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In the early evening on Sunday, September 7th, seven hand madeboats, or more precisely, seven floating sculptures by Swoon, willdock in front of Deitch Studios on the East River in Long IslandCity. Their arrival at Deitch Studios will be the final stop on a three-week journey down the HudsonRiver and around the tip of Manhattan. The seven boats, built bySwoon and her friends from scrap wood and other discardedmaterials, begin their sail down the Hudson River on August 15th inTroy, New York, stopping along the way for musical and theatricalperformances. Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea is a two-partexhibition merging Swoons recent portraits, found objects of urbandecay and a floating sculptural city. One part of the exhibition ison the water. The other is in the gallery.

Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea is the result of a year of designand construction and the combined efforts of seventy- fivecollaborators, working under Swoons direction. A crew of fortypeople will sail the seven boats down the Hudson. During the summerof 2006, Swoon and the Miss Rockaway Armada launched a similarproject on the Mississippi River. For this years project, Swoondesigned and supervised the construction of all the boats herselfand will culminate the journey with an ambitious exhibition of herlarge wooden and paper constructions and her large-scaleprints." The boats will remain in Long Island City untilOctober 18th. During that time a number of performances will beheld, and more information can be had at switchbacksea.org .