Doug Aitken and Mu-Ziq, Rebeca Bollinger, Jim Campbell, Yau Ching, multipolyomni, Shirin Neshat, Pierrick Sorin, Penelope Umbrico

June 21-August 25, 1996
Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
Photo courtesy of Creative Time

For Art in the Anchorage 13, Creative Time invited digital and media artists specifically to create environments in the Anchorage’s vast chambers, introducing visitors to a range of digital artistic processes through sound, moving image, and interactivity. In contrast to the immense physicality of the Anchorage environs, the year’s visual arts exhibition provoked a consideration as to how small or unseen technological innovations can be incorporated into a traditional art practice. The June 20th opening event for Art in the Anchorage 13 featured DJ Spooky spinning records, and also kicked off a new, ancillary music series.

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Circus Amok (Jennifer Miller, director)

June 6-23, 1996
Locations throughout New York City
Photo © 1996 Dona Ann McAdams

Circus Amok, a New York-based, alternative/queer circus troupe, addresses issues such as the environment, health care, education, homophobia, racism, human rights, public space, and distribution of resources. Directed by Jennifer Miller, the 1996 performances were a mad spectacle of theater, frivolity, and information appearing in community gardens, vacant lots, and city parks all over Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Money Amok, the central performance, grappled with the rapidly growing gulf between the wealthy and the poor in the United States.