2008 Festival

Diana Arce
With Politaoke (POLITical speeches as kaAOKE), Diana Arce’s audience participation performance, you too can deliver the great rhetoric-filled speeches of today’s most important politicians! Hop on board the NY Water Taxi and make your voice heard.
Where: Water Taxi, Fulton Ferry Landing
When: Fri.-Sun. 7 - 9 pm, every half hour

Tara Parsons
Help create large flocks of endangered New York birds with Tara Parsons in Not Without A Trace. Where: Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge Park at Washington Street.
When: Fri. 6 – 8pm, Sat. & Sun. 1 – 5pm

Jean-Francois LaCombe
& Christian Desjardins
Jean-Francois Lacombe and Christian Desjardins invite you to experience SendGoodKarma, an oversized cedar fortune cookie that delivers typed fortunes with the touch of a button. Submit your own fortune by logging on to sendgoodkarma.com. Thanks to UQO.
Where: Pearl St. near York St.
When: Fri. 7-9, Sat. & Sun. 12 - 9

Petra Ferinha
Babel Trees, by Petra Ferinha, objects that promote interaction between humans, spaces and nature, which function only with collective participation, encouraging social interaction and a sense of community in urban spaces.
Where: Empire Fulton Ferry State Park
When: Sat. – Sun. 3 – 7pm

Chris Kinsler
Chris Kinsler’s faceless, footless figures are trapped in the anonymous actions of everyday life. Participants interacting with Persona non Grata momentarily lend every piece a personality and reason for its existence. Participants are encouraged to photograph themselves with the work and upload their images to the project’s Flickr site. Thanks to Axelle Fine Arts and Project 13.
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park
When: Ongoing

H2O Collective
The H2O Collective (Patrick Visentin, Landon Jones, and Justin Parr) will be dispensing “Genuine East River Water” as part of The Innagural NYC East River Aquathon, where Festival-goers will be assigned the heroic task of consuming the entire static volume of the East River. Thanks to Lesser Sculpture Studio for donations to the project.
Where: Plymouth St. between Main St. and Washington St.
When: Sat.- Sun. 11- 4pm

Annette Tacconelli
Come and lay down the root of your troubles with Annette Tacconelli at The Traveling Shrine of the Golden Sumskara. Whisper a word and see it materialize in red thread on the silk scroll of time and space. Accompaniment: Anthony Pinciotti and Salvatore.
Where: Keep your eyes open.
When: Sat. & Sun. 12 - 3 pm

Manuel Mansylla
Manuel Mansylla’s Speaker’s Triangle is a free speech zone where any spectator can become an orator.
Where: Pearl St. Triangle
When: Ongoing

Ted Southern
Play with Ted Southern’s light sensitive electronic musical instrument, Photophone, where sound is manipulated through a series of switches, buttons, knobs, and light sensors.
Where: 55 Washington exterior stairway.
When: Ongoing

Bruno Billio & Mahan Javadi
Touch and play with Laser Pendulum, a highly sensory experience by Bruno Billio and Mahan Javadi, which draws on people’s curiosity and natural attraction to light. In association with: Laserglow Technologies.
Where: 45 Main St. loading dock
When: Ongoing

Tina Manis Associates
The square foot is our standard unit of measure. Take one from the stack. See how big it is. Stand on it. In the NYC premium condominium market, it’s worth $1385. How much is it worth somewhere else? Tina Manis Associates, Architecture and Design presents a new way to visualize the global markets with The REAL eSTATE OF THINGS.
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park
When: Fri. 7- 12pm, Sat. & Sun. 12-12am

Antonia Wright
Antonia Wright will bring a garden to the streets of Dumbo with Pick Me. Participants are invited to walk on the grass, pick flowers off the artist and disperse them throughout the area.
Where: Plymouth St. between Washington and Main Streets.
When: Sat. & Sun. 2-3pm

John Bonafede
A pile of potatoes descend through a window, later to be consumed and taken away in the bellies of the audience in a borderless installation and performance, Sustenance. Thank you for space to powerHouse Books!
Where: 45 Main Street, sidewalk.
When: Sat. & Sun. 12-5 pm.

Maia Marinelli, Jared Lamenzo
and Liubo Borissov
Experience the unique sensation of using water to move sound with Mocean, an interactive environment by Maia Marinelli, Jared Lamenzo and Liubo Brissov.
Where: 18 Adams loading dock.
When: Fri. 7-9p,. Sat. & Sun. 12- 9pm

Teng Chao-Ming
In One Minute, Dumbo examines why we desire to record and how we replay, read and share these records of time. Taking footage from a tourist hot-spot, Teng chao-Ming experiments with different ways of processing and presenting the footage within the span of one minute.
Where: The lawn of the Empire Fulton Ferry State Park.

Kimberly Simpson
Projected video of flowing East River water on two side-by-side arched windows facing the waterfront act as a mirror for the opposing river in Waterfront Diptych. Employing minimal but poetic imagery, Kimberly Simpson creates a meditative work, which implores the viewer to take notice of the often overlooked scenic waterfront landscape.
Where: Keep your eyes peeled.

Sam Fleischner
Sam Fleischner’s outdoor video piece, Bridges aren’t for Boats, documents each boat that passes underneath the Manhattan Bridge over the course of a day. The boats are viewed as de-contextualized forms that represent commerce, industry, luxury, leisure, government, and tourism. Thanks to the Brooklyn Arts Council and Rooftop Films.
Where: Manhattan Bridge anchorage,
corner of Front and Adams

Betsy Alwin
Betsy Alwin’s playful Volley is a dual projection of a ball bouncing to and fro under the Manhattan bridge architecture. Serving both as mischievous interruption and metronomic cadence, this work counts the passing of time in the over-sized environment and
invites contemplation of scale through vicarious interaction.
Where: Pearl St. overpass, near York St.

screaMachine
Against the backdrop of an animated skull-studded American flag, and with animated projections underfoot, a performer, covered with images of tortured U.S. war detainees endures while onlookers strip away the
images with forceps. Torture, a multimedia screaMachine performance and installation, ends when the last image is removed.
Where: Front St. near Adams St.

Chin Chih Yang
Chin Chih Yang’s roving multimedia video projection, 2050 Dumbo, will transform Dumbo into a neighborhood under water, demonstrating the effect that the Earth’s rising water levels will have on Dumbo by 2050.
Where: Roving

Katy Higgins
Looking, a video projection of a baboon by Katy Higgins, encourages the passers-by to consider what the animal is responding to and to compare these responses to their own visceral experiences of being alive. Thanks to Melville House Publishing for generously donating space for this piece.
Where: Pearl St. between Plymouth and John St. (Melville House storefront)

Alina Tenser
Playing the Nomadic Temperament, an installation by Alina Tenser, exampines the idea of a diasporic aesthetic and temporary environments.
Where: 55 Washington St. 2nd floor.

Naomi Grossman
Naomi Grossman’s chairs made of wire and words suspend ghost-like from the ceiling in Assisted Living, which examines the role of those in their “ golden years” as they become both increasingly invisible and in need of human contact.
Where: 55 Washington Street, 2nd floor elevator lobby.

Meghan LeBorious
Constructed of salt and good wishes, Meghan LeBorious’ Salt Prayer Offering is a ritual installation that invites viewers to make their own offerings.
Where: 18 Adams St. near Plymouth St.

Olek
Olek reexamines modern communication technology with Text Machine contrasting the convenience of text messaging with the labor-intensity of crocheted sculpture.
Where: Corner of Front and Washington, 2nd floor windows.

Vydavy Sindikat
In Commuter’s Dream 2, Vydavy Sindikat portrays an experience of an individual living in urban environment through optical illusion. Thanks to Simino Architects.
Where: Loading dock, Water St. between Washington St. and Main St.

Ricky Sears
Inspired by development in Dumbo, Ricky Sears explores the tangible and ephemeral, past and present, private and public, interior and exterior space through public sculpture with Real Estate.
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Christian Cerrito
Christian Cerrito’s Stories From Things Left Behind features a group of abandoned objects, each with a unique personality and the ability to interact with those around them. A curious onlooker may be privy to bits and pieces of their stories, but, having been discarded by humans, they are distrustful of their audience. Special thanks to Eduardo Lytton.
Where: 55 Washington St. 3rd floor.

Eric Forman
The simple fascination of reflections in a puddle of rainwater is invoked with What The Rain Has Seen: Reflections of a Timeshifted Puddle, Eric Forman’s portal to a parallel space where reflections of the past and those of viewers in the present combine.
Where: John St. between Adams St. & Pearl St.

Jessie Lehson
Inspired by green building practices Jessie Lehson examines our historical connection to the earth and soil with NY Bricks. Seeded with local wildflowers, bricks made of
Hudson River clay begin to grow as it rains.
Where: Tobacco Warehouse.

Cheo Park
Cheo Park’s Dorothy Project developed out of the belief that we all experience certain things differently: to take a few steps up a stairway may seem a trivial task to some, but for others, these few steps seem like climbing a mountain.
Where: 45 Main St. lobby.

Cynthia Ruse
Using her 1999 hatchback, Cynthia Ruse’s knitted installation, This Year’s Model, can be seen parked on the streets of Dumbo. A limited edition of small-scale representations will be available for sale.
Where: Plymouth St. and Jay St.

Victoria Calabro
Victoria Calabro’s miniature field of wilting glass cacti, Cacti with Lassos, pokes fun at the romantic stoicism associated with barren desert landscapes and the masculinity of the Western.
Where: 55 Washington St. 4th floor.

Martine Kaczynski
Responding to the need to find or create space in Brooklyn, Martine Kaczynski rents out platforms of scaffolding with Sky-rights, a commentary on the gentrification and commodification of the real estate market. Thanks to all the volunteers and to Triangle Arts Association.
Where: 30 Washington St. sidewalk & Plymouth St. between Jay St. and Pearl St.

Kylin O’Brien
Giant monsters roam Dumbo in The Monster Project! Working collaboratively with schoolchildren from PS8, artist Kylin O’Brien has crafted massive creatures to serve as guardians and a commentary on our collective fears. With Bey Redding-O’Brien (age 8), Madison Kendall (age 8) and Maya Kendall (age 5). For more information: www.themonsterproject.net
Where: Pearl St. between John St. and Plymouth St.; Water St. between Pearl St. and Jay St.; Dock St. between Front St. and Water St.

Karin I. Tehve
Ruled Wall, Karin I. Tehve’s site-specific installation, re-casts everyday spaces as thresholds that illuminate the “in-between.” A series of horizontal and vertical planes screen direct sunlight by day and transform the space into a beacon at night.
Where: 55 Washington St. entrance.

Allison Berkoy
Allison Berkoy’s Succulent Girl Friday(SGF): resilient, prickly, and almost impossible to kill.
Indispensable to any office environment, SGF at once fulfills the needs of low maintenance client-greeter and decorative plant. Distinctive and adaptive, she is a perfect match for corporate clients seeking unusual décor combining a passion for art and female company.
Where: 55 Washington St. Lobby.

Ursula Scherrer and Kato Hideki
Ursula Scherrer and Kato Hideki transform an elevator beyond its functionality and explore it as a biological environment with
Elevator 55.
Where: 55 Washington St. freight elevator.

Kate Kaman and Joel Erland
In The Clone Corporation’s apocalyptic vision of the future, Kate Kaman and Joel Erland present a working, retrofitted crane game that has been modified to dispense original fetus sculptures.
Where: 111 Front St. storefront.

Allison Wade
Based loosely on traditional Navajo and Tibetan sandpaintings, Allison Wade’s Yarn Mandala will be constructed on-site throughout the festival, representing the idea that through incremental steps, one can make great changes.
Where: 30 Washington St. lobby.

Peter Mackie
In Kinetic Project, Peter Mackie’s three- dimensional architectural structures bend and transform projected video, extending the boundaries of the viewer’s perception of film and video, surface and space.
Where: 45 Main St., lobby.

d. Yee
D. Yee’s triptych, Salt of the Earth, Landscapes acts as a physical landscape with “fruit” scattered on the floor and in niches ready to be taken by the visitors. Thanks to Ian Cofre and Josh Golde.
Where: 25 Washington St. lobby

Biro for Architecture:
Radmila Lazarevic and
Lazar D. Kesic
To rediscover your childhood dreams, come this September to DUMBO and view Do You Believe in Fairytales? Find the yellow-brick road and follow it to the Magnus Stone. Touch the pixy-dust, and look for the Secret Gate. Close your eyes and fly - "somewhere over the rainbow..."
Where: The Brooklyn Bridge park, directly under the Manhattan Bridge.

Reina Kubota
Reina Kubota’s City of light is our city’s transformation from litter to light. Thanks to Sasaki Studio-Miyo Sasaki, Hang Xu, Akiyuki Ina, Nanako Mukai, Sequoyah Aono Walden, Daisuke Kiyomiya, Hana, and Tama.
Where: Tobacco Warehouse.

Matthew Callinan
Matthew Callinan brings his version of the ubiquitous luxury glass condominium to the parks. Brooklyn Condo’s bright, sunny space offers city views, waterfront location, and a great artist neighborhood, all for a 1 million dollar offering price.
Where: Empire Fulton Ferry State Park.

Natsu
Natsu’s large-scale luminous bead sculpture, The Lost State, recalls the primordial pure mind, under the sky, just as the ancients experienced the sense of oneness with the universe in their festivals.
Where: Empire Fulton Ferry State Park.

Barbara Campisi
Barbara Campisi’s glowing, bulbous organic shapes seem to grow like fungi on the rocky shore. Closer inspection of Sperangia Beach reveals an unmistakably hand-made touch.
Where: Keep your eyes open.

Soyoung Park
A violinist awakes starlight from the dark in Soyoung Park’s light installation and performance, Violinistar. Clara Kebabian
performs live.
Where: Empire Fulton Ferry State Park.

Nung-Hisn Hu
With My Sweet Home, Nung-Hisn Hu constructs a glowing beehive made of pasta as an expression her meaning of home.
Where: Keep your eyes open.

Ranjit Bhatnagar
Likening the bricks on the shore of the park’s beach to the ones Ignatz Mouse used to hurl at Krazy Kat in the old comic strip, Ranjit Bhatnagar’s Ignatz adds some more bricks in a most unusual place.
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park, beach underneath Manhattan Bridge.
When: Fri. 7-12am, Sat. & Sun.12 – 12pm

Kathy Koller
Way out in the middle of the ocean a junkyard exists compiled of miles of non-biodegradable plastic objects, bobbing in the sea. Where did this come from? Kathy Koller’s Flow represents the starting point of trash that ends up in the doldrums of the ocean.
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront.
When: Fri. 7-9pm, Sat. & Sun. 12pm - 7pm

Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis
D’Art Buoy, a site-specific multimedia
installation creates generative and meditative sounds thanks to a buoy anchored in the East River bank, which broadcasts its presence and voice live through music and an evening light show.
Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park beach.
When: Fri. 7-9pm, Sat. & Sun. 11- 11pm.

Eva Jung
Dumby is Missing. Shaped and formed by curiosity, fantasy and false information, Eva Jung’s Missing Dumby Project is a moving site-specific installation based on a found image in Dumbo. In Collaboration with Thor Sigurthorsson.
Where: Roving.
When: Fri. 7-9pm, Sat. & Sun. 12-8pm

Naomi Leibowitz
Throwing Things That Break explores the tapestry of meaning that constitutes domesticity and femininity. Naomi Leibowitz will throw 25 breakable househ old items on the ground, immediately cleaning the shattered pieces.
Where: New Dock St. at Water St.
When: Sat. - Sun. 1-1:30pm & 3-3:30pm

JooYoun Paek
In March of Self Sustainable Chairs, Joo Youn Paek switches between walking and sitting as a loop behavior with a dress that slowly transforms into a chair with each step. Participants from her Self Sustainable Chair Building Workshop at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center will join the march.
Where: Roving.
When: Sat. 2-6pm

ON megumi Akiyoshi
ON megumi Akiyoshi’s organic white cube will roam the streets of Dumbo. On view: Flower Gallery, a painting-installation. Special Thanks to Simon Lüthi still & motion photography.
Where: Roving.
When: Fri. 6-8pm, Sat. 1-3pm

Gav Barbey
Gav Barbey’s body of melting ice blocks contains a diversity of pigments and dyes, revealing new colors and forms as they melt and dry. The Dot explores the many complexities within the tiniest of statements.
Where: 111 Front Street Rm. # 220.
When: Fri. 7-9pm, Sat. & Sun. 12-8pm

Martin McCormack
Martin McCormack’s DUMBO Redevelopment Project Area information booth is an opportunity for the public to learn how the Brooklyn Redevelopment Agency plans to participate in the alleviation of the shortage of housing within a large portion of the city’s downtown district.
Where: Plymouth St. between Washington St. and Main St.
When: Sat. & Sun. 12- 10pm

Charles Waters
Charles Waters creates Dumbo Concertimento a tonal grid inspired by the mural colors and dimensions of Tattfoo Tan’s Front Street mural, Nature Matching System. Grown locally, premiered globally! Performance by Waters Horn Quartet featuring Waters, Matt Bauder, Nate Wooley, and Chris McIntyre. Thanks to Tattfoo Tan.
Where: Roving.
When: Fri. 7-7:45pm, Sat. 3-4pm

Dumbo Space/Solbong Kim
Dumbo Space presents The Trees Sing, three giant sound sculptures made out of trees. Experience synesthesia for the first time through contrapuntal fabrics woven by artists Sheridan Seyfried, Stephen Cabell, and Solbong Kim.
Where: Tobacco Warehouse.
When: Fri. Sat. & Sun. 5-7pm

Audrey Goldstein
In Point-to-Point, Audrey Goldstein will roam the streets of Dumbo wearing a backpack sculpture made as a response to the disembodiment of social networks. Goldstein will use data collected during this performance to create her next backpack sculpture.
Where: Roving.
When: Fri. 6-8pm, Sat. & Sun. 12-6pm

Olek and Racoco Productions
Catch Olek and Racoco Productions’ procession of musicians and dueling, squabbling performers clad in crocheted balloon costumes in And They Ride Balloon steeds, an idiosyncratic re-telling of a brief moment in Don Quixote.
Where: Roving.
When: Sun. 4-7pm

Catherine Baÿ
Artist Catherine Baÿ sets a troop of Snow Whites free in New York City, and directs them in a series of provocative performances in The Snow White Project. Co-presented with FIAF, the French Institute Alliance Francaise, as part of Crossing the Line 2008, FIAF’s annual fall.
Where: 111 Front St. Rm. 202
When: Fri. 7-9pm

Current Sponsored Project:Pachyderm is comprised of a spiraling swirl of organic trunks which reach out to people and invite them inside to experience a unique environment of shifting light and sound. The artists of this project are Dan Das Mama and Karen Cusolito. The installation crew is Aaron Irish, Che Pressnall, Makoto Iwagishi, Isaac Roberts, Jeremy Herzog, Day Pollini and Dan Davis. For more informationt: http://headlesspoint.com.