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Benefit Events
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Celebration at Dumbo Arts Center
DAC is thrilled to invite you and your cool and philanthropic friends to a one night event
Friday, Sept. 28, 6-9 p.m.
Door admission: $40
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Honoring our longstanding supporter, curator Leo Kuelbs
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Be the the first to take a sneak peek at our new brand identity -- we're on the edge of our seats!
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Kickoff Monster Drawing Rally before anybody else -- the official scheduled dates for MDR are Sept 29-30
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Enjoy musical dry ice performance by Sandy Gordon & Andrew Smiley
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Witness a salad-eating performance by Lara Bank who is driving a greenhouse from LA to Brooklyn
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Contribute to the Amazing Fund Generating Machine and help DAC grow
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Tour Codex Dynamic video installation in the Archway courtesy Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker at 9:00 p.m.
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Enjoy drinks, food and... more drinks!
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Amazing Fund Generating Machine - You decide $ !!
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About Leo Kuelbs
Curator Leo Kuelbs has presented a variety of works in spaces both public and private, emphasizing the connection and blurring the boundaries between art (as object, spectacle and business) and daily life. This “Living Gallery” concept began in New York in 2006 and has gone on to include events in Berlin and Budapest.
Since 2011, four site-specific video art events were presented on the anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge: “Immersive Surfaces” (2011), “Force of Forward” (2010), “The Endless Bridge” (2010), and “Applied Kinetics” (2009), as well as the more recently presented multi-city show, “The Decelerator (2011) and, at Momentum Gallery in Berlin: “A Wake” (2011). Several other video-based shows were also presented in Berlin and New York City. Mr. Kuelbs has presented the work of over 100 artists from multiple countries. |
About Lara Bank
Lara Bank is a Los Angeles artist producing conceptual participatory artworks questioning notions of ownership, space, communication, equity, and accomplishment through communal actions. Her projects question where art can happen and test the limits of what we think of as an artistic practice, such as conceptual curation and gallery direction with Sea and Space Explorations, LA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery project or The Portable Forest, wearable and portable foliage for public interactions
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About Sandy Gordon & Andrew Smiley:
Percussionist Sandy Gordon first pressed metal to dry ice in the California desert. With this medium and the addition of electronics, her solo performances as Liquid State Bypass explore the parallel concepts of molecular and spiritual phase matter shifts – specifically, the sublimation from a solid state of mind and matter into a gaseous one. As dry ice transitions from a mass of cryogenic crystals into a cloud of CO2, it gradually transforms from tangible to invisible, quiescent to frenetic, palpable to atmospheric. Likewise, as a metallic palette of raw shrieks, rattles, buzzes and moans morphs into affected amplified incarnations, the sounds warp beyond their origin, gathering musicality and shifting from the visible to the vibrational. The process of sublimation implies the movement towards an abstract state: the shift from the physical world into the realm of imagination.
In collaboration with guitarist and composer Andrew Smiley, the duo carves oblique shapes along arctic backdrops. With sentiments of familiar conversation on foreign planets, these textural improvisations allude to the ice that informs them; an element first formed for human eyes by scientific chance discovery, even as it had existed for eons on the polar caps of Mars. |
Download the press release.
Directions:
F train to York Street A/C train to High Street
B61 to York and Gold Streets
Dumbo Arts Center
111 Front St. #212
Brooklyn, NY 11201
DAC's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The New York State Council on the Arts, Two Trees Management LLC., and the Board and Members of DAC. |
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