tedWORD is showcasing "LightTag," opensource gaming. Anyone can play! You don't need a phone or a WiiMote. It will be the first ever battle of Governors Island! While people are playing the artists explain other projects that they are working on and how tedWORD built the game – so others can get involved.
Echoing from childhood imagination and wonder, Patsy Chen and Sophie Leung have created a soft and colorful environment filled with an array of odd creatures and natural acoustics that engages your senses and delves you into the world of possibility. Come visit their quaint little tent and be transported into the world of bi-morphed animals, mythical creatures, and tantalizing vegetable monsters.
"The MoS Roving Food Spiral Usurpers" are a participatory moving installation that is augmented by the food spiral mini golf hole and Figment Leave No Trace team. (Leave a Better Trace!) We are accepting food scraps for soil building better food. So look out for our MoS Collective cargo trike. This is our base for our food-scrap bins, soil building samples and growing food systems. We will be moving slowly through the Figment diversity "banded" around collecting nutritious food waste donations for the worms and soil building. The kids will want to see the worms! Bring us your composting questions!
A memelogical crowd-sourced creative enterprise predicated on the ongoing instantiation of the semi-nonsensical phrase "STFU Katielady." The project exists as a collection of instances of the meme throughout the world, across various media, and at various points in time (ongoing). For FIGMENT, “STFU Katielady” manifests itself as a booth where the public is invited to don various “STFU Katielady” apparel and props (t-shirts, signs, etc.) and be photographed for addition to various galleries. Patrons may keep the apparel/props upon committing to wear/display them for at least the remainder of the day.
Come play in "The FunHaus"! It's full of all your favorite circus freaks. Dance to your favorite DJ's! Play with face paint, make some crafts, and join the circus. This interactive dance tent provides lots of visual stimulation and exciting laughs for all those looking for something a little wacky. Look for us in the circus tents!
The Tsunami Bass Experience is an art & musical collective based in NYC that produces wave theory-based edutainment designed to enlighten and enhance events in the form of interactive Bass Culture guaranteed to wobble your booty! Founded in 2009 from the musical, entertainment and event production collaboration by ShiZaru & Morphous, TBE's mission is explore, experiement, and edutain with wave-theory inspired bass culture and it's real world application. Our music wobbles booty while our event production, revolutionary interactive installation (~the WaVe~) triggers audio, visual and kinestitic learning/thinking modalities for a truly intuitive multi-sensory experience. Come play in the ~WaVeS~!!!
"Circus Yoga" blends the consciousness of yoga with the communal celebration of circus. Here we foster connection, play, trust and skill building through a wide range of experiences, including group games, flying partner yoga, partner acrobatics, Thai massage, circus skills (juggling, diabolo, poi, etc.) and more. We invite parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents to participate with their kids, and welcome anyone aged 7 and up. This includes adults without kids.
Environment, sculptures and sound by Disorient. Sculptures, shade structures, DJ set-up, chill area, more sculptures. Disorient makes people dance. One of their main interests is the art of the dancefloor.
The Gypsy Collective distributes "FREE ADVICE" in every possible location and to all in attendance. In addition, they will create and maintain a positive cultural identity amongst the other artists and participants. Also, they will be trading goods, services, and experiences for all that are interested, and especially for those who are not.
How well do you know Governors Island? Whether you are a new visitor or this is your regular weekend getaway, try one of these photo location hunts and you may see parts of the island in a whole new way.
"Open Music Circle" is a gathering place for acoustic improv musicians, vocalists, and dancers. There is no musical or other agenda. This is a deep-listening, improvisational gathering for music and movement. It starts in silence, someone begins, then everyone plays, vocalizes or moves as they feel appropriate, and finally it ends with silence. The FIGMENT presentation will be split into shorter time segments so participants can fully experience the gathering, beginning and ending. Dancers and musicians interact with and respond freely to each other. The structure is simple, but its takes us to a deep place.
MUN is a quartet from Brooklyn, NY that evolved out of the need to experiment and expand the conventional limitations of music. They explore many genres ranging from free jazz, to hardcore techno, to trance Middle-Eastern vibes. The improvisational element of the band as well as their complete lack of fear of being in the moment is what give MUN their unique raw sound. Mentioned in the Old Testament as the miraculous cloud following the wandering tribe through the desert, MUN descends from the heavens and can become anything you desire!
“Outback Nexus”, a TAZ oriented around a sound system, features live and DJed underground, abstract, and alternative music, mostly electronic. “Outback Nexus” will present a visually stimulating sound system installation where music will be performed, created, and mixed live provoking dance and more meditative, cerebral experiences. The “Outback Nexus” goal is to expose participants to music defying easy categorization, accentuating sound intended to shatter confines of genre and popular style. Outback members and friends have worked toward this end in and around New York for many years, and have participated in many border-dissolving events, including previous FIGMENTs.
Kitchen Sink Arts invites you to shake up your Shakespeare! Before the show you can suggest new props, settings, line changes, and the sequence of our scenes – fights with feathers, Hamlet in a salon, “A ________ by any other name would smell as _________”. “SHAKEn-not-SPEAREd” will then use your ideas to perform some SHAKEspeare! Hilarity ensues.
Kitchen Sink Arts invites you to Move! Paint! Sculpt!
In this piece the participants are their sculptures, painters, and dancers. Come dance inside a sac creating a living sculpture or capture the beauty of the moving sacs by painting on their cubes.
Joey Kilrain is bringing his socks back for you to paint on. Watch as he paints his various whimsical characters and collaborates with all that attend. Once a sock is completed, it will be hung to dry. Participants are encouraged to take their completed socks once they've dried. A fun experiences for all ages. No socks required to paint!
