Garment District Arts Festival 2016 Broadway Plazas
pictured left to right: PIPORNOT, Burning Clown Productions, how do we belong together, Millennial Masks
chashama curates the Broadway Plazas of the Garment District's Arts Festival 2016
[[CANCELLED ON THE 21ST DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER]]
October 20 - 21, 2016
Broadway between West 38th and West 40th Streets
New York, NY
Nearest Trains: anything to Times Square
Performances: Thursday and Friday, 12-2pm
Between 38th and 39th:
Burning Clown Productions
Mister and Missus Clown are the king and queen of Burning Clown Productions, an award-winning production company dedicated to developing and creating new works of film and theatre. Recipients of an NEA performance grant, they continue to push the boundaries of immersion theatre in partnership with chashama since 2002. They also host EST Last Call, a free monthly late night variety show in NYC's Hell's Kitchen every 3rd Saturday night.
Smooth Jazz Age Lawn Party
Dan Danger invites you to the 3rd Annual Smooth Jazz Lawn Party. An "intimate affair, celebrating the Golden Era of Smooth Jazz--roughly '78 - '95--with only the smoothest desires," featuring: an abundance of "silks," dance lessons and an open competition, a free raffle, live performances by the ever-smooth Dan Danger himself, an epic photo back-drop, and of course, a highly-curated collection of Smooth Jazz. Get ready to get smooth and silky.
Between 39th and 40th:
'how do we belong together?'
Placing pairings of people in front of the authorial eye of passersby, spectators are asked to anonymously narrate a relationship between the subjects based solely on appearance. Through The Ume Group and their extended network of acquaintances, Keelie Sheridan explores how the bodies of performers and civilians communicate meaning through simple movement. 'how do we belong together?' is a celebration, interrogation, and meditation on perception and assumption in one of the world's most diverse cities.
PIPORNOT
aricoco and Julia Benedict will host an "Information Booth" during the festival, where passersby can learn about and participate in their research on insect and human behaviors. At the booth, the public will be invited to view an instructional video and answer surveys on human behavior (interpreted through the lense of aricoco and Benedict's research on ants). Collectively, the public's responses will be used to complete an organizational diagram--imagining new roles and tasks of an insect/human hybrid society--which might help our current society understand and utilize insects' efficiency as a model, by which to base our own superorganism.
Millenial Masks
Colby Cannon Welsh's practice in mask-making and sculptural costume strives for variable readings of related and unrelated objects on the body. Common objects become symbolic statements when combined with known clichés, popular issues, or historic association. Character movement is a repetitive action like turning a rubix cube or slowly cycling between poses/forms. Durational rhythm with ritualistic intent for social behavior when surrounded by and saturated in technology, fabricated materials, and a global supply chain of organics and labor. Movement becomes object, body is vessel, objects are memory.
During your exploration of the festival, be sure to also drop by chashama's Garment District Artists' Open Studios
and Melissa Lockwood's Fashion Show & Reception (part of an ongoing presentation at chashama 266).
About the Garment District's Arts Festival:
On October 20, 21, 22 artists, galleries, peformance spaces and theaters of the Garment District will open their doors, allowing visitors to experience their art. For more info, visit: http://garmentdistrictnyc.com/arts/arts-festival/
On October 20, 21, 22 artists, galleries, peformance spaces and theaters of the Garment District will open their doors, allowing visitors to experience their art. For more info, visit: http://garmentdistrictnyc.com/arts/arts-festival/
