NOTE: All times are drop-in hours--reservations are recommended but not required.
Join us for a participatory archival activation that is part of a research and public art project about swimming, flooding, and water relationships called Open Water. Learn about water experiences and practices, urban swimming, and coastal ecology. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories. The participatory archival activation is created for the 2024 Culture Push symposium.
This participatory archival activation created for the 2024 Culture Push symposium is part of a research and public art project about swimming, flooding, and water relationships called Open Water. Learn about water experiences and practices, urban swimming, and coastal ecology. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories.
The Beginning of Swimming Season at the End of the World with Nora Almeida
This archival activation is part of a research and public art project about swimming, flooding, and water relationships called Open Water. Learn about water experiences and practices, urban swimming, and coastal ecology. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories.
June 14th 1pm - 5pm at Interference Archive
June 15th 1pm - 5pm at Interference Archive
June 16th 1pm - 5pm at Gowanus Dredgers
And check out the latest issue of our online journal PUSH/PULL curated by Nora.
This issue was inspired by her work this year at Coney Island Creek and features multimedia art, writing, video, and collage created by collaborators who have worked on Open Water. The theme of the issue is “Leavings” which is a reference to garbage but also to remainders and reminders, found materials, amalgamations, rituals, archives, and traces.
Nora is an urban swimmer, writer, performance artist, educator, and activist based in Brooklyn / Lenapehoking. Her art explores intersections of archiving, environmental investigation, and spatial disruption. Recent public artworks—Last Street End in Gowanus (2021), Land Use Intervention Library (2022), and Open Water (ongoing)—focus on relationships between people and environmentally disturbed, post-industrial waterfront spaces. Nora works at the City University of New York and is a long time volunteer at Interference Archive. She has co-curated several exhibitions at Interference including the summer 2022 show: Our Streets! Our City! Public Space and Self Determination in NYC. Nora has organized propaganda parties, media-making workshops, public events, and street performances across NYC in collaboration with other artists and organizations including: Undocumented Women’s Fund, Women’s Strike NYC, Environmental Performance Agency, Decolonize This Place, ABC No Rio, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, Next Epoch Seed Library, No North BK Fracked Gas Pipeline Coalition, Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Mobile Print Power. Her book, The Social Movement Archive, co-authored with Jen Hoyer, was published in 2021. She lives in Gowanus, Brooklyn.