Swimmers featured five life-size, glow-in-the-dark body casts suspended from the ceiling of the HOPCAT micro-brewery in Grand Rapids for ArtPrize 2011. Mounted above these casts were small strobe units which independently triggered at timed intervals and illuminated the skin through stencils, leaving a glowing afterimage superimposed on the figure’s surface to gently fade away.
Swimmers was also installed at House of Brews in Madison, Wisconsin. It was later moved to Wingra Creek where it garnered quite a bit of public attention!