Eleven Dreams for Red Hook is a cinematic experience for real life, part of a series called Park Bench Cinema. Bring us a valid I.D. and we'll give you eleven soundtracks to listen to on an mp3 player. As you explore the neighborhood, suspended between cinematic fantasy and hyper-awareness, we hope that you will find your own mysterious, surprising and funny revelations.
Our kiosk will be open near the corner of Beard & Otsego Streets (across from IKEA) between the hours of 1-4pm every Saturday in September. If you have your own mp3 player, feel free to download the audio files - and if you have a walkman or CD player, bring that along too: we'll have CDs and cassettes available. The dreams may be listened to in any order, but a suggested route is printed on the map.
Click here to download the audio, pictures and map. You can do the walk at any time, but the Windup Toy dream is only available Thursdays 4-8pm and Saturdays 1-5pm when the Waterfront Museum is open, so if you do the walk at another time, you'll have to miss it (and it's a good one).
Please feel free to send us email or call (609) 933-3738 if you have any questions.
See you there!
Betsey Biggs is a Brooklyn-based artist and composer working with sound, video, interactivity, installation and performance. Her work aims to engage the audience, to expose the beautiful in the mundane, and to explore autobiography and reenactment, and has been seen and heard at venues including Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Sundance Film Festival, The Berkeley Art Museum, and MASSMoCA. Eleven Dreams for Red Hook continues a series of site-specific audio works meant to reconnect urban dwellers with the people and places around them.
Thank you especially to the BAC's Ethany Uttech for her guidance, Amanda Barrett for working tirelessly to help make this happen, Kate Dunn for schooling me on Red Hook, and of course, to my family and friends. Most of all, thank you, Red Hook.
Cobblestone and green weeds. Red red bricks. The decay of time. The industrial ghost. Broccoli and beans and sunflowers grown. The statue of liberty. The Houses and the Back. The B61. Futbol, futbol, pupusas, huaraches. Basketball, baseball, the light streaming in. Water, water, everywhere (but not a drop to drink).
1. If you live nearby, walk. Or bike.
2. Take the (free for now) IKEA water taxi from Manhattan's Pier 11.
3. F/G to Smith-9th Streets and catch the B77 bus or walk.
4. A/C/F train to Jay St.-Boro Hall and catch the B61 bus.
5. F/D/M/R trains to 4th Ave-9th St and jump on an IKEA shuttle.
6. 2/3/4/5/M/R to Court St.-Borough Hall and jump on an IKEA shuttle.
7. Take a cab or car service to IKEA. We're across the street, next to Red Hook Farm.