Highlights From The DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival

This past weekend MSLK participated in a really great event: Brooklyn’s 13th annual DUMBO arts festival. Our own eco-art installation, Watershed, was a huge success, with a number of visitors telling us they came just to see our piece. That was a huge honor. The event itself is described by the event planners as a showcase for: “touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.” Sheri and I each had a chance to explore, as I took over 500 photos all weekend, and have finally sorted through the highlights… Test-a-Bunny by Kate Kaman and Joel Erland explores issues relating to vivisection… one of the more morbid works in the show. These gals made dresses out of reused trash bags… The view towards Manhattan… Sheri holding down fort at our location… Sean Capone’s Camera Rosetum uses video projection and computer animation to create a dynamic, baroque architectural environment. Tis was by far my favorite work in the show.
John Monteith’s River’s Edge, a block-length carpet of discarded oyster shells, recalls the oyster’s past use as an industrial material while celebrating its recent use as an environmental tool…. Not sure who or what these guys were… Chin Chih Yang encouraged passersby to attach trash to his body in order to create a new suit of armor. Nice… Climbing Coordinates, an installation by The Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Prototype Program…
Not sure who was behind his, but it was an impressive amount of what I assume is recycled cardboard. I heard that cardboard was invented in Brooklyn, perhaps this is a reference?
And finally some highlights from Watershed: