PROGRAMS AND EVENTS INFORMATION SUPPORT PRESS SPACE RENTAL
Exhibitions Festival Outer Space Artist Opportunity Workshop Past Programs & Events
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PROGRAMS AND EVENTS INFORMATION SUPPORT PRESS SPACE RENTAL Exhibitions Festival Outer Space Artist Opportunity Workshop Past Programs & Events |
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The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art. Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world. The immediacy of the event means many artists reflect on current issues: among others, the rise of technology, recession blues, homelessness and environmental concerns, for example: River's Edge, is a street installation of oyster shells by John Monteith. It remembers the past use of these shells as an industrial material while it celebrates their recent use as an environmental tool. Welcome to NYC; Boomtown 2006 by Artcodex creates a commentary about the failing boom markets of art and real estate by recreating New York as a post goldrush town. Performance times: Sat. 12-2PM; Sun. 2-4PM Ballooning Awareness is an interactive roaming performance by John Bonafede that prompts youngsters to answer the question: "What is climate change and what should we do about it?" Performance times: Sat. 12PM; Sun. 12PM The Tree of Life: Reina Kubota’s plastic bag installation blooms under the night sky. Stir Crazy: Come see Ryan Roth, forced by these economic times into the endangered, caged and untamed, business werewolf. Performance times: Fri. 8-9PM; Sat. 12-9PM; Sun. 12-9PM Eco-disco: Join Scott Rummler at the eco-disco and experience a dialogue between nature, technology, and culture. Tercet: Throughout the streets, Angela Silver questions meaning in contemporary experience by usurping the ubiquitous traffic sign system and replacing the text with multi-lingual poetics. EXTRA! DAC is delighted to report that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has selected the 13th D.U.M.B.O. ART UNDER THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL ® for a case study on outdoor festivals, to be published in 2010. For further information, press images, or sponsorship package, please contact: Maya Taylor
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Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit contemporary arts organization, located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York. DAC is supported in part by public funds from: the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. DAC receives additional funding from: The Robert Lehman Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Dedalus Foundation, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The Cowles Charitable Trust, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. DAC's gallery and office space is generously donated by the Walentas Family and Two Trees Management Co. LLC. |
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