Thanks to the over 2,000 people who participated in today’s mission in Brooklyn. If you were there, please leave an Agent Report in the comments. I know there are thousands of funny stories waiting to be told. Also leave links to any photos you might have taken. We will be posting photos from our official photographers later today, and we hope to have our video up in a week or so.
For those of you who were not there– we passed out over 2,000 “invisible dog” leashes and had everyone go for a nice Sunday walk in Brooklyn. If you were anywhere within a one mile radius of the Bergen St. stop in Cobble Hill today, you would have seen all types of folks very seriously walking their very silly dogs.
The invisible dog toy was invented in the 1970s in the Brooklyn factory that served as our meeting point today. No Longer Empty and The Invisible Dog art space were nice enough to loan us the vintage dogs for an afternoon of fun.
For our latest mission, we installed a photography studio on a random subway car. We claimed that the MTA had hired us to take photos of every single person who rides the subway and that we’d be producing a yearbook at the end of the year. Most people were happy to pose for us, and the resulting photos show just how diverse New York subway riders can be. Enjoy the video first and then check out the mission report and photos below.
We are staging an Mp3 Experiment at the All Points West Festival on Saturday, August 1 in Liberty State Park (a 10-minute ferry ride from Lower Manhattan.) You must be attending the festival (which is a ticketed event) to participate. Come for Improv Everywhere, stay for Tool!
If your festival, school, company, etc, is interested in hiring us to stage an Mp3 Experiment at your event, please get in touch.
We are visiting Cologne and Rotterdam over the next ten days and will be organizing at least one mission in each city. If you live near either city and want to participate, here is the information:
Cologne
Please send an email to christine.nippe@koelnischerkunstverein.de. You will receive a message where and when the action will happen. It’s going to happen on Saturday, July 11. The performance is part of the education programme Open Source/// at Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Rotterdam
Missions will take place between July 13 and 16. To join the missions, apply by becoming member of http://improv010everywhere.hyves.nl/ You will then automatically receive more detailed information about time, date and locations. Or, send an email to improv.rotterdam@gmail.com with ‘request information’ in your header (and you will receive detailed info). We have been invited by The Arts Office Rotterdam, made possible with the support of Your World 2009 (Rotterdam , Youth Capital of Europe 2009).
And if you don’t live anywhere near these cities, but want to invite us to your festival, university, etc., let us know!
For our Sixth Annual Mp3 Experiment, over 2,000 people of all ages downloaded the same mp3, pressed play at the same time, and had a blast together. This year’s event took place on Roosevelt Island, a thin strip of land in the middle of the East River. We would like to thank Yahoo! for their continued partnership with The Mp3 Experiment series. Their support helped make this project truly awesome (1,400 inflatable weapons wouldn’t have been possible without them!) Enjoy the video recap first, and then check out the full photos and report.
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
