The Six Foot Platform
Experimental art + performance from Brooklyn-based artists
The Six Foot Platform is an experimental art + performance program presenting work by Brooklyn-based artists on a 6×6 Platform on car-free Washington Street.
Presented by Team Dumbo in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council
The Six Foot Platform is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
2025 Season
Platforms are on Saturdays from 12-6pm, on car-free Washington Street (Washington between Water and Front Streets) in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Eiko Nishida: Bark Tarot
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025
“Bark Tarot” is an audience-participatory installation. Each bark incorporates a cut-out word from local or major newspapers in multiple languages distributed in New York. Words are living entities, each shaped with unique meanings by individual perspectives. As audiences engage with the installation, they are encouraged to contemplate their question in the present moment, and select a bark from the multitude available, revealing what the Universe has to say to them.
Christopher Ender Coryat: Face to Face Toilets (Revisited)
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025
Face to Face Toilets (Revisited) is a public performance and sculptural installation exploring intimacy, vulnerability, and absurdity in shared space. Two toilets are positioned uncomfortably close, facing each other, transforming a familiar site of solitude into a charged space of confrontation and communion. First conceived in 2017, the piece now returns with added context around disability, autonomy, and public exposure. The work invites passersby to question social norms around privacy, control, and the body. is a public performance and sculptural installation exploring intimacy, vulnerability, and absurdity in shared space. Two toilets are positioned uncomfortably close, facing each other, transforming a familiar site of solitude into a charged space of confrontation and communion.
Mikaela Perry: Dumbo Dreams
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025
“Dumbo Dreams” invites the public to play with three giant, hand-painted fortune tellers. Each artist-guided reading requires at least two participants, creating a nostalgic experience and a glimpse into a hopeful future. Through playing with the fortune tellers, participants are reminded of their unique power and ability to dream positive outcomes for themselves, their communities, and the world.
Maria Camia: An Ari and Cama Massage
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
An Ari and Cama Massage is an interactive performance-installation inviting participants to step into the whimsical world of Ari and Cama—flower friend lovers brought to life through playful puppetry. Audience members become active co-creators by inserting their heads into puppet stations, animating the characters while the artist, costumed and seated at the center, reads from the Maricama Manifesta—a poetic and thought-provoking text that offers gentle “mind massages” through messages about the transformative power of art. This joyful, immersive experience aims to foster connection, imagination, and upliftment within Brooklyn’s art community, radiating positivity through participation and play.
Ashley Palmer: Safe Space
OCTOBER 4, 2025
Safe Space is an interactive installation offering relief from the sensory overload of human-built environments. It responds to the idea of “relaxation deserts,” places without access to nature and saturated with noise, artificial light, and constant stimulation. Drawing on the memory of childhood forts, the piece invites visitors into a private space formed by foliage for quiet refuge.
Mike Durkin: Mending Quilt
OCTOBER 18, 2025
Let us mend together. Mike will conduct story-sharing sessions centering around mending, while we mend our clothing or supplies. With a partnership with Fabscrap, audiences and Mike will focus on sustainability, in fashion and in community. Participants will gather with torn clothes and items and Mike will teach and help mend those clothing items. We will also talk about other areas in our life we need to mend, relationships, habits, and other important issues the participant is engaged in. We then will contribute to making a collaborative quilt. Each participant will make a square which will be sewn into the quilt. This process of making will lead to an improvisation, a dance, some movement, music, a collaborative experience building off of the conversations and movements of making.
2024 Season
The 2024 season presented work by Hisayasu Takashio, Fanny Allié, Akshay Bharadhwaj & Sunanda Vasudevan, What Will the Neighbors Say?, and Sarah E. Brook.
2023 Season
The 2023 season presented work by Melissa Diaz, Tianding He + Qingan Zhang + Yuexing Sun, You & I (Allie Marotta + Fernando Moya Delgado), Anna Roberts Gevalt, the Abang-Gaurd Museum (Maureen Catbagan + Jevijoe Vitug), and Weiyun Chen + Supatida Sutiratana for Midnight Project.
2022 Season
The 2022 season presented work by Hannah Lillevoy & m i c c a, Margaret Roleke, Jenny Lai & Rebecca Baumwoll, Mar Undag & Elliott Keller, Miriam Vergara, Ming Liang Lu, Kevin Kelly, Vanesa Alvarez Diaz, Hong Wu, Sarah K. Williams and Oludare Bernard.
2021 Season
Our inaugural season presented work by Domenica Garcia, Kate Brehm, Berdscarnival (Maraya Lopez), Opera on Tap, Yeseul Song, Camila Aldet, Katya Grokhovsky, Holly Heidt, Cheryl Thomas, Jenny Polak and Marina Celander.