Shake It
BAMBOO, AIRCRAFT CABLE, MARACAS, SEEDS
Shake It consists of approximately thirty-nine thin bamboo poles jammed into the ground of the pit with aircraft cable threaded through the top, suspending shakers/maracas made from tin cans of different sizes. (hung at different heights) Each can will contain seeds and noisemakers that will allow for distinct sounds from each shaker. Passersby will be encouraged to try out the different shakers either with one or two hands, and hopefully groups of people will create little spontaneous percussive orchestras.
ARTIST
Tim Spelios
Tim Spelios, artist and drummer, lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. He and Caroline Cox co-founded and ran Flipside gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 1996 to 2001. Spelios has shown at Smack Mellon, White Columns, The Drawing Center, The Knitting Factory, Rosa Esman Gallery, Exit Art, Parker’s Box, Pierogi, the Islip Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Studio 10.
He’s performed with the Chairs, Mr Klopp, Normal Bias, Jole Blonde, the Bedesman, Chunk, No Safety, John Zorn (Cobra), the Four Walls Film Club Band, Impossible Music with David Weinstein, The Theadore Geisel Temporary Quartet, and Endless Broken Time with Matt Freedman.
Spelios received a grant from Tree of Life in 2021. He has toured and exhibited in Europe and recorded on the Knitting Factory, A&M and Cuneiform labels.
Fallow Frames Biennial 2024
July 13 — 14, 2024
Ridgewood, Queens NY
2pm — 7pm
24 Empty Tree Beds - 25 Participating Artists
Ridgewood’s sidewalks have over 800 empty tree beds - or roughly one for every 90 residents.
The Fallow Frames Biennial is an upcoming public art festival that will be held on July 13th and 14th, where local artists are invited to use 24 abandoned tree beds to stage site-specific installations and performances.
Visitors are invited to wander the neighborhood as active participants in a larger narrative of renewal and artistic expression - and to spark conversations about urban ecology and these small neglected patches of the city’s landscape.
Festival Map