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New York’s Nuit Blanche Redux : Industrial Buildings Brought to Light

October 8, 2011

Still way off the beaten path, and captivatingly so, New York’s 2nd annual Nuit Blanche overcame difficult weather and logistical hurdles to blind a few thousand revelers with brilliance and interactivity in this waterfront industrial neighborhood facing Manhattan. This festival of ingenius light is inspired by those sharing it’s name in cities like Paris and Toronto, but the D.I.Y. ethos that permeated Brooklyn during the 2000s in neighborhoods like this keeps the corporate chill at bay.

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Performance, poetry, projections; the description does no justice to the ingenuity of spectacular pieces like Chris Jordan’s timelapse of Hurricane Irene hitting Manhattan projected inside a cloud named Bob that is designed by Columbia architecture students. Only in person, on the street, and in the cold October air can you be suitably shocked by the sight of yourself crawling up a factory building with a hundred others going at different rates. “Asalto”, by Daniel Canogar does just that; a public participation piece where you can crawl across a stage being recorded by a camera overhead and a few seconds later see yourself climbing to the top of this abandoned factory, progressive participants looping and layering as the evening advances.

The Manhattan art crowd may have been lured by the new ferry service and the promise of the occasional marquee name (Serra, Wodiczko), but it’s the unposing open quality of this curated installation of light that still feels promisingly ad hoc. While you’re discovering and rooting for it to succeed, you hope it retains the radiant wit as it grows. Glows

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Richard Serra, 1968. “Hand Catching Lead” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Marcos Zotes-Lopez (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Daniel Canogar (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Daniel Canogar (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Chakaia Booker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Alex Villar (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Amanda Long (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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POEMobile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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POEMobile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Chika Lijima (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Chris Jordan, Shai Fuller, Jocelyn Oppenheim, Jacob Segal and Brycia Suite. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jeff Desom take on Rear Window (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Nathan Kensinger description of lost interiors consumed by fire.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Organelle Design and Elliot-Goodman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Krzysztof Wodiczko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Andrea Cuius and Roland Ellis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Diller Scofidio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sean McIntyre and Reid Bingham (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Ugly Art Room (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Valeska Soares (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Elisabeth Smolarz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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“Bring To Light” Opens Tonight: Nuit Blanche NYC 2011

October 1, 2011 , , , , , ,

Tonight opens the 2nd Annual New York “Nuit Blanche” in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. As we did during it’s inauguration last year (when we were also participants) BSA proudly supports this public show of light by some of today’s more talented conceptual and technical artists in the street. With more than 60 separate installations and performances all over the place, it is an event open to the public and it claims public space as our space for creativity, interactivity, and community. Despite threats of spotty rain, we expect the crowd to pour in and have a blast tonight.

“We want things to be visually arresting, some things that people stay and linger at, while other people look for a moment and move on,” declares Ethan Vogt, as he lead a bunch of us around some of the sites last night to preview.

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“Hey, you. Wanna buy some classified information? Hey, you. Wanna buy a get rich quick scheme? Hey, you. Wanna buy a view from the top? Hey, you. Wanna buy the hottest ticket in town? Hey, you. Wanna buy some culture? Hey, you. Wanna buy some prime investment property?,” says the seductive lipsticked mouth by Diller Scofidio to welcome people off the boat from Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Diller Scofidio. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jason Peters’ flourescent light sculpture mimics the playful childrens’ park it illuminates, straddling the fence. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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“We wanted to save his life….The helicopter lands and the flight medic jumps out, and we’re like ‘throw this guy on the bird’ ” – “Veterans Flame Greenpoint” by Krzysztof Wodiczko.

Krzysztof Wodiczko, an early projection artist known for his large-scale work on architectural facades and monuments throughout the world, brings a very personal projection using the recorded voices gathered around a flame. The stories told are from a combination of American and Polish veterans serving in Afghanistan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Roland from “The Company” stands amidst his work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Roland and Andrea, of “The Company” will be running their indoor space installation of lights that will react to frequencies emmitted by live performance and recorded industry. Says Andrea, “We developed a custom software that triggers the lights as they are being affected by the sound. We are going to have a lot of performers as well as found industrial sounds –  each light lantern is connected to one specific frequency.

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“We use DMX controllers, 76 channels – we can mix, and crossfade, we can chose the right kind of the movement of light but in the end it is being determined by the sound,” Andrea of The Company. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA will bring you images of the event but if you are in the neighborhood, take your own and send them to us! It’s always great to see what you are up to.

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