The Boatel project is all about summer, adventure, art and camping on boats. It is an interactive art + sound installation that takes place on the docks of Marina 59, under the planes taking off from JFK airport. 23 artists from NYC and abroad are meticulously crafting a world out of the flotsam & jetsam of Jamaica Bay. A cluster of reclaimed/rebuilt docks + junk boats create worlds within worlds, an hour from the city and a thousand miles away from reality. Everybody is invited to visit their outpost for an overnight stay in one of their sixteen floating installations–a boat that sings, a patchwork treehouse, a Victorian-era naturalist’s laboratory, a hillbilly kama sutra honeymoon suite…