PARK BENCH CINEMA: ELEVEN DREAMS IN RED HOOK
participatory mobile audio walk and photo map, 2008

One side of the map has a map with numbers on it indicating locations


The other side of the map has eleven numbered photos, so participants know what to look for


Listen to I dreamed we were breaking out


Listen to I dreamed you were buried by the deep blue sea


Listen to I dreamed you found the time that land forgot


For mobile audio and public participation. Eleven soundtracks, totaling 39 minutes, 24 seconds. Postcard and video excerpt to left. More details available at the 11 Dreams in Red Hook website. Funded by a grant from NYSCA/Brooklyn Arts Council.


Click here to download the eleven soundtracks, the map, and the photographs as a zipped file.


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).


Eleven Dreams in Red Hook is the second in a series of Park Bench Cinema projects – musical cinematic dreams for real life: in this case, eleven soundtracks for specific locations. It can be experienced at any time in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.


It was funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council and was presented every weekend in September 2008. Later that year, I created five short music-films I called Eleven Dreams in Red Hook #1-5, and they were screened at “Visual Sounds//on film: Screen Compositions” in Köln, Germany.


In 2009, the eleven photographs and downloadable mp3s were exhibited at the Texas Firehouse as part of a group show, “Stored and Filtered: Technology, Time, and Landscape.” Later that year, it was a featured work at the Conflux Festival.


In October 2017, I screened Eleven Dreams for Red Hook #1-5 at the University of Colorado Faculty Exhibition: 2017.


CREDITS

composer/artist: Betsey Biggs


GRANTS, AWARDS, COMMISSIONS

2008: Brooklyn Arts Council, New York City DCA Community Arts Regrant ($3,000), Brooklyn, NY, USA.


PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

2017: "Faculty Exhibition: 2017," University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. 2009: Featured work, Conflux Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

2009: “Stored and Filtered: Technology, Time, and Landscape,” Texas Firehouse, Long Island City, NY, USA.

2008: Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY, USA.


PRESS

2008: Peter Matthews, “"Walkabout,” Feast of Music, September 13, 2008.

2008: Sady Sullivan, “"Eleven Dreams in Red Hook,” Brooklyn Public Library, September 11, 2008.