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A 23-Day Tour

Access Gallery in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, organized a “23 Days at Sea” residency and put artist Rebecca Moss on a boat — the Hanjin Geneva, a freight vessel belonging to Korean cargo company Hanjin. But the company went bankrupt, and ports decided not to accommodate its ships anymore. So there was Moss, at sea. “I can’t begin to describe how it feels to look out the window,” she wrote in an email, “and see a huge stack of containers, surrounded by miles of ocean in every direction, and realize they don’t actually have a destination.” And it wasn’t just the containers: she and the crew were stuck in the water, with no place to land. Eventually they were allowed to dock in Tokyo, Japan, just two days after they were supposed to have reached Singapore. (AC/Vancouver Sun) ...Thus canceling any plans for a sitcom.