Dobbin Mill is one of three portraits of manufacturers I made for Brooklyn Makes on October 9th and 10th, 2009. Video projections by Sarah Nelson Wright lit up the industrial facades of three manufacturers with evocative sound by Jennifer Stock. Captured inside each business, the videos and sounds brought North Brooklyn’s hidden labor onto the public streets. All three videos played continuously in a loop. ; In this video, you see Robbin Ami Silverberg creating handmade paper for an art book.
Attachment is a site-specific participatory sculpture by Nathaniel Lieb & Sarah Nelson Wright. More than fifty handmade white plaster hearts hang on facing walls at the end of a hallway. People are invited to engage with the work by tying hearts together with a variety of yarn, creating intersecting lines and tangles in front of a large window.
BROOKLYN MAKES :: A SITE-SPECIFIC VIDEO INSTALLATION IN THE WILLIAMSBURG GREENPOINT INDUSTRIAL ZONE, REVEALING THE WORK OF MANUFACTURERS IN NORTH BROOKLYN TODAYBROOKLYN MAKES took place Friday and Saturday, October 9th and 10th, 2009.
May 1-3, 2008 at IMAterial at Hunter College
A video portrait of Colonial Glass Solutions, one of the few manufacturers still operating in Williamsburg Brooklyn as of the beginning of 2008.
by Sarah Nelson Wright with music by Daniel Nelson Wright photographs by Emilie Eagan, Laurent Piram, Sebastian Pitruzello, Ramon Pozuelo Ortiz, Jules Tu, and Michael Way (from the Creative Commons) DIFFERENCE is a short video about women, beauty, and plastic surgery. It suggests a connection between the desire to look like celebrities and fear of being different. It also expresses anxiety about technologies that allow us to look more and more alike and the value of physical difference today. ...
FILLMORE PLACE is a video portrait of a unique one-block street in Williamsburg. It is almost all row houses owned by their residents, many of whom have been there for decades, before the neighborhood gentrified. Most buildings also have tenants who have moved in recently. Old and new residents alike share a love of the block, the people and the particular character and atmosphere of the street. Currently, the residents are concerned about the rapid development of the area around them.FILLMORE...