“Bear witness to the villainous Mutiny Aboard the Cutty Sark!! Treacherous Cap’n Morgan and his thievin’ Chips Ahoy pirates have seized the mighty Cutty Sark Whiskey Clipper, and are commandeerin’ her straight towards no good. Woe unto Cap’n Crunch, the pathetic prisoner of these plunderin’ pirates.” So swear artists Pete Beeman and Heidi Cody who are presenting their outlandish kinetic installation “Mutiny Aboard the Cutty Sark” July 10-31 at The LAB Gallery in New York City.

The collaboration, the Mutiny’s second voyage, will be a site specific installation of steel, wood, fabric, urethane foam, paint, mechanics and motor. This high seas visual feast of consumerism gone awry will be docked at the corner of 47th and Lexington on view 24/7. Aaaargh!!!!

Pete Beeman builds sculpture in Portland, Oregon and New York City. Trained at Brown and Stanford Universities in art, engineering, and design, his work is often kinetic and interactive, industrial and playful. He builds useless but functional objects, and thinks a lot about how our culture rates the utility and necessity of an object. Much of Beeman’s work is permanent public art. He is currently working on projects for Seattle, WA, Charlotte, NC and for the Port of Portland in Oregon.

Operating undercover, Heidi Cody researches consumer culture and gets art viewers to unwittingly assess overexposure to consumerism. She makes sculptures, paintings and drawings featuring American brands. Abstraction, parody, word games, and absurdity all find a place in her work. Mutiny Aboard The Cutty Sark is her first collaborative piece

Cody’s work has been featured in Adbusters, Advertising Age, Art In America, ABC News 20/20, The New York Times, Flash Art, The Chicago Tribune, Playboy, and the educational textbooks Psychology and Designing Brand Identities. She has shown at The Brooklyn Museum, The Moscow Biennial, Roebling Hall Gallery, Agnew’s in London, and in the traveling exhibit “Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age.” She recently moved to Savannah, GA, from New York.