by Helen Anne Travis In 2009, Brooklyn street artist, Swoon and two dozen or so friends crashed the Venice Biennale contemporary art show in hulking rafts made from New York City garbage. Called the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, the boats looked like something out of the 1990s post-apocalyptic movies Tank Girl and Waterworld sprinkled with a bit of swamp water. (Swoon said some of the inspiration came from her childhood in Florida.) The project was built upon Swoon's previous work exploring th...
by Helen Anne Travis In 2009, Brooklyn street artist, Swoon and two dozen or so friends crashed the Venice Biennale contemporary art show in hulking rafts made from New York City garbage. Called the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, the boats looked like something out of the 1990s post-apocalyptic movies Tank Girl and Waterworld sprinkled with a bit of swamp water. (Swoon said some of the inspiration came from her childhood in Florida.) The project was built upon Swoon's previous work exploring th...
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