Consuming Places
Asymptote, Marjetica Potrc, 212box LLC, Greyworld and Bill Fontana
August 15 - October 27, 2002
Water Street, DUMBO
Photo © 2002 CharlieSamuels.com
Consuming Places, examined the emerging virtual and physical social spaces radically changing the urban environment experience. From an installation of sound artifacts collected from the Brooklyn Bridge to telescopes that revealed personal messages inscribed in the city skyline, the artworks in Creative Time’s summer exhibition, Consuming Places, spanned virtual, physical, and social realms and connected the City’s historic character with the ephemeral nature of new technologies. Internationally acclaimed artists, architects, and designers: Asymptote, Bill Fontana, Greyworld, Marjetica Potrc, and 212box, created site-specific works that visualized spaces which defied physical boundaries and examined the emerging virtual and physical spaces that radically change experiences in the urban environment. The internationally diverse artists in Consuming Places drew influence and inspiration from architecture, industrial design, and new media to offer both outdoor and indoor interventions along the DUMBO waterfront.
Consuming Places was originally conceived for The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, where Creative Time presented groundbreaking art for twenty years and was asked to vacate in the spring of 2002 for national security reasons.
