Encounter At Farpoint
2022

Participatory Performance, Silkscreen



This ongoing participatory artwork invited the public to imagine future relationships to flooding and water. Participants engaged in a process to imagine new modes of co-habitating with water in New York City, and inscribed their ideas onto to blank front pages of the New York Times as future headlines, feature images and/or image captions. This performance was invited by The Old Stone House in Brooklyn, a historic Brooklyn site and epicenter of recurring flooding in the Gowanus neighborhood. It was also Invited by organizers of the Sandy+10 conference at Columbia in fall 2022, marking and reflecting on Superstorm Sandy and its impacts at policy, community, and individual levels.


NYC imports 20 tons seawater purified  corn from Argentina
DOLPHINS PROTEST CONGESTION CHARGES ON STREAMLINE B
YOU’VE HEARD OF SKYSCRAPERS—TRY A SEASCRAPER 
As high-rises become increasingly expensive, low-rises come back in fashion: low-rise undersea buildings.
OFFSHORE WIND SPURS AQUACULTURE SURGE
THE GRAND OPENING OF THE WORLDS 1ST UNDERWATER STAIRCASE
10,000 BOOKS DRY & CRISP ON WATERTOP LIBRARY

Above: Old Stone House participants display their collaboration, “Seascrapers”, photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
Above: an idea in process, Old Stone House, Brookly. photo by Walter Wlodarczyk

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Nancy Nowacek artist is a research-based artist, designer, and educator working in visual art, public art, social practice, and socially-engaged contexts.