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.

Montpellier Tramway

Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0100

Designed and presented a photographic project to decorate the Hôtel de Ville stop in downtown Montpellier, on the city’s new tramway line, completed in June 2000.

The project was chosen from 40 candidates while studying for the Diplôme National des Arts Plastiques at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier District. Covered in the local press.

Site-Specific on Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria

Secret Spaces

Montpellier Tramway