tiger birth exhibit

Who do you become when your multiple identities snap into place?

What is it like to birth your self – in all your contradictions, glories, failures and beauty?

Who/what/how would you be if you didn’t have to choose your identity from the ends of binaries?

You’re invited to explore these questions for yourself by visiting our interactive, multimedia, and multidimensional exhibit, on view at Engine in Biddeford thru Sept. 28th.

Tiger Birth: Origins of Sea Free
August 3rd to September 28th, 2023

Engine
163 Main Street
Biddeford ME 04005
Tel 207.494.7125

No tickets required, free and open to the public.

Special Events:

• Aug 18th | Fringe Fest:
  • Artefact Making Workshop | 4-5:30p
  • Reception with refreshments | 5:30-8p
• Sept 15th | Art Walk: 
  • Reception with refreshments | 4-8p
  • Artist talk w/ N.M. Chin | 6:30p (cancelled)

General Visiting Hours:

⇢ Thursdays 3p to 7p

⇢ Fridays 3p to 7p

⇢ Saturdays 10a to 4p

⇢ We recommend calling ahead for large groups. Our exhibit coordinator Karolyn Greenstreet can be reached at 207.522.7226. Tours can be scheduled outside of these hours by calling ahead as well.

Lead Artist
N.M. Chin

Contributing Artists
Cyber Aurum, Karolyn Greenstreet, Emi Wren, Hyphae, Counterparts.media.211(Jennifer Cerutti & Vincent Kral), and other anonymous Sea Free Receivers

To help plan your visit:

• The exhibit offers audio accompaniments to the visual pieces. Bring headphones or airpods along with your phone or other camera enabled device to listen to these offerings via our QR codes.
• We suggest allowing 45 minutes or more to engage with the interactive elements of the exhibit.
• We’ll have a few art supplies for you to play with while in the exhibit, and if you have your own notebooks and drafting implements you’d like to bring to work with while you’re here – please do!
• Follow us on Instagram @seafree.space
• For questions, comments or to connect – email damaya@seafree.space

We joyfully invite you…

To swim in the waters of our first public exhibit! This is a multimedia and interactive exhibit focused on sharing our connections with Sea Free – a universe parallel to our own where humans evolved without binary identities.

If you’ve never engaged with Sea Free before, we encourage you to start by entering Sea Free space and reading Jorge’s letter. 

Tiger Birth: Origins of Sea Free will immerse visitors in artefacts inspired by one of the creation stories of their universe: Tiger Birth. Artefacts are works of art created by people from our universe, inspired by their connection to Sea Free and the messages/lessons they receive through that connection.

We will be sharing a collection of books, images, and video created by Sea Free receivers exploring questions at the heart of the Tiger Birth origin story. We hope you’ll join us in wandering and wondering about their universe! ~ The Sea Free Science Team

Organized by Sea Free Science Team with support from Sea Free Creative Team:

N.M. Chin: lead artist and creative director

Karolyn Greenstreet: exhibits and outreach coordinator

Max Mogensen: web coordinator

Funding is provided in part through a grant award of American Rescue Plan funds through the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by SPACE gallery. Special thank you to Engine for venue support.