Interactive Public Art Comes to Brooklyn

An interactive public art exhibit curated by the Public Art Fund opened recently in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The installation, dubbed Please Touch the Art, encourages parkgoers to interact with each display. The exhibit was designed by Denmark artist Jeppe Hein and includes 18 structures for climbing and exploring.

One such interactive display features what the artist calls Mirror Labyrinth NY, which “is made with equidistantly spaced vertical planks of mirror-polished stainless steel,” notes the Public Art Fund. All together, the installations cover a 1.3-mile-long section of the park, which has witnessed an influx of visitors, according to Gothamist, which notes more about the installation.

Likely to be the most heavily-”touched” piece is Appearing Rooms, set on a platform right at the entrance to Pier 1 and, basically, acting as a water attraction, with impressively powerful jets building and collapsing walls to make four separate chambers over and over again. Time it right and you can enter the work without getting (too) wet. Time it wrong, as most of the dozens of kids were deliberately doing, and you’re sopping.

Another popular installation is the Mirro Labyrinth NY, as seen in the video below. Jeppe Hein’s Please Touch the Art installation will be on display through April 17, 2016.