The Crossing
2012

Single Channel Video

6:12



The Crossing is a modern performance of Walt Whitman’s account of farmers walking their cows from Brooklyn to Governors Island across Buttermilk Channel across a sandbar at low tide.




PROJECT CREDITS

Cow: Ben Weber
Camera: JR Sheetz


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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.