Installation view of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of Courtney M. Leonard’s "Breach #2" (2015) as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

(L to R) Installation view of Michael Combs’s "Daisy Chain" (2016) and Pedro Reyes’s "Floating Pyramid" (2014) project models and video as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of Michael Combs’s "Daisy Chain" (2016) as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of R. Buckminster Fuller’s "Triton City Model" (1968) as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of Mark Dion’s "Cabinet of Marine Debris" (2014) as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of Mare Liberum’s "Untitled" (2014) as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of The PLAY’s "Voyage Happening in an Egg" (1968); "Current of Contemporary Art" (1969); "IE-The Play Have a House" (1972); and Ephemera, as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

Installation view of Bas Jan Ader’s "In Search of the Miraculous" (1975): slide projection of Choir as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

(L to R) Installation view of Vik Muniz’s "Lampedusa" (2015); Marie Lorenz’s "Ezekia" (2014); Robert Smithson’s "Floating Island-Barge to Travel Around Manhattan" (1971); and photographs and video from Posthumous performance of "Floating Island-Barge to Travel Around Manhattan" (2005-6) as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay

(L to R) Installation view of Vik Muniz’s "Lampedusa" (2015); Marie Lorenz’s "Ezekia" as part of special exhibition "Radical Seafaring" on view at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 8 – July 24, 2016. Photo: Gary Mamay