The Future is For/Boating
June 30, 2024
Staten Island Ferry
ACOMPI and David Peter Francis present a newly commissioned processional performance by Pat Oleszko on the Staten Island Ferry. Titled The Future is For/Boating, the performance debuts a new costume whose arms give the illusion of walking backwards. Passing various New York City landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, Oleszko’s absurd voyage draws attention toward rising sea levels, a recurring interest across her five-decade career. The performance is presented on the occasion of Oleszko’s first solo show in over two decades, Pat's Imperfect Present Tense.
A younger generation of the city’s premiere experimental performers, Amando Houser, Abby Lloyd, and Alex Tatarsky present new works that dialogue with those of Oleszko.
ABOUT Pat Oleszko
Pat Oleszko (American, b. 1947) received her BFA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since the early 1970s, she has staged exhibitions and performances at institutions such as The Kitchen (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Performance Space (New York), P.S. 1 (Queens), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Civitella Ranieri (Umbertide, Italy), Neuberger Museum (Purchase), Rauschenberg Foundation (Captiva), and National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.), amongst others. She was the recipient of the Rome Prize in 1998, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990. A New Yorker since 1970, Oleszko has a long relationship with the Ferry, taking it myriad times in summer months to clean trash from the beaches and swim under the Verrazano Bridge.