What time should people show up in Long Island City to see the arrival?
They’re going to come around 7 p.m. on September 7th at the 44th Drive dock. And that’s also where your solo show is going to be? Yes, this is all part of one project. For example, I’ve been talking for two years with the playwright Lisa D’Amour and together we developed this play, which happens in front of the boats. She wrote it; that wasn’t collaborative but I spoke with her about content and different things. We developed this narrative whereby the boats are coming from Troy and these vessels, which are kind of in a state of drift, are heading toward this mythical docking place, which is the exhibit. It’s all one big project. The boats will be exhibited at the gallery? Yes, the gallery is in Long Island City Queens and it faces the dock. The boats are going to arrive and be kept there. Do you recall the first piece you put up in New York and where it was? Yes, I do. It was down in Chinatown and I did such a terrible job. I didn’t know how to wheat paste, it was a mess. It only last
