September 2010
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The Flock House is a re-envisioning of how communities deal with disaster followed by a steadily encroaching sea. Imagine a community where everything is mobile. Much like many refugee exoduses throughout history, but prospering through their nomadic path. The scenario: Effects of climate change have ravaged the world. Sea levels rise in front of you and deserts encroach behind. Survival is...
August 2010
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Tressie Word's In-process Water and Wastewater...
These diagrams are the first draft for the Flock House water and wastewater systems.
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Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent:...
This is a three-part post, the epilogue of my week in Mary Mattingly’s Flock House.
Part 1: Five Days of Trash
On Monday, I went back to Smack Mellon to help Ian take down the installation, so as not to leave everyone with all my trash. I separated it by type, bagged it, and documented what I’d collected in just approximately a half-hour of collecting each day. Here’s what...
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Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day...
Last day in the Flock House. I was just starting to get used to this routine, too. Oh well. I also realized, as I was cleaning up my last batch of gathered trash, that I kinda blew the opportunity to do an organizing project via Flock House/Smack Mellon. Not sure why I didn’t think of it before but I should have used this weekend to recruit people to join me in collecting the trash from...
July 2010
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Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day...
I got a little carried away with today’s “morning exercise”: Though I probably only spent an hour or so gathering this garbage, I picked up a bunch more stuff than previous days so far. I wish I could keep doing this for a few weeks so that the trash would eventually envelop the Flock House entirely—not that I think that was Mary’s intention but that it pretty well...
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Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day...
As much I can’t stand the prevalence of the trash I gather…it really is overwhelmingly everywhere…I do have to admit to finding aesthetic beauty in the weird mini-landscapes that I discover (and thus ruin) when I set out to forage. Today I decided to document one specific set of these kinds of trashscapes: trash lodged within waterfront rocks.
Today’s trash...
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Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day two
This morning I decided that I’d document the bike route I’ve been taking to get down here, so here it is, according to GoogleMaps:
And here it is, according to me and my amazing rendering skills:
Basically, this is what the trip looks like, as documented by cell phone camera, starting in Crown Heights at the corner of Empire and Washington and wandering on down toward...
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Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day one
Working on lots of little things over this week in Mary’s Flock House. Need to finish up my article about C.U.P. for Proximity Magazine, submit a proposal with Jenna Loyd for our comparative border video installation for the Strong & Chata show in Chicago, shoot the video component for my entry to Jordan Dalton’s Beyond the Multitude tribute to Scajaquada Creek show in Buffalo and...
June 2010
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ecoarttech indeterminate hike #4
Watchtower Hike > This is our fourth and final indeterminate hike inspired by the Flock House. From Smackmellon follow this southwesterly indeterminate hike under the Brooklyn Bridge and over to Hillside Park. There are two lookout points along this trail that are known for providing close encounters with canines, pigeons, starlings, and human “others.” We look forward to your...
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ecoarttech indeterminate hike #3
Dumbo Hardware Hike > From the Flock House take a trip south down under the BQE. This indeterminate hike circles down near Dumbo Hardware. Stop, be very still, and you might encounter some wildness in the everyday at one of the four lookout points along this hike. -ecoarttech
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ecoarttech indeterminate hike #2
Empire / Fulton Ferry Loop Hike > Continuing our series of Flock House inspired indeterminate hikes, this one winds through the park and then down back around Water Street. There are four lookouts along the way— stop at each and consider the wilderness of built environments! -ecoarttech
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Sustainable Co-creation with Lonny Grafman
Lonny Grafman, on his way from teaching Renewable Energy at the University of the Basque Country in Spain to directing a summer, appropriate technology, immersion program in Chiapas, Mexico, was the resident artist in the Flock House on June 23rd and 24th. While there, he hosted free and open sustainability consulting and conversations as part of the exhibit.
Lonny is the President of the...
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ecoarttech's flockhouse residency
Hi ! We are the ecoarttech collaborative and we are continuing to develop our Indeterminate Hikes project during our Flock House Residency. Indeterminate Hikes is a smartphone app and an installation that encourages participants to navigate, question, and document the possibilities of hybrid ecology—that is, of spaces for “nature” or wildness—in a globalized, urban place like NYC. Inspired by...
Condensation of the Social / Flock House
ecoarttech collaboration with Mary Mattingly @ Smackmellon-nyc, 2010 Join ecoarttech at Smackmellon in NYC from June 20th through the 26th as we live and work in Mary Mattingly’s Flock House, which will be exhibited as part of “Condensation of the Social.” Each day from noon to 2pm ecoarttech will organize urban hikes (originating at Flock House), exploring convergent ecologies...
FLOCK HOUSE RESIDENTS
A prototype of the Flock House will be built for “Condensations of the Social,” an exhibition at Smack Mellon curated by Sara Reisman.
Flock House residents include:
June 20 - 26th: Ecoarttech
June 26 - July 3: Ian Daniel
July 3 - July 10: Tressie Word
July 10 - 17: Kim Holleman
July 17 -24: Kadar Brock and Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner
July 24 - August 1: Paul Sargent
FLOCK HOUSE - HIGH LIVING
Flock House is an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline. On June 20, it will be a living prototype, inhabitants will imagine and experience some level of the capsule living in a future dependent on mobile cities (the flock house will have wheels on the bottom) while the elevated habitat will be able to cope with rising sea levels.
Built on a...