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Growing Takes Time - an Immersive Arcade Experience
Jun
20

Growing Takes Time - an Immersive Arcade Experience

Games, Grapples, and Growth Grit — it’s all fun and games… until someone grows.

Growing Takes Time is a life-sized interactive arcade where the audience becomes the astronauts, presented as Noo Arts Wildflowers Rooftop with stunning NYC skyline views.

Inspired by Pikmin, performers exist as PIKMII inside a living performance world where collective survival depends on responsiveness, care, and collaboration.

Participants move through childhood anxiety-driven game structures — functioning as levels that build respect, trust, and community.

Blending contemporary dance with jiu-jitsu–inspired partnering, the experience uses conflict, resistance, and cooperation as engines for growth.

Work together and the group levels up. Lose coordination and the game stalls. Resolve tension and the world evolves.

Alongside the arcade, explore a digital art gallery installation in collaboration with Josh Sauceda, showcasing visuals that extend the Growing Takes Time universe.

The audience doesn’t watch the world — they power it.
Play the game. Earn rewards. Grow together.


Event Timeline

Doors Open — 6:00 PM
Immersive Arcade Performance — 7:00–8:00 PM
Rooftop Dance Party — 8:00–10:00 PM


Move through the world, complete missions, and earn rewards — then stay for a post-show rooftop dance party with skyline views.


RAIN DATE: June 21st


Featuring PIKMII Performers: Juwai Pitkin, Macee Eppard, Ashton Atteberry, Anna Patterson, Peter Elizalde, Dahlia Levine, Joy Raylon Hill, Cam Arnold, Kerry Sheehan


Featuring Command Center: Nirah Burwell
Created & Directed by Karley Wasaff
Digital Gallery Collaboration: Josh Sauceda / ARCHIV3
Presented in partnership with Noo Arts


This project is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts.

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Governors Island Open House
Jun
20
to Jun 21

Governors Island Open House

Participating Artists:

Alan Long

London born artist Alan Long will present a lawn sculpture and Front Window Hangings: First Floor and Second Floor windows on the front of the property 404A Colonels Row.

Alan Long was our guest artist in May and June and will present his artworks in our Noo Arts Gallery in the first floor.

Alan’s artistic journey is characterised by a dynamic exploration of form and medium, where each piece is meticulously crafted to encapsulate its conceptual essence. Through experimentation and adaptation, he seamlessly transitions between mediums, ensuring that his work remains true to its foundational solidity while evolving in captivating newdirections. Confident in his embrace of simplicity, Alan deftly navigates intangible themes such as emotions, feelings, and relationships, imbuing his creations with unexpected depth and resonance. His approachinvolves a delicate balance of reduction and removal, where techniques of subtraction unveil layers of meaning beneath the surface. By eschewing traditional methods of layering and addition, Alan uncoversbeauty and hidden significance, emphasising depth and richness in his work.

His artistic repertoire spans a diverse array of mediums, each offering a unique avenue to explore abstract forms. As boundaries blur between the physical and digital realms, he embraces emerging technologies, incorporating augmented reality to augment and elevate his artistic vision. With an inherent curiosity for the intersection of art and technology, Alan explores the intriguing possibilities of digital expression while remaining rooted in the tangible allure of traditional artistry.

Website:

alanlong.art

Marta Beauchamp:

Marta Beauchamp is our guest artist for June, she will present her artworks as well as a sound performance.

Sound Performance Description:

A sound performance for cello and jump ropes borrowing the playful qualities of the skipping rope and employing them for making music. Setting air in motion, jumping, playing beats, strumming melodies, synchronising with others, tripping, running out of breath, starting again. A composition exploring slack ropes, tense ropes and the ephemerality of the weightlessness of string whilst in motion.

Marta Beauchamp (UK/IT, *1990, lives and works in Vienna and Linz, AT) is a sound artist, musician and artistic researcher. By focussing on the translation of data drawn from publications about biological rhythms into visual and auditory experiences, Marta’s work proposes an interface through which to materially encounter the transformative process of translation. Her installations are conceived as environments to stage sound performances, where installations objects are often employed as instruments. 

Website:www.martabeauchamp.net

Listen here:

https://www.martabeauchamp.net/10_six-songs-for-friends.htmlhttps://bg.klingt.org/



Mothership NYC Tarot Show:A selection of artists from Mothership NYC, an international artist collective based in Brooklyn.

 

Open Studios Artists in Residence:
Additionally our four artists in residence will present their studios and talk about their artistic practice:

-        Artist Salli Beauti Twin

-        Artist Agnes Lin

-        Artist Roni Aviv

-        Artist Anahita Bagheri

 

Guest: Fake Gallery

FAKE GALLERY TINY DADA ART SHOW + WORLD TOUR Is a show of tiny Dada artworks, from a diverse group of Canadian and international artists, being toured worldwide and exhibited in unconventional spaces and places. Fake Gallery’s founder Allison Beda will be guest a Noo Arts House and present a part of the TINY DADA ART SHOW on June 20th.

https://www.fakegallery.art/

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The Oyster Piano Bar
Jun
13

The Oyster Piano Bar

Rowan van As (1991, Goes, NL) is a Rotterdam-based artist working across sculpture, performance, music, and public space. His work creates situations for encounters, conversations, and improvisation. Developed during his residency at NARS Foundation in NYC, The Oyster Piano Bar is a mobile sculpture and piano bar that has already appeared on the streets of Brooklyn, sparking unexpected conversations, spontaneous music, and shared oysters.

On June 13, Rowan brings The Oyster Piano Bar to Governors Island, where he will perform at Noo Arts House, 404A Colonels Row. Stop by for a conversation, an oyster, or a song between 1–5 PM.


📍Noo Arts House, 404A Colonels Row

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Artists Talk @ Noo Arts House
Jun
6

Artists Talk @ Noo Arts House

Noo Arts invite you to an artists talk by our guest artists Alan Long and Michael McLoughlin.

Over refreshments, Alan and Michael will discuss the work they have developed in response to Governors Island and give a sense of their journeys through artmaking to the island this year.

Location:

Noo Arts House, 404a Colonels Row Governor’s Island, NY

Alan Long will present his previous works, processes and also give an insight into a site-specific piece for Governors Island entitled "Comfort Road" that Alan is realizing throughout May and June. Comfort Road is a site-specific piece that reverses the normal relationship between artist (Alan Long) and viewer by making the work itself the “currency” used by the artist to gain a glimpse into a moment that changed someone, either positively or negatively. Alan is placing original artworks created in 404a (NooArts House) around Governors Island.

These works are free for the public to keep, but in return he asks participants to send him a memory of a moment in their life when something transformed them as a person, and how this shaped them from that point onward. The outcome is a series of unique conversations and insights, showing how both large and small moments can have lasting impacts that change us as humans

For more information contact: alan@alanlong.art

Website: alanlong.art

Michael McLoughlin’s exhibition, Welcome to the Island; Well Done Everyone celebrates connectivity, the journeys made, and the life cycles we share. It welcomes everyone who arrives on the island. The work is based on the migration of the Chimney Swift (The Flying Cigar). Chimney Swifts spends much of the year in South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. They live on the wing, eating and sleeping in the air. Each summer, they return to the East Coast of the USA, New York, and Governors Island to nest and breed. The artworks in the exhibition place the journey of the Chimney Swift who arrive on Governors Island each May, with our own human migrations. The exhibition has been made possible with the support and funding of Culture Ireland and Limerick School of Art & Design (TUS).

**Welcome to the Island; Well Done Everyone continues at Noo Arts House until June 12th.

For more information contact: hello@mmcloughlin.org

Website: mmcloughlin.org

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Sunset Serenades
May
30

Sunset Serenades

WE ARE NATURE: Sunset Serenades
Come join us for a chill Saturday night community hang out!
Noo Arts is thrilled to launch our 2026 WE ARE NATURE season with a rooftop concert by our beloved Musician-in-Residence, the soon to be world-famous experimental singer-songwriter Katy Gunn. Everyone is welcome!

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Governors Island Open House
May
16

Governors Island Open House

The only constant in life is change. This summer, Noo Arts will celebrate this concept by expanding their rooftop programming in Brooklyn across the river to a house full of arts on Governors Island. At a time when uncertainty and fracture can feel overwhelming, it is especially important to remember that breakdown precedes transformation—and that collective imagination and action shape what comes next.

Location:

Colonels Row Building on Governor’s Island (404A Colonels Row (aka 404A Comfort Road)

Event Schedule:

Welcome to the Island; Well Done, Everyone

Site-specific, spatial audio artwork by Michael McLoughlin

Welcome to the Island; Well Done, Everyone is a site-specific, spatial audio artwork developed in situ. The piece integrates sound, drawing, and social interaction, exploring migration cycles and connectivity across continents. Through a compelling analogy between the journeys of migratory birds and migrant people, the work raises urgent environmental and socio-political questions while inviting visitors to reflect on the interconnectedness of all systems—flora, fauna, and humans alike. Michael’s installation will remain on view for one month, offering visitors an ongoing experience of interaction, observation, and contemplation.

Honey Fungus

9-minute interactive VR experience led by a queer mycelial guide created by Jonah King

Guided by a queer, sentient mycelial entity, users navigate interactive vignettes where sensory actions shape the environment and AI-generated poetic spores reveal the Earth’s hidden vitality. Rooted in queer ecology and post-humanist thought, the project challenges boundaries between human and non-human life, exploring intimacy, identity, and ecological responsibility. Through VR embodiment, participants shrink through fungal layers, merging with the environment in a radical meditation on relationality, resilience, and stewardship.

Mushroom Music by Willow Gatewood

An immersive Mushroom Music installation which explores the hidden rhythms of fungi, creating a sensory environment where sound, space, and ecological imagination intersect.

Mothership NYC presents PICK A CARD, ANY CARD

A Tarot-Themed Traveling Show

For every third Saturday, the deck of artworks will be reshuffled, with new artworks ‘drawn’ and reconfigured in the exhibition space.

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Creative Science Circus: Y12 Hangout & Workshare
May
14

Creative Science Circus: Y12 Hangout & Workshare

 Join us for a casual, semi-public gathering for the NEW INC Y12 Creative Science track and community. An open evening to share what you’re working on—video, sound, text, objects, small experiments—in short, informal formats.


The night extends into a multi-rooftop hangout with sound, projections, drinks, and Noo Arts’ unique backdrop. Bring something, or just come by.


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