Bring to Light: Nuit Blanche NYC from Michael Zick Doherty on Vimeo.
Bring to Light is New York City’s first-ever Nuit Blanche festival. A Nuit Blanche is an all night arts festival of installations and performances celebrating the magic and luminance of light. Nuit Blanche events enliven cities all around the globe, but there has never been one in New York.
BRING TO LIGHT NYC will be held in Greenpoint, Brooklyn primarily on Oak Street between Franklin St. and the East River waterfront in Fall 2010, beginning at sundown. The event is free and open to the public. This unique block will play host to local and international artists, performers, galleries, and musicians as they Bring to Light the street itself as well as its unique assets including metal, set design and textile workshops, residential facades, an indoor gymnastics park, and much more.
The experience will be thrilling, original, mesmerizing, ceremonial, contemplative and illuminating. This is a one-night event to remember, but also the start of something intended to grow into an annual, world-class event. Artists will create works that inhabit street corners, galleries, shops, rooftops, vacant lots and buildings. These spaces will act as sites for light, sound and unexpected installations, performances, projections, works of art with natural and artificial LIGHT.
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1 adrianhopkins wrote:
I attended this event, not knowing what to expect. I found that that was the best way to experience it all. I love how the existing spaces and surfaces were repurposed. As an outsider to Greenpoint, it’s interesting to note that these screens are now responsible for having introduced a whole section of New York to many who may have been previously unfamiliar. I have a few photos and some videos that I’ll post soon.