This year sees the second journey of the floating ‘Swimming Cities’ art project from artists Swoon. The junk boats designed by the artist have been built in Turkey and are on their way across the Mediterranean docking and partying at every port. The website describes the project:
The Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of handmade boats and a crew of artists traveling the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice this May and June, 2009. We made art boats from junk and will be performing the dreamy story of a drifting metropolis during the Venice Biennale, a celebrated contemporary art [...]

The Deitch Gallery is holding an exhibition on the work of SWOON, a 27-year-old NYC based female street artist. SWOON’s worlds are often populated by realistically rendered – and evocatively cut-out – street people, often her friends and family.
Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from german expressionist wood block prints to indonesian shadow puppets, SWOON is a “master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.”
July 7 – August 13, 2005
Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand Street New York
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