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| Showing All Projects scheduled for Saturday, June 12th 2010. "All Day" projects are listed after scheduled events. |
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Performance / Theatre
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Opera and Ballroom Dance by Rachel Smyth-Godinger and Carey Gordon
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Rachel Smyth-Godinger, Carey Gordon
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Friday: 10:00am to 11:30am, Saturday: 10:00am to 11:30am, |
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Rachel Smyth-Godinger is a young beautiful opera singer. Carey Gordon is a seasoned ballroom dance instructor and singer - Sinatra style.
http://www.ArtforHealingNYC.org
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Collectives
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The Cycle Trilogy - Letters to The White House
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Laura Barnett, Cora Fisher, Danielle Kourtesis
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Saturday: 10:00am to 6:00pm, |
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The Cycle Trilogy is a 3-part performance series (Staycation, Letters to The White House, and March) that interprets the concept of peace – personal, historic, and political. Visual elements – a white palette, circular formations, the transformation of everyday objects, and interactivity, connect the day-long performances. Letters to The White House (June 12): Write one idea you would like to see realized. We will mail.
http://andsoproductions.wordpress.com/
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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The Wildlab iPhone Bird Walk
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Wildlab
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Saturday: 10:30am to 12:00pm, |
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Join the Wildlab for an iPhone guided bird walk and engage in citizen science while collecting data for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology! The app walks you through the steps of bird identification and tags each sighting with date, time, location and weather data. The app, theWildlab.edu, is available for free in the iTunes store for those who have an iPhone or an iPod Touch. The Wildlab will also have iPhones and binoculars available for participants to borrow for the walk.
http://wildlab.org
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Children's Activities
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Brush Bot Painting
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Norm Sutaria
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Nolan Park
(KA-10)
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Brush bots are simple, elegant and, in the right hands, creative. Toothbrush heads, pager motors, batteries, double-sided tape, paper, paint and some wood combine to let you create quirky, autonomous paintings. Come see what Brush Bot Painting is all about and make your very own brush bot masterpiece!
http://www.solderingparty.com
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Children's Activities
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Bullseye's Adventure
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Ben Schneck
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Ben Schneck is 7 years old and painted on canvas a depiction of Bullseye, the cartoon character horse, on a fun adventure. Come visit his piece and interpret your own Bullseye Adventure on blank canvases attached with paint markers which he will have hanging near his artwork!
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Children's Activities
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CMA Free Arts Island Outpost
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Children’s Museum of the Arts
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Nolan Park
(KA-17)
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Friday: 11:00am to 3:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 3:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 3:00pm, |
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Join the Children's Museum of Art over FIGMENT Weekend to create large papier mâché puppets of woodland creatures and collaborative murals of their habitats! CMA will run outdoor art activities in Nolan Park every Friday through Sunday, from 11am to 3pm from June 5th-October 3rd. Tents house a variety of hands-on art activity stations for families. Under the guidance of our staff of professional Teaching Artists, the activities feature large collaborative art projects, music time, media arts and live performances.
http://www.cmany.org
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Children's Activities
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CircusYoga
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CircusYoga
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Nolan Park
(KA-03)
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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CircusYoga is an invitation. Artfully designed to engage all ages, CircusYoga blends the consciousness of yoga with the communal celebration of circus. Get ready to play. Come fly with acrobatics, experience partner yoga, juggle, hula hoop, or just clown around with us!
http://www.circusyoga.com
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Music
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DUSTIN EDGE
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DUSTIN EDGE
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Saturday: 11:00am to 12:00pm, |
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DUSTIN EDGE plays an acoustic set of his music at FIGMENT.
http://www.dustinedge.com
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Children's Activities
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Dancing Weavings
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Nancy Rakoczy
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Friday: All Day Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Dancing Weavings weaves discarded plastic bags on a giant loom, to later transform it into a flower, plant, insect or city shape, suggesting nature vs urban life. Bring along your unwanted plastic bags, and we'll cut and weave them onto the loom. The project is designed to draw attention to plastic waste around us, and one creative solution. Dancing Weavings could be considered a daughter of the project Dancing Ribbons of FIGMENT 2009. A big thank you to Queens Council on the Arts for the 2010 Queens Community Arts Fund Individual Artist Support grant supporting this project.
http://www.NancyRakoczy.com
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Dance
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Express Yourself in Dance
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Carey Gordon
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Saturday: 11:00am to 11:30am, |
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A presentation of ballroom dancing/ Latin by an accomplished dancer and teacher of ballroom dance, Latin dance and singer. All should learn how the healing power of the arts helps all. We all need to move and express ourselves through the arts.
http://www.CareyGordonEntertainment.com
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Children's Activities
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Fairy Doors
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Lisa Michelle
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Nolan Park
(KA-07)
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Fairy Doors are tiny portals through which mystical creatures can come and go. Come visit the Fairy Door map and discover where to search for these enchanted entrances! There you will find a place where the wee folk will know they are welcome. Learn to see with your imagination, and give yourself permission to believe!
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Children's Activities
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Fundred
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Fundred
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Colonels' Row
(KA-05)
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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The Fundred Dollar Bill Project is a nationwide effort led by artist Mel Chin to raise awareness of the threat of lead poisoning and collect the funds needed for a model remediation effort in New Orleans. Participants make Fundreds – original, hand-drawn interpretations of $100 bills. The goal is to collect over 3 million of these artworks—the equivalent of the $300 million required to make safe every lead-contaminated property in New Orleans. The drawings will ultimately be presented to the U.S. Congress with a request for an even exchange of Fundreds for real funding. Make a Fundred! Make a Difference!
http://www.fundred.org/
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Children's Activities
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Hoop it up
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Stefan Pildes
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Nolan Park
(KA-15)
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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GrooveHoops will offer free Hoop Making and Hula-Hoop lessons. We will be groovin' on the green all day on Saturday. Come and join us.
http://www.groovehoops.com
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Collectives
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Kostume Kult
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Kostume Kult
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Nolan Park
(CO-04)
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Saturday: 11:00am to 6:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 6:00pm, |
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Kostume Kult will be costuming kids and adults in wild and fantastic costumes!! Meanwhile, mad science experiments will be taking place with Dr. Adventure. Please come join us for costumes and science!!!!
http://www.kostumekult.com
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Music
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Left Me Bashful
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Left Me Bashful
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Saturday: 11:00am to 12:00pm, |
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Rock band Left Me Bashful has been making their way through the New York City music scene within the past year. With simple and sweet melodies, their sound can basically be described as singer/songwriter greets piano rock.
http://www.leftmebashful.com
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Children's Activities
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One Laptop per Child
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One Laptop per Child
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Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC NYC) invites you to create your own art and music with digital paintbrushes and music makers on our rugged green laptops, and communicate wirelessly and live with other kids, using solar-power! Build a colorful photo-tapestry together with other kids around the world, or work on a piece together with your new friends at FIGMENT! Our software empowers kids to take control of their own imaginations, and just Begin Creating! We spark young minds across Asia, Africa, Latin America and North American schools making it possible for kids to collaborate freely across continents. Seize your tools!
http://laptop.org
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Children's Activities
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Painted Socks
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Joey Kilrain
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Nolan Park
(KA-06)
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Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Painted Socks is back for its second year at FIGMENT. We provide the socks, you provide the creativity. We encourage visitors to paint socks and enjoy a funky good time with the creator of painting socks, Joey Kilrain. Once you've finished painting we'll hang the socks and let them air dry, creating a collective art experience. When not assisting young artists with their sock paintings, Joey will continue to create his own, working throughout the weekend and revealing his creative process.
http://kilrain.com/paintings/socks/
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Children's Activities
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Peace Cards
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Nadette Stasa in partnership with Josselyne Herman
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Colonels' Row
(KA-09)
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Friday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Inspired by Frank Warren's Post Secret. We invite children, families, and kids of all ages to create a Peace Promise post card sharing a Peace Promise, using recycled
postcards and other crafty materials. Peace Promises are created from that space of peace, oneness, honor, love, generosity, courage and possibility. As part of the collective art experience - the peace promises will be mounted for display for optimal sharing.
http://www.peacemuseumnewyork.org/Peace_Museum/Blank.html
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Children's Activities
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People Statements
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Stephanie Socolick, Stacey Kahn, Donna Alulema
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Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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Our project is impossible without the participation of FIGMENT visitors, who will lie down on the ground to form letters with their bodies, so we can ultimately spell out a sentence. We as people are living literature, living art; our bodies are just as expressive as our words, if not more so. We hope to place our finished sentence up on a website for all those who participated to view. There often is nothing more involved in all of the finest art than the beauty in the collaboration of people – what words can sum up anything more poignant?
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Children's Activities
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Silkscreen printing Tiger Dolls
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Peter W. Yip
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Nolan Park
(KA-11)
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Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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143 L.I.F.E and Dylated empower our youth through silkscreen printing. We teach kids and adults to silkscreen print their own tiger dolls in celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Tiger! Kids get to screen print and create their own tiger doll, and put on a puppet show with their new best friend around the theme “Dreams”! We aim to educate parents and kids about what they're wearing in terms of inks that are breathable and safe, and encourage others to support these types of inks so production facilities will have a safe and healthy work environment.
http://143life.wordpress.com/
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Performance / Theatre
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TOUCH
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Khadijah Queen
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Saturday: 11:00am to 12:30pm, 2:00pm to 3:30pm, 4:00pm to 5:30pm, |
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TOUCH explores issues of public intimacy as well as physical, racial and cultural boundaries when it comes to touching hair. This interactive performance makes sacred the touching of hair, creating a fun, awkward, and potentially transformative experience.
http://www.khadijahqueen.com
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Children's Activities
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The Rose Petal Project
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Rounder
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Nolan Park
(KA-14)
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Saturday: 11:00am to 5:00pm, |
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The Rose Petal Project is a 17 foot diameter dome filled with soft cushions and rose petals. Children (of all ages) play with the petals using them to cover themselves, throwing them up in the air like confetti, etc.
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Performance / Theatre
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Vocal Cartography - Session 3
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faye shapiro
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Friday: 11:30am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 1:30pm, Saturday: 11:30am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 1:30pm, Sunday: 11:30am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 1:30pm, |
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Vocal Cartography Sessions are simple unadorned explorations in search of a new earth. Using mainly the voice, movements, and any kinds of coordinates (candles, flags), the cartographer is migrating from her body, to different places in the space, marking emotional zones, unexpected rivers of vibrations, mapping the unknown lands of the soul. The sessions strive to always be different, incorporate the given space, the present people and the whole of multi-dimensional reality to an experience which plays with the borders between art, ritual-improvisation and science.
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Performance / Theatre
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The Afternoon Show
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Misadventurists Inc
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Saturday: 11:50am to 12:20pm, |
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A collection of short one-act plays written by, directed and acted by members of the New York City based company.
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Performance / Theatre
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BnDL for Govenors Island
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BnDL
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Friday: 12:00pm to 2:00pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 2:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am to 1:00pm, |
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BnDL is an improvisation based music group that utilizes the element of context to form sonic landscapes. The three person band enlists a variety of electronic and traditional musical devices to form "noise" that utilizes the direction and variables of existing sounds to suggest narrative forms generated by "place". If the word "noise" sounds harsh, the bi-line is quite musical as it can drift from “ambient dreamy” to “hardly detectable” to multi-textural and poly-rhythmic. All dependent on the arrangement of what "it" is responding to.
http://www.myspace.com/bndlsound
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Music
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Classical Guitar Journey From Spain to South America
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Joshua Tennent
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 1:00pm, |
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A classical guitar journey from Spain to South America. Joshua musically explores the vibrant and beautiful pieces of many prominent composers, such as Tarrega, Villa-Lobos, and Morel. He also expounds upon the fascinating musical history of the classical guitar as it has evolved from the early 1900's until the present time.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joshua-Tennent/111607448079
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Music
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DJ stage: Thinking & Thanking through Dance Music
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DJ Stage
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 6:00pm, |
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It may be that before there was a "thinking" there was a "thanking". Heidegger, for instance, explores the relationship of the German "dinke" (to think) to an older word "danke" (to thank). (Maybe the most lyrical imagining is the animistic hunter-gatherer, thanking for the fruit of the world, not yet sacrificing its interrelatedness for the utility of categorization). What is lost in modern thinking’s divorce from thankfulness? How do our relationships change when we relate thankfully? We challenge an eclectic group of DJs with these questions. You are invited to dance your answers. Curated by Justin Lange.
11:00 Djuice. Awakening the island to a day of thought and thanks. 11:30 Djuice 12:30 Arman & Ali 1:30 Malodorous 2:30 Morphous et ShiZaru 3:45 Vish 4:30 SuKhush (including live flute and violin) 5:30 Djuice. We gratefully begin to put the island to rest. |
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Children's Activities
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Doodleto DaBeat
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Barbara Russell aka Ms. B The Doodle Queen
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Nolan Park
(KA-01)
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Friday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, |
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I take a daily mind bath to rinse away negativity, doubt or fear, and create a series of abstract whimsical doodle paintings as my alter ego Ms. B. The Doodle Queen. In my workshop Doodle to DaBeat I demonstrate my artistic process exploring techniques to release stress. By listening to music participants may find their internal artistic GPS system to produce freestyle nonjudgmental artistic work. Using kindergarten art tools and recycled materials mini-doodle paintings become part of 3 day collaborative artistic assemblage. Will it reveal a common human thread for love, joy and peace in their lives? Let’s find out.
http://www.harlemaa.org
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Children's Activities
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Figment Forest
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Meki Tate
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Nolan Park
(KA-08)
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:30pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 5:30pm, |
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Figment Forest is an interactive project that focuses on the concept of creating green spaces in everyday life. Participants are invited to paint a lush forest of trees, flora and fauna, transforming an otherwise ordinary surface into something extraordinary. A manifestation of the imagination, Figment Forest is fun for the whole family. Figment Forest is supported by the members of the Playa Hot Schezuan Supper Club.
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/group.php?gid=258526853862&ref=ts
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Performance / Theatre
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Hey, Gurl, Hey: What’s Your Problem?
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Jack and Gus
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Nolan Park
(PT-08)
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Friday: 12:00pm to 3:00pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 3:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 3:00pm, |
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Is there a burning question you’ve always wanted to ask? Is there a life issue that you’re dealing with that you have not been able to handle? Join Jack and Gus as they impart the wisdom of the ages upon you. After their years of extensive training in the art and science of telling people about themselves, Jack and Gus have decided to go public and help heal the world. Speaking through their magical megaphones, they will enlighten you and share their wealth of knowledge… If you’re deemed worthy of their time and breath, that is. Interested? We thought so….
http://www.heygurlheyshow.com
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Children's Activities
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Mad Hatter's Tea Party
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Emma Komlos-Hrobsky & Anna Lindemann
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Nolan Park
(KA-04)
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Millinery merry-making and tea consuming come together in an event inspired by the antics of Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter. We offer the supplies and crafting wisdom for all tea party guests to make their own whimsical, inventive hats out of paper. We’ll wear them as we sip our Rooibos and sweet teas and pen poems that draw on Lewis Carroll’s irreverent wordplay. At the end of the event, we’ll document our escapades with a group photo, and all guests will get to depart in their hats and thus bring a piece of mad millinery to the city at large.
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Performance / Theatre
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Magikal Charm
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Magikal Charm
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Friday: 12:00pm to 12:30pm, 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 12:30pm, 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 12:30pm, 4:00pm to 4:30pm, |
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Turn of the Century Beat Poet, MAGIKAL CHARM, conjures alter-ego La Bauta's Strangely Beautiful Vision of the Transfigurative Power of conscious Re-Birth Experiences as recorded in The Book Of The Dead.
http://www.magikalcharm.com
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Children's Activities
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Make A Snailarium!
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Wild Gotham
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Nolan Park
(KA-18)
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Friday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Children of all ages! Have fun upcycling cardboard boxes to make your own DIY house for a garden snail! Miss Fran, of web show Wild Gotham, teaches how to make a plush house for a snail, adorned with natural, compostable elements. Learn fun facts about snails – NYC's ubiquitous urban creatures. We'll bring the snails, which are friendly, disease free and full of love (if the weather is too hot, the snails stay home but we'll tell you where to find them in NYC). Experimental folk band Goddess will perform an acoustic song cycle about snails written especially for Wild Gotham.
http://www.wildgotham.com
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Collectives
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Make it HappenTM
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Make It HappenTM
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Nolan Park
(CO-05)
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Are you having trouble achieving your goals? Do you have big dreams, but lack the tools to achieve them? The experts of Make It HappenTM are here to help! We are an office, workshop, laboratory, performance, ritual experience. Our facilitators provide advice and motivation so that you can articulate your dream, commit to it, and achieve it. Make It HappenTM is the work of artists Tracy Gilman, Lauren Silberman, and researcher-writer Dr. David Schleifer. MIH emerged from their realization that the ability to achieve our goals and dreams lies within ourselves. No more fear. No more procrastinating: Make it Happen!
http://makeithappentm.wordpress.com/
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Children's Activities
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ReCYCLED CITYSCAPE
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PS 28Q Second Grade Artists
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Nolan Park
(KA-13)
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Come build your own city with our interactive sculpture consisting of brightly painted and embellished recycled plastic bottles created by 2nd grade students from P.S. 28Q, The Thomas Emanual ECC! Each bottle represents a city building that will be on a platform donated by the I Made an Art Gallery in Brooklyn. Participants who interact with the installation can play with the "buildings" to create evolving cities or cityscapes in "cycles".
http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/24/Q028/default.htm
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Children's Activities
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The Agency
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The Agency featuring Rachel Walker
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, |
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The Agency is a group of music producers/musicians that provide a live band experience for artists. At FIGMENT they will be featuring R&B artist Rachel Walker. Come hear them play while you screen print your tiger dolls with Peter Yip!
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Music
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The Happy Problem
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The Happy Problem
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 1:00pm, |
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Indiepunk power quartet The Happy Problem write energetic, addictive tunes. Frontwoman Sam Shaber cut her teeth on the national indie troubadour circuit before trading in her Martin for a Telecaster and a really good time. And The Happy Problem are on a roll. Don't miss a chance to see this band live, and get your happy back!
http://www.thehappyproblem.com
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Dance
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Unseen Dances
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Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums (in collaboration with installation artist Noah Baen)
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Waterfront
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Friday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Sunday: 1:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Audience members are blindfolded. Dancers reveal themselves and define speed, space, location, distance, architecture and bodily effort through sound, touch, heat, smell, vibration, and air currents. Unseen Dances evokes un-socialized instincts which jostle with context, memory, metaphor and imagery. "You, the audience, blindfold yourself. Dissolve the view; now we are tethered in other ways. I brush you. If your skin quivers, have you danced? I move; your eardrums vibrate. Did I dance you? If our thermometers rise, who was in the driver’s seat? Move over there. If we soften, did we change states?"
Listed times denote Open Studio drop-in hours and Performance times.
http://www.danasalisbury.com
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Children's Activities
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Wildlife Activities from the Zoo
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Prospect Park Zoo Volunteers
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Nolan Park
(KA-12)
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Friday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 2:00pm, |
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Step right up and play the Prospect Park Zoo’s Wheel of Animals! Spin the Wheel, test your animal knowledge, get prizes and see some amazing animal bio facts! Then create your own Animal Artwork using stencils and your imagination!
http://www.prospectparkzoo.com
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Trystette+BobbieRae
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Trystette+BobbieRae
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Nolan Park
(AW-13)
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Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Building upon Carrie Beehan’s 2009 FIGMENT performance of “Singer in New York”, Trystette+BobbieRae (T+BR) collaborate with the painter in a participatory audio/visual experience joining PERFORMANCE and PAINTING. Visual and audio elements tie points together encouraging viewer participation. Music by T+BR supports creation of rhythm and music. In an alcove, shrouded with red fabric, kids and adults can rap, sing, speak, play or interact together in a communal ritual. Participants watch the PAINTING environment expand through actual live PERFORMANCE. T+BR are extensions of the canvas, adorned in costumes inspired by the PAINTING – transforming the environment into an inter-active, living piece.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/part-of-figment-2010-trident-concept-carrie-beehan.html
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Performance / Theatre
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Fully Improvised Musical
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Los Banditos Del Canto
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Saturday: 12:20pm to 1:00pm, |
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Los Banditos del Canto is a New York based musical improv comedy group here to tell stories and steal your hearts with song and dance made up on the spot! Based off an audience suggestion, Los Banditos will spin a fascinating tale with protagonists, antagonists, and henchmen characters. This improvised musical show will dazzle from start to finish with a memorable story, sultry dance numbers, flirty lyrics and catchy tunes you'll be humming on your way home!
http://www.tinyurl.com/losbanditos
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Izzi Ramkissoon and his Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble
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Izzi Ramkissoon and his Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble
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Saturday: 12:30pm to 1:00pm, 3:30pm to 4:00pm, |
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The EEME Workshop is comprised of a flexible group of musicians including strings, woodwinds, percussion, electronics, and visual artists dedicated to using experimental and extended techniques to perform the multimedia, electro-acoustic, improvisatory works of bandleader and artistic director Izzi Ramkissoon. Through innovative practices, inter-disciplinary collaborations and performances in non-traditional venues Izzi and his EEME brings new experimental music to new audiences. Izzi Ramkissoon and his EEME perform the electro-acoustic multimedia works of Izzi Ramkissoon with featured guest composers and performers.
http://www.vimeo.com/izziramkissoon/videos
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Children's Activities
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Chakra Kids Music
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Chakra Kids Music w/ Bobby & Ken
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Nolan Park
(KA-02)
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 1:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Employing song, dance and chakra based exercises, Chakra Kids Music is the newest and perhaps most revolutionary Mommy & Me Music and Movement program. We focus on sharing, love, joy and happiness in this Mommy & Me based program. Using only top-of-the-line toys, live music and spiritual yet accessible activities, we are able to teach kids music, movement and the importance of growth and learning!
http://www.chakrakidsmusic.com
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Children's Activities
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Face painting
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Sweetpea the clown
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Nolan Park
(KA-16)
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 4:00pm, Sunday: 1:00pm to 4:00pm, |
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Sweetpea the clown has been entertaining for the last 10 years and will perform at FIGMENT, painting faces and bringing smiles to the young and old.
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Music
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Island Chains
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Manhattan Taiko & Boundless Percussion
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 2:00pm, |
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Taiko is the Japanese word for “drum” and the name for a style of Japanese drumming. It is also a connector, a bridge between worlds. In this case, Manhattan Taiko & Boundless Percussion are bringing taiko to this festival in an effort to reach across the globe to connect the island nation of Japan with New York City's first island. Afterward, Boundless Percussion with lead a workshop for all ages. We will learn the rudiments of taiko and even compose a short piece honoring Governors Island. All ages, skill levels and experience are welcome!
http://www.boundlesspercussion.com
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Dance
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Synopses
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Catherine Gallant/DANCE
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 3:00pm, |
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Dancer Michelle Cohen performs a new work by choreographer Catherine Gallant. The dance is conceived to be presented in non-traditional spaces which can vary in size, surface texture, lighting, sound and ambience. The solo addresses both the exterior environment and internal landscape to connect space, dancer and observers in moments of unexpected intimacy. Music is by award winning composer Lisa Bielawa.
http://www.catherinegallantdance.com
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Performance / Theatre
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The Re-Interpretation of Dreams: A Psycho-Musical-Poetic Interactive Exploration
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Abraham Nowitz and Aaron Finbloom
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 1:30pm, 2:00pm to 2:30pm, 3:00pm to 3:30pm, |
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In this two-part performance, Abraham Nowitz (experimental poet, conceptual artist) and Aaron Finbloom (experimental musician, performance artist) will poke fun at and have fun with Sigmund Freud. In part one, Nowitz will allow visitors to broaden the horizons of his poetic erasure project Interpretation of Dreams by having them create their own poems by erasing pages of Freud’s book and then psychoanalyze those poems in short sessions. In part two, visitors will select cards with Freudian terms and pathologies on them for Finbloom, armed with his accordion and operatic voice to enact and embody via an improvised musical action.
http://www.abe.nowitz.com
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Music
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Third Cortez
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Jack Buckett (Vocals, Guitar)
Alex Lawry-White (Bass, Vocals)
Joseph Reeves (Drums)
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 2:00pm, |
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Fresh from their run of London gigs, they've set off to New York to chase the elusive dream that is banging and/or strumming on things whilst singing and grinning like chimps. In their time they have been called “scoundrels”, “drunks”, “poets” and “a bit like Pearl Jam”. To discern if these statements are in fact true, you will have to get your hands out of your pants, open your ear holes and prepare for a promising blend of large riffs, troubled lyricism and heel stomping melodies.
http://www.myspace.com/thirdcortez, http://www.potioncollective.com/
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Dance
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Tribal Fusion Bellydance
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Alchemy Tribal Collective
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 1:30pm, |
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The Alchemy Tribal Collective is a contemporary world fusion dance company that celebrates the alchemy of tradition and innovation, tribal and urban, ritual and spectacle. ATC’s work is developed from a strong foundation in tribal and tribal fusion belly dance as well as elements of traditional and modern dance and movement from around the world. Tribal Fusion Bellydance is a 15-20 minute stage set with 6-10 dancers.
http://www.alchemyperformance.com
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Performance / Theatre
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Vocal Cartography - Session 3
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faye shapiro
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Friday: 11:30am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 1:30pm, Saturday: 11:30am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 1:30pm, Sunday: 11:30am to 12:00pm, 1:00pm to 1:30pm, |
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Vocal Cartography Sessions are simple unadorned explorations in search of a new earth. Using mainly the voice, movements, and any kinds of coordinates (candles, flags), the cartographer is migrating from her body, to different places in the space, marking emotional zones, unexpected rivers of vibrations, mapping the unknown lands of the soul. The sessions strive to always be different, incorporate the given space, the present people and the whole of multi-dimensional reality to an experience which plays with the borders between art, ritual-improvisation and science.
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Performance / Theatre
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Peter's Flight
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The Real Theatre Company
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Friday: 1:00pm, Saturday: 1:00pm, Sunday: 1:00pm, |
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The Real Theatre Company is honored to present our street-styled performance of Peter Pan, with heavy audience interaction & maximum playfulness. The twelve performers involve onlookers in all parts of the adventure - told through text, original music on homemade instruments, improvisation and dance. We’ve been developing this piece as a collective for a few months now, and are thrilled to present it in its complete, tech-free glory at FIGMENT. All song, light, and flight come completely from the teamwork of the performers. There will be paint, stilts, glitter and most importantly: pirates!
http://www.realtheatrecompany.com
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Nectar Bats
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Nectar Bats - John Bowman Chris Balint
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Friday: 1:30pm to 2:30pm, 4:30pm to 5:00pm, Saturday: 1:30pm to 2:00pm, 4:30pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 10:00am to 11:30am, 1:30pm to 2:30pm, |
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For FIGMENT NYC, Nectar Bats will collaborate with Lightning Chasers to create temporary spaces, some of which are spontaneous, some of which play with the imagery, sounds and phenomena of cloud to ground lightning. Lightning Chasers are a small sect of lightning worshipers who convene during inclement weather events for lightning themed activities. They provide support and mutual aid for lightning enthusiasts and strike survivors in the form of interactive information and lightning themed programming.
http://www.myspace.com/mondowaves
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Performance / Theatre
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The Clown's Dream
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The WonderFool Theater Group in association with ABC (A Band of Clowns)
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Saturday: 1:30pm to 1:45pm, Sunday: 1:30pm to 1:45pm, |
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Does the Dream meet Reality, or does Reality meet the Dream? An interactive wandering playground that happens anywhere and everywhere. Find them if you can, or they might find you - either way, if you see them feel free to stop and play. You are as much part of the game as we are; the game is life, the goal is...
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Performance / Theatre
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Olly Olly In Free!
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Kitchen Sink Arts Ensemble
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Friday: 2:00pm to 2:30pm, Saturday: 1:45pm to 2:30pm, |
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Olly Olly In Free explores NYC’s hidden characters bringing them to life through their stories by using masks, movement, and creative play. Our piece seeks to find the beautiful, engaging, heart warming and amusing moments that sometimes pass us by and encourage everyone to stop and notice our world, and each other. We will end with a short mask workshop, where audience members will have an opportunity to explore some of the characters they see in NYC and learn the basics of masks and physical theatre.
http://www.wix.com/kfmchale/kylamchale
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Music
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Elissa Weiss, Voice and Harp
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Elissa Weiss
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Saturday: 2:00pm to 3:00pm, |
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Elissa Weiss, Voice and Harp is a concert of music for voice and harp - Medieval, Renaissance, and folk music.
http://harpediem.com/
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Music
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Glockabelle
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Glockabelle
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Roving
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Saturday: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Me + 3 pocket calculator keyboards + 3 mini amps playing 8 bit style music that will make you want to gallop around Governors Island like Super Mario in the bonus round.
http://www.myspace.com/glockabelle
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Performance / Theatre
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Keynote
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John Harrison
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Saturday: 2:00pm to 2:30pm, |
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Performance / Theatre
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TOUCH
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Khadijah Queen
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Saturday: 11:00am to 12:30pm, 2:00pm to 3:30pm, 4:00pm to 5:30pm, |
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TOUCH explores issues of public intimacy as well as physical, racial and cultural boundaries when it comes to touching hair. This interactive performance makes sacred the touching of hair, creating a fun, awkward, and potentially transformative experience.
http://www.khadijahqueen.com
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Performance / Theatre
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The Re-Interpretation of Dreams: A Psycho-Musical-Poetic Interactive Exploration
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Abraham Nowitz and Aaron Finbloom
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 1:30pm, 2:00pm to 2:30pm, 3:00pm to 3:30pm, |
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In this two-part performance, Abraham Nowitz (experimental poet, conceptual artist) and Aaron Finbloom (experimental musician, performance artist) will poke fun at and have fun with Sigmund Freud. In part one, Nowitz will allow visitors to broaden the horizons of his poetic erasure project Interpretation of Dreams by having them create their own poems by erasing pages of Freud’s book and then psychoanalyze those poems in short sessions. In part two, visitors will select cards with Freudian terms and pathologies on them for Finbloom, armed with his accordion and operatic voice to enact and embody via an improvised musical action.
http://www.abe.nowitz.com
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Collectives
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Wonderland on Governors Island
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Wonderland on Governors Island
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Friday: 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Saturday: 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Sunday: 1:00pm to 2:00pm, |
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Enter a world filled with magic and mystery providing a feast for your senses, and a senseless good time. Join Alice at the Mad Hatter's Imaginary Tea Party where flamingos dance amongst fantastical friends. Who will be at the tea party?
http://www.nywonderland.com
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Music
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ZXL
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Zack Hagan, Alan Denniberg, Wayan Zoey
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Saturday: 2:00pm to 3:00pm, |
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Live Improvisational Electronica, you bring the human, we provide the machine. ZXL is a blend of many disparate electronic dance music genres, we started to rock in the 90s and now in the 10s we rock even harder, we do electronica like it was meant to be done, LIVE. Our dance music is not constrained by pre-recorded material and we don't spend the whole set bent over a laptop, we play it like a rock band of very sophisticated robots.
http://www.zxlmusic.net
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Dance
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Vain Combat
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Emily Pope-Blackman, Josh Palmer, Jake Szczypek, Tony Bordonaro, JinJu Song-Begin, Jules Bakshi, Robbie Cook, Dani Vialpando, Jordan Kriston, Paul Singh
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Friday: 2:00pm, Saturday: 2:00pm, |
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Vain Combat is a group dance responding to my shoulder being bumped on Manhattan streets by spatially challenged shoppers/walkers/tourists, needless, war-machine-driven killing by our government abroad, and other less than sufficiently considered aggression in between. I enlist the piece, for the sake of exposure and understanding, to step in stride with them. I believe in art as a discrete arena for the maximum refinement of myriad varieties of emotion through non-referential form. But after so many years, I’m curious after the result of placing aesthetic pressure on the negative side of human behavior.
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Groovy Hand
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Hueytang TSAI (Roger)
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Saturday: 2:30pm to 3:00pm, Sunday: 4:30pm to 5:00pm, |
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Groovy Hand is a multimedia performance with a self-created DJ interface that allows the DJ to perform music with gesture art. His hand gestures & head shaking manipulate the music. These gestures not only visualize how DJs play music; they also ask for sound from the audience to generate an interactive entertaining experience.
http://rogertsai.com
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Performance / Theatre
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Sunshine
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Art for Change/CALLE
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Saturday: 2:30pm to 3:00pm, |
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Sunshine is a participatory performance, or cantastoria, that tells the story of the Screechies and the HupHups, two fuzzy ethnic groups who occupy the same fictional planet. When one group decides they want all the warm sunshine for themselves, the delicate balance of life is disrupted. This story, created by Art for Change artists and educators, invites the audience to come together in art-making, while considering the causes and effects of immigration, the sharing of resources, and how we can work together to address common problems, and improve the quality of life for everyone.
http://www.artforchange.org
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Music
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Bassentric
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Albey Balgochian's Bassentric
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Saturday: 3:00pm to 4:00pm, |
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Albey's Bassentric is 3 NYC acoustic bassists (Albey Balgochian, Francois Grillot & Hill Greene), exploring guided imagery. Evolving from Albey's narratives they improvised Sound Art Pieces. This powerful combination of bassists with spoken word artist (Jane Grenier B.) and guest (dancer, musician or poet) brings art to all the senses.
http://www.bassentric.com
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Performance / Theatre
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CONFLUENCE
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HarmattanTheater
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Friday: 3:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday: 3:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday: 3:00pm to 6:00pm, |
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CONFLUENCE is a ritual of duration by Harmattan Theater, an ecological performance group interested in the future of islands, piers and waterfronts. Drawing on the poetry of Heinrich Heine, Walt Whitman, Dante Alighieri and environmental theater traditions, the ensemble piece invokes Governors Island’s past as indigenous settlement and confederate prison, appeasing its disturbed spirits with a water ritual. Walking along the island’s waterline, the performance is a marking of the Hudson River's hydrological vulnerability. CONFLUENCE is directed by May Joseph.
http://www.harmattantheater.org
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Music
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Mighty Fine
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Mighty Fine
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Saturday: 3:00pm to 4:00pm, |
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Rock/soul band.
http://www.myspace.com/mightyfine
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Performance / Theatre
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The Plot Project
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Curious Wheel Productions
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Friday: 2:30pm to 3:00pm, Saturday: 3:00pm to 3:30pm, Sunday: 1:45pm to 2:30pm, |
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You know the story of Romeo & Juliet, right? And Rapunzel of course. And who hasn’t seen (or is at least vaguely familiar with) Star Wars? The Plot Project is a team of performers acting out classic tales… but only as much of it as the audience can recall! (Okay, we’ll help you out if you get REALLY stuck.) From fairy tales to blockbusters and everything in between, we’ll let luck pick the story and see how much you can remember. So brush up your Shakespeare, your Lucas, your Austen and your Ephron for hysterical, interactive entertainment!
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Performance / Theatre
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The Re-Interpretation of Dreams: A Psycho-Musical-Poetic Interactive Exploration
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Abraham Nowitz and Aaron Finbloom
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Saturday: 1:00pm to 1:30pm, 2:00pm to 2:30pm, 3:00pm to 3:30pm, |
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In this two-part performance, Abraham Nowitz (experimental poet, conceptual artist) and Aaron Finbloom (experimental musician, performance artist) will poke fun at and have fun with Sigmund Freud. In part one, Nowitz will allow visitors to broaden the horizons of his poetic erasure project Interpretation of Dreams by having them create their own poems by erasing pages of Freud’s book and then psychoanalyze those poems in short sessions. In part two, visitors will select cards with Freudian terms and pathologies on them for Finbloom, armed with his accordion and operatic voice to enact and embody via an improvised musical action.
http://www.abe.nowitz.com
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Dance
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Flocking Movement Installations
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Alchemy Tribal Collective
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Saturday: 3:00pm, |
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The Alchemy Tribal Collective is a contemporary world fusion dance company that celebrates the alchemy of tradition and innovation, tribal and urban, ritual and spectacle. ATC’s work is developed from a strong foundation in tribal and tribal fusion belly dance as well as elements of traditional and modern dance and movement from around the world. Flocking Movement Installations is a roving group improvisation that will involve a group of 3-6 dancers who will move around the festival grounds and do several short "flocking movement installations".
http://www.alchemyperformance.com
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Izzi Ramkissoon and his Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble
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Izzi Ramkissoon and his Electric Eel Multimedia Ensemble
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Saturday: 12:30pm to 1:00pm, 3:30pm to 4:00pm, |
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The EEME Workshop is comprised of a flexible group of musicians including strings, woodwinds, percussion, electronics, and visual artists dedicated to using experimental and extended techniques to perform the multimedia, electro-acoustic, improvisatory works of bandleader and artistic director Izzi Ramkissoon. Through innovative practices, inter-disciplinary collaborations and performances in non-traditional venues Izzi and his EEME brings new experimental music to new audiences. Izzi Ramkissoon and his EEME perform the electro-acoustic multimedia works of Izzi Ramkissoon with featured guest composers and performers.
http://www.vimeo.com/izziramkissoon/videos
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Dance
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Passage to Marrakech
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C. Eule Dance
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Saturday: 3:30pm to 4:00pm, |
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FIGMENT offers a special preview of Passage to Marrakech. Created to music by Pharaoh’s Daughter which infuses traditionally-inspired Jewish music with Arabic and African rhythms, the choreography is set to six pieces of their music and also blends Middle Eastern and Judaic themes and movement with contemporary dance vocabulary. After the performance, I will conduct a workshop where we teach some of the movement to the audience.
http://www.ceuledance.org/
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Collectives
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BATOY
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La Madre Fuerza/Cumba Mela
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Saturday: 4:00pm to 6:00pm, |
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BATOY is an art collective building community in NYC creating a collaborative integrated culture of fearless expression of Self. BATOY re-produces a SACRED WATER CEREMONY, based on indigenous practices of South America, with a New York twist of creative celebration. The ceremony is acted out as a performance piece RITUAL and spans the length of time of 15 minutes (give or take). Participants range from between 15-25. All are dressed in sacred indigenous gear; sacred instruments are played, there is chanting, and the entire procession is based on the sanctity of WATER.
http://www.xango2012.com
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Performance / Theatre
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Magikal Charm
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Magikal Charm
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Friday: 12:00pm to 12:30pm, 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Saturday: 12:00pm to 12:30pm, 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Sunday: 12:00pm to 12:30pm, 4:00pm to 4:30pm, |
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Turn of the Century Beat Poet, MAGIKAL CHARM, conjures alter-ego La Bauta's Strangely Beautiful Vision of the Transfigurative Power of conscious Re-Birth Experiences as recorded in The Book Of The Dead.
http://www.magikalcharm.com
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Music
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Me & Mars
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Me & Mars
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Saturday: 4:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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Me&Mars is a 3 piece live band. Fronted by 2 Japanese girls, it plays groovy rock with ear soothing ambient effects by a Colombian guitarist. Most originally, the main singer plays a stand-up drum kit while she sings. It has a retro feeling with the newest ethnic faces, and the sound itself is very tight; the songs are more conceptual than usual.
http://www.myspace.com/metomars
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Dance
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SPORK, Break(fast) & Left Overs
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GoGoVertigoat Dance and/ or Performance
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Friday: 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Saturday: 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 2:00pm to 3:00pm, |
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SPORK, Break(fast), & Left Overs is an attempt to “serve” people with a dining and dancing experience while concurrently addressing our survival through food heritage and culture. The project includes three distinct meal-as-performance events. SPORK, Break(fast), & Left Overs works with chefs to host interactive performance meals and public cooking classes.
http://gogovertigoat.org
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Performance / Theatre
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TOUCH
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Khadijah Queen
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Saturday: 11:00am to 12:30pm, 2:00pm to 3:30pm, 4:00pm to 5:30pm, |
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TOUCH explores issues of public intimacy as well as physical, racial and cultural boundaries when it comes to touching hair. This interactive performance makes sacred the touching of hair, creating a fun, awkward, and potentially transformative experience.
http://www.khadijahqueen.com
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Music
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The Baobabs
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The Baobabs
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Saturday: 4:00pm to 5:00pm, |
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The Baobabs are an up and coming band knocking down doors in NYC. Their style of music combines: rock, blues, funk, soul, jazz, ballad, etc. While defying a genre label, The Bourbon Shakes bring a great compilation of styles and influences to the ears. Indeed, they will take you to the back door of the speakeasy and the only secret knock you need for access to this smoldering stew of soulful music is the love of the unique, independent musician.
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Dance
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Fond Thoughts
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Anna Marie Shogren
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Friday: 4:00pm, Saturday: 4:00pm, |
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The work is the collection of movement and fond thoughts made while ingesting the surreal landscape, small town life, and cultural misappropriation I found while working in Skagastrond, Iceland. It takes the shape of a shifting chain of images, cool stances of teenage boys in ‘80s punk bands, sincere country line dancing, and shadow dancing to Paul Simon work, with accessible style and a sweet driving beat. The extras will serve both as an abstract sculptural installation and a culturally specific cast of characters. The work is emotionally catching and fun, perhaps a little like love, or at least fondness.
http://www.mnartists.org/anna_marie_shogren
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Dance
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I am Lady
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Keeley Walsh
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Saturday: 4:00pm, Sunday: 2:30pm to 3:00pm, |
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Join four ladies in search of independence and affirmation. Rain boots, plastic bags and training wheels “disguise” their intentions while they distract themselves from what they truly want. The fiery sounds of Eartha Kitt, Nina Simone and Edith Piaf follow them through an evolution in and out of reckless and bolstering behaviors. Domineering tactics eventually give way to deep vulnerability. The dance is juxtaposed by a video of the ladies overlooking a male character. The allusion of the strict female disposition is shattered as the ladies dance together in a culmination of quirky assertiveness and luscious abandon.
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Dance
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Winter in the Belly of a Snake
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KOREresponse
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Saturday: 4:00pm, |
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Come witness KOREresponse inhabit GOVERNORS ISLAND as we breathe fresh movement and offer a new outlook on the boundaries of performance. Become a part of a story that’s 1 part choreography, 1 part improvisation and 9 parts unique perspective. KOREresponse captures the mystery, sensuality and spirit of live performance. We discover new forces connecting our human spirits and desires to move. Our work reflects every factor of being human while aiming to live on the outer limits of our capability. We hope to foster unique relationships with our audience as we grow together and share in the experience of performing.
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=3299
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Dance
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Myopia Youropia
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Amy L. Baumgarten
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Saturday: 4:30pm to 6:30pm, Sunday: 4:30pm to 6:30pm, |
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“Myopia Youropia” expands and contracts space between two moving figures. As they dance, the space between them dances, occasionally rendering their image amorphous. Other moments, the lines created by the movers are starkly contrasted by the space they hold. Consequently, a sense of alienation overtakes their movement. Catch the roaming dancers throughout the island. Their dance changes as their environment changes. Draw close to see how your proximity affects their behavior. Watch from afar to see how they interact with the broader environment. Manipulate the surroundings: dance between or around the movers, sing, or allow them to interact with you.
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Nectar Bats
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Nectar Bats - John Bowman Chris Balint
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Friday: 1:30pm to 2:30pm, 4:30pm to 5:00pm, Saturday: 1:30pm to 2:00pm, 4:30pm to 5:00pm, Sunday: 10:00am to 11:30am, 1:30pm to 2:30pm, |
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For FIGMENT NYC, Nectar Bats will collaborate with Lightning Chasers to create temporary spaces, some of which are spontaneous, some of which play with the imagery, sounds and phenomena of cloud to ground lightning. Lightning Chasers are a small sect of lightning worshipers who convene during inclement weather events for lightning themed activities. They provide support and mutual aid for lightning enthusiasts and strike survivors in the form of interactive information and lightning themed programming.
http://www.myspace.com/mondowaves
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Dance
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Shake The Island
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Step Brothers
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Saturday: 4:30pm to 5:00pm, |
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Matt N Danny is an all male tap group in NYC that is building a new show called “Step Brothers”. We began as street and subway performers and have now built a performance company that does outreach in local schools, benefits, and performances. We take our show to Governors Island doing a performance and then a rhythmic dance workshop. Participants will learn about the progression/history of tap and then have the opportunity to learn basic tap, hambone (body rhythms), et cetera... Get people up and moving!
http://www.mattndanny.com
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Dance
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(In)Decision
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Micheline Heal
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Saturday: 4:30pm, |
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(In)Decision divides the audience’s attention between two performers performing in duet with each other, yet solo in two separate performance spaces. Using music theory analysis of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 as a compositional score with the performers dancing without acknowledgement of each other, the piece challenges the audience to decide what to focus on and where to look.
http://www.michelineheal.com
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Children's Activities
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Interactive Folktale Theatre
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Kristin Pedemonti
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Saturday: 4:45pm to 5:15pm, Sunday: 5:45pm to 6:00pm, |
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~~ Join Kristin and Folktale Theatre in Nolan Park when she's not on stage. Visitors can participate in the magic of storytelling Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. ~~ Interactive Folktale Theatre; take a journey around the world through story! Professional Storyteller Kristin Pedemonti plays narrator and the entire audience helps tell the tales, participating through call & response and creating sound effects. Volunteers become characters on-stage using simple costume pieces. Learn the Elephant’s Secret and take a journey to the Magic Lake at the End of the Earth. Pedemonti builds bridges between cultures illustrating our interconnectedness through the power of story. ~~ Join Kristin and Folktale Theatre in Nolan Park when she's not on stage. Visitors can participate in the magic of storytelling Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. ~~
http://www.storytellerkp.com
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Music
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Livedraw: Comandante Zero w/ 0h10M1ke
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Comandante Zero w/0h10M1ke
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Saturday: 5:00pm to 6:00pm, |
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Brooklyn electro/funk bass/drum/laptop duo Comandante Zero will perform a set of live music with Brooklyn artist 0h10M1ke. 0h10M1ke will draw each song live on a Wacom Tablet in real time illustrating the entire set.
http://www.comandantezero.com
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Music
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Morphogenic Fields
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Morphogenic Fields
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Saturday: 5:00pm to 6:00pm, |
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Morphogenic Fields explores the idea that sonic energy fields have character and are capable of transmitting feeling. We are interested in hyper-dimensional intelligence, the intelligence which exists all around us. Much in the way that it is possible that a homing pigeon has access to a global map, generated by the collective experiences of every pigeon that has ever lived, we act on intuition. The sense of intuition is the nexus of Morphogenic Fields’ conceptual basis for their sound.
http://www.synaptictransfer.com
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Dance
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Is this space taken?
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Xodus dance collective
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Friday: 3:00pm to 3:15pm, Saturday: 5:30pm to 5:45pm, |
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A warm sunny day in the park. A blanket, a picnic and a spot of grass. Is this space taken? is a glimpse at the need for solidarity and companionship in the same instance. An interplay of chance interactions that lead to parallel experiences and a shared appreciation for time.
http://www.karengayle.com
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Mini-Golf
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01 Hall of Nations
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KD Derr, Philip Sikkema, and Rolf Levenbach
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-01)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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No trip to the World’s Fair is complete without a visit to the Hall of Nations showcasing flags from all of the nations represented within the grounds. Hall of Nations is designed to allow players to explore optics and have fun at the same time. It uses mirrors to create the optical illusion of infinite flags.
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Mini-Golf
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02 The Yellow Brick Road
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SLOPE (Samuel Sherman and Jacquelyn Strycker)
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-02)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The hot air balloon rides and Midway of the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893 inspired L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Our mini-golf hole, in turn, also takes these elements as its inspiration. A spiraling yellow turf leads to the hole located beneath the basket of a hot air balloon. The balloon is made from recycled umbrellas and fabric that stretch across an infrastructure of bent tubular steel. The flowers that surround the perimeter of the hole are reminiscent of the story's poppy fields.
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Mini-Golf
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03 NATO Pavilion
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Yung Oh Le Page
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-03)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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‘Welcome to the NATO Pavilion! Discover the advancements in orbital nuclear deterrents! Behold the obtainable security and comfort of the National Missile Defense Shield where only 5% of the enemy warheads can get through to your most beloved neighborhoods! Rest assured as arms build-up becomes obsolete!’
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Mini-Golf
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04 BOT
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Debra Jenks, Norma Markley and An Pham
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-04)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This hole uses the guidebook cover for the 1968 World’s Fair in San Antonio as the springboard for its design. The design also reflects the artists’ interests in working with text-based images and books. BOT is a play on the fantastic and futuristic characteristic of the Hemisfair, and of the art and architecture of that period (i.e. the Atomium in Brussels, Op Art, Early Stella, etc.). The hole is also a comical guide or map of sorts of different pavilions one might find at a World’s Fair.
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Mini-Golf
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05 Just Dreaming Is Not Enough
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WUKAG (Wichita State University Kinetic Art Group) – Jeswin Joseph Chankaramangalam, Wai Seong Choy, John Harrison, MohamdAli Ishaque Kazi, Christian Kindel, Ivy Lanning, Alan Whitaker
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-05)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The 2008 World’s Fair in Zarazoga, Spain focused on ‘Water and Sustainable Development.’ Sociologist Victor Viñuales presented ‘a toolkit for the builders of change’ and a call to action in response to the world’s struggle regarding sustainability: ‘just dreaming is not enough.’ This hole both thematically explores and uses alternative energy sources on a small scale. Just Dreaming Is Not Enough reminds us of our responsibility toward worldwide development of a carbon-neutral footprint, in the context of an interactive experience.
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Mini-Golf
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06 The Golf Between Us Is Small
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City and Country School with Maggie Ens, Kathryn O’Connor, Ian Klapper, and Jimm Meloy
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-06)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The tiny Scottish island of Gigha inspired The Golf Between Us Is Small. Gigha’s first community-owned wind farm in Scotland, its gorgeous gardens and golf course mirror FIGMENT on Governors Island, bringing art and nature-lovers together to create something wonderful for everyone! Players tour Scotland from the Northern tip visiting, among other things, Loch Ness (see Nessie!), Forth Road Bridge, Harry Potter in Edinburgh and Hadrian’s Wall, before heading to Gigha, the winning cup marked by an international Peace Sign.
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Mini-Golf
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07 Noel Rose’s Aquaponicade
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Leviathan Biological Installations
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-07)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Billy Rose’s Aquacade had its most successful run at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponic agriculture in a sustainable balanced system and may be one solution to solving world hunger and energy problems. Like the performers in Billy’s Aquacade, the fish in Noel Rose’s Aquaponicade are here to move about beautifully in the main swimming pool, but they also produce waste that feeds the plants. Using a gravity driven surge system, the fountains in Noel Rose’s Aquaponicade help to aerate the system and provide oxygen to the fish.
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Mini-Golf
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08 The Game Players of FIGMENT
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Build it Green
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-08)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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What is the 'World'? What does it mean to represent the world in the framework of an expo? The pomposity of the question is not equal to the pomposity of the concept. And the event, too. But, probably not as much fun either. So, in the spirit of fun, which means 'to forget' in some language I am sure, LET'S PLAY SOM PUTT-PUTT!
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Mini-Golf
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09 Hotel Atlantis at Bikini Bottom
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John Jefferys
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-09)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The General Motors ‘futurama’ pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York depicted life in the future as an underwater world, visiting the luxury resort ‘Hotel Atlantis.’ 46 years later, we are not living on the ocean floor, and GM’s vision has spawned only one ocean community: Bikini Bottom – the make-believe town of the animation SpongeBob. While we didn’t achieve the Hotel Atlantis, trying brought us pretty close to Armageddon. Hotel Atlantis at Bikini Bottom takes you back in time and replaces the distorted 1964 World’s Fair vision with a harmless cartoon future.
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Mobile Art
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0H10M1ke's 10K Matchbook Portraits
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0H10M1ke
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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0H10M1ke wanders the streets of Brooklyn and NYC, passing out serially numbered matchbook portraits drawn on the spot in 1 minute. He is a member of the electro/funk band Comandante Zero. As visual artist, he draws each song to the beat and rhythm of the music. 10K Matchbook Portraits is a project in which strangers become subjects, then collectors within 1 minute of engagement. Each portrait, penned on the inside of a matchbook, is serially numbered, signed and dated and given away to the subject upon completion. Currently drawing the 7,800 series, this project will culminate at matchbook number 10,000.
http://www.0h10m1ke.com
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Mini-Golf
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10 The Venus Flytrap
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Boris Ravvin with Friends (returning hole from 2008 & 2009
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-10)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Dionaea muscipula is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey (mostly insects and arachnids). The trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant’s leaves. The plant’s common name refers to Venus, the Roman goddess of love… Who has promised you that all your dreams will be sweet?
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Sculpture / Installation
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1000 Pieces
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Animus Arts Collective
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-02)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The installation of 1000 Pieces - essentially a gazebo - is initially a simple rectangular wooden structure with seating around the perimeter and a roof atop four posts. Running up the height of the vertical posts are pieces of notched plywood. Inside the gazebo, on shelves mounted onto the posts, are stacks of square plywood pieces, also notched. The artwork evolves throughout the summer as passers-by become participants, taking a few pieces off the shelves and connecting them to the structure. Thus, a simple wooden gazebo will appear to be blossoming into color during the summer months. ANIMUS proposes that workshops be held and led by their members in two New York City public schools. The sculptures created by the students will be fastened on top of the structure to serve as the ‘crown’ and ‘chandelier’ of the gazebo. 1000 Pieces will create an environment that instigates a dynamic relationship between the participant and the object, and between the participants themselves.
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Mini-Golf
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11 Tillie
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Elizabeth Cherry, Damon Hamm, and Daniel Gould (returning hole from 2009)
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FIGMENT Terrace
(MG-11)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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A relic of the once famous Coney Island Astroland gets repurposed for a new life on Governors Island. This hole takes the form of an old skeeball machine ravaged by time and in the process of being reclaimed by the earth. Turning the old scoring method on its ear, this time players try to score the least they can. The color scheme and imagery is inspired by Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Tillie and old photos from Coney Island, New York.
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Performance / Theatre
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3t
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Chloë Bass + John Bonafede
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Parade Grounds
(PT-03)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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3t is an interactive installation/performance by Chloë Bass and John Bonafede. Guests move through a nautilus spiral pathway to arrive at an inner triangle. Once inside, each guest is invited to share tea and conversation with the two performers: The Speaker and The Guide. After drawing his/her experience on an index card, the guest is led out by The Guide. Each card is hung on the line that outlines the shape of the nautilus. In 3 years, the performers will email/snailmail the cards to the guests to remind them of this space and time. 3t = time, tea & triangulation.
http://www.bos2010.artsinbushwick.org/
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Sculpture / Installation
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A Lay in the Grass
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Betsy Davis and Victoria Keddie
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Parade Grounds
(SL-04)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Visitors of A Lay in the Grass lie on a bed, look up, gaze - and ignite a cognitive experience through the act of physical rest and an opening of the mind. A mattress of seeded grass (from a host rooftop garden in Brooklyn) fills the four-post bed frame. The sculptural bed can be seen as parallel to the imaginative play that transcends one’s conscious environment during the act of rest or dream. A Lay in the Grass joins the literal with the metaphor: the bed is a place for release, quiet, and the unconscious state of being. The installation itself reflects the state of Governors Island as a place of detachment, introspection, rest, and transmutation. The components of the installation speak of natural resources, symbolic elements, and surrealistic dreamscapes. A Lay in the Grass utilizes sustainable, recycled and organic materials, as the idea of the cycle is an important component to the overall work.
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Visual Art
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A Wave of Words
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Skye von der Osten & 10th Graders of The Assembly New York Harbor School & Steve Lynch English Teacher at The Assembly New York Harbor School and Fellow at Peace Corps Fellows Program at Teachers College of Columbia University.
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The project is a collaborative effort of photographer Skye von der Osten, Steve Lynch, English Teacher at the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, and the Peace Corps Fellows Program. 90 sophomore students explored how image and words inform each other to create more powerful statements, by pairing their poems with portraits taken by Skye. At FIGMENT we ask the audience to draw on the inspiration they get from the images and poems to write poems about themselves. Skye offers to take a portrait of those who leave a poem, in the course of the next year, to create a chain of photographic poems. Learn more: www.newyorkharborschool.org/, www.tc.columbia.edu/pcfellows/.
http://www.skyevonderosten.com
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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ART/SONG
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Lisa Ingram and Jay Alan Zimmerman
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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ART/SONG is a participatory installation of paintings, deconstructed keyboards, and unique sound charts of visitor’s voices. Using real-time frequency analysis software on a laptop, Jay Alan Zimmerman (a deaf composer) captures visualizations of visitor’s voices while Lisa Ingram (an abstract artist) converts these images into live paintings on the sound charts. The resulting works will be displayed all over the walls, documenting the sounds made by various participants in terms of music (pitch, tone, volume, etc.) and speech (vowels, phonemes, etc.). Participants may retrieve their chart at the end of the day, making the installation an ever-changing visual conversation.
http://www.LisaIngram.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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AUDIOPOLIS
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Douglas Hart
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Fort Jay
(SI-18)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Interactive sound installation AUDIOPOLIS engages participants on four levels: sight, sound, intellect and instinct, transforming the traditional - and often stagnant - connection between art and spectator into an improvised relationship among a collaborative group. AUDIOPOLIS explores the process of making art. It envelops the spectator, making him experience art on a level beyond contemplation - besieged by inspiration, driven by immediacy. Entering Fort Jay you find yourself surrounded by sounds. You then realize the movement of participants in the courtyard is responsible for the behavior of the sound. Are you the one making the sound change? Move about the space and see.
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Sculpture / Installation
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AVALON: Meditative Labyrinth
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Hector Canonge
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Parade Grounds
(SI-20)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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AVALON: Meditative Labyrinth is an installation that prompts visitors to actively engage with it by walking through its paths, and discovering a way out of its configuration. Created as an octagonal structure, and inspired by medieval gardens in the shape of a maze, the installation is based on ancient beliefs and practices where certain types of labyrinths promote meditation and contemplation. The project’s structure also references old symbology where the number 8 represents powerful rebirth and renewal.
http://www.hectorcanonge.net
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Performance / Theatre
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Advanced Garden
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Artfully Aware
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Colonels' Row
(PT-02)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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In the Advanced Garden there are three roles for participants to choose from: The Human Bonzai is manipulated into a topiary-esque plant; The Bonzai Sculptor plots where the plant will be, and what shape or form the plant will take to every detail; The Botanist names, and records all of the ornamental features of his/her discovered plant. The Botanist also draws a rendering of the Bonzai'd plant (with the help of the plant, and Sculptor). A photograph is taken (uploaded to our project's website) of the new plant, and the Bonzai Sculptor, with the rendering made by the Botanist.
http://www.artfullyaware.org/Welcome.html
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Sculpture / Installation
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Age
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The Door & Tawny Frogmouth
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Nolan Park
(SI-55)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Age is a collaboration between artist group Tawny Frogmouth and teens at The Door in NYC. The visual conversation between natural and man-made materials reflects the ideas one chooses to take or leave behind from adolescence into adulthood. Please feel free to contribute to/change this piece.
http://tawnyfrogmouth.wordpress.com
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Al Fresco Zine Reading Room / Laboratory
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The East Village Inky
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Colonels' Row
(AW-11)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The East Village Inky Al Fresco Zine Library is an open air non-circulating collection of self-published, small circulation ‘zines, which the public is invited to browse to its heart’s content. Al Fresco Zine Librarian Ayun Halliday (Chief Primatologist and Sole Employee of the long running East Village Inky Zine) will be at the information desk to answer any questions, and dispense encouragement and advice with regard to starting your own ‘zine in the future. We will forward your comments to the creators, if you desire. Dare to be Heinie, and please direct all correspondence to our reference desk: Ayun@AyunHalliday.com.
http://www.ayunhalliday.com
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Animation Feast
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Adel Kerpely, JiHyun Ahn, and Marlene Seecharan
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FIGMENT Terrace Arch
(MM-01)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Animation workshop for kids.
http://www.adelkerpely.com
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Visual Art
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Antropospaces II. El Olvido
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Eva Davidova
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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These works are photographs of "ghost" buildings taken in Bulgaria, with intrusion of the body and the manipulation of space. The projection of the future on facts from the past. Uncertainty/oblivion/fear. The shaping of perception in a highly mutable environment. Leftovers from the totalitarian past re-interpreted and used as a trigger for absurd situations.
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Performance / Theatre
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Aqua Attack!
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Notwatersoluble
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Parade Grounds
(PT-12)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Audience participatory Japanese style game show involving super hero costumes, kiddie pools and plush toys.
http://www.actionartsleague.org/
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Mobile Art
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Art Bike
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Performance / Theatre
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Azure's Arrival
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The Colors Project
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Parade Grounds
(PT-14)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Colors Project's mission is to create an atmosphere of creative freedom for humans of all ages. The Colors, multicolored alien mimes, strive to encourage everyone to explore their creativity and transform themselves from observers into participants in a theatrical event. Our productions utilize the disciplines of theatre, dance, visual creations, digital media, live music, creative writing, and children's games. Through the use of these art forms, we work to build in our participants the confidence needed to engage in the creation of art.
http://www.colorsproject.com
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Mobile Art
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BOOM Trike NYC
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Michael White
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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BOOM Trike is a custom designed and built adult sized low rider tricycle that features an integrated 900 watt sound system. BOOM Trike creates an ongoing mobile celebration anywhere and everywhere on Governors Island. BOOM Trike is a direct contradiction to the compartmentalization of when and how celebration is appropriate and to the idea that celebration is allowed only in specific contexts. BOOM Trikes aims to reintegrate celebration/dance/music/joy into everyday spaces, places, and settings. BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
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Sculpture / Installation
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Bagel Buns
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The Push Pops Collective
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Colonels' Row
(SI-56)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Part therapeutic shout-out, part anti-consumerist ritual, part feminist music video and all Utopia! Join members of the all-female Push Pop Collective as we create a collective discursive space; mobilizing against Western liberal ideology that posits femaleness as possessively individual and perpetually consumer. Squat, kick, sing and pummel your way through mounds of day-old bagels and self-loathing, grooving to the original Buns of Steel Series. Leotards, Day-Glo, LA Gear and barrel bangs highly encouraged. Consult with our Aerobitician on duty about your healthcare regimen or enjoy an ice cold glass of Crystal Light! Come out and shout out - to Bagel Buns!
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Mobile Art
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Battle Wagon Training Course
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Iris Stvn Lasn and Mia Ihara
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Battle Wagon Training Course is an interactive mobility device and obstacle course designed to require cooperative navigation. Festival-goers are invited to pilot the vehicle in pairs. Facing opposite directions and reclining in a recumbent position, the two pilots must effectively cooperate and communicate in order to navigate the course.
http://madagascarinstitute.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Bo?x Redux
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Juliette Crellin/Rebeka Bieber
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Bo?x Redux is an opportunity. An exchange of gifts. One left by the artist and one left by you. Alongside the artist’s “gift” are instructions 1) to take the gift and replace it with any item you wish as long as it fits in the box; and 2) to take one of the crumbled pieces of paper scattered across the floor. Written on each paper is a web address and YouTube video relating to the art installation. Visitors are encouraged to take a picture of the “gift” they leave in the box and upload it with any additional thoughts.
http://www.studiored.net
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Sculpture / Installation
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Bodies of Trash in Bodies of Water
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Tim Gamble
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Waterfront
(SI-58)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The exhibit is designed to raise awareness about trash in the sea with a disturbing and stimulating sight of floating bodies in the harbor along with an interactive sculpture component where the viewing public is encouraged to make or enhance sculptures out of beach trash that will be available.
http://www.bodiesoftrash.org
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Collectives
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Bootless-Camp Counter-Recruitment Station
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GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand
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Parade Grounds
(CO-03)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Bootless-Camp Counter-Recruitment Station is an interactive installation for adults and kids, where visitors are ‘recruited’ to the GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand Counter-Recruiting Brigade to resist military recruitment in schools and colleges. The mock armed forces recruiting station has a built-in obstacle course for all who enlist for the Bootless-Camp, where Guerrillas and Guerrilla kids lead the fun (a rope net to crawl under, hoops to jump through and more) culminating in a recitation Julia Ward Howe’s Mothers Day Declaration.
http://ggbb.org/we-have-issues/figments/
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Music
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Brass Madness
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Hungry March Band
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Roving
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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A continuation of Boston's Honk festival, this will be the 6th annual Honk where brass bands from all over North America & Europe converge on the streets of Governors Island.
http://hungrymarchband.com/
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Mobile Art
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Burning Elf Mobile
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Boris Burning Elf Connell
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Burning Elf Mobile is a 7 foot multiple bicycle mobile sound system, featured in the 2010 Dance Parade.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1134257665&ref=profile#!/pages/Burning-Elf/106997622653859
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Mobile Art
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Butterflies in Flight
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Nicole Barker
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Parade Grounds
(KA-19)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The first element of Butterflies in Flight is a watercolors or airbrush on cloth fully functional kite in the form of a distinctly ovoid butterfly. Visitors are welcome to contribute to the project by uniquely coloring/painting/drawing upon their own butterfly which will be added to the project, in flight. Ideally, I envision an entire flight of uniquely created butterflies gracefully floating above a sun drenched field.
http://www.nmbdesigner.com
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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CHANNELZOID
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Dan Ribaudo
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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CHANNELZOID is a small interactive theatre that anyone can manipulate. Video is projected and mapped onto the shapes, so the shapes come alive as different objects, creatures, and scenes. Five knobs at the front control the mapped videos. When each knob is turned, the image changes on that element: Pyramid, Sphere, Cube, the Frame, and the Background.
http://http:www.dantronicvideo.com
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Visual Art
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Castles in the Sky
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Nicole Franchino
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Castles in the Sky is inspired by a trip I took to the Guatemala City garbage dumps and the people I met there. Their living conditions were desperate; scavenging the garbage dumps for food, and living in “houses” made out of corrugated metal, most the size of a jail cell. The people had more hope than anyone I have ever met. One day as I was leaving the dump, there was a beautiful rainbow shining over the city. I was able to capture it on film. To me, it symbolized the hopes and dreams of all the people I met.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Chandelier Tree
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treë
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Nolan Park
(SI-60)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The idea for a chandelier tree came to me as I was packing the props I use for my cyanotypes ("blueprints"), an original photographic process. Many of the items in Chandelier Tree, including lanterns and chandeliers, are made from wire (and glass). These elements create wonderful shadow shapes as well as being fun to spy in the tree and identify. People love seeing the everyday gadgets, knick-knacks, household items and sharing their memories and stories. Everyone is welcome to bring their own interesting article to hang and tell their tales.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Chickinman's Tunnel of Love
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Chickinman
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Colonels' Row
(SI-13)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Chickinman returns to Governors Island with his Tunnel of Love. Rolando Vega, the Chickinman, has been performing and creating things for the past 40 years in the New York City area all for free in parades, fairs, Mars Bar and many other venues, none of which have been a repeat show. With his Tunnel of Love, he will give out fortunes, chickin wings, love tags, games to play and entertainment, so come on down and enjoy this festival of love, love, love, love, love!
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Sculpture / Installation
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Cicada
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Johannah Herr
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-10)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Cicadas, with their deafening sound and their beautiful amber shells clinging to tree bark, are ultimately absent from our urban landscape, like parts of ourselves are often lost as a consequence of city-living. Cicada calls attention to this phenomenon by creating a larger than life cicada from recycled New York City newspapers shellacked and stretched over a chicken wire frame and mounted in a tree. The newspapers symbolically turn a mass-produced object familiar to the urban landscape into an organic, handmade object ironically unfamiliar despite its reference to an insect indigenous to the landscape long before the advent of concrete. At the base of the tree are handmade versions of a traditional Taiwanese toy which, when whirred by hand, mimic the sound of a cicada. There are also materials and instructions to make a toy yourself. Participants, in effect, bring Cicada to life through sound, and by keeping the toy they carry the sound of the cicada back to their own urban environment - thus revitalizing the cicada as part of NYC summers.
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Circle Rules Football
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Circle Rules Federation
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Parade Grounds
(AW-02)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The basic tenet of Circle Rules Football, and our whole approach to sports, is that sports are a type of theater, and by extension, a type of participatory artwork. Our desire is to promote it in both the art world and the sports world without corrupting the culture of either. We have play by play commentators, mascots, and all the accoutrement associated with competitive sports, but it is all augmented to open both the players and the audience to the notion that sports are just as rich with culture as any moving work of art.
http://circlerulesfederation.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Clouded
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Roshani Thakore
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Nolan Park
(SI-46)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Clouded invites the public to create colorful clouds on Governors Island by blowing through contained mounds of spices. This site-specific social sculpture examines the vital force within all living beings while echoing the Island’s military history.
http://www.roshanithakore.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Coiled Aberrations
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Ben Glotzer
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Nolan Park
(SI-06)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Coil formations made from mixed media and recycled materials plastic, metal paper etc. at various scales. The form alone implies rapid movement, coiling, transformation from one form to another, mixing together and becoming something new. As life and art synthesize, so too will this project evolve as the viewers will have the ability to manipulate and add and/or subtract material from each form to evolve the coil and renew the experience.
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Visual Art
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Collective Dream
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Leide Porcu
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Collective Dream is a participatory piece where visitors are invited to glue and draw parts and symbols of their dreams on the surface. Participants are also invited to record their reactions and interpret the meaning of the “collective dream”. Chiodo schiaccia chiodo (“One pain drives out another”).
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Visual Art
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Colorado River 2009
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Jesse Weiman
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Many people visit the Grand Canyon, but only a few of them experience it from the bottom up. For 23 days over the months of December and January, I rafted down the Colorado River, camping along the beaches and photographing it from the tall, shear canyon walls down to the wide-open lake at its feet.
http://www.jesseweiman.com
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Visual Art
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Colors of the World
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Mala Kumar
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Nolan Park
(VA-08)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Colors of the World is a series of scenes from around the world recaptured through the use of bright, brilliant color markers; surrealist-esque drawings from my travels through four continents.
http://www.mskartwork.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Compression, Tension and Time
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Ryan Hurley
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Nolan Park
(SI-48)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Compression, Tension and Time is a hand-crafted river raft equipped with rudder, sail and anchor would be placed near the edge of the water. Visitors are encouraged to inspect and engage with the raft, "pretending" to sail across the river or out into the ocean.
http://ryanhurleyarts.blogspot.com/
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Collectives
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Conscious Cycle
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Conscious Cycle: Sinton Vignos, Knox, Sonja Hofstetter, AAJ DJJ Sinton 2012, Olly, Kate Friedman, David Powers, Verbal Graffiti, Adam Childs, WeLiveInBrooklyn.com, homestudioradio.com, EatTheCake, Vernando Ruben, BROGA, Greg Woodson, Dana Perry, Amanda Copabianco, Steve Prestiani, Andre Philipe-Mistier, Kabazam, Nojay, TikiJayOne, Space, Wrona, Coco Karol, Louise Ingalls Sturges, Yves Cedano, Malcolm Rowe, Cory Washburn, Rosetta Stoned, Knos, Eno Sarris, FourLevel
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Waterfront
(CO-08)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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In this live version of an environment and consciousness expanding, educating time lapse piece, recycle materials build a structure. One artist paints a mural. Then another artist paints over it. Then another and another, as DJed plays his music. In the meantime, art classes are taught like tai chi, yoga, taekwondo, meditation; in the meantime performances occur, a fashion show, permaculture education; in the meantime there is spectating, dancing, juicing, drinking water, projections, picnic; in the meantime tick it off your list. Meantime, what am I saying is: it's nicetime.
http://www.facebook.com/ConsciousCycle
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Performance / Theatre
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Construction: Process of ...
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Nalani L. Williams
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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NLW arts presents: Construction: Process of …, A performative sculpture piece. Seemingly perfect Ani removes herself from reality, by building a wall that encloses her body. She lies there as time passes, and meditates. When she’s ready she tears down the structure from the inside and becomes a part of society once again.
http://www.nalani-l-williams.blogspot.com/
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Mobile Art
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Cosmic Curiosity
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PixelPride
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Cosmic Curiosity is a sculpture based interactive narrative that uses text messaging as a tool for social engagement. The game revolves around eight distinct alien planets, each one trying to explore and understand the cultures of the other planets in their solar system. Alien cultures enlist participants’ help in learning about their cosmic neighbors through totemistic sculptures. Visitors use text messaging to communicate with their chosen culture, and receive clues to aid their planetary exploration. Those who discover all the planets and succeed in creating cosmic unity will be justly rewarded.
http://www.pixelpride.net
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Sculpture / Installation
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Cradle of War
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Anki King
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Cradle of War is made out of military materials meant to be part of war. War means taking lives, but I have gathered them to be the substance for nurturing. The idea for the piece came after listening to the CD Lullabies from the Axes of Evil. Listening to the both vulnerable and strong voices of women from all over the world made me think about what war does to women and men. Are we born to accept war as part of who we are and what we do as humans or is it something we are taught to accept?
http://www.ankiking.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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DYMAXION ANTI-ENTROPY REFRACTION OUTPOST (DYMAX-AERO)
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Abigail Simon
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Nolan Park
(SI-01)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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DYMAXION ANTI-ENTROPY REFRACTION OUTPOST (DYMAX-AERO) is a free standing (hemispheric) geodesic dome, fabricated according to the Utopian principles of visionary Buckminster Fuller. The solar-powered rotating camera on top imports images constantly morphing in the kaleidoscopic interior. Viewers who step inside physically and psychically become part of the sculpture. The interior is an immersive environment offering multiple possibilities of experience: an encounter with the self in the multiple mirrored surfaces; or a kaleidoscopic theatre in which video imagery refracts and deconstructs into pure biomorphic shapes and forms, challenging “reality” and by implication our collective passivity in response to its presumed immutability.
http://www.abigail.tv
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Dagorhir
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New York Knight Academy
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Colonels' Row
(AW-10)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day |
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Participants are given a chance to make believe and express their violent urges by interacting with safe, foam weaponry. For the past 2 years, FIGMENT guests of all ages have taken up our foam swords and shields and lived out their action fantasies. Our activity is always a huge hit (pun intended) with the kids and we are thanked by countless parents. Typically, several of us stay within the crowd, playing with participants, explaining the rules, and keeping things mostly under control. We are very concerned with safety and all our equipment is regularly inspected.
http://www.dagorhir.com
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Mobile Art
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Different Strokes for Different Folks
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ESP
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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A blank sandwich board wanders around the Island wearing a tool belt full of paints and brushes. The sandwich board invites everyone to share artistic expression, different folks adding their unique strokes. As the walking art moves through the community, more art is inspired and the piece continues to transform. We are reminded that life is art.
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Collectives
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Disorient
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Disorient
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Nolan Park
(CO-02)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Disorient is an art collective. We create art projects and art installations with hardware including wood, scaffolding, palette rack, containers, recycled materials, your body, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, black lights and vehicles. We develop software for our installations (DMX sequencing, MAX, Java, C, etc.). And we like to party.
http://www.disorient.com
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Visual Art
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Dream Birds
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Cecilia André
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FIGMENT Terrace
(VA-03)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Canvases of large birds in dreamscapes, located behind sculptures - fields of dreams. I invite people to bring their art work to "spend the day on the guest wall" - they can take photos of their work outdoors, and participate in FIGMENT.
http://www.ceciliaandre.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Dreaming Tree
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Ian Schwartz
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Nolan Park
(SI-21)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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To a certain extent, dreams become excess baggage upon us, and sometimes to write out our thoughts helps to put our unfulfilled hopes out of mind. Dreaming Tree is a memorial to childhood dreams - specifically the things that as adults we know we can no longer achieve due to constraints of reality or changes in personality. The association of trees with dreams and wishes crosses cultural borders - from the banyan tree representing eternal life in Hindu mythology, to the Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees at the Tin Hau Temple in Hong Kong, and the wishing trees found throughout Scotland and Ireland.
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Sculpture / Installation
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En Medio de la Muerte, En Plena Luz
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Jess Jones
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Nolan Park
(SI-28)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This mobile is inspired by the texture and complexity of space and time, and the ways that we living things navigate myriad points of connection, propelled by, embracing, and challenging the parameters of our reality. Most importantly, it’s about the thousands of ways we are linked and how we contribute to each others' lives in beautiful and intricate ways. Please add anything you’d like from the materials provided, or perhaps something from your pocket, that you have carried with you...?
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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End of Softness
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Jeremiah Jones
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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End of Softness is a creation of small handmade sculptural puppets which act as Brechtian performers in an ongoing series of installations, videos and public interactions. The sculptural characters interact with the architecture of the fort on Governors Island.
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Visual Art
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Ephemeral Color Conflagrations
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scrapworm
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Sean Wrenn's immersive montage works transmute photographs into flowing geological strata of optical engagement. The layered, timeless image spaces record a threshold between dreaming and consciousness, offering memories for viewers’ associative interpretation. As a “scrapworm” installation, the visual content draws upon archives of original imagery documenting North Brooklyn industrial landscapes. For FIGMENT, Wrenn’s site-specific installation becomes self-referring, also looking directly at Governors Island’s architectural evidences of evolving history, land-uses, and population shifts. The digital imaging mediums and physical fragmentations attempt to capture time while suggesting self-referring, artifactual significance.
http://www.noeticlabschool.net
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Sculpture / Installation
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Exquisite Weapon
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Chris Niederer and Alex Roediger
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Parade Grounds
(SL-06)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Exquisite Weapon evokes Governors Island’s historical and transformative nature. The unexploded bomb illustrates a temporary interruption in the destructive nature of creation. Its skin is composed of two-sided cartoon-like illustrations evokes the dual nature of the island, its military significance and future ecological harmony. The interior allows the user to rearrange the skin's narrative into their own preferred juxtaposition of the horror of war and an Eden-like beatitude. The weapon's tail displays a rotating teleidoscope to experience the view of a seed falling to earth - or the path of a bomb bent on destruction.
http://twilightcamp.net/
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Collectives
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Face and Body Painting Booth
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2nd Skin Artisan Body Painting
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Nolan Park
(CO-01)
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Saturday: All Day |
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This is not the typical face painting experience that you remember from your school carnival as a kid! Our visitors will be invited to become human canvases, offering a cheek or an arm to be adorned with one or more of a variety of block prints applied with body paint. Our unique designs draw inspiration from both traditional woodcuts and edgy contemporary street art.
http://nyc2ndskin.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Faerie Mandala
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Kelly Parkes, Phil Boyko, Karen Sandner and Julie Goodman
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Nolan Park
(SI-32)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Discover a magical faerie realm by visiting Governors Island's first interactive faerie ring. Faerie rings are special places that will appear where the fairies dance. If a human dances in a faerie ring, it may seem like only moments have passed, but indeed they may be stuck there until their demise.
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Visual Art
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Family Gallery
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Gwyneth Leech
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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A participatory drawing project on the theme of family for people of all ages. New York City artist Gwyneth Leech invites the public to join her to make drawings on the theme of family. Your family, an ideal family, or your idea of what life was like for the military families who lived here on Governors Island. Your drawings will be added to a growing installation exhibited on some of the shade trees lining the brick walkways of Nolan Park. Paper and drawing materials will be provided.
http://www.gwynethleech.com
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Performance / Theatre
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Field Marker Chalk Work
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Harry Spitz
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Waterfront
(PT-05)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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In the Gilgamesh Myth Humbaba is a fearsome intestine monster, protector of the cedar forest in Lebanon. Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat him so they can destroy the forest. Now, Humbaba -the protector of Earth - back and badder than ever. "Humbaba's roar is a Flood / his mouth is Fire, his breath Death! / He can hear any rustling(!) in his forest 100 leagues away! / Who would go down into his forest! / Who among (even!) the Igigi gods can confront him? / In order to keep the Cedar safe, Enlil assigned him as a terror to human beings."
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Sculpture / Installation
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Fields of what?
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Ruthie Scarpino
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Colonels' Row
(SI-47)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Fields of what? is a found object installation piece created by Ruthie Scarpino. It is made of recyclables and trash including, but not limited to, beer caps, bottles, soda cans, and wires posts. Fields of what? was inspired by the earth’s continuous cycle of regeneration and the understanding that what you put into the earth is directly linked to what it puts out.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Flock to LIVING
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The Living Company in collaboration with Johan Kritzinger
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-09)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Flock to LIVING is an installation that represents a call for all experiential representatives of LIVING, and stands as a beacon for representatives to come together in sharing their own insight on LIVING. Flock to LIVING utilizes a composition of multiple abstracted bird silhouettes, manifesting as painted and sculptural elements, and will come to Governors Island this summer after its debut on the Brooklyn Bridge during the winter of 2009/2010. LIVING company would like you to think of experience as what happens in the space between two destinations; it is the journey, and for LIVING company, we would like to emphasize the journey, not the destination.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Fly, fly, fly
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Brooklyn Aerodrome
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Nolan Park
(SI-10)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Brooklyn Aerodrome has flown airplanes at FIGMENT since 2008. This year we would like to up the interactivity by letting visitors create and fly their own recycled airplanes, fly them and take them home. We have developed a very simple to build airplane that can be made from old pizza boxes, card board, foam core etc. and we want people to build, decorate and fly them at FIGMENT.
http://brooklynaerodrome.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Fort Tree
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Abby Goodman and Cindy Stockton-Moore
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-01)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Fort Tree is a simultaneously private and public space into which visitors can project their own story. An interior, active display features real and fictional ‘specimens’ - adaptations of the flora and fauna of Governors Island. Featuring a variety of constructed chimera, the creatures in the displays and exterior sculpture point to both the multiplicity-of-use inherent in the structure and the spirit of make-believe it invokes. Participants of all ages are invited to create their own narrative by drawing and writing directly on the walls with the crayons, markers, and other donated writing tools on site. Built almost entirely from found and donated materials, Fort Tree gives new life to used or unwanted goods. Situated in the historic surroundings of Governors Island, Fort Tree is not only a shared space for invention and discovery; it also aims to re-define ideas of fortification - here, a fort is a structure for escape and play, designed to let things in rather than keep them out.
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Fortuna quod Fatum
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Arielle Mason and Jennvine Wong
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Parade Grounds
(AW-01)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Fortuna quod Fatum is an interactive game where participants move to the next spot in the game according to a spin on a Wheel of Fate or Destiny. Each stage of the game represents a stage in life - when a participant’s spin lands on a particular section of the Wheel, he/she will be faced with a choice and, based on that choice, will move one spot forward. By the end of the game, a participant will end up at one of several ends. The game represents the progression through life and the effect that fate and destiny play.
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Performance / Theatre
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Free Money
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Chin Chih Yang
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Treating of globalization and the conflicts it imposes on our modern way of life. Free Money satirically comments on our current economic system, mirroring a world where the rich get richer, as Big Business crushes any hopes that money will flow into channels relating to genuine human need. Confronting the exploitation in modern society with mockery and hope, Free Money dramatizes a situation similar to the recent AIG scenario—but in the name of a world devoted to the people, where economic exploitation is never realized in practice.
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Visual Art
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Ghostly Grace
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Erica Lauren Jackson
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This photography project takes a look into an abandoned psychiatric center. The Kings Park Psychiatric centre was abandoned in 1996 and forgotten. Nothing has been touched since the doors closed fourteen years ago and the grounds have deteriorated drastically. Some even call the site haunted. The goal of this project was to find beauty in a place that is not what most would consider beautiful. The photographs are dark in color and in nature. The viewer will have to get up close and personal with the photographs to see past the darkness and the deterioration to find the beauty.
http://www.ericalaurenjackson.carbonmade.com
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Ghosts in the Wall
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Jeff Bratcher
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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What ghosts live in the walls of a building? What would you hear if you placed a glass against the wall of a room? Do you hear the voices of the people in the next room? Do you hear the voices that are collected by the walls of the rooms you are in? The listeners are directed to a room or hallway with water glasses and are asked to search for Ghosts in the Wall. Small hidden speakers allow the listeners to search out these ghosts and eavesdrop on the Ghosts in the Wall.
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Giant Upside Down Reactive Ice Cream Cone
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David Aronson
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The 1904 World's Fair is largely credited with the popularization of the ice cream cone. Since then, cones have generally remained much the same while the rest of the world has turned upside down. This exhibit gives the ice cream cone the same technological treatment as the rest of the world, and while not being edible, it will be delicious to look at.
http://vectorhog.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Governors Island Heads
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Keith Richard Griffiths
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Colonels' Row
(SI-31)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This piece was inspired by the Moai Heads on Easter Island. This installation is my take on the actual goliaths. I created these sculptures to bring the essence of the original heads to people that have not experienced them.
http://fdu.edu/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Heart
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Theresa Galeani
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Nolan Park
(SI-57)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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A patchwork fabric heart containing recycled fabrics, re-used clothing, and the flags of countries currently in conflict.
http://www.theresagaleanionline.com
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Hopes and Fears: Collective Imprint
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Sasha Soreff Dance Theater
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Shoelaces represent a powerful and nearly universal symbol. Shoelaces tie us up, trip us up and hold us up. They represent a rite of passage. Hopes and Fears: Collective Imprint offers visitors shoelaces (ultra-wide) and permanent markers at the Manhattan ferry terminal on which they can write their hopes and fears anonymously. These shoelaces are then transported to the Island and wrapped around buildings and sites. By the end of the weekend, the island (and its military installations) will thus bear the hopes and fears of thousands of festival-goers.
http://www.sashasoreffdance.com
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Visual Art
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ISLAND ANGELS
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Carl E. Hazlewood
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Unframed, the bounding edges are unrestricted, left free to respond to the visual pressures of what happens within the piece. Shapes may be rectangular or erratic; they respond mainly to the support, which is the wall. Color, textures and so on, construct a visual “order” enforced by intuitive adjustments of collaged and assembled elements, as well as an implied, but subtle geometric underpinning. Violinist Claudius Agrippa, 10 years old, performs with the ISO Carnegie Hill Orchestra and is currently the Concert Master. He will play his 1879 Mathias Neuner Geigenmacher violin from 3 to 4 pm on Saturday & Sunday.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45315&id=1173151851&l=630315f2b3
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Sculpture / Installation
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Immortal Ancestors
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Roberto De Jesus
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Nolan Park
(SI-44)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Immortal Ancestors is a sculpture composed of found Styrofoam packing material and arranged to resemble Pre-Colombian art (Mayan, Aztec, Native American sculpture). Using banal discarded objects allows me to use my personal creativity and imagination to the utmost in an effort to transform these objects into a work of art. My work is also about creative recycling; I hope with my work I can maybe spur people to do a little creative recycling themselves. Perhaps next time they are about to throw out that plastic container they will use it for a pencil holder.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Inside/Outside
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Ryan Hurley
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Inside/Outside includes a hand crafted river raft complete with anchor and sail. Built almost entirely from reclaimed materials, the “raft” and its accessories symbolize a fantastically absurd method of escape to or from a physical or imagined place. Indoors, sounds coalesce with video, miniature-scale model furniture and drawings inspired by my actual home. Visitors can play a vintage discount chord organ. Climbing down through the “apartment” window, a weathered rope physically connects the “anchor” and the “raft” on the lawn, one story below. Ideally, one transports to a haunting and possibly familiar dream-like situation via incidental visual and auditory metaphors.
http://ryanhurleyarts.blogspot.com/
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Performance / Theatre
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I’d Rather Work the Shitty Job
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David Bernstein
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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I see others say, To be an artist is to make no money, to starve and struggle. By performing a symbolic walk, unrolling a sheet of toilet paper, I attempt to create an allegorical response to this popular notion. I choose the poopy route, the route of the endless struggle, but also the route of satisfaction. I find satisfaction in the transitory space between construction and destruction, consumption and waste. I want to hold on to this moment through juxtaposition of familiar situations. I do this act as a reflection of the everyday absurdity and the endless spirals.
http://www.yesyesdavid.com
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Visual Art
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Journey Map
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Maven NYC
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FIGMENT Terrace
(VA-10)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Visitors are welcome to draw their journey from childhood until now on a large map of the United States. The map will eventually give New York City importance as a place where we all have traveled to take the next steps in our journey, as well as a place where so many of our paths are crossing as we navigate through our lives.
http://www.MavenNYC.com
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Performance / Theatre
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Landscape Invention Society
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Sticks & Bones
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Waterfront
(PT-01)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Landscape Invention Society is an exploration of space and movement by a group of performers on stilts. As we move through the landscape we redefine it and our relationship with the public by experimenting with height, motion, and stillness. We create moments of interaction with the public and new possibilities for the landscape with live musical accompaniment, and continuously evolving spatial relationships.
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Laser Harp Installation
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Kevin Carter
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FIGMENT Terrace Arch
(MM-06)
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Friday: 3:00pm to 3:30pm, Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Laser Harp Installation is a USB MIDI controller using lasers to trigger different musical samples. When someone puts their hand through one of the six laser beams on the device, the laser harp will play sounds which are programmed into the software. Visitors can come up to the device to play music themselves simply by moving their hands through the laser beams. These sounds are adjusted so that, regardless of when the sound is triggered, the music is melodically in sync with the background music. This way, even people without musical experience can play music.
http://www.shotintoeternity.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Leaves
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Ivana Medukic
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Nolan Park
(SI-24)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The troubling and simultaneously fascinating landscape around the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn has been consumed by an abundance of rubble and toxic waste. The installation Leaves serves as a fossil reminder of what may have once occupied this now contaminated environment. While viewing the piece this question arises, “Are the synthetic leaves in ‘leaves’ attempting to blend into the landscape or are they in the process of consuming the natural environment?” Additionally, I hope this piece will encourage individuals to design imaginative solutions to resolve the growing problems that face the Gowanus and other similar areas around New York City.
http://www.ivanamedukic.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Lemiscus
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Todd Vaccaro
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Colonels' Row
(SI-59)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Lemiscus is a suspended installation sculpture that considers the journey we all must balance. The ribbons, in all their variety and interwoven paths, represent the multiplicity of our memories and experiences. The outline of a person traversing the ribbons represents the balancing act we all perform daily — and often unnoticed by those around us — to keep our bearings and not be thrown off course by the challenges of our individual histories.
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Collectives
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Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of ________: Enlist in said List
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said: Nyna Mezan & Kerry Hassler
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Colonels' Row
(CO-07)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Creatives’ collective said is looking to expand a database of skills, crafts, advice, and the like, to a larger community. We feel that if we are being denied an option, we must make it an option. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of ________: Enlist in said List brings the global community to where it begins – people helping others. We hope to be the mediator between people who need help and those who want to help, and create a grassroots community that is aware of those around us and the goals we seek to achieve.
http://saidprojects.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Living Lawn Furniture
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Joe Sicignano and Marah Fellicce
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Parade Grounds
(SL-08)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Living Lawn Furniture is a set of earth-integrated sculptures intended to be installed early on Governors Island and morph with the environment. Integrating living edible plants, and other lawn substrates, ideally the seats will provide space for a tête-à-tête with another participant as well as raising awareness to Governors Island’s environment. The piece’s natural form (that of seats) provides a chance for reflection and discussion. The creation of the piece is interactive, starting immediately: the seedling project will involve anyone in New York City who is interested in nurturing plants on their windowsill. An enormous number of plants will be required, and the artists will be supplementing with an under layer of sod to ensure green coverage. The plants used will realize a garden on the sections of Living Lawn Furniture that do not receive heavy traffic (for example, the arms of the chairs). This living furniture could then be turned into an educational salad as part of the interactive/season-long programming on the island.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Living Pavilion
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Ana Ha and Behrang Behin
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Living Pavilion is a low-tech, zero-impact installation that employs reclaimed milk crates as the framework for growing a planted surface similar to a green wall. The pavilion’s assembly is simple and modular, relying on common materials such as heavy-duty packaging straps and weather-treated wood for its installation. Living Pavilion aspires to create a synthesis of form, structure, light and life. The shape and orientation of the pavilion create varying amounts of solar exposure at different parts of its surface. The combination of these factors provides a template of diverse conditions for planting: the surface underneath the vault is planted with hanging shade-tolerant plants that require little soil, while the flat extension of the pavilion onto the ground surface allows for deep-rooted plants needing direct sun.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Lost Not Found: Abscission (Continues)
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Heather Tweed
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Various Locations
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Lost Not Found: Abscission (Continues) is the placement of a number of small artworks that anyone can find. Each has an explanation attached; its finder can either keep the piece by registering it with me, re-site it somewhere else or leave it in situ. Finder is requested to photograph the piece & e-mail me. A Google map is then produced showing locations, sent images & details.
http://www.heathertweed.co.uk
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Sculpture / Installation
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Lost Words/Back to the Roots
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Brand Art Collective
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Nolan Park
(SI-08)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Lost Words/Back to the Roots is dedicated to those who remember the smell of books and prefer it to the convenience of electronics - to anyone who’s carried a backpack heavy with great titles, or been lost in the magic of libraries for hours, months, years. Now that literature has taken new turns, books go back to their roots and cover art needs to find new venues. Brand Art Collective encourages everyone to take time to read some of these written words because they have all been carefully thought out and p r i n t e d by those who hold a passion for them.
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Sculpture / Installation
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M.O.R.E. Drums
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Ministry Of Random Events (Andrzej Liguz)
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-14)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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M.O.R.E. (Ministry Of Random Events) was started in Australia by Andrzej Liguz in 1996. The M.O.R.E. Drums made their first American appearance at last year’s FIGMENT and are back this year as part of the FIGMENT Terrace Sculpture Garden. Visitors to the island are invited to play the twenty plastic industrial drums (generally used to transport shampoo, etc.) as each drum has a pair of metal drumsticks attached for that purpose. It only needs one person to hold a solid rhythm and everybody can play around that beat, creating a primordial tribal experience in the heart of New York. Come play this summer.
http://www.facebook.com/MORE.MinistryOfRandomEvents
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Visual Art
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Magic Universe
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Everyone/ Justin Prewitt
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FIGMENT Terrace
(VA-04)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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We composed a huge collective image that anyone and everyone can add to. It is called the Magic Universe, and it's a coloring puzzle. Each person adds one piece to this puzzle in the form of a black and white coloring book picture of whatever they want. Each picture connects with the others.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Magic-Universe-Coloring-Puzzles/250341830831?ref=ts
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Collectives
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Making Room(s)
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tART
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Making Room(s) – on how to form and sustain an arts collective – is tART's signature workshop. The workshop is participatory, includes a picnic on all three days and especially targets those artists who have been rejected from existing collectives – teaching all how to productively channel rejection-energy. In the process of conducting the workshop we will produce a user’s manual, in the form of an artist book that creatively conveys the mutual sharing of ideas and experience taking place. All are welcome!
http://www.tARTnyc.org
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Man vs Stick
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Elyse Clark
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Humans share the earth with stick figures, although the former soon becomes the dominant race and apart from one family the latter are killed off. They meet a family of helpful and empathetic humans. The humans make masks and give clothes to the stick figures, to help them avoid authority. However, the mother of the human family throws out their last reproductive peach pit, which is the only way for the stick figures to replicate. The mother of the stick figure family sees this betrayal and aggressively confronts the human mother. The dream ends in conflict.
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Visual Art
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Marc HOPE
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Marc HOPE169
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Nolan Park
(VA-09)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This live painting performance on canvas by Marc HOPE explores the balance of darkness and the rapture of life. Watch a work of art come to life right before your eyes!
http://marcwhalen.com/
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Masters of Succession
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Marisa DeDominicis, Dee Dee Maucher
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Picnic Point
(AW-09)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Earth Matter Compost Learning Center, located on Gersham Road at Picnic Point, is creating a thermophilic (hot) compost pile. Come see and/or participate in the assembly of a wind row style compost heap. We will be incorporating “brown” (wood chips and leaves) and “green” (food scraps, coffee grounds) materials gathered from Governors Island, to create a valuable soil additive. We aim to create a regenerative loop, by utilizing the resources present on the Island, and reduce the amount of waste wasted on Governors Island.
http://www.moscollective.net
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Matpak
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Crazy Studios
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FIGMENT Terrace Arch
(MM-04)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Matpak stands for "Mobile Art Theatre Performance and Activity Kit." It's a new way of thinking! Very versatile and mobile; the Matpak can go just about anywhere. The Matpak carries mounted and unmounted video equipment and costumes and has blue screen capability. There will be art supplies for making drawings, paintings, sculpture, costumes, body art, and just plain goode ole fun. In quick video displays we place participants up in real time on interactive screens.
http://CrazyStudios.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Memory Maps
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Aileen Bassis
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Colonels' Row
(SI-02)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Memory Maps is a thin wire web attached to two trees. Passersby are invited to draw with permanent markers a map of a place they remember from their childhood. It can be an interior place (a house, an apartment), or outside (a street, or a neighborhood). They can include an address, place name, years and a sentence relating to their memory of this place. I’ll punch holes into the sheets and attach them to the web. With their permission, I'll photograph people as they remember places, and save these photos for a future project.
http://www.aileenbassis.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Metamorphosis
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Danielle Goldsmith and Jolita Valaikaite
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Nolan Park
(SI-17)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The observer becomes the artist when spectators are asked to action paint on a big canvas. By choosing color(s) and brush(es) and swinging the ropes (by hand) with the attached paint, they brush in any chosen trajectory and become the creator of art, transforming his/her status from a passive observer to an active artist. This installation pays homage to many of us who cannot or would not call oneself "an artist". The process of “making art” is demystified, made fun and easy, while the power of talent, creativity and self expression remains.
http://daniellegoldsmith.com
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Visual Art
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Mixing Business with Pleasure
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Saif Ahmed
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Mixing Business With Pleasure series seeks to comment on the current financial crisis using both sarcastic and humorous pieces. The flagship piece, a photograph with the same title, has the infamous Black-Scholes equation carved on the back of a Jack-o-Lantern, signifying how widespread and trivial the business has become. The other side has a traditional scary face, commenting on the doubled edged nature of our trivialization of complex concepts into simple models being thrown around.
http://www.vitalite11215.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Monad Pavilion
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OrganicInterfaces: Maia Marinelli, Jared Lamenzo and Liubo Borissov
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Waterfront
(SI-40)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Monad Pavilion is a transient structure made up of strings and balloons. It embodies, reflects and responds to its surroundings. The balloons, the lattice structure, and the art event are themselves temporary and contingent upon the elements. The ganglia of the lattice express natural structure -- the trees and their roots, the sky and its clouds, the earth and its grass and dirt. Ropes and pulleys interact with natural forces and visitor interventions. The airborne balloons image thought and nature, their perception and passing. OrganicInterfaces works with digital and organic media to create emotional, tactile and meditative experiences.
http://organicinterfaces.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Monument to change of state
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Tessa Sutton
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Chapel Bazaar
(SI-54)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Monument to change of state is an homage to a transformative process of a hero’s journey, but questions the idea of the hero as conqueror or colonialist. The hero can only change by surrendering through failure to forces beyond control. This sculpture is made from birdseed. I invite visitors to make their own using the template and seed provided.
http://www.tessasutton.com
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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NYS Dancing Green
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Colleen Wahl and Jim Self
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Nolan Park
(AW-03)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This participatory dance project is designed to get you out of your seat and on your feet. Dancing Green is a performance based dance project that links Dance and Sustainability (green projects) through the use of live, exciting ‘flash mob’ dances and giant dancing puppets performing in outdoor spaces. You can choose to participate by either helping create, performing, or cheering on the dance. As a collaboration between Jim Self and Colleen Wahl, this project is made possible by funding from the NYS Dance Force and the NYSCA.
http://www.dancinggreenproject.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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No More No Less
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Michael Kukla
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Interactive drawing where people are invited to draw on a sheet of white paper 53” by 72” where a drawing has been "started" in the center. Instructions on a note next to the sheet tell the participant what to draw and thus help finish the work of art.
http://mkukla.com/
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Sculpture / Installation
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Not Without A Trace
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Tara Parsons
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Waterfront
(SI-53)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Help create large flocks of endangered birds with Tara Parsons on the pavement of Governors Island. You’ll be able to use chalk to trace stencils of threatened birds of the New York metropolitan region to create this street mural. Follow the birds along the waterfront.
http://www.taraparsons.com
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Visual Art
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Notes from the city
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Roberto Pieraccini
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Music is all around us, notes pervade the space we inhabit day by day. Notes are the colors in a black and white distracted world. Notes from the city is a series of photographs of New York City street musicians. The interplay between color and black and white attracts the eye towards the source of music and its fruition.
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Visual Art
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Nothing Lasts Forever
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Stephanie Morehead
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Nothing Lasts Forever is a series of accessible, touchable, multimedia pieces that seek to put a finger on the point where spirit meets humanity. While our moments are temporary and transitory, there is something divine that runs through our every cell. There is something complete and unfinished about each canvas, each creation, just like our lives. This is what my art conveys through each fiber of the canvas. I invite you to touch the artwork for a few moments and feel the textures, the materials, and the impasto of the paint as an act of putting your finger on the pulse of my artistic creation.
http://www.stephaniemorehead.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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OMG: What are we missing?
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Sayoko Tanaka
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Fort Jay
(SI-49)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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OMG represents how and how much my daily life exists of wasting different "things". In that sense, this could be a self-experimental installation/sculpture. Materials are all my daily "waste" (paper, plastic containers, clothes, bottles, stationary and so on), hung on a rope between trees. Visitors can go under the "gate" so they can participate in this experiment and how they feel about their daily lives. OMG is the abbreviation of Oh, my god! - the first thing that came out of my mouth when I saw the huge amount of waste that I collected in two weeks.
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Visual Art
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OPTICAL DISTORTIONS
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Marcela Madrid
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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This is an individual (amateur) project involves a series of about 25 snapshots of people/objects distorted by the reflection of glass or mirrors. The idea behind the project is to portray images that reflect simple optical illusions that make us look beyond the real object, or that make us look at the object from a different perspective.
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Sculpture / Installation
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ORBS (Orbital Recycled Beauty Spheres)
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Riva Weinstein
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Nolan Park
(SI-43)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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ORBS are silver and multi-colored spheres ranging from golf ball to basketball size. In a previous incarnation they were the foil lined cartons your soy milk, organic soup or kid’s juice came in. Artist Riva Weinstein transforms them into Orbital Recycled Beauty Spheres reminiscent of Colonial rag balls - woolens and cottons cut into strips and rolled into balls. Circles, spheres and balls are among the most pleasing shapes to the human hand and heart. They speak of cycles, containment and play. Symbolic of life, reincarnation and Lila the Hindu concept of divine play ORBS are beautiful anyway you look at them.
http://www.modernsacred.com
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Visual Art
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Of Matters Great and Small
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Jenn Cortes
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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I base a lot of my prints and paintings on science illustration. I love the intricacies of anatomy and the little self-sustaining worlds that exist in each one of us. I usually study on specific parts of our system, even on the molecular level to create my own renditions of them. I like to take each part and make them their own character.
http://blog.jenncortes.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Opto V
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Chris Jordan
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-05)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Opto V creates optical interference from the sun. Its solar interference material is made of grid of holes projecting dots of light on the ground in the shadows of the installation. Beneath the interference structure are five unique objects in the form of simple childhood shapes (cubes, cones triangles), made from materials that interact with light: mirror, water, lens, colored gel, and film. As the earth rotates, the dots will move, passing over the light objects, causing a constant play of light. This ‘blinking’ of sunlight from afar will draw participants to the source. Using sunlight, 10-15 participants at a time can manipulate and reconfigure the objects, creating infinite temporal compositions. These solar refractions are directed towards a white mesh material affixed to the structure’s north face. Materials will be available for participants to create unique objects that will be integrated into the piece. Opto V offers a shared space to gather, tools to stimulate creative expression, and fosters a sense of unity through environmental awareness using ecological instruments.
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Sculpture / Installation
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Oracle of Random Butterflies (ORB)
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Priscilla Proudwoman Stadler and Eduardo Alexander Rabel
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Nolan Park
(SI-42)
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Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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The Oracle of Random Butterflies (ORB) celebrates our ability to cull profound truths out of the media cacophony surrounding us. Long-Wing Zebra butterflies - referring to the Mirabal sisters (code named: “The Butterflies”) who fought Trujillo’s dictatorship in Dominican Republic - are cut out of found newspaper pages. Visitors select a random butterfly, whose wings may contain answers of deep personal significance… or not. Personalize your unique butterfly, then add it to the community of butterflies taking shape throughout the day. The completed installation is taken down on Sunday; the butterflies will be given away to people waiting for the ferries home.
http://www.solanima.net/ORB
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Performance / Theatre
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Painter's Block
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Willum Geerts
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Standing on a pedestal, the artist poses statically as a living statue of a traditional painter, a palette with paint in one hand and a brush in the other. Option #1: The artist holds the pose as static as possible. Over time paint drips from the palette onto the pedestal. The piece is finished when the artist can’t keep up the pose anymore. Option #2: Whenever the audience donates something, the painter adds a stroke on to the canvas. The piece is finished when the artist can’t keep up the pose anymore or when the canvas is finished.
http://www.willumgeerts.com
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Sculpture / Installation
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Pallet City
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Katherine Gressel and Jeremy Reed
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FIGMENT Terrace
(SL-11)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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Pallet City introduces the public at Governors Island to the growing role of the pallet, and invites participation and feedback, simultaneously raising questions about practicality and aesthetics of pallet use. The linear installation, entirely built from recycled pallets, implies different activities that take place within the urban environment: sit (implied by a bench); park (a bike rack); dwell (a shelter); plant (a planter with small garden, which visitors can help water); perform (a stage where visitors can mount and document spontaneous performances, pose for photos etc.); observe (seats accompanying the theater); exhibit (a gallery space with 2-3 different exhibits that the artists will curate during the summer, and potentially a wall where visitors can put up their own small drawings); play (the rolling section), and learn (an ‘information kiosk’ at one end). Pallet City thus describes the city in terms of active, democratic use rather than passive viewing or restricted areas. The project will ideally spark public dialogue on the notion of city itself and the creation of democratic, sustainable cities.
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Activities / Workshops / Games
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Paper Tree: Mobile of Miniature Artworks by You and Me
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Jerise
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Waterfront
(AW-05)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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You are an artist, and I will prove it to you! Come and create your own 3"x3" artwork and exhibit it. With your help, I will attempt to paint, letter, collage, stencil, and decorate with papercut art 2,010 separate paper squares. We will hang the miniature artworks with colorful thread from rods and branches brought in for this purpose, ultimately creating a gigantic mobile of colorful paper squares and diamonds. Take your artwork with you after the exhibit!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40816190
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Multimedia / Electronic Art
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Paradise Regained
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C. Bangs/Greg Matloff
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Waterfront
(MM-03)
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Friday: All Day Saturday: All Day Sunday: All Day |
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What was our planet like before the advent of our modern civilization? What effects has our civilization had on the planet and its ecological systems? Paradise Regained discusses these questions and then creates a scenario for the re-greening of Earth. The authors introduce new and innovative ideas on how humankind might use the resources of the solar system for terrestrial benefit. Paradise Regained considers the environmental dilemma and highlights the risk of humankind's future extinction from environmental degradation.
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