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Over the Water
The Exploratorium’s location on a major civic promenade inspired Over the Water, a program of large-scale, often temporary, commisioned artworks for the museum's dynamic site on the edge of the city and the Bay.
Bosun’s Bass
Tim Hawkinson, 2015
In Bosun’s Bass, artist Tim Hawkinson combines a shipping container, an accordion bellows from an articulated bus, and a bicycle into a sound sculpture powered by the tides. Inspired by the bosun’s pipe, a high-pitched whistle used for naval commands aboard ship, the sculpture plays a medley of 21 calls.
09/11/2015 to 01/08/2016
We Make the Treasure
Paul Ramirez Jonas, 2014
We Make the Treasure invited exploration of the value of objects lost and recovered, above and below the water line. We Make the Treasure was curated by the Exploratorium’s Center for Art & Inquiry in collaboration with our Studio for Public Space. Nato Thompson, chief curator of Creative Time in New York, served as advising curator.
06/19/2014 to 01/31/2015
