Marie Lorenz, A'yen Tran and Stephan von Muehlen discuss their work as artists in NYC working on water-based projects that bring people beyond the water's edge to experience their city from a radically different perspective.

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Stephan von Muehlen

- Mare Liberum

Mare Liberum is a freeform publishing, boatbuilding and waterfront art collective, based in the Gowanus, Brooklyn.

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A'yen Tran

A’yen Tran is an artist, story collector, raft-builder and singing enthusiast. Currently, she is working on The Boat for Singing Together, a handmade sculptural raft for group singing in New York City. She helped found art collective The Miss Rockaway Armada with whom she has installed artwork in the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and floated 800 miles of the Mississippi River recording oral histories aboard handmade rafts and a solar-powered story-boat. She has spoken at PS1, MASSMoCA and the Conflux Festival, and collaborated with artist Swoon in 2008 for the Deitch Projects, and again in 2009 to float to the Venice Biennale on the Swimming Cities of Serenissima handmade rafts. A'yen is a Project Manager for the media design studio Local Projects and holds a BA from Columbia University.

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Marie Lorenz

Based in Brooklyn, Marie Lorenz uses handmade boats as artworks; navigating throughout the city’s waterways. Her work includes video, sculpture, and a photographic web journal that documents her exploration. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. Lorenz has had solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, Artpace in Texas, Locust Projects in Miami; and internationally at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham England. Lorenz was a recipient of the 2008 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize for a residency at the American Academy in Rome and appointed assistant professor at the Yale School of Art in 2009. Her ongoing performance, The Tide and the Current Taxi, which began in 2005, explores the waterways of New York City.

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