Festival Project Descriptions: (a-z)
*Festival Program Corrections:
Cat Del Buono - Public Feeding: Cat Del Buono’s video installation, Public Feeding, examines uneasy feelings triggered by blatant public breastfeeding.
Location: 20 Jay Street, 3rd floor
MSLK - Watershed: MSLK’s Watershed is an eco-art installation challenging viewers to reexamine bottled water consumption.
Location: 20 Jay Street, loading dock
Exhibition Listing Correction: Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)
Location: 55 Washington Street, Suite 218 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718-624-0080
Website: www.brooklynartscouncil.org
Jae Hi Ahn
Jae Hi Ahn’s Waterscape is constructed with repurposed blue PVC tubes. The geometric structure makes references to the seascape of Dumbo’s surroundings.
Artcodex
Artcodex creates a commentary about the failing boom markets of art and real estate by recreating a post gold rush town in Welcome to New York City, Boomtown 2006. Performance times: Sat. 12-2PM; Sun. 2-4PM
Gav Barbey
Help lay out 1000 pigmented ice blocks with Gav Barbey’s installation Viewer is artist and artist viewer.
Karina Bergmans
Karina Bergmans’s TEXT-ING consists of letters of the alphabet created in letter shaped pillows to be manipulated by public intervention in order to create endless word play. Performance times: Fri. 7-9PM; Sat. 12-6PM; Sun. 12-6PM
Allison Berkoy
In Allison Berkoy's multimedia spectacle, a mother and her children wait for Breakfast.
Carlo Bernardini
Working with a unique system of fiber optics in Permeable Space, Carlo Bernardini creates a shifting, illusory network of illuminated lines that traverse the space in weblike formations.
John Bonafede
Ballooning Awareness, an interactive roaming performance by John Bonafede, prompts youngsters to answer the question, "What is climate change and what should we do about it?"
Performance times: Sat. 12PM; Sun. 12PM
Jude Broughan
The fragmented look and salvaged materials of Jude Broughan's Challis Close reflect human idiosyncrasies and conflicted times.
Sean Capone
Sean Capone's Camera Rosetum uses video projection and computer animation to create a dynamic, baroque architectural environment.
Christian Cerrito and Jennifer Fisher
The Red Arrow Project. Follow the arrows, find the kites, and see where they take you. Performance times: Sat. 12-6PM; Sun. 12-6PM
Donna Cheng
At the Tobacco Warehouse, Donna Cheng’s Ghost Ships is projected imagery inspired by D.U.M.B.O’s 19th century docks and factories. Performance times: Fri. Sat. Sun. 6:30-9PM
Elim Cheng and Meng Li
Your shadow has free will, in Elim Cheng and Meng Li’s installation Peek, Poke, Talk.
Wai-Yam Cheng
Wai-Yam Cheng's Little Dog Poop Soap promotes hygiene in a playful and affordable way.
Kell Condon
Kell Condon’s Boxes/Seconds records one second of NYC’s total yearly curbside cardboard through pinhole cameras made from that very same cardboard.
Cat Del Buono
Cat Del Buono’s video installation, Public Feeding, examines uneasy feelings triggered by blatant public breastfeeding.
Tim Devin
Tim Devin’s I left this here for you to read is a collaboratively-created, handmade magazine left in public places by a network of volunteers.
Molly Dilworth
Brooklyn Suite, Molly Dilworth's rooftop painting for Google Earth, physically marks virtual space, offering an opportunity for nostalgia in the future world.
Gearoid Dolan
screaMachine R/Evolution: projects propaganda style animations from its tented urban camp with excursions of mobile projections breaking out.
Abby Donovan
Abby Donovan's These the Heavens of my Brain: the artist, her fishing pole, two suitcases of glowing letters, and a mock ship. Performance time: Sat. 8-8:45PM
Myda El-Maghrabi
Anenome by Myda El-Maghrabi emerges from the sea in light and latex.
Denniston Ewan
What is it? Experience Denniston Ewan’s satirical play on the consumer world through creation of hybrid artworks. Performance times: Fri. Sat. Sun. 12-3PM
Katie Fox & Haley Lowe
Mapping DUMBO (Pixel Street, Palm Peaces, Kangarok X) Discover Dumbo’s history in Pixel Street by Emily Fischer & Golnar Adili, pocket a sculpture at Palm Peaces by Eric Lima & Jenna Lynch (Aqua Poppy), and attend live drawing battles in Kangarok X: This Time, It’s Sorta Like Risk by Ernest Concepcion & Mike Estabrook (The Shining Mantis).
Dumbo Mapping Project re-considers mapping. It is curated by Katie Fox & Haley Lowe. The Shining Mantis Performance times: Fri 7-9PM; Sat 4:30-6:30PM; Sun 4:30-6:30PM.
Dumbo Mapping Project Tours Sat & Sun at 4pm and 6pm starting at Palm Peaces in Empire Fulton Ferry State Park.
Ryan Frank
Ryan Frank’s Dumbo Labor Monument pays homage to the neighborhood as a center of industry.
Catherine Grau and Zoe Krey
Join a workshop / parade that creates sculptures and dialogue about DUMBO as a neighborhood in transition in The Lost Tenement's Parade by Catherine Grau and Zoe Krey. Performance Times: Sat. 11AM and 2PM
Gemini Corporation
The Gemini Corporation explores the art of surviving the recession with The Cardboard Gallery, an alternative art space made of recycled cardboard, designed by Marta Gazicka. For more information, including programming, please visit www.cardboardgallery.com.
Naomi Grossman
Naomi Grossman’s Wired, a female wire/words sculpture, tumbles in air while words course through her, raising issues of health, safety and obsessive thoughts.
Kyung Woo Han
Kyung Woo Han is a video artist who dismantles the conventions of his medium with deadpan, dead-on, unpretentious wit and humor in Displacement.
Elizabeth D. Heifferon
Elizabeth D. Heifferon's EKG Waverings invites us to originate actions through the mediation of the heart.
Diana Heise
Join Diana Heise to consume edible Humvees and collectively dissolve the violence of our times during Gut #5: Witness Walk. Performance times: Fri. Sat. Sun. 2PM
High School Festival Internship Project Space
These six site-specific installations explore a variety of mediums and subjects. To learn more about the DAC High School Internship Program go to: http://www.dumboartscenter.org/HSInternship.html.
Erin Hudak
Erin Rachel Hudak's Rainbow Connection is a colorful, hand-woven wigwam created to shelter the dreamer within all of us.
Immigrant Artist Program
The Map is Not The Territory, a collaborative exhibition, shows the work of the 40 artists who participated in the New York Foundation for the Arts 2008 Immigrant Artist Program.
Kate Kaman and Joel Erland
Release your inner mad scientist with Kate Kaman & Joel Erland's Orwellian, interactive sculpture Test-a-Bunny.
Marie Christine Katz
I’ll Draw a Line by Marie Christine Katz is an interactive performance installation by an artist, three dancers and a mannequin that looses the thread but draws the line. Performance times: Fri. 7:30PM; Sat. 2 and 6PM; Sun. 2PM
Amy Khoshbin and Michael Clemow
Power Bike Parade, by Amy Khoshbin and Michael Clemow of Semiotech (http://semiotech.org), is a bike-powered festival of light and sound. Special thanks to Brooklyn Bike and Board and Recycle-A-Bicycle for their donations. Performance times: Fri. Sat. Sun. 6:30-7:30PM
Larissa Killough
Climb inside Larissa Killough's Cocoon II and let the metamorphosis begin.
Jackie Klempay
Watch out for Jackie Klempay's roaming Art Cart-el. Admire and purchase clever, affordable artworks by a coalition of artists.
Reina Kubota
An installation by Reina Kubota, The Tree of Life made of plastic bags will be in bloom under the night sky.
The League of Imaginary Scientists
Waterways collaborators: choreographers Karina Dichov lund, Klara Elenius and Emma Nordanfors of E.K.K.O, media artist Lucy Hg from The League of Imaginary Scientists, chemist and environmental researcher David Garin, architect Annie Kwon, and composer Matt McBane. The development of Waterways is supported through iLAND, Inc’s iLAB Residency Program, the Danish Arts Council, the Danish Actors Association and the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative.
Eun Sun Lee
Eun Sun Lee’s Bubble Mumble is a magnification of fleeting stillness and accidental beauty that surrounds daily gestures.
MLSK
MLSK’s Watershed is an eco-art installation challenging viewers to reexamine bottled water consumption.
Nelson Loskamp
Nelson Loskamp’s Chaircut. Free electro-sonic, haircuts! Taped down, wired scissors blasted through his amplifier backpack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Performance times: Sun. 2-6
Katherine Dolgy Ludwig
Inspire the painter Katherine Dolgy Ludwig with your own stories while she portrays the iconic Brooklyn Bridge for 3 days, 18 times, sunup to sundown,in LightBridgeStory.
Luciana Lyrio
Come make an offering and help to create a space of mixed cultures with Luciana Lyrio in Yemanja on NYC waters.
Jillian May
Peer through a rainbow mesh to discover off-limits neighborhood locales in Jillian May's DUMBO: RESTRICTED ACCESS.
John Monteith
John Monteith’s River's Edge, a block-length carpet of discarded oyster shells, recalls the oyster’s past use as an industrial material while celebrating its recent use as an environmental tool.
Hye Yeon Nam
Kissing under the Bridge, an interactive sound installation by Hye Yeon Nam, facilitates an amorous ambiance in which couples digitize their love while kissing. Performance times: Fri. Sat. Sun. 7-11PM
Olek
Olek’s 100% Acrylic Art Guards serve to reestablish balance in a society pre-occupied and often consumed by a perpetual state of heightened alert. Performance time: Sat. 3-6PM
Tara Parsons
Reveal your dreams with Tara Parsons’ Up All Night Sleeping. Performance times: Sat. Sun. 1-6PM
Verónica Peña
In Healing Time, Verónica Peña encloses her body to freeze time in a space between death and life, opening a threshold to the past. Performance time: Sat. 12-8PM.
Jess Proia
In Jess Proia’s Assimilation Fish, orderly orange glittering fish break out of the mainstream while parading through Dumbo. Performance times: Sat. 3-6PM
Prototype, a program of The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Literally get a hold of geodesic geometry with Climbing Coordinates, an installation by The Buckminster Fuller Institute's Prototype Program.
Ed Purver
Huge hands reach out of windows to create enigmatic messages in A Show Of Hands, a video installation by Ed Purver.
Riley Smith
With Confined Spaces, Riley Smith explores the relationship between the concept of time and the urban environment within a passageway.
Ryan Turner Roth
Come one, come all to see the endangered, caged, untamed Business Werewolf in Ryan Roth’s Stir Crazy. Performance times: Fri. 8-9PM; Sat. 12-9PM; Sun. 12-9PM
Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy
In the installation Floating Memory, Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy invites you to explore the fragile existence of memory through poetic flying handkerchiefs.
Scott Rummler
Eco-disco, by Scott Rummler, shows the upside in the dialogue between nature, technology, and culture.
Richard Schort
Music responds in real time: Tide, Weather, and Wake. Floating installation, shore-based classical instrumentation conducted by Richard Schort and local conditions.
Angela Silver
Angela Silver's Tercet critiques meaning in contemporary experience by usurping the ubiquitous traffic sign system through the replacement of text information with multi-lingual poetics.
Deborah Simon
Deborah Simon’s Northern Fur Seals dive from the ceiling, converting air into water, submerging you within their world.
Ted Southern
Imagine orbital structure and interspace function in the rotations of Ted Southern's solar-kinetic Satellites.
Andréa Stanislav
Andréa Stanislav's Reflect is an interactive walking sculpture involving both memory and literal reflectivity.
Ari Tabei
In Cocobuttons, Ari Tabei, as Shaman, performs her ritual play to connect her cocoon-sheltered reality to the world. Performance time: Sat. 7PM
Kazue Taguchi
Kazue Taguchi creates Spiral Columns installation, which shows the reflective material to its best advantage through its interaction with light.
Hidemi Takagi
Experience the multicolored, multicultured, gastronomic diversity of the boroughs of NYC with Hidemi Takagi's Blender. Performance times: Fri. 7-9PM; Sat. 1-3PM; Sun. 1-3PM
Karin I. Tehve
Karin Tehve’s Projections uses drawings of an existing architecture to mark the passage of festival-time.
Montana Torrey
Montana Torrey explores survivalist's strategies and struggles with impermanent materials in her hand-sewn piece, Tent City. Performance time: Sat. 1PM
Ian Trask
Waste Management, an installation by Ian Trask, grafts material waste and unused urban space, emphasizing the accumulated magnitude of what we throw away.
Gretchen Vitamvas
Gretchen Vitamvas considers women, war, and history as she blends into the background in Ghost. Performance Times: Sat. Sun. 12-4PM
Vydavy Sindikat
Vydavy Sindikat invites visitors into the world of Van Gogh's Prison Walk.
Edisa Weeks
Delirious Hair Designs - Redesign your hair (short, long or bald) into fantastical, playful hair sculptures by Edisa Weeks. Performance times: Sat. 1-6PM; Sun. 1-5PM
Sara Wentworth
Using live video feed, kal.eye.desc.optic, a work by Sarah Wentworth, creates a meditative environment through colorful, dynamic reflections of the park.
Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams’s grandiose photographic collage [FLō]-2 contemplates overlooked microcosmic internal and external neighborhood-specific moments.
Brian Wondergem
See the world as a semipermeable membrane in Brian Wondergem's Everyday Osmosis.
An Xiao
An Xiao helps visitors appreciate the skyline with an official sign and their cell phones in Phone-tastic View.
Chin Chih Yang
Using discarded found items to create his work, Human Sculpture, Yang encourages passersby to attach trash to his body in order to create a new suit of armor. Performance times: Sat. 1-5PM; Sun. 7-9:30PM
Jinjoo Yang
With Transparent Theatre, Jinjoo Yang brings varied dynamics between spectators and actors into corporeal and sensory dimension. Performance times: Fri. 6-11PM; Sat. Sun. 6-11PM
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