Constance (Connie) Hockaday

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How to Be a Better Human · Summer Fridays: How to find “your thing” (or your many things) (w/ Constance Hockaday) (re-release) · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So my art practice, you know, thanks to the floating neutrinos, a lot of it was born, a lot of it was like waterborne.

I called them waterborne coping strategies.

Like the work was very much about water as a public space, water as a place that is what I like to call fast land, space that functions under a different environment.

set of laws where we can hopefully find a relationship to the natural world around us, like a voice for things that are not able to be expressed on land, blah, blah, blah.

So it's convoluted.

This is also very hard for me to explain at parties when they're like, what kind of artist are you?

I'm like, oh, God.

So, examples.

One time I built a hotel, a floating hotel out of a bunch of boats that were going to get sent to the dump.

It was in Jamaica Bay, Queens, right off the A train.

It was a bunch of boats offshore and I rented them out like hotel rooms and there was a stage in the middle and over 5,000 people.

came to the Botel over a period of a summer, and it was all about creating this temporary infrastructure that gave New Yorkers access to their largest public space, which is the water, and which they have very little access to.

designated access to and this project like others is there's this idea that like the infrastructure of our cities can create our deepest ideas and beliefs about ourselves and where we can and can't put our body right so if there's not a staircase that goes straight from from the city into the water it's going to be really hard for us to imagine that the water is a place for our body

And as opposed to like in Santa Cruz, where there are staircases that go straight into these crazy crashing waves and people are walking down them with their children, right?

To go jump in and go surfing.

And so then I created a floating peep show.

So there were a bunch of queer performance spaces and queer spaces in San Francisco that were all kind of shuttered around the same time.

And so I invited people who were performers in those spaces to create a peep show inside the halls of a bunch of different sailboats.

And so we had this situation where these audience members were coming and they were either friends, you know, friends or associated with the working class sailors that had lent me their sailboats, or they were friends or associated with a bunch of drag queens and sex workers.

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