Footage from inside the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel, insipid voice over.

OBSERVATORY is an art and events space in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in February 2009 and run by a group of seven artists and bloggers, the space seeks to present programming inspired by the 18th century notion of “rational amusement” and is especially interested in topics residing at the interstices of art and science, history and curiosity, magic and nature.

The Pop-Up Museum:
(n.) An exhibition about the past and future of the Gowanus Canal and the museum. Opens March 3 at Observatory.
(v.) An experiment in site-specific space activation, constructing potential futures using primary documents.
What should/can the Gowanus become? How are we becoming-Gowanus?
And what would a museum about this process look like? For eight weeks, we're going to explore these and other questions.

"...dedicated to realizing the most productive physical, cultural and economic development in Gowanus /// enrich its working and living communities ... with a balanced set of environmental & social profits, economic value and fiscal benefit."

“The mussels, syringes, crabs, condoms — this is dirty”

"“To market residential units at a Superfund site is virtually impossible,” [a Toll Brothers rep] said."

Whale visits Gowanus, dies. I've started on Moby-Dick II: Return to Brooklyn...

Development and sewage on the canal [Refers to "200-year history as an industrial zone" -> should be 360-year, going back to Brouwer's Mill.]