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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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New Specter at MOCADA

February 8, 2010 , ,
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Out With the Old, In With the New - new Specter piece at the "Pink Elephant" show at MOCADA (photo ©Guero)

The “Pink Elephant” show at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA) in Brooklyn opened Thursday night and continued through the weekend with events and discussions about gentrification and it’s effects on culture, neighborhoods, and people.

This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, looks at urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate development and how they are affecting Brooklyn’s communities as well as how residents throughout the borough are responding.

We spoke with photographer and artist Guero about the show, and he thinks overall it is a pretty good and meaningful one, enough so that he also went to the artists’ discussion on Saturday.

Since it is reported that more than 65 Luxury buildings that are currently under development in Brooklyn are stalled or only partially occupied because of the economic crisis, wouldn’t it be great if some of those homes could benefit those people who have lost theirs?

In any event, we agree with Guero when he says, “I like the fact that the museum is using the exhibit to create dialogue on an important topic”.

See our previous post on Specter’s street art pieces for this show from January 21st.

http://www.mocada.org/

See more of Guero’s pics HERE.

Artists in the exhibition include (alphabetically):
Josh Bricker(Installation), Valerie Caesar (Photography), Oasa DuVerney (Drawing), Zachary Fabri (Video), Rosamond S. King (Installation), Irondale Ensemble(Theater Performance), Nathan Kensinger (Photography), Jess Levey(Photography / Video Installation), Christina Massey (Painting), Musa (Sculpture), Tim Okamura (Painting), Kip Omolade (Painting), John Perry(Painting), Adele Pham (Video), Michael Premo / Rachel Falcone (Photography / Multimedia), Gabriel Reese (Painting), Marie Roberts (Painting), Ali Santana (Music Video), Monique Schubert (Mixed-media), Alexandria Smith (Painting), Sarah Nelson Wright (Installation).

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