Swoon's Swimming Cities

09/04/08

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Piers Fawkes

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Piers Fawkes is the founder and CEO of PSFK, leading retail & business intelligence platform, founder of Retail Innovation Week and co-founder of Wallkit. Piers is considered a trends and innovation expert and is called to provide talks around the topics of the reports that he and his team publish every month. He has provided hands-on advice to future-forward brands including Apple, Facebook, Google, Nike, Red Bull, Samsung and Target.

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Contemporary artist Swoon has designed and organized a number of rag-tag looking boats as part of the Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea installation – her second major installation for Deitch projects. Swimming cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven “intricately hand crafted” vessels that have been navigating a stretch of the Hudson River between Troy and the New York harbor this summer.

Collaborators include playwright Lisa D’Amour and Jeff Stark who worked on boat design.

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