Mare Liberum
Sea & Land Use Research Platform (SLURP), 2018
Employing sound, performance, video, sculpture, and photography, Dylan Gauthier works through a research-based and collaborative practice centered on ecology, architecture, landscape, and social change. Gauthier is a founder of the boat-building and publishing collective Mare Liberum (www.thefreeseas.org), and of the Sunview Luncheonette (www.thesunview.org), a co-op for art, politics, and communalism in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is co-organizer, with Mariel Villeré, of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency based at NYC’s largest former landfill. Gauthier received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, CUNY (‘12), and is Associate Curator at More Art in New York City, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Haverford College.