Last Street End Series & Land Use Intervention Library

I Love the Last Street End in Gowanus, Oct. 10, 2021 3:00-4:30PM
A facilitated walk, conversation, and collaborative mapping event in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Special pop-up performance by Simone Johnson, an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who mostly makes work about/with water. This encounter will begin at 2nd avenue and 5th street, the last street end with public access to the Gowanus canal, a place that is actively being “demapped” by the City of New York. This is a free public event that involves the exploration of familiar things through unfamiliar methods.

END (Future), Oct. 16, 2021 11:50am-1:30pm
Our collective hearts will not be alone; weedy plants will help us at low-tide. With the weedy plants, we will create questions for the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and members of the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises to consider as they plan for the Gowanus Canal CSO Retention Tank on Oh-4 site, which bends west near the 4th street tuning basin. We will do this collectively through movement-oral listening facilitated by weedy plants, andrea haenggi, and Rachel Cole. We ask you to come to the last street end in Gowanus (2nd avenue and 5th street) on Oct 16th at 11:50am so you can hear the fullness of the edge at low tide.

(Un)block Party, Oct. 23, 2021 3:00-4:30PM
Join Interference Archive and the weird art people who hang out at the last street end in Gowanus for an (Un)block Party on October 23rd at 3pm at 2nd avenue and 5th street. During this encounter, we’ll be breaking out the mobile archive bike, printmaking designs made by our friends at Shoestring Press, swaying our hips to afternoon-noise-level music mixed by DJ j.lu, and socializing with living humans and non-humans. Bring your friends and your kids and your dog and your best dance moves. Festive attire encouraged.

(END) Secession, Nov. 6, 2021 4:00-5:30PM
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.

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.