Image Credit: Kip Evans Gyre Expedition Gore Point, Gulf of Alaska – June 8, 2013 By 6:30 am, after the 9 hour passage from Seward in pitching 6 Ft+ swell, we stirred from bed to find ourselves in a glass-flat cove in complete silence. Full of asparagus frittata by the remarkable Norseman chef Aaron, we [...]

You know you are in Alaska when the only bird you see is an enormous bald eagle flying right overhead…in downtown Anchorage…and its brilliantly sunlit at 10:00pm at night~ The crew is amassing:  Kip Evans and JJ Kelly have been out shooting B-roll all day, Mark Dion is scouting for birds, Andy Hughes arrives sometime [...]

After more than 3 years in development, the GYRE expedition will sail in June 2013!!!!  Departing from Seward, Alaska and following along remote coasts of Kodiak Island and the upper Aleutian islands, the research vessel Norseman  will travel for 10 days with a crew of artists, scientists, policy makers and crew to discover, research, and gather [...]

Longobardi named one of 4 finalists for the prestigious $50,000 Hudgens Prize! The finalists were chosen from a pool of 370 applicants by Doryun Chong, associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Toby Kamps, chief curator of the Menil Collection in Houston; and Heather Pesanti, senior curator at AMOA/Arthouse in Austin [...]

Part of the project of cleaning the cave was conducting a forensic study on the totality of the materials inside. As each geographic location has its own character, each beach cleaning creates a portrait of that location, its culture, its industry, its values. The contents of the sea cave create a similar story. The following [...]

The cave is enormous, an upward-sloping bowl shaped amphitheater.  Once you pass the rocky water entrance, you enter a boulder field that stretches back 150 feet or more.  The first large object you see is a completely rusted out 50 gallon drum 40 feet from the water’s edge.  But its the fringe of visible objects [...]

We had a one day window and a single chance to make this film. All forces collided to help us. For 7 days we tried to enter the cave and only 1 time were we successful in order to strategize the entry and exit with everyone safe, the plastic removed and bags not broken to [...]

My current expedition Drifters Project Kefalonia:  The Giant Sea Cave Excavation was inspired by a heartbreakingly poignant discovery I made last summer here in Kefalonia. In July 2011, working on my Drifters Project phase I: One World Ocean, I went to a remote beach by boat with a local fisherman.  He described this beach as having some of the [...]

Somehow, I just had the smoothest international travel experience I have ever had, after scores and scores for the past several decades….the Greece we see on the news is not the whole story. Life is going forward, people are living, struggle is real and tensions are high (there is a neo-Nazi party that now has [...]

Drifters Project Kefalonia 2012 will be excavating a giant sea cave to reinsert the contents into cultural space.  Analysis of the cultural archaelogy of the cave and subsequent installation will reveal a new Odyssey for the recently discovered true birthplace of Homer.