I'LL FIGHT
Immaculate Conception Church: 14th Street and First Avenue
Oct 12 - Oct 15
The word pieces reference Art Deco architecture both functionally and stylistically, acting as a portal to the past.
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Think Tanks, Without an Agenda, Without the Self-Confidence, Without Hope
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Day 1, Translation. Day 2, Maps. Day 3, Monopoly. Day 4, Cooperative Writing/Mark Making.
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The Visitors
Multiple sites along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Alisha Wessler has inserted the names of historic legends of art and poetry on 14th Street back into their original dwellings in way of a simple intervention: the name beside the door.
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Ecosex Manifesto
Independent shops along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle will present their Ecosexual Manifesto in several independent shops along 14th Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Ecosexuality is a new approach to current thinking about global ecological crises, eco-art and environmental activist strategies.
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Flowers of Common Sense
Along 14th Street between First and Seventh avenues
Oct 14 - Oct 15
Perez walks across 14th street with her cart, stopping to crochet flowers from plastic store bags. She offers these crocheted plastic flowers in exchange to stop using single-use plastic bags at stores.
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SENSEsoscope
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 14 - Oct 14
A see-through, lens-like apparatus with an inner light that provides a frame to experience (see, listen, feel, taste, smell, know: to sense ) life with along a journey on 14th street following Earth’s rotational force.
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At a Certain Time on Fourteen Street
353 W 14th Street, Gansevoort Market
Oct 13 - Oct 15
A postcard project depicting a visual representation of the urban sound environment and inviting the audience to participate by taking back a card as a “souvenir".
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Collective Bargain, a project of ART&COM and collaborators
14th Street between Fifth and Eighth avenues
Oct 13 - Oct 15
COLLECTIVE BARGAIN is a participatory mobile installation-performance-intervention by ART&COM & collaborators displaying information, media, talks, actions and ephemera related to collective gathering, healing, and the power of union in today’s social and political environment.
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Cosmic Error
14th Street between University Place and Seventh Avenue
Oct 13 - Oct 13
a printmaking station that responds to the atmospheric conditions and makes prints on paper plates that response to the weather.
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Expeditionary Art Adventure Team
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
With a nod to mariners everywhere, an Exploratory Expeditionary Art Adventure Team will search for the New Amsterdam Passage connecting the East and Hudson Rivers.
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Pliable Boundaries
14th Street between Seventh and Ninth avenues
Oct 14 - Oct 15
A series of walking tours during which participants will collect cyanotype impressions of the architectural railings along 14th Street.
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Stone Wall Gnosis Issue Spot
69 West 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 14
The Stone Wall Gnosis Center engages passersby to immerse themselves in a discussion of the Northeast’s pre-contact humanized landscape and the Gnostic belief system.
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8-bit allegories
At-large, along 14th Steet
Oct 13 - Oct 15
A multimedia installation of video projections with sound that shows animated GIFs collide in digital space with paintings and archival footage to form a constellation of lo-fi landscapes and otherworldly hybrid beings.
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Your First Impression
14th Street between Sixth and Eighth avenues
Oct 14 - Oct 14
A 3-hour printmaking workshop to learn using Monoprint and become a skilled printmaker.
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Clean up the Street
14th Street and Union Square
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Human Billboard is a commentary on waste, homelessness, and our increasing dependence on corporate entities.
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Àṣẹ
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 14 - Oct 15
Orisha Oya comes down to the streets of New York City to bless pedestrians with rose water and dance.
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Spectrographies - 14th Street
14th Street and Union Square
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Natacha will display her collection of collecting valueless objects people have left on the street and ask festival goers to take part in the process by providing her with their own interpretation.
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The Resist poster project
14th Street near Seventh Avenue (Empty lot next to Pratt on south side of street)
Oct 13 - Oct 15
The Carrito Gráfico will offer passersby a set of small hand printed posters to write, draw, paint or tag their own message.
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Thoughtfeeling Practices
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 14 - Oct 14
Silent interaction experiences that provoke intimacy and strangeness for 2 people who do not know each other.
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Sensum Communem Numerali/ Common Sense by Numbers
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
This project includes a clothesline installation, three performances that invite the audience to participate, and a portable piece that invites the audience to put on a set of headphones that produces a tickling of the ears.
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Rel(a)y
14th Street between Tenth and Fifth avenues
Oct 14 - Oct 15
Passersby will be impromptu encouraged to help “schlepp” a PVC-pipe sculpture through the sidewalks of 14th Street.
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WE ARE EVERYWHERE
225 West 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 15
“WE ARE EVERYWHERE” uses the language of protest and urgency as its title and uses a text is taken from the LGBT liberation movement, specifically the edict by the Caribbean born poet, Audre Lorde, “YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU”.
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Beloved
Multiple sites along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
This piece will collect the handwriting of residents of Lower Manhattan, the beginning of the series of open-ended “drawings” to pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beloved Community”.
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She Has Risen
14th Street and Union Square
Oct 13 - Oct 13
The Golden Dome School will march a statue of the Goddess in a celebratory procession around Union Square. We will be raising energy and proselytizing on behalf of the divine feminine.
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FREE SYNERGY, TAROT READINGS & INTUITIVE GIFTS
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 14 - Oct 15
Maggie will sep up a table offering strangers and busy passersby FREE SYNERGY, TAROT READINGS & INTUITIVE GIFTS.
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I Want Some Sugar With My S***
14th Street between Fifth Avenue and University Place
Oct 14 - Oct 14
At 14th street and University Place, Ayana will unroll a red carpet on which people can cross the street.
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If I Could Build Anything I Wanted III
Santuario de Ntra. Señora de Guadalupe En San Bernardo: 328 W 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 15
This project uses construction panels, where four of the green construction panels will be joined to form a closed off three-dimensional standing rectangular box with the facade of a NYC construction site.
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Animales Interiores
14th Street between Sixth and Eighth avenues
Oct 13 - Oct 14
Animales Interiores are a sequence of “picto-glyphs" that graphically giving life to some creatures of Mesoamerican artist's psyche. This recent picto-glyph series illustrates an animated and humanizing facet of Maya culture.
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Adenoid’s Adenoid
14th Street between Avenue C and Hudson River
Oct 12 - Oct 15
The character(artist) dressed in an entire green felt body suit, with the creature's head on his left arm will be selling topical useless items that seem relevant for our time.
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Sculptures Video (work in progress)
Union Square
Oct 12 - Oct 15
This project is a series of video-recorded performative guerrilla actions, using sculptures located in public spaces, including Poland, USA, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, France, and South Africa.
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Undercurrents
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Beatrice will invite strangers to go on blind walks with her on 14th Street.
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An Island on an Island
218 West 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 15
This project adds another island on top of the existing one,offering two precious NYC commodities: space and time. It invites all those passersby to treat themselves to the luxury of time to breathe and reflect.
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Duty Free Ranger: Verde
14th Street between Seventh and Eleventh avenues
Oct 12 - Oct 15
A midnight protector of urban forests enacts midnight acts of propitiation and protection along trees and bushes on 14th Street as Official Protector of Royal Forests, or Verderer.
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The Rule is Love #2 (Pilgrim)
14th Street between Avenue C and Tenth Avenue
Oct 14 - Oct 14
Pilgrim is a performance that attempts to undo the systems which constitute these conditions forming our epistemic base in regards to violence on women of color.
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Streams of Conscience: Chants for Peace* Chance for Peace
14th Street at entrance to Union Square
Oct 15 - Oct 15
Passersby are invited to inscribe a peace message or other positive thought on one of the day glo orange plastic ribbons provided for that purpose.
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Ultra Bastard Scavenger Companion
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 15
“Ultra Bastards,” are small anthropomorphic sculptures inspired by Japanese pop culture, comics, zoology, and consumerism. This project mimics the “Pokemon Go” app and catchphrase, “gotta catch them all,” as an interactive art scavenger hunt.
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Yanantin
14th Street at Jackson Square
Oct 14 - Oct 14
The Despacho (a traditional Andean offering) ceremony offers gratitude, love and prayer in the form of a ritual feeding to the water, mother earth, mountains, sun, and the moon.
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7th Sense: Sanctuary
Multiple sites along 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 15
The “7th Sense: Sanctuary” signs are a diagrammatic guide to places along 14th street where people will stand up for and not share information about undocumented immigrants if they seek safety.
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Frisk Yo’ Whiskers
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Frisk Yo’ Whiskers is a street based performance celebrating the NYC legacy of Jazz and the improvised economics of the “Rent Party”.
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Dubbed in Reflection : Illuminating Chakras
14th Street between First and Eighth avenues
Oct 13 - Oct 13
Lady K-Fever will create a night time site specific pop up happening that will explore 14th street as chakra system.
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RUIDERO
14th Street at First Avenue
Oct 13 - Oct 15
Tour/exploration of the everyday life sounds of 14th street through a collective walk.
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Delphiniums
Fence at 14th Street and Second Avenue
Oct 13 - Oct 15
This project uses chain link fences to frame color and texture in surprising ways for passersby, creating an interaction between fiber, color, fence, sidewalk and passing pedestrians.
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WE ARE ALL HUNGRY ALL THE TIME: 2017
14th Street and Eighth Avenue (Northeast corner)
Oct 15 - Oct 15
Art used to address a life condition, of anorexia
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Blessings From Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 13 - Oct 15
An homage to Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants will offer blessings and compassion to passersby on her pilgrimage along 14th street.
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Pythagorean Candy etc.
14th Street and Second Avenue
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Marcus Zilliox uses candy as a drawing material. The candy will be arranged in patterns based on Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
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"Copy of Fire Wood"
14th Street and Third Avenue (south side near subway entrance)
Oct 15 - Oct 15
Power creates a vehicle that takes us on a Disney-esque Kool-Aid inspired happy ride, for passing pedestrians.
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Forgotten Residents of 14 Street Past
14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue C
Oct 12 - Oct 15
The bustling two-mile concrete stretch that we call Fourteenth Street was once a glorious expanse of marine meadows, marshes, coastal forests and beaches. It was here that a diverse population of flora and fauna flourished. The story of their eradication is tied to our flooding future.
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Traffic Cones
14th Street between First and Third avenues
Oct 15 - Oct 15
Siñani uses traffic cones covered with white fur to hold space empty or mark an area one cannot enter, whether for construction or film productions.
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The Care Room
University Settlement: 420 E 12th St
Oct 14 - Oct 14
The artist will collaborate with parenting artists and children on a variety of activities to document the work in The Care Room.
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The Museum of Non-Visible Art
14th Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues (The High Line stair posts)
Oct 12 - Oct 15
Praxis will present a series of non-visible works, mounted on small (4x5 inch) foam-core, resembling small title cards you see in museums next to paintings. Only in this case, it is only the card which describes the work and its author, the viewer must imagine the work in his/her mind's-eye.
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Quoting Lives
225 W 14th Street
Oct 12 - Oct 15
This project presents large scale projections of memorable quotes, typed live, citing historical figures’ words of wisdom. These words come from individuals from diverse walks of life.
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Incertidumbre
14th Street and Union Square
Oct 13 - Oct 15
Incertidumbre is a virtual reality game about cultural dislocation. Game play takes place in an urban maze, throughout the maze are disembodied voices sharing tales of gentrification.
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Creative Wellness Gathering Station
14th Street between First and Fifth avenues
Oct 14 - Oct 15
Sample and mix your own loose herbal tea blends at the Creative Wellness Gathering Station a community engagement initiative designed by Queens-based artist Shervone Neckles.
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Centered: There’s More to Life than Increasing its speed. We need each other here!
Gandhi Sculpture: 14th Street and Union Square (SW corner)
Oct 12 - Oct 15
As an ensemble in Union Square at rush hour we will study ways of sitting, standing, and walking to be peace inside a busy crowd using special yoga poses for the hands and breath patterning.
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RELAY: The Movable Garden
At-large, along 14th Street
Oct 14 - Oct 14
It combines performance, choreography and an outdoor movable garden carried by 20 performers wearing mirrored costumes and various sources of light. Each plant in the garden has a sign explaining its country of origin.
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