Many things and people cooperated and/or offered their generous support, both temporal and financial, to make it happen — technology, police, neighbors and rain not the least of them — and I have a lot of thanks to give.

I will update with documentation & appreciation in the coming weeks. In the meantime, if you would like to kept posted on this project or my work, please shoot me an email at sarahnw {ATT] gmail [DOT} com

BROOKLYN MAKES is a site-specific video installation in the Williamsburg Greenpoint Industrial Zone, revealing the work of manufacturers in North Brooklyn today.

Video projections by Sarah Nelson Wright will light up the industrial facades of three manufacturers, with evocative sound by Jennifer Stock. Captured inside each business, the videos and sounds bring North Brooklyn’s hidden labor onto the public streets.

Directions: Take the G to Nassau or L to Bedford Ave (also near the B61 and B48 buses). See the map below or pick up a map at Space on Dobbin, 50-52 Dobbin Street between Nassau & Norman Avenues in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

FAQ: Videos will loop at each location, and will play simultaneously throughout the night. In case of rain, start at Space on Dobbin. Please respect the few cars and residents in the area by staying on the sidewalks and keeping your voice down outside residential buildings.

Part of openhousenewyork weekend and Space on Dobbin’s events for Williamsburg Gallery Association’s Every 2:nd Fridays.

Check out my post about Brooklyn Makes on Urban Omnibus.

Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League to create a new kind of conversation about design and New York City. We commission, gather and deliver the insights of journalists, architects, planners, designers, artists, activists, scholars and citizens. The Omnibus features multi-media content to showcase design innovation, critical analysis and local expertise across a broad range of topics and locales, creating bridges between various communities of interest. Urban Omnibus makes vivid the processes and possibilities shaping New York. Our goal is to increase understanding of the city we have and encourage ideas that can lead to a more inclusive, more sustainable, more beautiful city that could be.

1. BROOKLYN MAKES
2. ATTACHMENT (extended)
3. GREENPOINT OPEN STUDIOS
4. FEAST
5. RED HOOK FILM FESTIVAL

1.

BROOKLYN MAKES
Friday & Saturday
October 9+10
7:30-10pm
Part of Williamsburg Gallery Association’s Every 2:nd Friday and openhousenewyork

Brooklyn Makes is a site-specific video installation in the Greenpoint Williamsburg Industrial Business Zone. Large projections of videos by Sarah Nelson Wright will light up the industrial facades of three manufacturers, with evocative sound designed by Jennifer Stock. The videos and sounds, all captured inside the businesses, bring the hidden labor that takes place during the day onto the public streets at night, providing a window into the unique and skilled work of North Brooklyn manufacturers.
www.brooklynmakes.org

***I added a second night, and need to raise more funds.  To make a contribution (every bit helps!), visit my kickstarter page.

2.
ATTACHMENT
every day until October 8
10am-10pm M-F / 11am-11pm Sat / 11am-9p Sun

My installation with Nathaniel Lieb in the Then and Now show at The Center (208 West 13th Street, NYC, near 7th Ave, second floor) has been extended!  Check it out & participate.  (Tip: near The High Line Park.)

photo by Megan Cronin

3.
GREENPOINT OPEN STUDIOS
Saturday
September 26
3-6pm
My studio (Heidi Boisvert, Francisca Caporali, Laura Chipley, Mary Jeys, Suyin Looui, Pilar Ortiz & I) will be participating.  Come check out our digs and see what we’ve been working on at 233 Norman Ave, #201 (between Russell and North Henry).  G to Nassau.

4.
FEAST
Saturday
October 3
5-8pm
A sliding scale monthly dinner where artists present projects and attendees vote on which projects to fund.  As a grantee from the last Feast, I will be presenting a preview of BROOKLYN MAKES. G to Nassau.

5.
RED HOOK FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday
October 4
4-6pm

I will present an excerpt from the videos I made for BROOKLYN MAKES.

Best wishes for a creative and healthy fall! Please spread the word.

The piece is now up through October 8, so please stop by The Center to participate in Attachment and see how it has grown (208 West 13th Street, near 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor, 9am-10pm daily). We’re on the second floor; it’s hard to miss!

Additionally, Richard Meyer, Associate Professor of Art History & Fine Arts at USC and a member of the Then and Now host committee will be discussing Then and Now as well as the original Center Show in a keynote address at Harvard this October in conjunction with their exhibition “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993.”

It has been an honor to be part of this show and to work with Nathaniel. Thank you to everyone who has come by and participated.

Here are some updated photos by Megan Cronin:

Thanks to everyone who voted for my project! Hope to see you at Brooklyn Makes on Friday, October 9th.

Additionally, as a grantee I will be presenting at the next FEAST on October 3rd. Come by to support more emerging artists and to get a sneak peak at Brooklyn Makes.

photo by Rachel Rampleman

FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers.  At FEAST dinners, everyone pays a sliding scale for dinner and a fundraiser (suggested 10-20 dollars) and then votes on one of the proposed art projects by local artists to fund with the money made at the door. It should be a lovely event as usual, with delicious dinner & fun times.

Please come out and vote for my project if you’re in town!

About BROOKLYN MAKES

FEAST website

Event Details for August 8th FEAST dinner at Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint

We called our project O.N.E. Williamsburg, for “Our Neighborhood Explored.”  Please feel free to leave (kid-appropriate) comments!

A picture by one of my students showing the urban renewal buildings and the older buildings across the street from each other, taken when we had a visit from Michael Freedman-Schnapp of NAG.

I will post pictures throughout the summer.  A couple people took really beautiful ones at the opening.  Here are a selection of Megan Cronin’s:

…and some from Johnny Lowe:

Deep appreciation for the photographers!