So, it’s kind of like David Byrne’s Playing the Building but a different sort of magical. Musicians and sound artists will outfit the floors and walls of Dithyrambalina with playable parts, but you have to donate to their Kickstarter first (and get 100-year-old wallpaper-covered thank you cards, mix tapes and original art in return).

Layers, collages, cut-ups and cut-outs — it’s mixed media madness at Perry Rubenstein Gallery. The group show “Shred” features Eric Foss’s found vintage vagina face photo mash-ups, a ’50s zoophobic collage by Jess, the Brooklyn duo FAILE‘s mas-tear-piece above and more.

The exhibit was curated by Carlo McCormick, artsy multi-tasker extraordinaire, senior editor of Paper magazine and the hilariously cruel judge of the Art Handling Olympics. It’s a hefty horde — from engraving to animation, from the Beats to punk to street art. Preview his pickings of Dash Snow, Swoon, Elbow-Toe, 35mm, jigsaws, cast resin, birch bits and a little glitter on top:

“Shred,” Group Show, Jul 1 – Aug 27, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NYC

Come see the world premiere of Todd Chandler’s Flood Tide tomorrow at L.I.C.’s Socrates Sculpture Park as it kicks off its free summer outside cinema series. With a live score by Dark Dark Dark, the film will take you on a semi-fictional adventure on an armada of trash rafts down Hudson River with artists and musicians.

Familiar connections: this film was a collaborative project with Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea that were started by Swoon, were documented by Tod Seelie and once awesomely crashed the Venice Biennial. One of the raft riders is Monica Canilao, hoarder enchanted.

Pre-screening events start at 7pm. Film screens at sundown. Go. Support. Find out more.

Over the summer, Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima successfully crashed the Venice Biennale in what art critic Jerry Saltz calls “the most moving moment I had.” Hosted by Anonymous Gallery, a retrospective of this hand built boating expedition takes places at Collective Hardware tonight. Named after the Italian villagers bestowed on the project, “Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima” will feature massive wall drawings, trash barge installations, flotsam from the Adriatic Sea and other crew art. See more of Tod Seelie’s photos from the Mediterranean trip below.

“Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” November 20 – January 1, Anonymous Gallery @ Collective Hardware, 169 Bowery

Photos by Tod Seelie

The picturesque collages of Javier Piñón’s collages are missing something. The iconic hero, the cowboy, is cut from the frontier landscape, leaving behind a white silhouette to ponder. Tonight, Piñón puts his “Martyrs” series on display with artwork by Swoon, Matthew Lusk and Santiago Mostyn for Drift, a group exhibition exploring the challenges faced by contemporary nomads and travelers. The show opens tonight at Glowlab, which continues to support Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serennisima with a portion of their proceeds. Drift opens tonight from 7 to 9 PM and will be on display through July 26 at 30 Grand Street in the Lower East Side.

Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima, her latest fleet of handbuilt raft sculptures, launched into the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia and floated into Venice in time for the Biennale. Their safe arrival will be celebrated here in New York with a benefit party at Honey Space, which hosted a subterranean installation by the seafaring street artist last year. A silent auction of artwork by Swoon, Honey Space founder Thomas Beale, and other New York artists will be followed by a party with some Vermont-based bands and booze. Click the images above for a view of the artistically styled watercraft.