American artist Peter Fend founded the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation (“OCEAN EARTH”) in 1980, a legally incorporated successor to an artist venture initiated in 1979 to deliver art ideas and practices to real-world clients. The firm launched its worldwide business with a 1982 show at The Kitchen, NY called “Art of the State.” After six years, Western governments shut its operations down. Since then, Fend has presented multidisciplinary projects at documenta in Kassel and biennials in Beijing, Yinchuan, Osaka, Venice, Liverpool, and Sharjah, all toward practical solutions to economic and ecological crises.
Elisa R. Linn is an exhibition maker, writer, educator, and graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program. In her practice, she is concerned with politics of self-organization, representation, and collectivity in art and exhibition-making.
Lennart Wolff conceptualizes, organizes, and produces exhibitions, texts, architectural designs, and objects in shifting collaborative constellations, among them the collective KM Temporaer with Linn. He graduated from the AA School of Architecture and is co-director of its Visiting School in Zurich.
