Mary Mattingly "The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House"

Governors Island

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Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Mary Mattingly’s The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House creates an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline.

The exhibition, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, examines the urgency and cyclicality of urban development and proposes building for a time when migration and adaptable forms of habitation are a necessary and standard part of city life. This exhibition poses the question: What will our built environment look like when we live in a city where boundaries are flexible.

The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House probes into a social sculpture - an autonomous Micronation that will traverse New York City on a choreographed journey. Beginning by constructing the tools to make the materials, Flock House is created from abandoned vehicles dredged up from the New York waterways that have been formed into a recycled building material. It proposes experiments in compact, migratory living: interdependent, collaborative journeys.

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Schedule

from July 15, 2011 to August 14, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-07-16 from 15:00 to 17:00

Artist(s)

Mary Mattingly

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