For the Love of Water: Creating Art and Community Off NYC's Shores
World Maker Faire New York 2018
September 22nd-23rd
NYC boasts nearly 600 miles of coastline, and its waterways offer endless creative possibilities. This panel will illuminate some of the art being made and community being fostered beyond the shores of the city, from renegade boat parties to underwater video works to waterfront art collectives.
Oriana Leckert
Oriana is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and cultural hipstorian [sic]. She is the author of Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture & Creativity (Monacelli, 2015) and creatrix of the website of the same name. Her writing has appeared on Slate, Atlas Obscura, New York Post, Matador, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Curbed, and more. Follow her at @orianabklyn.
http://oriana-leckert.com/
Dylan Gauthier
Dylan Gauthier is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator whose research-based and collaborative practice centers on experiences of urban ecology, architecture, landscape, and social change. He is a founder of the boat-building and publishing collective Mare Liberum and co-organizer of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency at NYC's largest former landfill.
Orien McNeill
Orien McNeill is an industrial designer, multimedia artist, and the founder of the Battle for Mau Mau Island, an annual floating art festival and DIY boat battle. He was also a members of the Swimming Cities Collective, a long-running collective art project that involved building boats out of found materials and sailing all over the world, including the Ganges, the Adriatic Sea, and the Hudson Riv
Carolina Salguero
Carolina Salguero, an award-winning documentary photographer, is the founder of the maritime nonprofit PortSide NewYork, which connects New Yorkers to their waterfront and works to change NYC policy so that maritime activity is central to waterfront revitalization. PortSide programming includes culture, education, recovery and resiliency work, and the e-museum Red Hook WaterStories.
http://portsidenewyork.org/
Olivia Fu
Olivia Fu is the Vice President & National Retail Project Portfolio Manager for MUFG Union Bank. During the summer, she is the Senior Supervisor in charge of Festival Logistics for the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in NY. She has been associated with the festival for 19 years, first as a summer intern and, after graduating from New York University, has been a volunteer organizer ever since.
