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Ed Purver | DAF Juried Outdoor

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Ed Purver

The Dumbo Arts Festival welcomes Ed Purver back this year after a clever and outstanding video installation (A Show of Hands) of hands coming out of windows on the Empire Stores Civil War structure last year.

(photo-by-Jane-Kratochvil)

“Nesting” will be a site-specific video installation, installed in the archway within the supporting column of the Manhattan Bridge.  Inspired by diverse subjects ranging from Superstring Theory to the dissolving of ice and the change in state from solid to fluid, the video projection will be directed onto the ceiling of the archway and will respond to the sounds of the subway trains passing overhead.  With the sound of each passing train, the holes and cracks in the Manhattan Bridge archway will appear to expand and contract with vibrating light, referencing the theoretical motion of the world’s architecture, while revealing and hiding a shifting glacial landscape.

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Suzanne Broughel/Juried Artists

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The Dumbo Arts Festival welcomes Suzanne Broughel.

The Jump-shot Shoot Money Cup without Money (but win an original hand-painted t-shirt)

This is an interactive non-competitive game.  The setting is the artist’s sculptural installation Dream Hoop (Dreamcatcher Series), which consists of a basketball hoop rim with a net made of braided fabric.  She’ll ask participants to advise her on how to shoot basketball jump shots.   Anyone can participate – whether or not they have basketball experience.  Each participant will receive an original, hand-painted t-shirt.  The t-shirts will be on display amidst carnivalesque bunting/signage.

Engaging the public in one-on-one conversations is an important part of this piece.  As she asks participants about themselves in relation to basketball, ideas of family and community come up.

Suzanne Broughel is a fellow of Dumbo-based A.I.R. Gallery. She has also shown with Marlborough Gallery among others.

Nelson Hancock | DAF Juried Indoor

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Nelson Hancock joins this year’s festival with a project for all to help create.

Question whether a self-portrait can ever represent yourself. In That’s (not) Me, visitors can take self portraits & walk away with instant prints.

In part, an elegant version of familiar, carnivalesque photo booths, the project simultaneously calls attention to the seemingly commonplace experience of self?portraiture and documentation by adding an audio track, noticeable but not dominant, in which people discuss their impressions of pictures of themselves.

Voices talk over each other, dissolve into laughter or fade into pauses, and circle around the desires and disappointments that surround looking at photographs of one’s self.

This installation relies heavily on the captivating novelty of the instant print.

The goal is both to satisfy the common craving for pictures of one’s self, and also to interject into the experience the idea that a picture can fail to represent one.

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NELSON HANCOCK is currently Coordinator of the Critical and Visual Studies Program at Pratt Institute. He is also a photographer represented by James Sansum. He formerly ran the Nelson Hancock Gallery that was based in Dumbo, a gallery devoted to photographic works on the boundaries of art and ethnography. Before that, Hancock worked in the Anthropology Division of American Museum of Natural History. He has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. We welcome him back to Dumbo.

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