WHEN:
September 6 to October 18, 2025
WHERE:
Water St & Washington St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the Six Foot Platform in Dumbo website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...The 2025 lineup of interactive installations features puppetry, storytelling, fortune tellers, dance, quilting, and more. Visitors can expect an audience-participatory bark installation to see what the universe has to share with Eiko Nishida; a public performance and sculptural installation exploring intimacy, vulnerability, and absurdity in shared space with Christopher Ender Coryat; a fortune telling experience with Mikaela Perry; an immersive puppetry performance offering “mind massages” with Maria Camia; an interactive installation offering relief from the sensory overload of human-built environments with Ashley Palmer; a tap dance jam; and a quilting and story-sharing experience with Mike Durkin..."
The Six Foot Platform Calendar
All Six Foot Platform programs take place on Saturdays from 12:00pm to 6:00pm at the intersection of Washington and Water Streets.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
EIKO NISHIDA | BARK TAROT
"Bark Tarot” is an audience-participatory installation. Each bark incorporates a cut-out word from local or major newspapers in multiple languages distributed in New York. Words are living entities, each shaped with unique meanings by individual perspectives. As audiences engage with the installation, they are encouraged to contemplate their question in the present moment, and select a bark from the multitude available, revealing what the Universe has to say to them.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
CHRISTOPHER ENDER CORYAT | FACE TO FACE TOILETS (REVISITED)
"Face to Face Toilets (Revisited)” is a public performance and sculptural installation exploring intimacy, vulnerability, and absurdity in shared space. Two toilets are positioned uncomfortably close, facing each other, transforming a familiar site of solitude into a charged space of confrontation and communion. First conceived in 2017, the piece now returns with added context around disability, autonomy, and public exposure. The work invites passersby to question social norms around privacy, control, and the body, and is a public performance and sculptural installation exploring intimacy, vulnerability, and absurdity in shared space.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
MIKAELA PERRY | DUMBO DREAMS
"Dumbo Dreams” invites the public to play with three giant, hand-painted fortune tellers. Each artist-guided reading requires at least two participants, creating a nostalgic experience and a glimpse into a hopeful future. Through playing with the fortune tellers, participants are reminded of their unique power and ability to dream positive outcomes for themselves, their communities, and the world.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
MARIA CAMIA | AN ARI AND CAMA MASSAGE
"An Ari and Cama Massage” is an interactive performance-installation inviting participants to step into the whimsical world of Ari and Cama—flower friend lovers brought to life through playful puppetry. Audience members become active co-creators by inserting their heads into puppet stations, animating the characters while the artist, costumed and seated at the center, reads from the Maricama Manifesta—a poetic and thought-provoking text that offers gentle “mind massages” through messages about the transformative power of art. This joyful, immersive experience aims to foster connection, imagination, and upliftment within Brooklyn’s art community, radiating positivity through participation and play.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
ASHLEY PALMER | SAFE SPACE
"Safe Space” is an interactive installation offering relief from the sensory overload of human-built environments. It responds to the idea of “relaxation deserts,” places without access to nature and saturated with noise, artificial light, and constant stimulation. Drawing on the memory of childhood forts, the piece invites visitors into a private space formed by foliage for quiet refuge.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
SOLE TALK YOUTH
A day-long, live tap jam! Rooted in Black American history, Sole Talk Youth dancers will improvise, share rhythm, and invite the public into a living, interactive dance tradition.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
MIKE DURKIN | MENDING QUILT
Mike will conduct story-sharing sessions centering around mending, while we mend our clothing or supplies. With a partnership with Fabscrap, audiences and Mike will focus on sustainability, in fashion and in community. Participants will gather with torn clothes and items and Mike will teach and help mend those clothing items, and will also talk about other areas in our life we need to mend, including relationships, habits, and other important issues the participant is engaged in. Participants will then contribute to making a collaborative quilt. Each participant will make a square which will be sewn into the quilt. This process of making will lead to an improvisation, a dance, some movement, music, and a collaborative experience building off of the conversations and movements of making.
