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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Stealth Fighter
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Zaq Landsberg
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Friday:
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Emblematic of US military operations in both Gulf Wars and the time in between, the F-117 stealth fighter’s odd, angular design makes it invisible to radar. This 1:1 scale replica is framed in wood and wire and covered in Astroturf. It will be hidden in plain sight. Although the Astroturf blends in with the grass, "Stealth Fighter" will be obvious because of its size and distinctive shape. Visitors can go inside the fighter and use its ‘cover’ to peek out the jet intakes and cockpit windows. The fighter’s sloped sides provide a tent for people to hang out underneath.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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SWAN
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Bayard
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Friday:
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"SWAN," a group of three inflatable sculptures made of found fabric, is hand screened, sewn and inflated by fans. One inflatable asks visitors to MAKE A WISH, another asks visitors to WISH FOR PEACE, the third piece is a sea of white stars on a blue flocked ground representing the universe overseeing wishes, granting all once peace has been achieved. "SWAN," embraced by visitors as something fun, subliminally challenges them to think about themselves, the world they live in and how their desires can affect not only themselves but the human condition all around them.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Pop-Up Adventure Playground
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Pop-Up Adventure Play
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Friday:
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"Pop-Up Adventure Playground" is a temporary play space dedicated to children’s right to play. Gathering materials from and making connections with other island events, this project is a creative, interactive opportunity to engage visitors. Children of all ages come together to seize found, recycled, and donated materials, transforming them into the environments they want and need to imagine. The trained adults who caretake the site are known as Playworkers. They protect the child’s freedom to explore the sensory and aesthetic possibilities of the site, to experiment and take risks, and to transform the materials and themselves into something new.
http://www.indiegogo.com/pop-up-adventure-play
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Strange Bugs!
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Adel Kerpely
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Friday:
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"Strange Bugs!" is a make-your-own animation project with an installation of 15 nearly identical bug sculptures placed in a circle. As visitors sit on the giant insects, a friend takes a series of 15 photos of them on each bug — one after another. The photographer sits in the middle of the circle, making sure the bug stays in the same spot of the composition. Played consecutively, these 15 photographs can be viewed as a movie. It will appear, as the background changes behind them, that the bug and the person who sits on it are on one crazy ride. "Strange Bugs!" is made possible in part with public funds from the MCAF, supported by the NYC DCA in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC and chashama.
http://www.strangebugs.info
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Temple of Grace
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Jen Upchurch
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Friday:
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Intended as a place of exploration, contemplation, reflection, and personal expression, the graceful timeless design of the sculpture will encourage visitors to walk around and through the wings, sit down and even climb into one of the wings, and interact with the temple’s structure by leaving contributions of art, messages, and other ephemera on the wooden feathers of its wings. The temple encourages people to interact mentally, physically, or artistically and discover their own eccentricity and the angel within themselves.
The "Temple of Grace" is a fiscally sponsored project of Circle Arts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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TreeHouse
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Benjamin Jones
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Friday:
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"TreeHouse" is part nostalgic playground, part classroom. Encouraging the viewers to play, it is also meant to serve as an educational tool for sustainability issues. The project brings together both kids and adults through hands-on activities and is exemplary for the use of reclaimed materials both on a small and large scale level. "TreeHouse" and its surrounding playground activities are created entirely from reclaimed materials from the streets of Brooklyn and project partner Build It Green! NYC, a non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials. Wind and solar energy are used to power the activities surrounding it.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Transformative Kayak
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Robert K. Otani
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Friday:
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Inspired by a desire to bond the playful atmosphere of children playing on Governors Island to the tranquil ambiance of the more mature who seek a day of repose, "Transformative Kayak" is intended to be a sculpture for relaxation and social interaction, disassembled, and then transformed and donated to children for their use around the island. "Transformative Kayak" is a fun and leisurely space where children can play in the "floating" kayaks while their parents relax in the hammocks that are tethered between the kayaks. A shading diffusion of light is provided by translucent polycarbonate panels atop the sculpture.
The artist has created an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to support this project.
http://www.indiegogo.com/Transformative-Kayak-at-Governors-Island-NY
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Mood Lighting
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Kristina Wilson, Jason Jeunnette, and Mark Jeunnette
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Friday:
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Inspired by Ray Bradbury’s story "All summer in a day" – about Venusian children who see the sun for the first time – "Mood Lighting" invites people to remember the value, joy and wonder of the sun through 4 mounted boxes. Each box has cutouts of specific elements of the face: hair, eyes, nose and mouth, and three design options (smile, frown and buck teeth). When all 4 boxes are rotated and aligned with the sun correctly the shadow on the grass becomes a face. Participants are invited to mix and match elements to make all of the possible 81 faces.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Microtopia
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Grace Delgado, Barrie Cline, and Dimitri Williot
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Friday:
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Students from Quest 2 Learn public school, graffiti art class students at the Educational Alliance, and FIGMENT visitors build "Microtopia," a durable modular miniature city and a skateboard park to play in and build on. Graffiti mini-murals are created on the buildings; blocks and paint are available to visitors to add to the city. Workshops with educators, graffiti (and other) artists as well as environmentalists are held throughout the summer. "Microtopia" emphasizes the value of play, equal opportunity, and the sense of belonging to and caring for the city. Kids will help de-install and take home parts of the city.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Claiming Space For All Occasions
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Maria Hupfield
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Friday:
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This durational performance piece and installation is a constructed ground based circular earth work. The artist creates a pattern in this circle by cutting away the existing grass; the exposed earth underneath shapes the image. The resulting outline is based on regional American Indian floral designs, determined by the artist during the performance in response to conditions, visitors and site location. The work remains on Governors Island for the duration of the summer until the pattern fades from exposure to the natural elements and the grass grows back. The piece expands on themes of displacement, connection to land, and heritage.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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City Blocks
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Chassy Cleland
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Manhattan is an island shaped by millions of dreams. "City Blocks" is an interactive installation that gives everyone the opportunity to rebuild the fabled island using building blocks made from reclaimed wood, shaped to show the many architectures of the city.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Bottle Cap Shaker
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Alexander Lockwood
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Friday:
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"Bottle Cap Shaker" is a giant, colorful musical shaker of found plastic bottle caps. Visitors can play the shaker by pulling a rope attached to the bottom of the instrument, allowing the shaker to bounce and thousands of caps to hit against each other. Visitors to Governors Island consume thousands of water and soda bottles over the summer. The caps from those bottles will be collected in labeled buckets located at garbage stations. The artist will rework those caps into the shaker with the help of volunteers and visitors, doubling its size over the course of the summer.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Flaming Cactus
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Animus
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Friday:
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"Flaming Cactus" creates something of beauty out of everyday items. ANIMUS transforms three of Governors Island’s lampposts or signposts – by nature cold and utilitarian – into something colorful, whimsical, and artistic, by wrapping them in brightly colored cable ties. Because of the way that they are linked, the ‘tails’ of the cable ties stick out, creating the effect of ‘cactus needles’ protruding from the ‘trunk’ of the lamppost. Our hope is to show that adding art to a community or space doesn’t require a lot of resources, formal education, or even money. Creativity is something we’re all capable of.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Invisible Sculptures
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Andreas Keller
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The 9 hours every day we spend watching TV and in front of the computer have dramatically impoverished our sensory experiences. We engage with sights and sounds but rarely ever attend to smells, tastes, and touches. "Invisible Sculptures" consists of odor delivery devices in each of the oak trees facing Liggett Hall. The odors are site specific olfactory sculptures that refer to Governors Island and its history. Visitors can walk from tree to tree and release odors by pulling ropes tangling from the trees, inspiring them to pay attention to odors everywhere on Governors Island and beyond.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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M.O.R.E. Drums
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Andrzej Liguz
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M.O.R.E. (Ministry Of Random Events) was started by Andrzej Liguz in Australia and is dedicated to creating interactive sculptures and events which promote the use of recycled materials. The "M.O.R.E. Drums" were created using plastic industrial drums which were formerly used for transporting shampoo. Anyone can play them and should. They are set up in a circle so that people can see one another which will help them to listen to one another and play together. To see M.O.R.E. sculptures and events check http://moreimages.net. Enjoy.
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Knit For Trees
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Isabelle Garbani
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About 21 million plastic bags are used every minute worldwide… a staggering figure. What better way to fight this ecological disaster, and at the same time acknowledge the futility of the task, than to use plastic bags as yarn to knit scarves, sweaters, and mittens for trees? Throughout the summer, the artist collects shopping bags from visitors to Governors Island, and uses them as yarn to knit protective garb for the trees of the island. Visitors are encouraged to participate by helping cut the bags, roll the strips into yarns, sort the yarns by color, and knit. Check out the Knit for Trees blog!
http://www.knitfortrees.blogspot.com/
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Season Long Sculpture Garden
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Becky's Dream Catcher
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Mike Maung
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Visitors to the Sculpture Garden can relax, dream, reflect and watch the world go by while suspended in "Becky’s Dream Catcher" on an oversized hammock. The hammock will be suspended within an 18′ diameter geodesic sphere made of oak struts and aluminum hubs. The installation is a showcase of durability and structural integrity.
http://www.indiegogo.com/beckys-dream-catcher
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