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Archive | October, 2011

The Creators Project: DUMBO

The Creators Project is a festival of art and technology featuring interactive works, massive installations, and progressive ideas.

A highlight was undeniably the massive LED sculpture titled Origin by United Visual Artists and Scanner.

Glazer + Spaceman created a cathedral like setting in interpreting the Spiritualized track “Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space. The warm radiating beams of light, soft fog, and the speakers embedded in the floor created a total encompassing experience.

Life on Mars Revisited was a 4-walled installation, where film director Barney Clay and photographer Mick Rock remixed David Bowie’s music video for Life On Mars in an explosive and jarring yet pleasantly overwhelming immersive piece.

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Categories Alternative Spaces, Events, Installations

Sophie Calles’ The Room at the Lowell Hotel

15 Oct

The French Institute:Alliance Française invited Sophie Calle to participate in this year’s Crossing the Lines Festival of contemporary Art.

Sophie Calle’s body of work engages in an intensely autobiographical exploration generally centered around intimate memories and failed love.

For this installation, title Room, Calle has occupied a suite in New York’s Lowell Hotel where she has narrated stories through installed objects.

Burnt mattress drapped with a taffeta red dress, a Polaroid camera with a picture posed on the bedside table.

Handwritten letters, followed by stories of commissioning poets to write them for her. Stories of her earliest experiences with men, cruel memories of insecurity of first loves and unrequited love.

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Echoing back to Calle’s early work that she created while working as a chambermaid in a Venetian hotel, Room brings out the nostalgia and power of the object linked by memory and narrative. This is a must see experience, on view through Sunday Oct 16 at midnight.

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Categories Festival, Installations

Truck Yeah!! Mobile Culture in NYC

2 Oct

We have all seen the rapid growth of the gourmet Food Truck phenomenon, where entrepreneurs meet foodies rolling out concept food trucks that roam the city with massive foot and twitter followers.

If you love mobility, then go check out Truck Yeah: A Mobile Meet Up TODAY, October 2, 2011 from 12-6 pm at The Crown Victoria Bar in Williamsburg.

Sponsored by Jalopnik and Gawker Artists, Art Cart NYC™ and Etta Place this initiative brings together an amazing assembly of “mobile culture” of New York City—from gourmet food, to fine art, music, design, and fashion.

They are convening in Brooklyn to celebrate the increased mobility and changing landscape of New York City.