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Ring My Bell

McCarren Park Pool, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

“A lewd Double Dare–like physical challenge involving a helmet, a water hose, and mannequin legs mechanically rigged to rise in response to aquatic ’stimulation.’” – Artforum

Fireless Fireworks

Washington Square Park, NYC

A watery event featuring the thunder, pulses, screeches and colors of a fireworks display without the use of a single pyrotechnic. 

Photos by Julia Solis

Dueling Re-Enactments

Washington Square Park, NYC
July 23, 2006

Just as history is written by the victors, conflicting versions of the wide and varied history of Washington Square Park are resolved in a maelstrom of violence and hilarity.

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Fireless Fireworks, going into a crazed frenzy of production starting Sunday

One of the first slogans of the Madagascar Institute was “A fine mix of obscure history and blowing shit up” and Fireless Fireworks combines the two, along with sexy pirates, lasers, and Shane Gross in wet, clingy clothing that leaves nothing to the imagination (except for confusion as to what, exactly, that is supposed to [...]