Public Anxiety -- Erin Pienta Public Art Project with Lexy Ho-Tai

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Lexy will have the public create her textiles for her senior thesis project. This will be done via little pop up events in five parks around the city. Rain or shine. 

 List of Parks:

Tompkins Square Park – Alphabet City

Washington Square Park – The Village

Imagination Playground – South Street Seaport

Marcus Garvey Park - Harlem

De Witt Clinton Park – Midtown/Hells Kitchen

Pop Up Parks using a different materials for each area. She is doing the research on what those fabrics would be.

Photographer captures moments but remains unseen. This allows for documentation of the project but not interruption in the experience. These photos will later be added on the website documenting the project. 

Smells incorporated  ----Lexy believes in the use of playful dyes, so often uses things like jello to dye her materials. This will factor into the smell of the overall area, leaving the area smelling sweet.

Washington Square Park:

Manhattan Community Board 2

Chair: Tobi Bergman

District Manager: Bob Gormley

3 Washington Square Village, #1A
New York, NY 10012

Phone : 212-979-2272
Fax: 212-254-5102
Email: info@cb2manhattan.org

District 1:

 Council Member: Margaret Chin

Special Events permits cost $25 to process, and the fee cannot be waived. We will do our best to give you what you request, but this money is not refundable. Also, we need 21-30 days to process a permit request, so make sure you plan ahead. We are not able to issue permits for major holiday weekends, as we keep spaces clear for public use on a first-come, first-served basis on those days. For most small events, there is no additional cost beyond the permit fee.

Department of Parks and Rec

Manhattan

24 West 61st Street
Arsenal West, 5th Flr.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 408-0226

Hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

RAIN OR SHINE OR COLD??????

Pop Up Parks using a different materials for each area. She is doing the research on what those fabrics would be.

Photographer captures moments but remains unseen.

Smells incorporated  ----Lexy believes in the use of playful dyes, so often uses things like jello to dye her materials. This will factor into the smell of the overall area, leaving the area smelling sweet.

Similar Artists:

Nick Cave:

Nick Cave is an artist, educator and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. He says of himself "I have found my middle and now am working toward what I am leaving behind." Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment.

In a 2013 feature in Interview Magazine, Cave said of his project HEARD•NY, a large scale performance in Grand Central Terminal organized by Creative Time, “I was really thinking of getting us back to this dream state, this place where we imagine and think about now and how we exist and function in the world. With the state of affairs on the world, I think we tend not to take the time out to create that dream space in our heads.” This is relevant to his practice as a whole.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

From discarded wood, welded scrap metal, broken tools, cigarette packets, soda cans and piles of trash, Tim Noble and Sue Webster make assemblages and then point light to create projected shadows of people standing, sitting, smoking, drinking or anything easily recognizable. Every debris is precisely set in place, taking into consideration its distance from the wall, and its angle with the spotlight. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.