BroLab at FLUX Factory’s Art Auction

BroLab will be participating in this year’s Flux Factory Benefit / Silent Auction & Gala -  Tuesday, December 20th at Center 548 in Chelsea.  To Bid on Items including a special edition of the Bench Press Poster visit FLUX Factory’s auction page!

http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/artauction2011/

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Bench Press, Friday Oct 14th 4AM – 9PM

BroLab’s latest public intervention work, Bench Press, takes place this Friday (Oct 14th, 4AM-9PM) as part of a monthlong series of events organized by the Congress of the Collectives at Flux Factory.

Bench Press involves a sequential team-based deployment of modular benches over several bus stops at once following the B57 & Q39 Bus Routes using Momenta Art (Bushwick) & Flux Factory (Long Island City) as anchor points. BroLab will be supplying the
 missing comfort of seating to commuters along this path, covering all 80 stops over the period of one day (rush hour to rush hour).

To receive updated locations and to follow this project live on October 14th from 4AM to 9PM join us on Twitter http://twitter.com/brolab
Additional benches will be available and if you’d like to join BroLab in a leg of the journey email us at info@brolab.org

An after party at 10 PM October 14th will coincide with the Greatest Love of All event hosted by an Impromptu Collective (Angela Beallor, Kerry Downey, & Niknaz Tavakolian) at the Holiday Inn Skyline Suite, 17th Fl. 39-05 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101 (map) (a few Buildings down from Flux Factory)

Saturday October 15th BroLab will be presenting documentation of Bench Press during the Tactical Urbanism Salon, 2pm at Flux Factory -  http://tacticalurbanismsalon.com/

Lastly be sure to check in on our recently updated kickstarter page as we continue to raise funds for our 2012 project, Piazza Gratissima!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brolab/piazza-gratissima-a-site-for-community-gathering

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This week’s Daily News!

Art group builds ‘Thrust of Sorrows’ catapault to relieve burdens in new show

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Bronx River Arts Center, Shifting Communities Opening Sept 9th!

BroLab is thrilled to take part in a yearlong series of exhibitions and roundtable discussions organized by BRAC titled Shifting Communities. In the first of the series, BroLab will engage the Bronx community with two dynamic public interventions. The first of which is Thrust of Sorrows, an ominous fully functional trebuchet and second, the off-site transformative platform for urban renewal, Piazza Gratissima. We hope you’ll join us for the opening Friday Sept 9th from 6 to 9 at BRAC   where we will exhibit videos and documentation of BroLab projects along with Thrust of Sorrows and its growing pile of objects designated for the forthcoming launch.

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Peer Review Saturday May 7th @ the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas

If you’re attending the Festival of Ideas for the New City this weekend  come by Sara D. Roosevelt park on the corner of Forsyth & Rivigton on Saturday May 7th from 11 AM to 7 PM where The BroLab Collective will have its newest the intervention, Peer Review.
Exploring notions of voyeurism, artificial nature, and art in open spaces, Peer Review takes place simultaneously in both Sara D. Roosevelt Park and the 17th Floor of the Hotel on Rivington (four blocks away), linking the two locations through line of sight and an ongoing discourse on public art.
A live feed from the hotel and video from past interventions will be on view in the Art in Odd Places tent in the park where a volunteer will be available to schedule meetings with the BroLab Collective and view the installation from afar.

In the room viewers will find BroLab artists engaging in a dialogue about public art as well as multiple telescopic and recording devices.
The BroLab Collective will be stationed in the hotel room from 2pm on May 7th to 11am May 8th.
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Urban Festival // Grid Scenes, April 1st BroLab Public Intervention!

BroLab will be creating a site specific public intervention on Friday April 1st from 5-7 pm on 143 W. 14th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues as part of the Urban Festival sponsored by the New School in partnership with Art in Odd Places. The intervention will take the form of an outdoor interview (our own) conducted by Ceasar Jesena and will be documented, transcribed and put forth on the internet. Visit our project page for documentation / details on our project & Art in Odd Places website for information on the Urban Festival’s Grid Scenes.

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BroLab Performance @ Site Fest 2011 – Sat March 5th, 7-9pm

BroLab will be performing Autopsy outdoors at 250 Moore Street (between Bogart and White) as  part of Habeas Corpus curated by Jeanne Brasile and Jade Lien, Curatorial Assistant – Charles Estes with Performances by Brolab and Greg Leshé.  Video screenings by Amanda Dandeneau and Bryan Wilson, Jones and Roa, Greg Leshé and Nyugen Smith.

“Habeas Corpus” combines live performances with video screenings in an open-air environment.  The event begins with a performance from Brolab, to be followed by video screenings that document performance art or explore the potential of the body as an artistic medium.  The evening concludes with a performance by Greg Leshé.  Habeas Corpus, is a curatorial remedy to free artists from the confines of the space of the gallery.  It also promotes the immediacy and unlimited potential that only the body, the most innate medium of all, can provide.

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Collaboration: Panel Discussion @
Jamica Center for the Arts, Feb 16th

Wednesday, February 16, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432
Collaboration
Working with other people on an art project is recently seen as important and beneficial on many levels. JCAL invites BroLab, an artist collective, to the Studio LLC February Seminar. The group will present their experiences of collaboration along with the advantages and difficulties they found in working with other artists.

http://www.jcal.org/visual/studiollc.html

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Pump 14 in L Magazine

Why Are There Men Carrying Water on 14th Street?
Article by Marian Lorraine

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Pump 14, Documentation – 24 HR this Friday & Saturday!

Pictures from this week’s performance.  Working up to the 24HR FRIDAY 3PM to SATURDAY 3PM.  Interested in carrying a yoke and walking the width of Manhattan?  Fill out the contact form and we’ll have a yoke waiting for you at Basecamp (Hudson & East River Sides).  Special thanks to Michelle Htar, Wanju Wu, Edward Lee Bullock, and others for documenting and getting the word out.

Inventory at Parsons / New School, Good to Go Alexander's Wooden Yoke on the Hudson : Day 3 Pouring Water into the East River Alexander, Metal Buckets Add to the Authenticity Filling Buckets at the Hudson Ryan, Broomstick & Ducktape Yoke Water Hudson & Yokes Water from the Hudson Adam, Troubleshooting the Pump at the Hudson Initial Setup East River Pumping Water Pump 14 Setup at Hudson River Spill at TheaterLab during Opening Pipe Yoke, Jonathan Metal Yoke, Adam PVC Yoke, Travis Alexander, Yokes, People, and Orange Travis, East Side Jonathan, Union Square Friend of BroLab Lee Bullock w/ Bamboo Yoke Jonathan & Travis at work Ryan Roa, Hudson Side : Day 3 Hudson River Pump Alexander, the Wooden Yoke Friend of BroLab Michelle Htar, Hudson Side: (Tue) Day 2 Travis Day 1 East River, Sunday (Day 1) Travis Arrives at the Hudson Camp : (Tue) Day 2 East River, Sunday (Day 1) Mission Accomplished Day 3
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