ICA Watershed — Attraction in Boston

Over 110 miles of chord hang in the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, connecting 4,000 pages of local stories responding to Chiharu Shiota’s question: “what makes a home, when a home is left behind?”

Walking through this exhibit…it is like a hug 🫂 and a gutpunch. It is the warmth of welcome of my beloved city 🌆 juxtaposed with the brutality and vitriol of an administration bent on eradicating that beauty 💐.

The scale of the exhibit, and the interactive nature of walking through and being surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of stories…my words are not enough.

✨You must see it for yourself.✨

Admission is free, and you can take the ferry to the main museum from here. Wheelchairs ♿️ and foldable seats are available upon request, and there is an archive room in the back to explore!!!!

There is ONE handicapped spot out front. You parking otherwise is...

This was an awesome afternoon. We arrived at the ICA in the seaport, took their water shuttle across to the East Boston Watershed, which in itself was a little treat, to then walk around the corner from the dock into this intimate warehouse space. After viewing the few but parts with many pieces, we waited for the shuttle to take us back across the harbor to the ICA's main building and exhibits while taking in the vision harbor and skyline panorama. Love Is Calling was another trip within the trip, as well as the Brazilian video piece Swinguerra, which just added more dimensions to our brief but beautiful afternoon several flights high in a glass building looking out over the harbor you just sailed across. I recommend this day for any contemporary art appreciator, or anyone else who would like to see Boston through multiple perspectives, art, sky,...

What a fabulous space! Every summer there's a different installation. For instance, this year John Akomfrah's Purple is on view. Since I don't want to spoil the trip, I will not describe how fabulous his art installation is.

Getting to the Watershed requires taking a water taxi from ICA (piece of advice: make sure to book it in advance); the trip itself makes the whole experience one of a kind. This formerly industrial space seems to be the perfect container for all forms of experimental art. It reminds me of the old ICA, before the neighborhood changed so much.

Across from the Watershed you can enjoy some delicious Downeast Cider (the brewery is right across the entrance) and some Australian meat pies at KO Pies!...