On July 8th, Underwater New York hosted an evening of poetry and performance at Observatory, the Brooklyn art space attached to Proteus Gowanus. Visitors were free to peruse the exhibition Transport III with Underwater New York and listened to a reading by the extraordinary poet Alex Dimitrov, a dramatic reading of the outrageous 1886 New York Times article entitled "A Barren Island Mystery: An Amateur Photographer's Peril--Was it an Attempt at Murder? " by actor Mark Emerson Smith, and underwater-y selections from the adjacent Reanimation Library. 

Underwater New York was thrilled to co-curate Brooklyn gallery Proteus Gowanus‘s summer 2010 show, the last installment in their year-long series around the theme of Transport–an exploration of How We Get There in our never-ending journey towards our destinations. Transport III with Underwater New York was on view from June 12th to July 17th, 2010, and featured work ranging from paintings to letterpress prints to artist books to photographs to installations and more, all inspired by objects found in the waterways of NYC. Pictured above are our artworks, artifacts, stories in bottles and more as they were installed.