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Dominique DeVito

Project info

county: 

kings 

community board:

Community Board 11, 

Bath Beach, Gravesend, Mapleton, and Bensonhurst, 

Brooklyn Community Board 11 2214 Bath Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11214, 

Phone: 718-266-8800, Email: info@brooklyncb11.org, 

Chair: William Guarinello, District Manager: Marnee Elias-Pavia, 

Board Meeting: Second Thursday, 7:30pm, Cabinet Meeting: Per agenda, 

Precinct(s):62, Precinct Phone(s): 718-236-2611

city council: 

VINCENT J. GENTILE, 

District 43 - Council Member - Democrat, 

Chair - Committee on Oversight and Investigations, 

Entered City Council: March 2003, 

Represents: Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights

location: 

garages on 67th st between 16th and new Utrecht, graffiti overlap

Group 1

Our project is to display a time-lapse of "Ruthless development" happening in the city. 

http://i.imgur.com/Rpl4pX0.webm

Stop Motion Graffiti: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Tp3TRQbhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoKcsN8wM8

Lego in Madison Square Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z71Sekr5AY

Personal Statement-Kun yang

Public narrative Personal Statement

I want to create a wall for people just like 

by candy chang.

I truly believe that Monday is the most hated or loved in the calendar.

You can see that there are a lot of topics about "10 reasons love or hate Monday"

Express your emotion to others, whatever is good or bad, just "speak" out

Hi Monday, I wanna tell you_____________________________

Kun yang

Project Proposal-LI

Project Proposal:

            Our overall group mission addresses the theme of fear of people interacting and social anxiety. We wanted to use performance to confront these issues. 

I did serval research of the public housing or structure build in the public spaces.

Wish to create a private space in public space in one of the park in Manhattan. During day time and Night.

For examples:

Printed Glass + Vanceva Interlayer = Mind Blown!

What happens when you combine digitally printed glass with super vibrant Vanceva coloured interlayers? A full spectrum colour bonanza that makes Rio’s Carnivale look like a overcast winters day!   

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Kolonihavehus by Tom Fruin, Fulton Ferry at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Tom Fruin's stained-glass stunner between the Brooklyn Bridge and Jane's Carousel has been in a million Instagrams since its installation last September, but whatever, it still looks so beautiful, and at so many different times of day, that you'll probably break out your camera again anyway.

NYC Parks

http://www.nycgovparks.org/art

Jeppe Hein, Please Touch the Art
May 17, 2015 to April 17, 2016
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
Map/Directions (in Google Maps) 

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Description:

Three bodies of work are represented in the exhibition by Danish artist Jeppe Hein. Appearing Rooms is a systematically changing installation with walls of water that create rooms which appear and disappear. Visitors may move from space to space as the jets of water rise and fall. Mirror Labyrinth NY is made with equidistantly spaced vertical planks of mirror-polished stainless steel. Arranged in three radial arcs, the alternating rhythm and uneven heights of the steel elements echo the Manhattan skyline. Connecting these two works and continuing along the length of the park, the artist has installed sixteen bright red Modified Social Benches. These witty sculptures reinvent the form of the park bench, turning it into a lyrical and evocative work of art. Like each of his installations, they generate spontaneous expression and social connection, giving us new perspectives on ourselves and the world we share.

This exhibition is presented by the Public Art Fund .

Dominique DeVito 

Theme: social anxiety, performance 

Group mission statement: Our overall mission is reflecting the fear of people interacting in this day and age through multiple performance pieces held throughout the city. We live in a time where people are connected 24/7 online via smartphones, computers, and tablets. The connection of a simple face-to-face conversation is rapidly disappearing. Social anxiety over simple conversations is something that many people face. This is a new problem. The four of us will attempt to tackle this problem via four different performance art pieces. The performances will be meant to encourage the public to step away from their smartphones, interact with the art, and most importantly, each other. 

250 word proposal & concept- 

“Language Wall”

In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn there is a wonderful mix of cultures. It is a kind of central hub for all of the surrounding areas that have more divided communities. As part of the theme “confronting social anxiety” I want to encourage the public to interact with people they have never met before. These are people you may pass by every day, people that live in your neighborhood, maybe even on your block, but since we are so consumed in our smart phones and other technology it prevents us from actually getting to know these people. I’m sure many people have had the experience of running into the same people on the subway or at a bus station daily and yet they know nothing about each other.  

For my project I would like to create a Memory Wall. Something that almost everyone in Brooklyn (and New York in general) has in common is immigrating from another place. Whether its you, your parents or grandparents, its very rare to be more than third generation American in many places in Brooklyn. This is especially true in Bensonhurst and its surrounding areas. I would like to have a huge wall, and written on it would be “What is one memory you have from where you first lived?”, it would be written in different languages. This is open enough that it doesn't only pertain to immigrants, since mostly everyone has moved at least once in their life. Spray paint and chalk would be provided, and people would be encouraged to write phrases, names, quotes and memories from their past. The end result, hopefully, would be all different people interacting and sharing their stories with one another, as they write them on the wall. 

Project Proposal

Project Proposal:

            Our overall group mission addresses the theme of fear of people interacting and social anxiety. We wanted to use performance to confront these issues.

            Fellow senior at Parsons, Lexy Ho-Tai, is doing her senior thesis on the way people interact through fashion. She wants to use people to create her fabric through weaving, dyeing, and other small experiments all done via public interaction. I want to help her execute this by helping her set up a day, time, and place in Washington Square park where she can not only interact with the community, but the community can interact with each other. So many people now are terrified to step away from their smartphones and simply talk to one another. No one is willing to have a conversation without the use of emojiis. As Lexy says to me all the time “what ever happened to a real genuine smile?”

            By forcing people to actually use their hands, people will have to put away their personal technology and instead actively engage in what they are doing. Once the phones are down, it is her hope that people will begin to interact with one another, focus on what their doing, have fun, and actually talk to one another.

            Lexy would provide the materials for the public to use, but I would need to gain permission from the park. I would need to acquire an area, a time, a permit, and maybe potential advertising permits in conjunction with the park.

Erin Pienta

Image and work by Lexy Ho-Tai

SeonAe Moon - Subway Art

Whirls and twirls (MTA), 2009 by Sol LeWitt

This art installation is “Whirls and Twirls” by Sol LeWitt. This tile drawing is installed at a stairway and landing from the mezzanine to the platforms of A, C, B, D and 1 trains in Columbus Circle station. It is 53 feet by 11 feet and consists of more than 200 porcelain tiles in six colors. Smooth curves, and straight bars in vibrant colors with vertically and horizontally way fill the entire wall. The exact dimension of tiles is enough to show significant techniques of Sol LeWitt even though they are not usual materials LeWitt used. It is a special project because it is the last commission before LeWitt passed away and it is permanent public installation. The title “Whirls and Twirls” and curves of the work are like riding a roller coaster. They represent the New York city as the busiest city in the world. Especially, the Columbus Circle station has five different lines. There are more than 69,000 commuters who use this station according to New York Times. The colors represent the station is the center of the tourists, business and recreation; there are Central Park and Columbus Circle, hotels, offices, restaurants, residential areas and shopping areas. Visitors come to Columbus Circle with different purposes and from different locations. The colors also show that the New York City is mixed of different cultures and people.

 Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, 2001 by Nancy Spero

            

            

 Along with platform walls on the 1 train at 66^th Street – Lincoln Center station, there are several murals with beautiful color mosaic for Uptown and Downtown both bounds. The 22 series of murals are made with brilliant colorful glass and ceramic and dimensions are variable by Nancy Spero. This station is connected to Lincoln Center, which is home of opera, ballet, classical music and other performing arts in New York. Artistic characters of Lincoln Center are depicted with the mural on 66^th station. The central icon of the murals is the Diva with gold and red mosaic, and the Diva is repeated in various forms with other characters such as musicians, athletes and mythical creatures. Those images on the murals make the station to a energetic place, and represent the feeling of the neighborhood, which is dynamic and artistic. Visitors at 66^th street can feel the neighborhood with the murals when they get off a train to visit the Lincoln Center. Because background color of the mural is neutral, movements and colors of the characters are embossed. Spero wants to convey narrative stories through these powerful movements on murals.  “They occur and re-occur. The musicians can be playing or dancing, either for a melancholy or happy occasion, and in a procession. I do a lot of storytelling, but it’s without a real narrative.[1]”

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[1] Nancy Spero: Art as a Continuum, art21, http://www.art21.org/texts/nancy-spero/interview-nancy-spero-art-as-a-continuum.

SeonAe Moon - Highline

Untitled by Gabriel Sierra

The tile of this art installation is Untitled by Gabriel Sierra. It is a series of custom measuring tools installed next to plants. It allows viewers can track growth of trees and bushes near the measurement. Highline was elevated railroads through Lower West Side Manhattan. When it was built, people destroyed the environment and made pollution. They did not have bad feelings about what they did, because they focused on only what they wanted. After people stopped to use the rails, it was abandoned. No one cared about why they built it. They only cared about how it made ugly city views. Now, people recreate the railroads to a park. They plant trees, flowers and grass. They are satisfied with new looks of the railroads. They feel good to see how their efforts to save the planet are developed by checking the measurement by Sierra. It is ironic that people destroy environment and try to save it again. They destroy elements of natural and create built environment. They regret it and recreate natural elements again. However, their regret and tries of these are better than they do nothing. Untitled by Gabriel Sierra can be a test result of what people did. With this measurement, people can feel better for what they are doing as tracking growth of plants near the measurement. At least, during that time, people will try to keep them live.

The collectivity project by Olafur Eliasson

This art installation at Highline is for any highlight visitors. Visitors can play with two tons of white Lego bricks. Eliasson and architects from ten different firms create imaginary creatures or buildings. Based on that, visitors develop existing Lego installation or create new one; to modify the installation, to add bricks for ever-changing composition. What I could observe from visitors playing at The Collectivity Project was that many people built their names and make bridges between Lego buildings. Because most visitors come to Highline as a visitor, not for commute, they take a picture in front of the installation and want to leave marks with their names. They want to remember the moment and want to be remembered to other people. They also make or look for connection between strangers in this city as creating bridge between each installation. Their interaction through playing with installation creates adoption and extension of emotion between the city and people.