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AMAZING!

i got some roommates today and i named them all peter.  they have already attempted a few great escapes.

soon.

Welcome to NY Wa$teMatch, New York City’s materials exchange and solid waste reduction program. NY Wa$teMatch provides reuse, recycling and other innovative waste solutions to boost your bottom line. We help our clients reduce disposal costs, generate revenue and obtain raw materials for free. Our services include:

Materials Exchange

One company’s by-products can be another company’s raw materials. The Materials Exchange is a free service that matches generators of valuable commercial waste and surplus goods with organizations that can reuse them. Waste producers sell what they once paid to throw away; reusers obtain materials for free or at low prices.\

Technical Assistance

Our team can perform free waste stream assessments and recommend reuse and recycling options that reduce waste disposal costs. Contact us to see if you qualify for this service. We can also assist with brokering surplus inventory and used equipment, and in purchasing equipment and materials at the best prices.

Research & Development

NY Wa$teMatch works with community advocates, educators and industry experts to expand and strengthen reuse and recycling markets and develop markets for materials that have traditionally been discarded as waste.

We are so excited to announce the public opening of Waterpod™, our beloved sustainable demonstration vessel and art installation. On Friday June 12, the evening before the official opening, Waterpod™ will be towed from the GMD Ship Yard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to its first docking location at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport. That evening we will be hosting a free public lecture at 8 pm onboard with Dr. Peter Eisenstadt on Four Centuries of immigration and migration in New York State »

A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics) , The End of Oil is an exhibition of photography, prints, videos, installations and new media that addresses human dependence on oil and other fossil fuels; the ramifications that this dependency has on the future of the environment and of global geopolitics; and the recent push towards viable alternative energy resources. 

In July 2008, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC) announced that the price per barrel of oil had climbed above $130. About five months later, in December 2008, the New York Times reported that oil had fallen below $40 a barrel, less than a third of the July 2008 price. In the first six months of 2009, oil prices seem to have steadied around $55 a barrel. These fluctuating oil prices are evidence of the instability of global oil markets and reminders of our urgent need to develop alternative fuels and forms of energy.   

The works in this exhibition draw attention to and investigate the violent conflicts (such as in Nigeria, Burma and Sudan) and negative environmental effects that result from mining and drilling; the politicization of the oil industry; carbon-footprinting; and renewable energy options, such as vegetable and electric-powered cars, geothermal energy, and solar power. The End of Oil does not prophesize a dystopian future, but looks critically at the way in which we use and generate energy, encouraging a dialogue on this issue for the benefit of future generations.

SEA and The End of Oil conceived by Papo Colo.
The End of Oil curated by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati.

FEATURING PROJECTS BY:

Khalil Chishtee; Louisa Conrad; Robert Derr; Dominic Gagnon; Ed Kashi; Matt Kenyon; Michael Mandiberg; Andrei Molodkin; Jo Syz

PUBLIC EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
7:30 – 9pm: SEA Poetry Series, No. 2
Following the inaugural reading of this series, which brought Maine-based poet Jonathan Skinner to Exit Art, poet Marcella Durand will read a selection of her poems and discuss her work in relation to The End of Oil. Q & A and reception to follow. Conceived and organized by E.J. McAdams, poet and Associate Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy, New York City. Free. Cash bar.

Marcella Durand’s recent books are Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem, 2008), AREA (Belladonna, 2008), and The Anatomy of Oil (Belladonna, 2005). Other books include Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, Chain, The Poker, Verse, NYFA Current, and other journals. She has given talks on the intersections of poetry and ecology at Kelly Writers House, Small Press Traffic, Dactyl Foundation, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and other venues. Excerpts from her ongoing collaboration with Tina Darragh, based on environmental science, Deep Ecology and Francis Ponge, have appeared in Anomaly, How(2), and Ecopoetics. Currently, she is translating Michèle Métail’s Les horizons du sol / Earth’s Horizons, a history of the geological formation of Marseille written within a Oulipian formal constraint; a section of her translation appeared last year in The Nation.

THE END OF OIL SCREENING SERIES
The End of Oil Screening Series consists of films that explore topics such as peak oil; the impact of coal mining and oil drilling; dwindling oil resources; and the effect of this environmental crisis on the economy. More information coming soon.

All films will be screened in our Exit Underground Digital Theater on Saturdays at 4pm.

$5 Suggested Donation.

June 20 and 27 

The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project

July 11 and 18 

A Crude Awakening

July 25 

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics)

SEA is a unique endeavor that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. SEA will assemble artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address environmental issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series that will communicate international activities concerning environmental and social activism. SEA will occupy a permanent space in Exit Underground, a 3000 square-foot, multi-media performance, film and exhibition venue underneath Exit Art’s main gallery space. The SEA archive will be a permanent archive of information, images and videos that will be a continuous source for upcoming exhibitions and projects. Central to SEA’s mission is to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of socially- and environmentally-engaged work, and to provide a forum for collaboration between artists, scientists, activists, scholars and the public. SEA functions as an initiative where individuals can join together in dialogue about issues that affect our daily lives.