Charles Gaines' 'Moving Chains' uses rivers to explore history

“Moving Chains” encourages viewers to reconsider New York City's history with capitalism and slavery through symbols often taken for granted.

The American Manifest: Moving Chains | Governors Island (en-US)

Created by Charles Gaines with collaborating architects TOLO Architecture, the sculpture, which people may enter and walk through, contains nine custom made ...

Interview: Charles Gaines on His Installation 'Moving Chains'

Drawing out that history and thinking about it critically is the crux of Charles Gaines's Moving Chains, a monumental 110-foot installation ...

Charles Gaines "Moving Chains" in collaboration with TOLO ...

The center chain moves at the speed of the commercial barges of the 19th century that traversed the rivers at the time. Cited on Governors ...

Charles Gaines with his piece Moving Chains in - Artnet News

It Took Eight Years, an Army of Engineers, and Nine 1,600-Pound Chains to Bring Artist Charles Gaines's Profound Meditation on America to Life.

Moving Chains - Creative Time

Moving Chains, part two of Charles Gaines's public art series, The American Manifest, is located on Governors Island, New York City through ...

On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History

“Moving Chains” is part of a suite of installations unfolding now in New York City and next year in Cincinnati. They evoke river transport, ...

Charles Gaines moves chains | metal, film | By Art21 - Facebook

Moving Chains is one of several projects that makes up this commission The dominant subject is the history of slavery and the idea of the ...

Through a Monumental Sculpture of Moving Chains, Artist Charles ...

Located next to the harbor that was an essential waterway in the transatlantic slave trade, “Moving Chains” exposes the nation's capitalistic ...

Charles Gaines “Moving Chains” in collaboration with TOLO ...

Created by Charles Gaines with collaborating architects TOLO Architecture, the sculpture, which people may enter and walk through, contains nine custom made ...

Charles Gaines Defies the Static Nature of Public Monuments

Artist Charles Gaines has collaborated with TOLO Architecture to build Moving Chains, a new kinetic sculpture on New York's Governors ...

'Moving Chains' is a Powerful Rumination on American Slavery

A pivotal figure in conceptual art for nearly 50 years, American artist Charles Gaines uses his art to challenge notions of aesthetics, ...

Charles Gaines unearths America's deep colonial roots in an ...

In this new work, Gaines, who is recognised for his innovative conceptual practice that elucidates the relationship between subjectivity and ...

Charles Gaines's Moving Chains addresses the reality of systemic ...

Charles Gaines's Moving Chains addresses the reality of systemic racism in the United States of America through embodied & visual ...

Charles Gaines: Systems & Structures - Art21

In Moving Chains, Gaines constructs a massive metal and wooden structure resembling the hull of a ship along the shoreline of New York's Hudson ...

A Colossal Ship-Like Artwork Evoking America's Slave Trade

“Charles Gaines: The American Manifest, Moving Chains” on Governors Island. ... moves faster, evoking a barge navigating down a river.

The American Manifest - Creative Time

Charles Gaines's three-chapter project confronts ongoing legacies of ... Moving Chains, a 110 foot-long kinetic sculpture, sits at the base of Outlook ...

NYC's Governors Island is getting a giant monument made of steel ...

"Moving Chains," by Charles Gaines, is a giant, 110-foot-tall kinetic sculpture featuring sturdy chains that rotate overhead. According to ...

City Life Org - Announcing Moving Chains: Toward Abolition

The event continues a critical dialogue examining the American origin story, initiated by Charles Gaines last summer with the launch of his ...

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Charles Gaines' 'Moving Chains' uses rivers to explore history at Governor's Island, on view through June 2023.