2023
2022
FRED WILSON
Mind Forged Manacles/Manacles Forged Minds is a public art project featuring a large sculpture, composed of layers of decorative ironwork and fencing installed in the plaza at Columbus Park, Brooklyn. The piece asks viewers to consider perspective. Who is looking in? Who is looking out? Who is free? Who is trapped?
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2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
AMY WILSON
The Disappearing City is a series of workshops led by artist Amy Wilson and involving a group of Senior Citizens living in the Fulton and Elliot housing projects in Chelsea using quilt-making to encourage long-time elderly residents to engage with their past through the lens of gentrification.
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ERNESTO PUJOL
9-5, choreographed by Ernesto Pujol will be a site-specific performance tailored to the contemporary architecture of Brookfield Place in Manhattan. 9-5 pays tribute to all city office workers as 11 performers dressed in white, write silently all day about the people they see, creating a literature of pedestrian life in the city.
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2014
ANDRES SERRANO
For Residents of New York Andres Serrano engaged with 85 homeless individuals in New York City, creating a series of portraits aiming to take poverty out of the realm of abstraction and present it in its candid and human dimension. The portraits will be exhibited in the West 4th Street subway station and various other locations around Washington Square Park.
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DREAD SCOTT
On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide by Dread Scott engages the legacy of racism in the United States and pointing to the continuing struggles faced by minorities across the nation. The performance will take place underneath the Manhattan Bridge Archway, in DUMBO, for one time only on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 1pm in the afternoon.
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2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
KIMSOOJA
An Album: Hudson Guild was a video project created in collaboration with a multi-cultural community of senior citizens. The artist spent several days asking residents about their lives, backgrounds, families, and memories before filming them. The final video is a silent and poignant testament to their lives and struggles.
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JUSTIN BERRY
The Mysterious House of Colors was a curatorial project realized in collaboration with students from the Clinton middle school in Chelsea. After visiting art galleries, Berry asked students to come up with ideas for a show of their own. He then assembled a number of pieces in order to put together an exhibition that took place at the Chelsea Art Museum.
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2008
ANTHONY GOICOLEA
Neighborhood was a photographic project addressing Chelsea’s storied past. Anthony Giocolea took pictures of current residents and digitally integrated them into turn of the century photographs of Chelsea. The resulting images were displayed in the public space, pasted on the walls of Chelsea construction sites.
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TONY OURSLER
AWGTHTGTWTA addressed the technological habits of contemporary youth. Working with a group of middle school students, Tony Oursler created a video featuring the students singing a song they created and with which the audience could interact via text messaging. This video was projected on the wall of a playground in Chelsea.
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2007
MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
Enemy kitchen was a collaborative project addressing the Iraq war through cooking. Over the course of several weeks, the artists met with a group of middle school students and taught them how to cook Iraqi food, thereby opening the door for students to both discuss the war and learn about Iraq from a new perspective. Documentation for this project was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach.
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2006
MICHAEL JOO
Bodhi Obfuscatus (Allegiance) was a multi-media installation with video projection, mirrors and sound. A video helmet, devised by the artist as the equivalent of 48 live surveillance cameras, examined every detail of New York teenagers’ faces as they told stories about their lives and attempted to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance.” This project was exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum and Art Basel Miami Beach.
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SLATER BRADLEY
Soundless Pounding of Accelerated Dreams was a photography project centered on a group of New York City Teenagers. Bradley photographed each participant individually in the place they found the most inspiring. Bradley adapted his photographic technic for each image so as to best convey their individual experience of the city. This project was exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum.
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2005
GARY SIMMONS
Collective Portrait was an investigation of the art of drawing. Gary Simmons helped a group of middle school students to fabricated erasers boards before asking them to draw on it. The drawing act was completed by a radical act of erasure. This project was exhibited on a billboard in Chelsea.