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Mari Bastashevski At Sea
ODESSA → ISTANBUL AMBAR → HAIFA → NHAVA SHEVA → PORT KLANG → DA CHAN BAY → PUSAN → SHANGHAI
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As part of her residency-at-sea, Mari Bastashevski constructed a container that traveled with her and recorded its own experience onboard. Below are a series of photos Mari took of the box throughout her travels.

Mari Bastashevski departed from Odessa, Ukraine on March 25, 2016 en route to her first stop, the port of Istanbul, Turkey. She then travelled to Haifa, Israel; Nhava Sheva, India; Port Klang, Malaysia; Da Chan Bay, China; and Busan, South Korea, before disembarking in Shanghai on May 1st.

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Following a trip on a container vessel from Israel to New Jersey in 2011, I conceived of the Container Artist Residency. As part of the project, I facilitated, through a long chain of emails, calls, WhatsApp texts, and the funds obtained from a shipping line a residency at sea for seven artists (eight to be exact, as one of the artists was a duo). This website stand alongside the website dedicated to the first edition, and is meant to record and present the process of producing the project, as well as continuing a conversation with the different contributors who took part in the residency. With the goals of realizing further editions in the future, it will also host the records of the anticipated continuation of the project.