Condensation of the Social | Flock House — ecoarttech collaboration with Mary Mattingly :: July 20-26, 2010; daily, noon-2:00 pm :: Smack Mellon, New York.

Join ecoarttech as they live and work in Mary Mattingly’s Flock House, which will be exhibited as part of Condensation of the Social. Each day from noon to 2pm ecoarttech will organize urban hikes (originating at Flock House), exploring convergent ecologies in the DUMBO area in support of our work Indeterminate Hikes. In addition they will conduct several evening events involving performance and conversations engaging ecologies of the social, psychic, digital and environmental. All events are open to the public.

Flock House is a project conceived and initiated by Mary Mattingly and will be exhibited in June 2010 in collaboration with ecoarttech, Kadar Brock and Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner, Ian Daniel, ecoarttech, Kim Holleman, Paul Lloyd Sargent, and Tressie Word as part of the exhibition Condensation of the Social curated by Sara Reisman @ Smackmellon (NYC), June 19 – August 1, 2010.

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From Smackmellon’s press release: “Having taken to the water in an experiment in sustainability with The Waterpod in 2009, Mary Mattingly is still focused on how we can respond to rising sea levels, this time by testing the limits of living on land. Within Condensations Mattingly will present a living prototype for Flock House, an airborne habitat that imagines, projects, and adds another level onto the city’s skyline. Built on materials that reference scaffolding, a construction material associated with changing cities, Flock House augments city space, air space, and questions air rights and functions as an observation deck with a view of weather systems and avian migration.”