Andreas Angelidakis, Antenna (Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger), Anney Bonney, Marco Brambilla, Francisco López, Liz Phillips, Erwin Redl, Leo Villareal

May 31-July 29, 2001
Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
Photo © 2001 CharlieSamuels.com

Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion featured seven ambitious, site-specific installations by a group of international artists who created media environments that shifted the experience of space and time, blurring the boundaries between body and environment, solid and immaterial, immersion and isolation, disorientation and the sublime. Using both technology’s basic building blocks and new hybrid configurations, the artists in Art in the Anchorage 18 referenced and expanded upon the minimalist and ambient work of 1960s and ’70s artists like John Cage, Dan Flavin, and James Turrell. The work in Massless Medium both sensitized and disarmed vistors, forcing them to reexamine their relationship with the environment in an increasingly technological world where the boundaries between the physical body and technology continually dissipate.

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William Kentridge

May 21-June 30, 2001
Times Square
Image courtesy of William Kentridge

The third video for Creative Time’s The 59th Minute featured South African artist William Kentridge, internationally recognized for his handcrafted animated films, drawings, and theatrical productions. Shadow Procession depicted a haunting pageant of black puppet-like figures made from cardboard cutouts. The figures, hunched and crippled, moved from left to right across the screen while hauling their belongings—donkeys, carts, chairs, sacks, even whole towns on their backs—as if in exodus from an unidentified place. Influenced by the brutality of South African apartheid, Kentridge’s Shadow Procession conveyed the drudgery and instability of living among prolonged violence, even as it humbled onlookers with its astonishing simplicity amid the cacophony of Times Square.

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