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The Canary Project + XØ Projects Inc invite you to

an Exhibition/Performance and Closing Reception for Eve Mosher's

HIGH WATER LINE

a public artwork around 70 miles of the New York City waterfront which brought a visual and local understanding of the effects of climate change by marking the future battle line for flooding in New York City with blue chalk and illuminated beacons.  HighWaterLine.org

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER 2007 6:00-8:00 PM

The evening's events include: An exhibition of the project's maps, drawings, images and tools; An installation of Eve Mosher's light sculptures Beacon; Tracing the HighWaterLine along the Gowanus Canal; A screening of a preliminary rough-cut of a documentary film by Cicala Filmworks;  Q&A with the artist and filmmakers hosted by CUP: Center for Urban Pedagogy.

6:00   Reception, sponsored by Ommegang Beer

6:30   Tracing the HighWaterLine

7:00   Film screening and Q&A

THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY

232 Third Street at Third Avenue Gowanus Brooklyn   < LOCATION + DIRECTIONS >

  to Carroll St-Smith St      to Fourth Ave-Ninth St

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THE HIGH WATER LINE  |  HighWaterLine.org

Armed with bags of blue chalk, a field marker and a set of illuminated beacons, Eve S. Mosher traced the 10 feet above sea level line around 70 miles of urban New York. This line marks the battle line for flooding in New York. Our rapidly changing climate will bring stronger and more frequent storms and increase flooding in New York communities, according to leading scientists studying this issue. 

Until recently, floods were projected to occur up to the line Mosher drew about once every hundred years. However, rising sea levels and increased storm intensity due to climate change could alter this landscape dramatically. According to a report that Mayor Bloomberg’s office released last April detailing the future of the city, flooding up to about the ten foot line “could increase to once every 43 years by the 2020s and up to once in 19 years by 2050s.” But even these estimates tell just part of the story.  Some scientists fear that by the end of the century flooding could occur up to this line every five to 10 years, effectively making these areas habitable only at a great cost. If the Greenland ice sheet melts, as many fear, the outcome could be catastrophic.

Mosher has chosen chalk to mark the line in order to make the point that nothing is written in stone. She wants to engage New Yorkers about what they can do to ensure that the worst case scenario predicted by scientists never becomes a reality. Where the line passes through New York City parks, she will install a series of beacons illuminated by low energy light emitting diodes.

Appropriately, this phase of the project will be completed on the edge of the frequent flood zone. The Old American Can Factory is approximately 100' away from the HighWaterLine around the Gowanus Canal.

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EVE MOSHER  |  www.mudandsticks.com

Eve S. Mosher has been engaged in creating artistic environments for over 15 years. Her practice explores the intersection between humans and their environmentt, including through sculptural installations, drawings and public artworks that. Her public artworks seek to engage communities in better understanding their relationships with one another and their surroundings. Through curiosity and surprise Ishe  creates works that inspire consideration and sometimes direct action.

THE CANARY PROJECT  |  www.canary-project.org

The Canary Project is a Brooklyn-based organization that uses art to build public understanding of climate change and energize commitment to solutions. The Canary Project was pleased to provide logistical, financial, documentary and press-relation support to the HighWaterLine, as well as organizing scientific advisors for the project.  In addition to its work with Mosher on the HighWaterLine, The Canary Project produced Susannah Sayler’s The Landscape of Climate Change, a body of photographs that show landscapes affected by climate change, as well as landscapes where conservation efforts are taking place. Sayler’s photographs for The Canary Project are being widely exhibited in both art and science museums, as well as in public spaces such as the sides of buses in the media. Other projects produced or supported by The Canary Project include:  Fritz Haeg’s Edible Estates, Increase Your Alebdo! and collaborations with Jon Santos.

CUP: CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY  |  www.anothercupdevelopment.org

CUP makes educational projects about places and how they change. CUP brings together art and design professionals with community-based advocates and researchers, government officials, academics, service-providers and policymakers to create collaborative projects that explore the urban environment. Projects range from high school curricula to educational exhibitions in galleries, museums, and other settings to create spaces for dialogue and insight, using the formal innovations and techniques of art and design to make complex subject matter accessible.

XØ PROJECTS INC  |  www.xoprojects.com

XØ Projects Inc (XØ:p) is a company professionally engaged in the planning, design, development and management of property, structures and experiences for people which are mindful, practical, sustainable and profitable in all their aspects. XØ:p developed and operates The (OA) Can Factory, an historic, industrial complex of six buildings totaling 130,000 sf at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, as a haven to a curated community of more than 200 people working in a broad range of art and design disciplines.

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