Triennial 2020
The WoW 2020 Triennial is not a static exhibition, but a dynamic invitation to New Yorkers to experience and reimagine the edge of our city through site-specific, participatory, time-based and embodied installations, events, conversations, excursions and more.
The WoW Triennial will take place in and around the bodies of water that surround all five boroughs of New York City from May through October, with programming focused around the first weekend of each month.
Works on Water’s inaugural Triennial in 2017 challenged artists to translate site-specific works into an exhibition space. We flip this in 2020, curating a series of city-wide field works. Working with the Department of City Planning, the Trust for Governors Island, Culture Push, Underwater New York, and Arts Brookfield, featured works include:
•Walking the Edge, a participatory nonstop relay walk of all 520 miles of New York City’s coastline and related public programs (May 1-17);
•Screening of international video “works on water”at EFA Project Space
•36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, the culminating event in a seven year, six continent series at Socrates Sculpture Park (September 5);
•Monthly excursions on the water with the North Brooklyn Boat Club;
•Ongoing conversations and think-tanks around Water Art with all our partners.
Participating artists include:
Carolyn Hall, Clarinda Mac Low, Eve Mosher, Paloma McGregor, Simone Johnson, Art Jones, sTo Len, Stacy Levy, Paloma McGregor, Mary Miss, Nancy Nowacek, Nicki Pombier, Subversive Sirens, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Tattfoo Tan, Elizabeth Velazquez,Marina Zurkow.
The WoWHaus at Nolan Park 5B on Governors Island will serve as the central location for information about Triennial activities, studio space for Triennial artists, and exhibition space for Water Art from the Triennial and beyond.
(Image from Paloma McGregor’s “Building a Better Fishtrap”)