SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12th
11am to 5pm

The Fair is a wild new take on the traditional County Fair, a day-long celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn! Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local Bang on a Can marching band Asphalt Orchestra; taste delicacies prepared by local chefs inspired by ingredients from Brooklyn farms; view specially commissioned work exploring the culture of agriculture by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops by Brooklyn Food Coalition; participate in a Blue Ribbon Competition hosted by GreenThumb; and browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn’s small-batch artisanal food purveyors curated by Greenpoint Food Market. Cap it off with The Food Experiments’ live cooking competition—Brooklyn Roots—featuring savory samples and refreshing drinks from Brooklyn Brewery, Six Points Brewery, Red Hook Wines, Brooklyn Oenology, Kings County Distillery and others.

Co-presented by The Invisible Dog and Crossing the Line
Curated by Derek Denckla

OPENING PARTY
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25th
6pm

Richard Garet creates a new immersive visual sonic experience with his installation Electrochroma (2010), premiering with  at The Invisible Dog Art Center, September 25- November 28, 2010.

In a dedicated room built in the back of the gallery, Garet combines kinetic light images from 16mm film, abstract imagery, electronic music, and a mist of fog to create an environment intended to generate experiential physical and psychoacoustic responses. The 52-minute projected installation, with a surround sound symphony of molded experimentation, profound bass echoing, modulated frequencies, static noises, white noise, and sine waves, will play on the hour throughout the day.

Electrochroma is a time-based contemporary landscape, created in a digital environment utilizing several software processes to manipulate image, sound, and translations from the film’s imagery to sound. The project continues the artist’s interest in the phenomena found and produced in time-based media, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments. His audiovisual exploratory steps are focused on concept and function, material and process, listening, viewing, and experience. Richard Garet states, “When creating a piece I reflect on what the work is meant to accomplish, how it functions in relationship to the space and affects the audience, and how sound and visual content are connected to one another. These questions determine my choices and influence the direction of the work.”

Garet’s work interweaves multiple media including live performances, moving image, sound, and photography, exemplifying the core of Crossing the Line. He is the youngest of the three world-renowned, multi-generational, visual and sound artists invited to premiere sound-based works for the festival, alongside Ryoji Ikeda and Eliane Radigue.

This exhibition is co-presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center and  Crossing The Line

www.richardgaret.com
www.fiaf.org

Exhibition until Sunday November 28th
Thursday to Sunday 1 to 7pm
Tuesday & Wednesday: by appointment only
Monday: closed

OPENING PARTY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 2nd
6pm

Ever since Marcel Duchamp posed for Man Ray as “Rrose Sélavy,” artists have used the pseudonym as a form of anonymity that allows complete freedom of expression.   Art has increasingly become a commodity and artists’ names are branded to their galleries and institutions.  As such, name recognition, as a means of branding, has become an all too important aspect of art.  The Pseudonym Project playfully destabilizes the viewers and challenges them to confront their own reading and evaluation of a piece of artwork without giving them the security of knowing the names and thus, the notoriety of the artist.   All of the participants — including the curator, artists and volunteers — have chosen pseudonyms in order to remain anonymous until the conclusion of the show.   No one is trying to hide; instead, they are participating in a tongue-in-cheek dialogue with the viewer.
The Pseudonym Project which is part of PLUS ONE CURATION SERIES includes eleven emerging and established artists from the United States and abroad.  These artists have been involved in many prestigious exhibitions including shows at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the New York Performa, the Tate Gallery in London, the Istanbul Biennial, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna, the Berlin Biennial, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, and Galleria Massimo. Their names will not be divulged until the conclusion of the exhibition.

Curator: Gabriel Yozzo

www.pseudonymproject.com