The Autonomous People of the Last Street End Make Music and Construct a Trash Flag

A call to all autonomous people and living things! Embrace the radical possibility that for 90 minutes we can enjoy total freedom on 2nd avenue and 5th street in Gowanus. Show up on Saturday, November 6th from 4-5:30pm for the last encounter of the Last Street End series.

Musicians from the Experimental and Industrial worlds join to bring sound art and Butoh to the banks of the Canal, with self-made instruments and discarded objects.

With Martin Bisi (producer Sonic Youth), Ego Sensation (White Hills), Bradford Reed, Genevieve Fernworthy (Tidal Channel, Billy Cancel), Lawry Zilmrah, Jacquelyn Marie Shannon (Cookie Tongue).

While the performance is taking place, we invite participants to join in a communal declaration of the secession of the Last Street End from Gowanus (and thereby its rezone) by the creation of a found fabric trash flag which will be sewn collectively by all those who wish to add scrap, found materials, plants, and thread to the (END) flag. The (END) flag will be raised at the conclusion of the performance to celebrate the autonomy of the people of the Last Street End, before the encroaching CSO tank (and its steward, the City of New York) erase this complex ecosystem and the living human and non-human beings who rely on it.

This event is the last of a series of four encounters that involve transforming an ecologically disturbed and contested public space through different kinds of “use.” Documentation produced by participants during / through each of the encounters will be integrated into a land use intervention library.