Brooklyn Immersionists
The Brooklyn Immersionists were a community of artists, musicians and writers that moved beyond the distancing aesthetics of postmodernism and immersed themselves and their audiences into the world where they lived. First emerging in the late 1980s and coming to fruition in the 1990s, the experimental scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, catalyzed the largest New York renaissance to take root outside Manhattan. Stressing organic vitality and rejecting traditional tendencies to cloister the arts in separate disciplinary siloes, the Immersionists created fully dimensional experiences in the streets and abandoned warehouses, and cultivated rich webs of connection with their surrounding world. The ecologically engaged, Post-postmodernism, post-postmodern culture helped to transform Williamsburg’s deteriorating industrial waterfront and spread a wave of Interdisciplinary arts, interdisciplinary creativity to Bushwick, DUMBO, and throughout Brooklyn. In 1999, the City of New York began t ...
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