Saturday, March 6 – Brooklyn Night
Double Take: Michael DeLucia, Christian de Vietri, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Johannes VanDerBeek, Matt Irie & Dominick Talvacchio
Designed with MetroTech Center's specific conditions in mind, these five new commissions by six emerging artists take an element of the existing architecture or environment and subject it to a process of modification or metamorphosis. Each work plays with fantasy and illusion to force a shift in perception, creating a mirage of sorts. Nothing is as it seems: a chain-link fence dissolves into pixels, a bonfire yearns for its flame, outdoors is indoors, a ghost lurks, and a lamppost bends. Double Take celebrates the curious over the comfortable, the strange over the simple, and the mysterious over the mundane.
Time: Open daily
Access: Free to the public
Location: MetroTech Center, downtown Brooklyn
Website: www.publicartfund.org/doubletake
SITE Fest & ionSOUND
SITE Fest is Arts is Bushwick’s two-day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in the neighborhood. Encompassing theatre, dance, music and other forms of live art, SITE seeks to expand the interaction between spectators and spectacle, as both creators and visitors move through a plethora of spaces, media and styles. ionSOUNd is a two day music festival hosted by Goodbye Blue Monday.
Time: 12pm-1am
Access: Public, no RSVP required
Location: Various locations throughout Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Website: www.artsinbushwick.org
Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
An evening of art and entertainment featuring a wide range of activities including film, art-making projects, gallery talks, live music, and dancing to a live band or DJ.
Time: 5pm-11pm
Access: Public, no RSVP necessary
Location: 200 Eastern Parkway (corner of Washington Avenue), Brooklyn
Galleries Open After Hours in Williamsburg
All Williamsburg Gallery Association galleries will be open until 11pm, with special events and a re-release of Raw Magazine - the WGA's definitive guide to galleries and culture in North Brooklyn - followed by an Armory Show afterparty. Visit www.wgabrooklyn.org for more information.
Time: 6pm-11pm
Access: Public, No RSVP necessary
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The no place and ACCENTED on view at BRIC Rotunda Gallery
Two exhibitions hosted by BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn: the no place features the work of six contemporary artists who conjure utopian and dystopian environments in distinct ways to explore such issues as geo-political conflict, human rights, urban development, the environment, and most broadly, how we comprehend and utilize physical space.
In the Project Room: the 2010 Emergency Curatorial Fellowship exhibition ACCENTED, a visual journey into our increasingly accented day-to-day interactions.
Time: Tuesday March 2nd – Saturday March 6th, 12pm-6pm daily.
Access: Open to the public, no RSVP required
Location: BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights
Website: www.bricartsmedia.org/contemporary-art
MTA Arts for Transit – Departures and Arrivals
Arts for Transit staff will be onsite to discuss Ben Snead’s mural, Departures and Arrivals (2009). Departures and Arrivals is one of the MTA Arts for Transit’s newest permanent art installations. The intricate play of nature – fish, birds, insects – is the theme of this expansive mural, which fills the south mezzanine with bold color and intricate patterns along a specially designed 103 foot-long curved wall.
Time: 5pm-7pm
Access: No RSVP required
Location: Jay Street – Borough Hall Station (south mezzanine)
Website: www.mta.info/mta/aft
“Destiny is Already in Your Memory” A live hot glass performance by artist Jeff Zimmerman
Jeff Zimmerman, one of the original members of the B-Team (the first performance art glassblowing group in the world), will create a tapestry of layers consisting of different forms of bubbles of all sizes and materials. Bubble machines, large soap bubbles, glass bubbles and a glass ray gun that shoots bubbles will merge with light and music to create a fantastic atmosphere and a jaw-dropping conclusion. Zimmerman is known for his installations of organic forms that curve and bend as if undergoing self-regeneration.
Time: 6:30pm
Access: RSVP required, please call 718.625.3685 or email info@urbanglass.org
Location: UrbanGlass, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn (entrance at 57 Rockwell Place)
Website: www.urbanglass.org
Miniature War in Afghanistan: Brian Conley
The Boiler, Pierogi's satellite exhibition space, presents Brian Conley’s performance and installation, Miniature War in Afghanistan. Conley explores human conflict in this provocative performance event where live-action wargamers play out scenarios on a tabletop diorama selected in real-time by Afghan-speaking researchers. For further information see www.pierogi2000.com or call 718.599.2144
Time: 9pm-11pm
Access: Public, no RSVP necessary
Location: 191 North 14th St (between Berry St & Wythe Ave) Williamsburg, Brooklyn
