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Untitled (Nets)
2025

Sculpture series of 3
72" x 84"
Tarred fishing nets, permitting forms
 


The layers of regulation that have been constructed to support, maintain, and oversee industrial, commercial, and military use of the waterways have severed public understanding of and access to them.In seeking public access to the NYC waterways, I have encountered numerous permits, each of which required meetings with experts to decipher them. Cutting away parts of fishing seines corresponds to different information entry fields on waterways permit applications, rendering the nets as unusable as the waterways.

Shown here are exhibition views of two of the three in the series. Left: (Application for permit for) FLOATING OBJECTS OTHER THAN AIDS TO NAVIGATION; Right, SHORT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM

Installation view at the 3rd Works on Water Triennial, fall 2025, LMCC Arts Center, Governors Island





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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.