Brooklyn

Visiting Brooklyn last Friday was a good chance to see what the art scene is like there. New York is arguably the center of the art world, which must make Brooklyn something like the backstage. Our plan to visit the first studio fell through on account of traffic or something, so instead we walked around a bit and saw some galleries. I especially liked the third gallery we stepped into called Interstate Projects, where we saw a video installation from the artist Jesse McLean. The exhibition, called Trust Falls, consisted of two different videos projected in adjacent rooms. The larger projection was a 20-or-so-minute string of shots of various spaces. It well-made technically and the way the shots flowed from one to the next was mysterious and intriguing, eerie at times. It really made me want to start making videos again (I haven't really made a video for two years now).
The studio which we did visit, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, was interesting in the sense that we got to see how a group of artists are working together and playing off each other's creativity. It was kind of surreal to be inside a warehouse where people have come together just to make art, and then step outside to the beautiful weather and the distant views of New York- it all seemed so contingent & left me thinking on the bus ride back to New Brunswick about what exactly I'm doing in terms of art & where I want to go.