waterpod™ showcases the critical importance of the environment and art, serving as a model for new living, d.i.y. technologies, art, and dialogue. It illustrates positive interactions between communities: public and private; artistic and social; aquatic and terrestrial while exploring the cultural richness of New York's five boroughs and beyond. The Waterpod™ embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. With this project, we hope to encourage growth and progress as we visualize the future. Through its dilatory, watery peregrinations, the Waterpod intends to prepare, inform, inspire, provoke, and fortify humanity for tomorrow's exterior explorations.
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JUNE 2009 Resident artist Eve K. Tremblay has posted photographs she took during the construction of Waterpod™ at the GMD Shipyards in the Brooklyn Navy Yard: The Formation, Evolution, Anatomy and Behaviors of the Water Pod (a photographic diary) >>
- Photograph by Eve K. Tremblay.
WATERPOD™ and CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS CENTER
The four primary Waterpod™ resident artists (Mary, Mira, Eve and Alison) are being outiftted by Jane Van Cleef of Climate Change Preparedness Center. CCPC has been outfitting Americans for a more aquatic future since October 2005. Their mission began in Cambridge, Massachusetts where the team combined their passions for wet weather gear, future topographics and factory enterprise into an innovative small business. CCPC will purvey visionary and functional handmade merchandise designed for the resident artists as they embark on their experimental summer adventure, including a skirt that can transform into a tent and a sailor cap that can charge batteries with solar power >>
WATERPOD™ IN THE NEWS: The NY TIMES and TIME OUT NY
As the crew works to complete our new watery home, two articles are printed Thursday June 4th about Waterpod™ and our final weeks of construction.
-Photo by Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times.
JUNE 2009: WATERPOD™ EVENTS SCHEDULE POSTED
We are still working on our launch date in coordination with the Mayor's office, but we have created a calendar of events which will be updated shortly with our full exhibition, lecture and conference schedule.
CURRENT BARGE RENDERINGS >>
 
-Architectural renderings produced by our lead designer Gabe Krause. Clockwise from top: Waterpod™ top angle view, Waterpod™ side view, artist residence building, green house dome.
WATERPOD™ LECTURE SERIES >>
Waterpod™ is pleased to announce it's first free public lecture event at the South Street Seaport Pier on June 12, 2009, at 8 PM. **OUR LECTURE WITH PETER EISENSTADT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE**
MAY 2009: UPDATED DOCKING SCHEDULE>>
We don't have all the details worked out yet, but here are some of our docking dates and locations so far.
WOOLOO HAS CHOSEN WATERPOD™
Wooloo.org has chosen Waterpod™ to act as an international sister exhibition to NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN. Wooloo.org is an artist-run organization based in Berlin, Germany, which is presenting NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN this year, a contemporary environmental art festival powered by the collective thinking of the Wooloo.org community's worldwide users >>
TALE OF A BARGE: MAY 2009
The Waterpod™ team has encountered many unexpected challenges during the progression of the project. Our first barge, a donated massive aging deck barge named 'Uncle Leo', didn't survive the long New York winter and ended up being sold for scrap metal. We considered a 1983 Hopper Barge, but given the delays were not able to invest the added labour and resources it would have required to create a level deck. Luckily for Waterpod™, we were saved by Weeks Marine. This isn't the first rescue for Weeks Marine, they are the company responsible for lifting the US Airways flight 1549 airplane from the Hudson River in January. Our current acquisition is a solid though smaller, 98' x 31' tanker barge, which was once employed for the transport of petroleum. The barge has been restored in preparation for its next incarnation as the foundation for our installation. This of course required Mary Mattingly, Derek Hunter and Gabe Krause to focus on reorganizing our design plans to accommodate the new barge dimensions. We are currently building Waterpod™ at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a devoted team of gifted volunteers lead by Derek Hunter.
- Picture by Derek Hunter of the ongoing build-out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
JOIN WATERPOD™ FOR OUR FUNDRAISING LAUNCH PARTY
Wednesday May 20 2009 at 5 Ninth (between W 13th Street and Little West 12th Street), New York, NY 10014. You are invited to be a part of an effort to affect the public attitude towards the environment and to actively educate people through art and science. Tickets available at $150, $500, $1000 and higher depending on sponsorship level. DOWNLOAD INVITE AND EVENT INFORMATION AS A PDF>>
RSVP or FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WATERPOD™ SPONSORSHIP by contacting marymattingly@thewaterpod.org >>
ART FORUM AND WATERPOD™
500 words on Waterpod™ and Mary Mattingly featured in Art Forum's online edition >>
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