
Figment NYC 2015 in Photos
FIGMENT NYC spread its joy across Governors Island this weekend. Besides the long wait times for the ferry to/from Manhattan, the participatory, sponsor-free arts festival was a big hit. It saw spontaneous dance parties, people of all ages dressing up in costumes thanks to Kostume Kult, art making, haiku writing, good-spirited competitions, and the return of Benjamin Jones’ TreeHouse, as well as the unveiling of this year’s transportation-themed mini-golf course, the City of Dreams Pavilions and this summer’s sculpture program. Below you’ll find a slideshow that sums up some of what went down.
While the games and the art-making are now just a figment, the City of Dreams Pavilions (Organic Growth and Billion Oyster), the sculpture program, TreeHouse and mini-golf course remain up for all to enjoy throughout the summer.
- Organic Growth by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Inside Organic Growth Pavilion by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects
- BanG’s Billion Oyster Pavilion. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- A team competing in Guerilla Science’s Oobleck Olympics. Photo by Mindy Bond
- Making sculptures. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Hack Manhattan was on site with their FORTUNETRON7000, a robot that tells fortunes. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- This is Kerby. 10 graduate students from Columbia GSAPP took rigid plywood and made it flexible and curved. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Fox by Edina Tokodi. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Mt. Marcy Couch by Kevin Knigge Dartt. Photo by Mindy Bond
- Eye of Providence by Sofy Yuditskaya and Ria Rajan. Photo by Mindy Bond
- Kostume Kult brought some ponies along to FIGMENT NYC. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- An Aqua Attack! battle in progress. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Colorful characters. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- There was mini golf to be played.
- Trying out the new mini golf course. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Footlose and fancy free on the mini golf course. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Benjamin Jones’ TreeHouse returned. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Another view of Benjamin Jones’ TreeHouse. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Benjamin Jones’ TreeHouse. Photo by Mindy Bond
- DJ on a bus. Photo by Mindy Bond
- People trying to maneuver through Michael’s Marvelous Maze. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- Black Lives Matter Art Show. Photo by Mindy Bond.
- It’s The Cocoon Project. There’s a person in there. Photo by Mindy Bond.
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- NaNach Spirit Party Van. Photo by Mindy Bond
- Photo by Mindy Bond.