Urban Festival 2011 List Of Performances Revealed.

Here are the street performances along 14th street happening during Urban Festival 2011 to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the Commisioner's Grid of Manhattan. We hope to see you around 14th street. Performances starts at 5 pm and ends at 8 pm.

PLATFORM
BroLab Collective
143 west 14th Street

PASSING TIME
Joanna Clark
on the M14 Bus Stop on 7th and 14th, and 77 7th ave (Grocery Store)

NO SHOES, NO PROBLEM
Julian Donahue
roaming performance

URBAN FURNITURE
Dylan Entelis
120 W. 14th Street, between 5th and 6th red and green standpipe about thigh high

SOUL ON A ROLL
Amber Keyser
roaming performance

QUOTATIONS
Laura Oconnor
various subway stations

CAUTION ON 14TH STREET
Michael C. Mangan
multiple temporary signage

SUBWAY ETIQUETTE
Courtney Moore
subway stations on 14th and 6th ave, 14th and 7th avenue

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!
Eli Rosenbloom
14th @ 7th avenue phone booths

ACCUMULATE RISING HORIZON
Catlin Web

HYDROPHONY
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Thomas Dexter.
Either the Hudson River or the East River and 14th street

GRID SCENES
The students of "Cinemetrics" and Harmattan Theater
Victoria Marshall, Brian McGrath, Jean Gardner, Jose Dejeus, Ashley Ahn, Atalay Harrison, Kimberly Tate, Ana Maria Ulloa Garzon. Ute Besenecker, Carmen Bouyer, Monica Hofstadter
7-8 pm , 14th street between 5th and 7th Avenue

This is not CSI: Brolab's "Autopsy"

 

This month, the group collectively known as Brolab , Art in Odd Places artists 2010, drove a 10 foot box truck as part of their public performance called "Autopsy. The project was part of Site Fest 2011 to explore the "notions of labor and resolution under the demands of pressure and time" by the mundane act of rotating tires. Such artistic undertaking was nothing new to this group: their last project, "Pump 14"  involved transferring water from the East River to Hudson, vice versa,  using yokes, pail and sheer manpower. How is that for exploring the ingenious of daily life?

See more of their work, visit their website http://inthenameofbrolab.org

Also, Art in odd Places will be collaborating with  Parson's the New School  and Brolab's Adam Brent to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Manhattan Grid on April 1.  Brolab will "stage" another performance for the event. Rumor has it somebody from the Art in Odd Places will join them for their public performance. You don't want to miss that!

Everyone is invited! See information below.

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AiOP and The New School presents: URBAN FESTIVAL ON 14th STREET APRIL 1, 2011

FACT SHEET for Urban Festival WHO:   Art in Odd Places & Urban Curriculum at The New School. WHAT:  2nd annual Urban Festival commemorating the Bicentennial Anniversary of the 1811 Commissioners’ Grid of Manhattan.   Performance and visual art by Harmattan Theater, BroLab Collective, Hydrophony (artists Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Thomas Dexter), and student work from the Urban Curriculum courses ‘Cinemetrics’ and ‘Urban Interventions’. WHEN:  Friday, April 1 5-7pm. WHERE:  14th Street Between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenues, Manhattan, New York City. Subways: 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W to Union Square; 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, F, V to 14th Street. L to First Avenue, Third Avenue, Union Square, Sixth Avenue, and Eighth Avenue.   Maps are available at Parsons The New School For Design, Shelia Johnson Design Center,  2 West 13th Street at Fifth Avenue. WHY:   The Commissioners’ Grid began at 14th Street, the first street in the grid to span from the Hudson to the East Rivers. This event will celebrate and imagine the future of the grid. CONTACT:   Vinh Cam, AiOP PR Director AiOPpr@gmail.com, (646) 259-0311 Ed Woodham, AiOP Director info@artinoddplaces.org, (347) 350-4242   Photos available upon request

Art in Odd Places & Urban Curriculum at The New School Commemorates the Bicentennial Anniversary of the 1811 Commissioners’ Grid of Manhattan at URBAN FESTIVAL ON 14th STREET APRIL 1, 2011 Manhattan, NYC (March 21, 2011)—Art in Odd Places (AiOP) and The University-wide Urban Curriculum at The New School is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Urban Festival commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 Commissioners’ Grid of Manhattan. A partnership between Art in Odd Places and urban@newschool, this event will celebrate and imagine the future of the grid. The Commissioners’ Grid began at 14th Street, the first street in the grid to span from the Hudson to the East Rivers. Professional and amateur performers, as well as artists will offer a condensed a two-hour event beginning at sunset on 14th Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues. This event is free and open to the public. We aim to renew the grid to create new socio-cultural relations to the region’s natural resources. Our relationship with climate, food, and animals and with ourselves is up for discussion. The under utilized and overlooked spaces of our city afford environments for a wilder imagination. The Urban Festival seeks to raise a discussion about ecological and social inclusion in our dense city grid. The performance ‘Grid Scenes’ is a collaboration between Harmattan Theater and the course ‘Cinemetrics’. This portion of the festival will also include curated installations from the course ‘Urban Interventions’. Participating AiOP artists include The BroLab Collective who will explore notions of labor and resolution dissolving boundaries between viewer and participant inviting the public to interact with a panel of artist and curators, as well as Hydrophony who will reveal New York City living waters through a chance-sound installation comprised of underwater field recordings taken from both Hudson and East rivers. Hydrophony is artists Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Thomas Dexter. About the Urban Festival urban@newschool, the University-wide Urban Curriculum at The New School is comprised of hundreds of courses across the university as well as four degree programs. Between March 1 and May 15, 2011 urban@newschool is hosting an Urban Festival. It is a series of thematically linked events, comprised of guest lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, open classrooms, field trips, conferences, and urban parties—all scheduled to take place within and around The New School campus. About Art in Odd Places Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Art in Odd Places aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. This year AiOP 2011: RITUAL: Ceremony. Habituation. Myth. Obsession. Superstition. will take place October 1-10. www.artinoddplaces.org

A frARTernity of artists: BroLab Collective - Art in Odd Places 2010

The Art in Odd Places team is in full swing gearing up for the upcoming festival. We are thrilled to have such great artists this year to present their work on Manhattan's 14th street. Excited to know who are artists included this year? Well, check in with the AiOP blog since we will be featuring all of them.

To kick things off, we have a group composed of Rahul Alexander , Robert Amesbury , Jonathan Brand , Adam Brent, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Ken Madore, Ryan Roa, collectively known as "BroLab". Each of them hail from a different background joined together by camaraderie and their passion for art. They are definitely an interesting group, emphasizing the need to grow both as a group and individual artists. One might say the name "BroLab" invokes a sense of "frattiness". But here in Art in Odd Places, we celebrate their commitment to become a brotherhood of artists in a much a higher degree with a word that fully encompasses who they are: A "frARTernity". And that, ladies and gentlemen, is something you don't see everyday in college.

Let's proceed on getting to know them better, shall we

(From Left to Right) Ryan Roa, Jonathan Brand, Ken Madore, Adam Brent, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Rahul Alexander

Aiop: What is Brolab?

BC: BroLab started from our semester in the AIM Program. We liked each other and the work we were doing and we thought why not continue meeting after the program is over. Essentially, BroLab is a bunch of like-minded artists who like to share ideas,have studio visits, drink, and make art. In one way it is an outlet- a way to diversify our individual work and work collaboratively. It is also great fun and we want to continue to grow our collective.

Ryan Roa One on One, 2008

Jonathan Brand Battle Axe, 2007

Travis LeRoy Southworth
The Growing Metaphysical Void at the Center of My Bedroom Ceiling 2010

Aiop: So what's with the name?

BC: long story short is that we were having a bit of fun with "colab". We had a speaker or two in AIM that leaned heavily on references to "Colab" noting the DYI art market we are heading towards that is similar to the 80's. I think it was after a studio visit with some of the guys, we were at the Sycamore Bar in Ditmas Park, that we said lets start a collective and lets call it "BroLab" given that we are all guys. The capital L came later to add a little panache.

Adam Brent I’m OK with it 2010

Aiop: How did you hear about Art in Odd Places?

BC: We heard about it through a fellow artist Christy Speakman who participated in it last year.

Aiop: What made you decide to submit a proposal for the Festival?
BC: We were searching for a venue to pitch an inaugural project when we ran into AiOP’s call for proposals for works along 14th Street. The 2.3 mile span, centralized location, and AiOP framework seemed like an ideal opportunity to explore some of our potential ideas and put them into action.

Aiop: How is the preparation coming along for your piece this October?
BC: We are rolling along and have for the most part finished our yokes and taken some practice runs. We have been joking around that we should probably get in shape given that our performance includes one 24 hr bucket relay from river to river. We have come to discover that water is heavy. We still have to get volunteers and solve some water access issues.

Aiop: What's your favorite spot on 14th street
BC: To the far east and to the far west, where it is always wet.

Aiop: Do you have a hidden talent you would like to share?
Sure, we can form 6-man pyramid.

Aiop: Any message to the people who will be in 14th street during the festival? BC: Come check out our performance, for more info visit http://inthenameofbrolab.org/ or follow us at http://twitter.com/brolab.

Thank you, BroLab. The possibility of the 6 man pyramid is another reason why you have to be on the lookout for this group this October.