Looking Forward
dal 4/4/2002 al 5/5/2002
Segnalato da
4/4/2002
Looking Forward
GAle GAtes et al., New York
A public artwork by Michael Counts begins April 5th. Enormous Projections of hundreds of New Yorkers will gaze over Brooklyn and Manhattan Skylines historic clock tower in Dumbo.
Looking Forward, a public artwork by Michael Counts begins April 5th.
Enormous Projections of hundreds of New Yorkers will gaze over
Brooklyn and Manhattan Skylines historic clock tower in Dumbo.
Who: Michael Counts, maverick visual artist, who with his company GAle
GAtes et al., has created exciting and controversial installations
inhabited by performers that have electrified New York audiences over
the last six years.
Beginning with 90 Degrees, then Wine-Blue-Open-Water, Field of Mars,
Tilly Losch, 1839 and last year's hugely successful So Long Ago I Can't
Remember, Counts and his company have entertained and challenged
theatergoers, art lovers, music buffs and fans of sheer spectacle with
his multidimensional works that take audiences places they have never
been before. The New York Times called Michael Counts, "A mad genius."
What: Projections of the faces of hundreds of New Yorkers emanating from
the historic clock tower in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The four fourteen foot
high clock faces on the 16th floor of the waterfront tower will be
transformed into giant video projection screens from which the faces of
hundreds of New Yorkers will gaze out onto New York in all directions.
The faces will include parents, children, firefighters, relief workers,
performers, artists and countless others watching over this city in this
unique time of rebirth and renewal.
When: Beginning Friday, April 5th and every evening afterward from dusk
to dawn and continuing through Sunday, May 5th.
On Friday, May 3rd, Looking Forward will go one step further and provide
an outlet for voices of hundreds of New Yorkers as well. Together with
radio station WFMU (91.1 FM) listeners will be able to hear what the
people in the clock tower are saying. WFMU will broadcast the voices of
the New Yorkers on the clock tower set to an original score, which will
be synchronized with the clock tower images.
GAle GAtes et al., Brooklyn
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 DUMBO,
718.522.4596