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Positioning the City
I will be videotaping this talk put on by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, where I had my collaborative residency last spring. It should be quite great. Miriam Greenberg is also coincidentally my neighbor and I have heard only amazing things about her book. It should be especially interesting for artists, urban planners and people living in gentrifying neighborhoods. Be sure to RSVP & bring an ID.People and Buildings: Positioning the City
CUP is pleased to present an evening on New York City branding campaigns of past and present. Miriam Greenberg, author of Branding New York City: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World, will be interviewing Willy Wong, senior vice president and executive creative director at NYC & Company, the City of New York’s official marketing, tourism, and partnerships organization. They will look into the politics of urban representation and the role of branding in urban redevelopment.
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 7 pm
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School
240 Second Avenue (between 14th and 15th St.)
New York, NY
L to First or Third Avenue, N/Q/R/W/4/5/6 to Union SquareFree and open to the public. Seating is limited, RSVP to info (at) anothercupdevelopment.org
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Hitting the Streets
I will be presenting documentation of our Havemeyer Street installation from the IMAterial show last May at a screening on Monday night. Three provacative documentaries will be shown along with my presentation: REZONING HARLEM, SUBPRIMED & BIKE PATHS. They were made, along with our piece, in a graduate course that brought together urban planners and artists to make activist media.Hitting the Streets, from Harlem to East New York:
Dramatic videos that investigate New York City neighborhoods from an on-the-ground perspectiveMonday September 22nd, 2008 from 6—8 PM
with reception to follow
Hunter College’s Lang Auditorium, North Building, 4th Floor
The North Building is located on 69th Street between Park and Lexington, on the south side of the street
Subway: take the 6 train to 68th Street
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Locations & Dislocation @ CONFLUX
I will be showing and growing my project LOCATIONS & DISLOCATION at CONFLUX this weekend (Sept 11-14, 2008). CONFLUX is a festival of art and technology for the creative exploration of urban spaces (aka psychogeography). I highly recommend viewing and participating in the many experimental and often participatory projects throughout the city.
LOCATIONS & DISLOCATIONS is a postcard project about moving in urban environments. You can see (& participate in) the project this weekend at CONFLUX Headquarters aka the Center For Architecture in Greenwich Village.As you can see below, I will also be posting the postcards here.
LOCATIONS & DISLOCATION @ CONFLUX 2008
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York NY 10012Hours:
THURS & FRI: 9a-8p
SAT & SUN 11a-5pAlso, Friday night after the festival, join me for Daniel Wright: The World Collective, my brother’s band’s CD release party, at the Living Room.
Sept 12th, 9-10p (sharp). Listen here.
…and happy birthday to Rand, Jeff, Rachel, Pierre & Colette!
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Summer/Fall 2008 Updates
Hello!
I took the summer off from keeping up the site, so I have many updates for you. Things have been busy since May. I finished my coursework for IMA/MFA and completed my final critique. With the folks at CUP, I developed and participated in a charette on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse with high school students from Bronx High School for the Visual Arts at the Bronx Museum. This summer I worked at an arts program in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and then spent two wonderful weeks with family and friends in California.
This fall I will be teaching two course at Rutgers Newark in the Media Studies Program in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. I will also be working on my thesis for IMA/MFA, a website and video installation about people who make everyday objects in light industry or workshop settings in NYC. Please contact me at sarahnw {at} gmail [dot] com if you have any leads, comments or questions about the project. I will be working on this and other projects from our new studio in Greenpoint.
…and three project updates:
LOCATIONS & DISLOCATIONS, my postcard project about moving, will be at CONFLUX 2008 (the art and technology festival for the creative exploration of public space!) at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, Sept. 11-14. Hope to see you there!
(Also that weekend in NYC catch my brother’s band Daniel Wright’s World Collective at their CD release at the Living Room, Sept 12 @ 9p!)
FILLMORE PLACE & COLONIAL GLASS will be at vBrooklyn at Brooklyn Polytechnic University, December 12-14, 2008.
LOOK INSIDE will be exhibited in DUMBO in a show curated by Maya Joseph-Goteiner in March 2009. I am inspired to see the piece in dialog with another group of art about war and to bring it to Brooklyn.
I plan to keep things up to date this fall, including uploading several new projects to the site. Keep in touch!
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IMAterial success
05.05.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe IMAterial show turned out beautifully. It was really miraculous to see the way the Black Box, originally a gymnasium, transformed into a dynamic gallery. I was very happy with Havemeyer Street, the two-channel video installation I made with Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz & Uni Park about gentrification in Williamsburg. I’ll be uploading documentation in the coming weeks.
We had the honor of guest artist critiques with Mendi + Keith Obadike and Jennifer McCoy. I got some great feedback on my Comment Williamsburg site and got to see Colonial Glass projected on a giant screen. As usual, working with the gang was pretty amazing, especially considering we do the work of 30 people with just a few of us. Below are pictures from Laura Chipley, you can see more of hers here. More documentation forthcoming.
Havemeyer Street (our installation)
Wear and Tear (Suyin Looui, Samara Smith & AE Souzis)
Urban Homesteading Project (Francisca Caporali, Laura Chipley & Pilar Ortiz) and Varnish on (Mike Schuwerk & Cristina Gil Donaire)
IMAterial art
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IMAterial: May 1-3
I’ll be showing a large scale collaborative video installation & my video Colonial Glass & my website Comment Williamsburg at the 6th Annual Exhibit of the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program. Join us for a weekend of provocative new socially engaged interdisciplinary and media art.
IMAterial
May 1 –3, 2008 (opening May 1)
THU & FRI 6 –9 PM / SAT 1-5 PM
The Black Box Gallery
5th Floor, Room 544HN
Hunter North Building
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Enter on 69th Street between Park and Lexington
IMAterial
Noun, Adjective1: The 6th annual exhibit from Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program.
2. Lacking a material body or form; the physical intangibility of new media and digital work.
3: The challenge of new media and interdisciplinary media artists to make their artistic and political work both relevant and of substance.
4. Incorporeal; metaphysical forces; the underlying spirit that drives the artistic production and practice of the students and faculty in the IMA/MFA program. -
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WWIII write up
Courtenay Morgan Redis did an extensive write-up of the WWIII show on her blog. Here’s the excerpt on my piece:
“Another artist hung a traditional wood medicine cabinet on the wall and on the rung below an army-green hand towel that reads look inside. Swinging the door open, which is lined on the inside with a mirror, shows a video projection of a green hill, the number 3009 on a large sign and row upon row of white crosses. Above the video stands a shelf filled with prescription pill bottles, face creams and toiletries. The common, everyday items we see and use juxtaposed with the death of soldiers that has become all too-common in our lives and the lives of people around the world. On the day in January when the film was shot in Lafayette, CA, 3009 Americans had lost their lives in Iraq. Today on public radio I heard that as we approach the five-year anniversary of this war we’ve lost over 3,700 American lives and anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 Iraqis.”
Thanks to all who came! It was a great show.
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WWIII Hours, Artist Talks & Closing
WWIII, the gallery show in Jersey City featuring LOOK INSIDE, a video installation I developed in the Wonder Women residency at _gaia studio, has two last events before the show closes. The show includes installations from all ten of the women who were in the residency, on the theme of how we understand war.
The gallery is open M-F, 10a-6p or by appt on evenings and weekends:
(800) 330-9659We are also having open hours next Saturday, April 5, from 12-5p. There will be a very special guest (my dad!) and all of the artists will be present.
…and the Closing Reception & Artist Talks, where you get to hear more about the artists and projects presentation style, will be the following Saturday:
April 12, 4-9p
@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
directionsHope to see you at the gallery! If neither the 5th nor 12th works for you & you would like to see the show, email me at sarahnw att gmail dott com.
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displacement in williamsburg
I will be showing my documentary short, FILLMORE PLACE, along with a selection from our work-in-progress on small businesses in South Williamsburg, as part of an event on displacement in Williamsburg tomorrow night. I invite NY-based folk to come to whatever portion they can make, especially if you have ever lived or worked in Williamsburg.
The films address all kinds of displacement. The panel will focus on artist displacement, and is part of the Displacement show at greenbelt. greenbelt is a new 8-unit green condo building in Williamsburg that will house Center for Performance Research, an affordable arts space. It should be a provocative and interesting evening on many levels.
Room For Creativity:
A Community Roundtable on Real Estate Strategies for the Arts
Thursday, March 27, 2008
6-9p (panel 6:30-8p, films 8-9p)
@ greenbelt 361 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (L to Graham)
Free drinks and snacks
Panel
John Jaspers & Jonah Bokaer (Center for Performance Research)
Caron Atlas (Fractured Atlas)
Elizabeth Grady (curator of Displacement)
Guy Buckles (Art Building)
Luis Garden Acosta (El Puente)
Deborah Masters (475 Kent Artist’s Lofts)
Brad Lander (Pratt Center for Community Development)Short Films
Fillmore Place (Sarah Nelson Wright)
Traverse the Fantasy (Not an Alternative)
Untitled (Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz, Uni Park,
& Sarah Nelson Wright)
Lofty Pursuits (the Center for Urban Pedagogy)
475 Kent (Channel 12)
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directions to Mana Fine Arts
(apologies to those not in NYC/NJ area)
Here are directions to WWIII at Mana Fine Arts. Looking forward to the opening!
WWIII
A Wonder Women Project presented by _gaia
Opening Reception
FRIDAY, March 14th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing– April 12th 4-9pm
Gallery Hours March 14 – April 12, 2008
M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
(800) 330-9659 for appointments & infoby public transportation from Manhattan
Take the Path Train* from Christopher St., 9th St., 14th St., 23rd St. or 33rd St. towards Journal Square** (JSQ)
OR from World Trade Center station towards Newark (NWK)
PATH map
Exit at the Grove St. Station
Newark Ave. terminates across from the station
Walk down Newark Avenue to Coles St. (about 5 blocks)
Right on Coles
Walk down Coles to 12 street (about 12 blocks)
Gallery entrance is under the overpass, on Coles, past 12th St., on your left
You walk under the overpass
*the Path costs $1.75 and you can use an NYC metrocard, but not unlimited
**on weekends (Sat/Sun), this train stops in Hoboken and is HOB/JSQ
map of walk from Grove St.:
View Larger Mapdriving from Manhattan
Go through the Holland Tunnel
Left on Jersey Ave.
Right on 10th St.
Pass Coles St.
(Coles is closed to cars)
Right on Monmouth
Monmouth ends at 13th St., you have to turn right
13th street ends at Coles St.
Turn right or left to park on Coles
Walk towards the overpass G
allery entrance is under the overpass, on your right
Map of drive from Holland Tunnel:
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