ICA Art on the Harbor Islands Brochure

ART ON THE HARBOR ISLANDS ERNESTO PUJOL TERI RUEB ANNA SCHULEIT OFFICE DA JUNE 23 – OCTOBER 8, 2007

NEW PROJECTS RESPOND TO THE RICH TERRAIN OF THE BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK AREA Art on the Harbor Islands is a multi-sensory discovery of the Boston Harbor Islands’ remarkable resources—water and sky, sand and city, historic sites and new trails, all just a ferry ride from the heart of Boston. This national park area, home to beaches, marinas, walking trails, picnic sites, and wildlife, provides inspiration for four new contemporary art projects. Leading artists and architects who examine our relationship to the spaces around us—whether abandoned buildings, progressive design, or the natural world—present work that goes below the surface and into the past, exploring the built environment, the natural landscape, and our connection to it all.

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The Water Cycle Spectacle, Georges, Lovells, Little Brewster Islands, and Boston HarborWalk Join Ernesto Pujol as he makes a series of symbolic journeys evoking the sea’s power and the essential importance of water.

Portraying the Water Carrier, a silent, contemplative character, Pujol will begin and end these walks on the ICA’s Putnam Investments Plaza. Traveling to several of the Boston Harbor Islands and along the HarborWalk, the Water Carrier will fill hand-blown glass vessels with water from each destination and return them to the ICA, where they become part of a sculptural work.

The public is invited to join all or part of these walks. Call 617-478-3160 for schedule updates and information about cancellations due to inclement weather.

Please see Visiting the Boston Harbor Islands

Saturday, June 23 (rain date: Sunday, June 24) Depart from the ICA

9:30 AM

Board the ferry at Long Wharf

10:30 AM

Board the return ferry to Long Wharf

12:45 PM

Arrive at the ICA

Approx. at 2:15 PM

GEORGES ISLAND

Saturday, July 28 (rain date: Sunday, July 29) Depart from the ICA

9:30 AM

Board the ferry at Long Wharf

10:30 AM

Board the return ferry to Long Wharf

1:30 PM

Arrive at the ICA

Approx. at 2:30 PM

LOVELLS ISLAND (BY WAY OF SPECTACLE ISLAND)

Saturday, August 25 (rain date: Sunday, August 26) Depart from the ICA

9:30 AM

Board the ferry to Spectacle at Long Wharf

10:45 AM

Board the inter-island boat to Lovells

10:45 AM

Return to Spectacle on the inter-island boat

12:15 PM

Board the return ferry to Long Wharf

12:45 PM

Arrive at the ICA

Approx. at 2:15 PM

LITTLE BREWSTER / BOSTON LIGHT

Saturday, September 22 (rain date: Sunday, September 23) Tour the island of Little Brewster and Boston Light, the oldest light station in the country. Dr. Sally Snowman, keeper of Boston Light, will greet visitors and invite the Water Carrier to take tea. Enjoy a boxed lunch, explore the grounds, and learn more about the station and the light tower, which was rebuilt in 1783 after being destroyed during the Revolutionary War. The trip departs from the dock at Fan Pier at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse at 10:00 AM, and returns to the dock at 1:00 PM. Reservations are required. Visit BostonIslands.com or call 617-2238666. Tickets: $28 adults, $25 seniors, $17 children ages 3 –11, children under 3 free. Boxed lunches are available for $12; they must be ordered 48 hours in advance.

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Core Sample Spectacle Island and the ICA Spectacle has been home to casinos and hotels, a horse rendering plant, city dumping, and to families who lived and worked on the island. Now active parkland, Spectacle’s two prominent man-made drumlins were shaped with excavated material from Boston’s “Big Dig” and planted with 28,000 trees, shrubs, and grasses.

Teri Rueb’s Core Sample is an interactive sound walk inspired

by Spectacle’s complex history and recent reclamation.

Borrow headphones from the island’s Visitor Center and then roam the island to experience a landscape of sounds activated by GPS (please see map). Discover unique combinations of natural and processed sounds – including voices of the island’s former residents – that correspond to Spectacle’s many subterranean layers, as well as its present soundscape.

Core Sample includes an interactive sound sculpture in the ICA’s Founders Gallery— opening onto a panoramic view of Boston Harbor— that offers another way to experience this audio piece.

atmosphere

plantings top soil / loam central artery fill modern landfill settlement & industry 17th - 21st c. native american landfill 500 - 1580 sea level geologic core The island’s path system follows elevation contours that are loosely mapped to the vertical layers of a metaphoric core sample.

Sounds correspond to the island’s layered history from recent reclamation to industrial, archaeological and geological pasts. Layers blur to suggest the permeable boundaries of past, present, and future. seawall / dike visitor center

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ANNA SCHULEIT Waterside Lovells Island

With Waterside, Schuleit takes us inside her artistic process.

Having spent extensive time on Lovells Island—she lived in a yurt there last summer—Schuleit is fascinated by its peculiar mix of crumbling military ruins and rugged, natural beauty.

Housed in a yurt similar to Schuleit’s temporary island home, Waterside is a display of models, drawings, and artist’s books that imagines two ambitious site-specific projects.

Intertidal would place 10-foot-high, mirrored surfaces in the island’s intertidal zones, reflecting sea, sky, bathers, and the decaying artillery structures, symbolically reversing their purpose.

Please note that Waterside closes on Labor Day, Monday, September 3.

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Sightlines, a series of four large-scale drawings of island bathers etched on a rare grade of glass, would be situated on Fort Standish’s gun emplacements, reflecting and refracting the changing light.

OFFICE DA Voromuro Georges Island

Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani of the progressive architectural team Office dA explore the rich interplay between Georges Island’s natural topography and the extensive stone masonry of Fort Warren, active during the American Civil War.

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Voromuro is an intricate structure designed for the interior of the fort’s Powder Magazine, constructed with hundreds of interlocking translucent boulders.

VISITING THE BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS Ferries to Spectacle and Georges Islands depart hourly on weekdays and on the half-hour on weekends from Long Wharf by Christopher Columbus Park. Lovells is reached via an inter-island shuttle that departs from Georges.

Ferries are operated by Harbor Islands Express. One fee covers round trip and all inter-island transportation. Visit BostonIslands.com for a schedule.

Thurs–Sun

Mon–Wed

$12

$10

Senior

$9

$7

Child (3 – 11)

$7

$7

Child (under 3)

Free

Free

Family 4-Pack (2 adults and 2 children)

$32

$28

Adult

Bring food, plenty of water, sunscreen, and bug spray.

Concessions and restrooms are available on Georges and Spectacle Islands. Visitors are asked to carry trash off of all islands.

For more information, visit BostonIslands.com or call 617-223-8666.

Guided Tours To learn about Ranger-led tours of the Boston Harbor Islands contact BostonIslands.com.

Poss Family Mediatheque The ICA’s Poss Family Mediatheque provides a dramatic, horizonless view of Boston Harbor and 18 computer stations where you can learn more about Art on the Harbor Islands and other ICA exhibitions and programs.

RELATED TEEN PROGRAMS Summer Video Camp: The ICA and the Boston Harbor Islands Monday through Friday, August 6 –17 (2 weeks) 10 am – 5 pm For more information or an application, e-mail Joe Douillette at jdouillette@icaboston.org.

Artist Encounter for Teens: Art on the Harbor Islands With Ernesto Pujol Saturday, June 23 and Tuesday, July 10 Open to teens interested in performance. For more information or to register, e-mail Rosanna Flouty at rflouty@icaboston.org.

PLAY DATES Come to the ICA on the last Saturday of the month for family-friendly films, performances, and activities. These programs are suitable for children 5 – 12 years accompanied by an adult.

June 30

Lights, Camera, Action

July 28

Harbor Islands Adventure

August 25

Inside Out and Upside Down

Admission is free for up to 2 adults accompanied by a child 12 years and under. For more information, visit our web site or e-mail families@icaboston.org.

CREDITS Art on the Harbor Islands is supported in part by the Nimoy Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Ernesto Pujol’s project is supported in part by Urban Glass through a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The ICA’s public programs are supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The John Hancock Teen Education Program is made possible by significant support from John Hancock Financial Services.

Additional support is provided by the The Clowes Fund, The Fuller Foundation, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation, the William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust, the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and The Wallace Foundation.

ICA Family Programs and Play Dates are made possible by support from The Fuller Foundation and the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Official Hotel Sponsor The ICA is grateful to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership for invaluable support and assistance, with special thanks to Island Alliance, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the City of Boston.

National Park Service U.S. Coast Guard Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Massachusetts Port Authority City of Boston Boston Redevelopment Authority Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center The Trustees of Reservations Island Alliance Boston Harbor Island Advisory Council

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