Flushing River Canoe Tour in Conjunction with Ludlow 38

Flushing River Canoe Tour
Saturday May 15th | 11:00 am- 2:30 pm (RSVP by May 13th)
Flushing River (meet at Shea Stadium stop on 7 subway line)



http://www.ludlow38.org/index.php?%2Fupcoming%2Fflushing-river-canoe-trip%2F


In conjunction with Lara Almarcegui’s project Guide to the Wastelands of Flushing River on view at Ludlow 38 until May 16, 2010, Ludlow 38 European Kunsthalle Cologne Goethe-Institut New York together with with the Urban Landscape Lab and Long Island City Community Boathouse invited the public on a canoe trip up the Flushing River to explore Almarcegui’s wasteland sites and the area along the river.

The event, that was free and open to all, and took place on Saturday May 15, 2010. About 50 participants met at 11 am at the Willets Pt. – Shea Stadium Subway stop (Subway line 7). We walked to the Boat Launch that was located to the far east end of the Flushing Marina Bay Promenade.



Our itenerary was:

11.00 am: Meeting at Pt-Shea Stadium Subway
11.15 am: Walking to the boat launch
12.00 pm: Instructions
1.00: Canoe trip starts, guiding to wasteland areas along the Flushing River.

2.30 Canoe trip ends



For questions call Helga Christoffersen at 646 595 6507



About Lara Almarcegui’s Guide to the Wastelands of Flushing River:

The publication Guide to the Wastelands of Flushing River contains photographs from 12 sites in Queens accompanied by concise descriptions that outline the locations’ history, present state and future. Visitors are invited to pick up a copy and explore these sites at their own leisure. A slide installation at the Ludlow 38 gallery on the Lower East Side presents a selection of photographs taken during Almarcegui’s excursions along Flushing River, from its original source via Willow Lake and Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the site for the 1939 and the 1964 World’s Fairs, to its estuary at Flushing Bay.

Lara Almarcegui was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1972 and lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has exhibited widely, at the Liverpool Biennial in 2004, the S„o Paulo Biennial in 2006, the Gwangju and Taipei Biennials in 2008, and the Ramallah and Athens Biennials in 2009, to name a few. Recent solo exhibitions include Ruins in the Netherlands at Ellen de Bruijne Gallery, Amsterdam and Pepe Cobo, Madrid, as well as Bilbao Wastelands at Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, all in 2008.



Thank you:
This event was realized as a cooperation between Ludlow 38, Urban Landscape Lab Columbia University and Long Island City Community Boat House.



Ludlow 38 would like to thank the following parties for making this event possible:
MINI, Friends of Goethe, Janette Kim, Erik Baard, Ted Gruber, Larissa Harris, Laura Segal, Paul Baker, Robert DiMaio, Monica Schroeder, Long Island City Community Boat House and Urban Landscape Lab Columbia University



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May 25, 2010
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