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DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL 2013

Micah Stansell’s “Inversion (with Water)” combines sound and image in the Manhattan Bridge Archway & Anchorage

Multiple venues in DUMBO
September 27-29, free
www.dumboartsfestival.com

More than two hundred thousand visitors are expected to take part in the seventeenth annual Dumbo Arts Festival this weekend, running Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday. The streets and galleries will be home to three days of art, music, site-specific installation, workshops, open studios, and live performances, with everything free. The New York Photo Festival will be hosting the New York Photo Awards at 37 Main St., Gleason’s Gym is sponsoring “The Art of Boxing” at 77 Front St., “DADA’s Playground” will include family-friendly sculptures in the Kidlot, Mighty Tanaka welcomes people to the work of street artist Skewville in “Welcome to Skewville,” United Photo Industries’ “Photoville” continues on Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5, Anthony Heinz May’s “Appropriation of Nature” can be found on the park’s John St. Path, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s “Ship of Tolerance” sails into East River Cove, Abhaya Yoga will hold “Live Beats & Yoga Flow” at 10 Jay St., Clifford Ross & Taikoza’s “Immersive Harmonium Video and Japanese Drums” and Micah Stansell’s “Inversion (with Water)” take advantage of the Manhattan Bridge Archway & Anchorage, Andrey Bartenev and Mei Ann Teo’s “Bubbles of Hope” will roam all around the area, Amelia Marzec’s “New American Sweatshop” repurposes electronic waste into communication devices at 85 Washington St., dancers Jake Bone, Lynda Senisi, Damani Pompey, Ellyn Sjoquist and Alessandra Delle Grotti will perform Kensaku Shinohara’s “Math Time” on Main St., and CAM, DALeast, Eltono, Shepard Fairey, Faith47, MOMO, Stefan Sagmeister, and Yuko Shimizu will decorate DUMBO Walls in Bridge Park Two.

Andrey Bartenev and Mei Ann Teo’s “Bubbles of Hope” will roam around DUMBO on Saturday afternoon

There are lots of interactive installations, including the Heather Hart Experience’s “Bartertown (Trading Post Xi: The Magic Feathers),” in which participants can exchange objects, ideas, and just about anything else; Daina Taimina’s “Hyperbolic Hyperbolic Hyperbolic,” involving crocheting and paper cut-outs; Samuel Jablon and the Underpass Poets’ “Poet Sculpture” will feature readings on movable crates (by Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Vito Acconci, and many others, as well as an open mic); Rev. Lainie Love Dalby will bless festivalgoers as part of “HUMBO (Hope Under the Manhattan Bridge Underpass): A Blessing Performance to Burst Open Your He(art)”; the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective will present “Sublime,” interactive performance art pieces by Monica Jahan Bose, Ruby Chishti, Anjali Deshmukh, Swati Khurana, and Sunita S. Mukhi; and Kaloyan Ivanov’s “Void Simulacrum” invites the audience to work on a fifty-foot-long piece of fabric by Jane’s Carousel.

NYPH ’12

DJ Spooky’s immersive “Sinfonia Antarctica” should be a highlight of the 2012 New York Photo Festival

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2012
powerHouse Arena (37 Main St.) and other locations throughout Dumbo
May 16-20, free – $20
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The fifth annual New York Photo Festival takes place throughout Dumbo beginning with the vernissage May 16, followed by four days open to the general public. Although admission to all exhibits is free, a $15 ticket (in advance, $20 on-site) is good for presentations and receptions, food samples, and various local discounts. NYPH ’12 features four guest curators. Glenn Ruga’s “On the Razor’s Edge: Between Documentary and Fine Art Photography” consists of works by Bruce Davidson, Reza, Eugene Richards, Rina Castelnuovo, and Platon at powerHouse Arena. Also at pH Arena, Claude Grunitzky’s “The Curse and the Gift” looks at photography as a way of life, with work from Evangelia Kranioti, Irmelie Krekin, and Christian Witkin. At 56 Water St. and pH Arena, Amy Smith-Stewart’s “What Do You Believe In” collects multidisciplinary images from such artists as Jen DeNike, Hank Willis Thomas, Xaviera Simmons, and Daniel Gordon, examining at how photography is a forum for ideology. And DJ Spooky’s “Sinfonia Antarctica (The Book of Ice)” takes place out on the streets, with digital media, live performances, sculpture, and more. Satellite and affiliate shows include “Tokyo-Ga” and “PRC in NYC” at 111 Front St., “The Art of Documentary” at pH Arena, “Liberty and Justice (for All): A Global Photo Mosaic” honoring Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros at VII Gallery, Jeanette May and Jocelyn Chase’s “Creature Features” at A.I.R. Gallery, Rania Matar’s “A Girl and Her Room” at Umbrage Gallery, Andrew Frost’s “The Northeast Kingdom” at United Photo Industries, “Ken Rosenthal: Photographs 2001-2009” and “Vojtech V. Slama: Wolf’s Honey” at Klompching Gallery, “America” at Generation Gallery, and Robin Bowman’s “It’s Complicated ― The American Teenager” at spring. The festival will also host workshops, tutorials, gallery talks, lectures, book signings, and panel discussions; among the highlights are “What Do You Believe In” with Smith-Stewart, DeNike, Simmons, and Matthew Spiegelman (May 17, 3:00); “On the Razor’s Edge: Form and Content in Documentary Photography” with Ruga, Davidson, Lori Grinker, Platon, and Reza (May 17, 7:00); “The Curse and the Gift” with Grunitzky, Kranioti, Krekin, and Witkin (May 18, 3:00); an immersion experience by DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (May 18, 8:00); “Tokyo-Ga” with Naoko Ohta, Haruna Kawanishi, Yasutaka Kojima, and Corinne Tapia (May 19, 2:00); and Adriana Teresa in conversation with Erin Trieb (May 19, 3:00).

DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL

“Sushi” is performed in the windows of the BoConcept furniture store at 79 Front St. hourly between 2:00 & 5:00 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Multiple locations
September 24-26
www.dumboartsfestival.com

The 2010 DUMBO Arts Festival will feature hundreds of events Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, three days of open studios, juried exhibitions and installations, concerts, dance, a digital summit, book signings, walking tours, performance art, a visual poetry marathon, children’s activities, and more, much of it free. The New York Photo Festival is premiering “Capture Brooklyn” at the powerHouse Arena, No Longer Empty will take over a suite in 111 Front St. as well as scaffolding outside 25 Washington St., Tom Verlaine will be playing at Galapagos with Billy Ficca and Patrick Derivaz, and Jonathan Lethem will be celebrating the launch of the paperback version of CHRONIC CITY. Among the other myriad participants and special events are the Brooklyn Ballet, Jane’s Carousel, storyteller LuAnn Adams, E. J. Antonio, the Strung Out String Band, Daniel Fishkin, Crystal Gregory, Mighty Tanaka, Bubby’s seventh annual Pie Social, a Steampunk Salon Saloon, and a bug-eating discussion with chef and artists Marc Dennis.

Anyone can be a star in Nelson Hancock’s two-part “That’s (not) Me” at DUMBO Arts Festival (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

We particularly recommend Nelson Hancock’s “That’s (not) Me” outside on Main St. and inside at 55 Washington St., an August Sander-inspired project in which you can take a photograph of a friend or stranger, then switch places, then take a self-portrait, and you get to take home each photo of yourself; “Sushi,” in which Felisia Tandiono, Kashimi Asai, and Nung-Hsin Hu perform as three pieces of sushi in the windows of BoConcept at 79 Front St.; Andrea Cote and Michael Drisgula’s “Clay,” in which Cote will sculpt your head in clay while Drisgula documents it on video, with the same piece of clay used for all sitters; Fountain Art Fair favorite Allison Berkoy’s creepy projection “Asleep #3,” hidden away in a loading dock at 30 Washington St.; eteam’s “Gallery Cruise” at Smack Mellon on 92 Plymouth St., where you can relax at a table in the Tea Room, which offers a view of the Atlantic Ocean through a pair of windows; and Demetria Mazria’s “Take-Less” at 30 Washington St., composed of plastic take-out containers that form the number 2629, representing the number of such containers used (and then thrown out) every second in the United States. (We were looking forward to Janet Biggs’s “Wet Exit,” but it was canceled at the last minute.)

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL

Marc Garanger’s photos of Algerian women are part of the “Bodies in Question” exhibit at the New York Photo Festival

THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Multiple locations in Dumbo
May 12-16, $15 per day, $30 festival pass
www.nyphotofestival.com

The New York Photo Festival takes place this week in locations all over Dumbo, including the powerHouse Arena, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, the Archway Under the Manhattan Bridge, featuring exhibitions, portfolio reviews, a scavenger hunt, lectures, conversations, panel discussions, and after-parties. This year’s main shows are “Object Lesson” curated by Vince Aletti at 81 Front St. (front), “Use Me, Abuse Me” curated by Erik Kessels at Smack Mellon Gallery, “Bodies in Question” curated by Fred Ritchin at St. Ann’s Warehouse (north), and “Hidden Books, Hidden Stories” curated by Lou Reed at St. Ann’s (south) and 81 Front St. (back). Among the satellite shows are the Latin American Pavilion at the Dumbo Arts Center, “Where Storytelling Lives” at 111 Front St., “DutchDoc! Space” at Kunsthalle Galapagos, and “Human Rights & Photography,” “Room 103 & Warzone,” and “Outsider Land” at Tobacco Warehouse. Most of the special programming is scheduled at St. Ann’s, with such highlights as a DIY photobook workshop (May 13-14 at 1:00), a lecture on obsessive collecting by Paul Kooiker (May 13, 3:00), a series of film screenings (May 13 at 8:30), an illustrated talk, Q&A, and book signing with Zed Nelson (May 14 at 11:00 am), Eirik Johnson and Jason Houston in conversation (May 15, 4:30), and a presentation by Bill Jacobson (May 16, 2:00).