Installation on Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria

Open Stitch

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Open Stitch was conceived and organized with Jessie Cohan. Fifteen artists spent seven days making wearable garments at Location One under restricted conditions: working only with the materials provided, away from their own studios, and under collaborative constraints that deliberately blurred the line between art and fashion.

Production was streamed live for the duration of the seven days. The finished garments and the video documentation were then installed in the gallery.

Secret Spaces

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0500

Counter Culture paired six contemporary New York artists with small businesses and organizations around the Bowery, the future home of the New Museum, to explore the commerce and cultural diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods.

The Flux Factory collective presented Secret Spaces, an installation in an area of Bowery Martial Arts (246 Bowery) not usually accessible to customers.

The piece ran as a spy game. Visitors who knew the password became “infiltrators”: at a command center hidden inside the martial arts school they chose a mission level (easy, intermediate, difficult, or impossible), received a briefing by telescreen, and set out with a mission pack. Missions ranged from neighborhood errands to gathering intelligence from payphones and composing photographs; the impossible level was never disclosed. Flux Factory’s own archive lists the piece as Secret Places.

When Everybody Agrees It Means Nobody Understood

Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Co-participation in Flux Factory’s installation and performance piece for the Queens Museum of Art’s exhibition Queens International.

For nearly three months the collective worked inside the gallery in orange jumpsuits, building and maintaining a structure that grew, developed, and then devolved. It was updated daily and documented continuously, until the documentation outweighed the living structure and was all that remained.

Disenchanted Forest

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0500

A window installation for Disenchanted Forest, a summer group show at Flux Factory with Jason D. Brown, Paul Burn, and Aya Kakeda.

The exhibition took an ironic view of nature preservation, treating nature as something best kept in a jar at the natural history museum, and set museum-like contents loose in an open gallery.