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Video: The Shining Mantis at LMCC: Timelapse
The Shining Mantis, a Brooklyn-based artist pair, consists of former Workspace residents Ernest Concepción and Mike Estabrook. Last Thursday, we invited them to our office to create a work that became Pandarok: The Birth of Kangis Khan, a 10 foot by 7 foot chalk drawing on a wall adjacent to our conference room. They arrived at 11AM and worked until about 7:30PM, during which we snapped a picture every 30 seconds.
Here's the creation of Pandarok: The Birth of Kangis Khan in 34 seconds.
January 19, 2010permalink
Video: LentSpace Timelapse
LMCC LentSpace is a free outdoor cultural space open to the public, made possible by the loan of a Trinity Real Estate development site. A model for citywide land use, this temporary project creates an “in the meantime” activity for a vacant site awaiting future development.
LMCC LentSpace occupies a city block bounded by Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sullivan Streets in Lower Manhattan.
During construction, we snapped a photo every 30 seconds from 10 stories up. After hours of editing, this is the end result.
October 28, 2009permalink
Photos: LentSpace Slideshow
October 15, 2009permalink
Photos: gabrielle lansner & company: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight
gabrielle lansner & company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Turning Heads is a celebration of freedom and personal transformation, performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance reflects elements of each woman’s personal experience and features new music by composer Nancy Magarill.
August 5, 2009permalink
Photos: Nicholas Leichter Dance: A Space Funk Invasion
Nicholas Leichter Dance and Monstah Black bring the energy, sweat, swagger, history and future of funk music, culture, fashion, and dance to The Seaport’s historic cobblestone district. A Space Funk Invasion will be performed for bystanders and patrons of four outdoor bars that form the perimeter of the area, promising a free side of funk for the burgers and beer. Performed to music by Daft Punk, The Time, and Monstah Black.
July 23, 2009permalink
Photos: Jonah Bokaer & Judith Sanchez Ruiz: Untitled Corner
Untitled Corner is a site-specific collaboration examining memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body in public space. In collaboration with visual artist Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz’s piece employs site-responsive architecture, objects, lighting, and other media to create the illusion of an expanded space.
July 10, 2009permalink
Photos: Naomi Goldberg Haas
Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population presents Fanfare, a suite of dances performed by twelve dancers to acclaimed Minimalist composer Michael Nyman’s brass compositions. In the spirit of Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man”, these pieces will be performed in the newly redesigned Whitehall Ferry Terminal which in the tradition of New York public spaces, captures the diversity and energy that are hallmarks of the company, composed of adults all ages, backgrounds, and body types.
June 19, 2009permalink
Photos: Zvi Dance: White
In White, Zvi Gotheiner collaborates with six dancers and the renowned composer Scott Killian, using Fort Jay’s historical significance and eerie sense of abandonment to reflect on our attempts to feel secure by arming our borders. The dancers wrap areas of the site with long white gauze strips reminiscent of bandages, slowly creating a web-like sculpture intertwining throughout the space.
June 5, 2009permalink
Video: Tom Angotti: “Bottom-Up Planning in the Real Estate Capital of the World?”
Urban planner Tom Angotti speaks about histories of grassroots community urban planning in New York designed to sustain neighborhoods. A landmarked building, Forty Eight Wall Street’s Neo-Georgian cupola features a giant Federalist eagle perched on its spire.
May 1, 2009permalink
Video: Robert Neuwirth: “Under the Table and Off the Books: Informal Economies in the Developing City — and Your City”
Journalist Robert Neuwirth speaks about black, gray, and other alternative markets developed and practiced in various shanty towns and immigrant communities around the world. The landmarked site of J.P. Morgan’s former private residence, 14 Wall’s 31st floor most recently existed as a bar and restaurant.
