The artist Swoon, who we wrote about in Issue 005, set sail down the Hudson last week for her boat voyage-themed performance art piece, "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea." A flotilla of seven waterbound art installations, each hand-crafted with different materials and manned by a hodgepodge of 40 artists and performers, will travel from Troy, NY to Queens before docking on September 7 for an opening at the Deitch Studios, and remain as part of an exhibition.

It's a follow-up to her 2007 project "Miss Rockaway Armada," in which she floated down the Mississippi to New Orleans in a boat made from trash. That one seemed a little more street-artisty; this current Switchback Sea piece might be more on the "Art for Art's Sake" side, kind of like when Matthew Barney decided it'd be a good plan to traverse the entire Atlantic Ocean in a small boat and draw pictures of dead fish and waves for five months. Then again, ambushing the Hudson with art boats is just another way for her to take public space and make it her canvas.