Schedule:

The installation will occur in three general phases that will correspond roughly to the three months it will be up at Queens Museum.

The first phase (month) will be a phase of anticipation and potentiality. In this phase the emphasis will be on preparing the infrastructure and articulating the space of the installation into specific rooms, areas, etc., as well as setting up the means for documentation and arranging the productive capacity of the piece.

The second phase (month) will be one of actuality, movement, and activation. In this phase there will be more emphasis on performance, activities outside of the museum, actual usage of the various rooms and sights within the installation and so forth.

The last phase (month) will focus on memory and representation. In this phase the piece will begin to devolve and the actual objects and documents that it has produced will slowly take over. By the end, all that will be left will be the residue and testaments to what the piece was through the documents it produced. Ironically, it will only be a real museum piece at the very end.

These three general phases will each be cut up by four smaller phases of one week each. Thus, for instance, the first month, the month of anticipation, will have four distinct phases in which the piece will gain more and more capacity until it is finally ready for the second phase. By 'gaining capacity' what we mean is that we will be slowly shaping it into a piece that can produce documents, photographs, films, testimonials, live performance, etc. But, part of the 'work' of the piece is the actual visible process of the coming to activity of the installation as a whole during the days and weeks that constitute the time of the installation. During the weekly phases, the majority of work will go into preparing for the culmination of that week's productive capacity during the weekend. On both Saturday and Sunday the installation will focus on its actual production, putting on several performances, video's, sound events, etc., that reflect how far the piece has progressed during the previous week.

The smallest phase units will be the unit of the actual day. Every day we will have a brief opening ceremony (a short sound composition and a ritual where a piece of the installation is put up in the morning and taken down at night). The majority of the day's activity will concern changing and building the piece and readying it for whatever it is supposed to produce for the coming weekend. There will also be a walk around the park and a 'tea-time' every afternoon at 1:00, which museum-goers are welcome to attend. On Thursdays there will be special 'public' meetings within the piece itself from 3:00-4:30.

As far as security being prepared for our activities, they should be aware that anywhere from one to fifteen participants will be around the installation at any given time. They will be noticeable by the Flux jumpsuits they are wearing. They will principally be involved in arranging and augmenting the physical structure within our space but may move about the museum for different reasons at any time. We will post a schedule of the weeks 'official' event one week in advance every week so that staff will be aware of anything 'unusual' occurring during that week. It is also part of the structure of this work that a certain malleability and spontaneity always be at play. Thus, any particular day may constitute activities not known about in advance. These activities will fall within the overall structure and purview of the piece and its place in the museum and will not, in that sense, be disruptive.

VERY SPECIFIC:

Unlike most pieces at the museum, this piece will be characterized by constant physical change and a constant human presence. On a typical day a handful of Fluxers will be at the site in special, recognizable clothing. They will be moving around one to two large scaffolding structures and also attaching and disattaching metal shelving units in order to alter the physical appearance and shape of the structure within our space. Also, they will be setting up and activating various documentation devices, like digital cameras, regular cameras, web cams, surveillance cameras, listening devices, etc. Also, they will be projecting various media onto the surfaces of the piece. Concurrently, other Fluxers will be engaged in ongoing mini-installation or performance within the rooms or spaces inside the basic structure. Their activities will depend on the specifics of their pieces, of which you will get a more detailed explanation soon. Also, various Fluxers will be coming in and out of the museum throughout the day bringing new materials, taking new documentation, collecting items, etc. Thus, the museum should be prepared for a reasonably free flow in and out of our site and in and out of the museum itself.