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Artists in temporary daily residency inside a pair of modified shipping containers will mint coins, collect rainwater, harvest solar energy, and tend a rooftop garden as part of a public art exhibition featuring two interactive installations at Brookfield Place Plaza (formerly the World Financial Center) .

Commissioned by Arts Brookfield, TRANSported will park two 20-foot shipping containers on the riverfront plaza as part of the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival 2013, which challenges artists to reimagine the urban environment in a future shaped by depleted and destroyed resources. Within the narrow confines of the shipping container – a former symbol of New York City’s once-vibrant manufacturing industry — the two projects offer vastly different but equally playful variations on the theme “Untapped Capital.”

Starting on May 4th at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side as part of IDEAS CITY StreetFest, and then reopening on May 6th at Brookfield Place as part of TRANSported, artist Seth Kinmont will present Tender, a hybrid printing press / coin striker that engages our fluctuating idea of value and how it is generated. Tender will mint a proprietary currency — the value of which not-so-subtly shifts from fixed (each coin or bill costs $1 to purchase) to fluid: it is a souvenir, a piece of art in itself, and a chance to win a work of art that has the potential to generate its own worth.

With TRANSported: Art Pac-Kit, the shipping container will be transformed into two working studios by the artists collective Habitat For Artists. Solar power and rainwater will be collected from the rooftop, which will also be home to a small Square foot garden, while exterior walls will be covered with more plants and a public message board where visitors can leave written suggestions and ideas. Meanwhile, discussions on conservation and sustainability will be held in a central hub connecting the studios.

TRANSported is curated by Amy Lipton of ecoartspace, a nonprofit organization that brings together members of arts, science, and business communities to develop creative and innovative strategies to address global environmental issues.

“The New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival offers a timely examination of the city in flux, and we’re proud to be joining the conversation with a pair of important works that reflect our own site’s history as a vital shipping port,” said Debra Simon, Vice President and Artistic Director of Arts Brookfield. “The two installations comprising TRANSported promise to engage and delight visitors while also raising challenging questions about the city’s ever-changing economy and environment.”

“My title, TRANSported, refers to the area’s shipping history, but also to the way that Tender and Art Pac-Kit will visually transport viewers into alternative realities, inspiring new ways of thinking,” said Lipton. “TRANSported will provide a meeting place for developing new methodologies, new solutions, and new goals for taking advantage of underutilized resources ranging from people and raw materials to ideas and networks.”

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from May 06, 2013 to May 27, 2013

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