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SUMMARY:Flux Sunday: Closing the Autonomous Zone
DESCRIPTION:Image: Amelia Marzec\, 2026. \n\n\n\nOur serial public program and potluck is back! Flux Saturdays and Sundays are organized by different artists and take many forms\, including pop-up exhibitions\, performances\, screenings\, artist presentations and more.Closing Party: Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring)12:00 – 6:00 pm \n\n\n\nLast day of the exhibition Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) and closing of the Autonomous Zone at Flux IV. \n\n\n\nThe presence of the flag in the exhibition demarcates the gallery area as an autonomous zone of the Itinerant Signal Institute. In this area\, information on greenhouse gases are being broadcast live\, at a time when funding and information on air quality are being removed. The zone also is a safe space for queer people affected by recent policy shifts. The Institute intermittently provides oranges as preventative healthcare\, in addition to remedies manufactured by the organization. During this event\, you are invited to bring your own artwork and ideas that you wish to exist in the autonomous zone. \n\n\n\nUnderground Underwater Costume Workshop1:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nCome make something strange and otherworldly fitting of the city’s underwater universe with Piper Amphora\, the artist duo behind Flux IV’s upcoming theatrical performance\, Underground and Underwater. Drawing on techniques from puppetry\, costume\, and theater fabrication\, participants will transform everyday\, found materials into fantastical wearables inspired by New York City’s buried waterways. Costumes created in this workshop will become part of Underground and Underwater‘s spectacular last act: a 100+ person Orphic night parade along the Hunter’s Point waterfront. No RSVP required! Free and open to all skill levels. No materials needed but attendees are welcome to bring their own. Underground and Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in conjunction with Flux IV‘s current exhibitions\, Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) and 502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-sunday-closing-the-autonomous-zone/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Underground Underwater Costume Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come make something strange and otherworldly fitting of the city’s underwater universe with Piper Amphora\, the artist duo behind Flux IV’s upcoming theatrical performance\, Underground Underwater. Drawing on techniques from puppetry\, costume\, and theater fabrication\, participants will transform everyday\, found materials into fantastical wearables inspired by New York City’s buried waterways. Costumes created in this workshop will become part of Underground and Underwater‘s spectacular last act: a 100+ person Orphic night parade along the Hunter’s Point waterfront. No RSVP required! Free and open to all skill levels. No materials needed but attendees are welcome to bring their own. \n\n\n\nUnderground Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/underground-underwater-costume-workshop/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Underground Underwater Costume Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come make something strange and otherworldly fitting of the city’s underwater universe with Piper Amphora\, the artist duo behind Flux IV’s upcoming theatrical performance\, Underground and Underwater. Drawing on techniques from puppetry\, costume\, and theater fabrication\, participants will transform everyday\, found materials into fantastical wearables inspired by New York City’s buried waterways. Costumes created in this workshop will become part of Underground and Underwater‘s spectacular last act: a 100+ person Orphic night parade along the Hunter’s Point waterfront. No RSVP required! Free and open to all skill levels. No materials needed but attendees are welcome to bring their own. \n\n\n\nUnderground and Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/underground-underwater-costume-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
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SUMMARY:Out of Sight: Social & Architectural Camouflage
DESCRIPTION:Curated in collaboration with Eva Slabá\, the evening brings together four artists: Lukáš Šmejkal\, Anna Černíková\, Norbert Kuki and Salma Jamal Moushum. All four are united by an interest in the tension between visible surface and hidden interior\, the theme of social and architectural camouflage\, and the uncovering of systems that remain hidden from ordinary view. \n\n\n\nŠmejkal’s and Moushum’s artist talks\, Černíková’s sound performance\, and a screening of Kuki’s latest film will lead into an informal gathering in Czech Center New York. This themed evening puts into dialogue four artistic approaches exploring what happens beneath the surface – whether that’s building façades\, the façades of social norms\, or institutional prejudice. While Šmejkal deconstructs the technical infrastructure hidden behind the walls of residential buildings\, Moushum illuminates how community art and indigenous ecological knowledge subvert institutional prejudice\, Černíková seeks an inner space of freedom through daydreaming in a hyper-capitalist city\, and Kuki uncovers authentic\, non-fetishized stories of Roma identity from within the community. \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n6:30–7:30 PM | Artist Talks: Lukáš Šmejkal and Salma Jamal Moushum \n\n\n\nPainter Lukáš Šmejkal will present his research focusing on urban infrastructure and architectural camouflage in New York. He will discuss the tension between the city’s aesthetic surface and its hidden technological core. He will also present the results of his field research\, which focused on specific architectural phenomena such as 58 Joralemon Street (the facade of a residential building)\, Bruckner Boulevard (a mock-up for electrical substations) and the Strecker Laboratory (the use of a historic monument to house a metro transformer). \n\n\n\nSalma Jamal Moushum will introduce the practice of Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts\, a community-based arts organization working in the village of Balia in northern Bangladesh since 2001. Through a talk accompanied by short film excerpts\, she will talk about Gidree Bawlee’s long-term\, collaborative approach to artmaking with local communities\, bringing contemporary artistic processes into conversation with ecological knowledge\, oral traditions\, craft\, performance\, and everyday rural life. She will also discuss her recent project Shak Pitari (Wild Leaves)\, created with women and young people in Balia around the disappearing knowledge of uncultivated edible plants. \n\n\n\n7:30–8:05 PM | Film Screening: Štefi\, Ten Days of FreedomNorbert Kuki / 2025 / 33 min. \n\n\n\nNorbert Kuki will present his latest audiovisual documentary work Štefi\, Ten Days of Freedom. The documentary tells the story of a prisoner who stood out for his musical talent. As the documentary unfolds\, Stefi gradually opens up and shares his personal story\, revealing how he became a victim of a dysfunctional system and exploring the lasting scars it has left on him. \n\n\n\n8:30 PM | Sound Performance by Anna Černíková & Gathering \n\n\n\nBohemian National Hall will become a space for two distinct but thematically connected explorations of inner worlds and hidden identity.Anna Černíková (performing under the pseudonym A/C) will present a sound performance based on her New York project Daydream Nation. Sound collage and lo-fi aesthetics offer a moment of pause from constant digital stimulation\, opening a space for daydreaming. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Czech Center New York\, the Academy of Arts\, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM)\, Flux Factory\, and Residency Unlimited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Černíková\n\n\n\nCzech artist and graduate from Visual Arts III at UMPRUM in Prague in 2025. Her work combines moving image\, music\, performance\, and installation. She deals with the fluidity of identity\, corporeality\, and cultural memory. Her works move between dream and reality\, documentary and fiction\, often using lo-fi aesthetics and glitch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNorbert Kuki\n\n\n\nSlovak Roma artist and graduate of the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava. In 2026 he became one of the laureates of the Oskár Čepan Award. His work moves between social sculpture\, activism\, and rap. His art redefines contemporary Roma identity through a deep\, non-fetishizing relationship with the community\, built on long-term exchange. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalma Jamal Moushum\n\n\n\nBangladesh-based artistic researcher whose practice explores ecology\, memory\, gender and collective knowledge. She co-runs Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts\, shaping long-term artistic processes rooted in rural communities in northern Bangladesh. Her recent project\, Shak Pitari (Wild Leaves)\, engages with women elders’ knowledge of uncultivated edible plants. She is currently an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLukáš Šmejkal\n\n\n\nCzech artist and graduate of Studio of Fine Arts II at UMPRUM in Prague. In his painting\, he has long explored the relationship between landscape\, the human body\, and technology. He transforms the geometric elements of energy infrastructure into organic\, biomorphic structures in which technical precision merges with intuitive lines. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Czech Center New York\, the Academy of Arts\, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM)\, Flux Factory\, and Residency Unlimited.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/out-of-sight-social-architectural-camouflage/
LOCATION:Czech Center New York\, 321 E 73rd Street\, New York\, New York\, 10021
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SUMMARY:Urban Water Awareness Day
DESCRIPTION:Taking the NYC Ferry at dusk\, as glimmering sunrays soak into the East River rippling beneath the fractured reflection of the Manhattan skyline\, one is reminded that New York is a city profoundly shaped by water. Beneath its rivers\, estuaries\, canals\, and harbors accumulate submerged layered histories of industry\, public life and ecological transformation. What remains beneath the surface? \n\n\n\nUrban Water Awareness Day is a public program consisting of an urban waterfront walk\, panel discussion\, workshop\, and film screening presented in conjunction with New York Climate Week. The program brings together artists\, architects\, urbanists\, environmental advocates\, and community organizations\, to examine water as a civic\, social\, and cultural framework\, not merely a technical system. Through public dialogue\, site-based learning\, architectural design\, and artistic practice\, it reflects on municipal water as space for environmental justice\, climate resilience\, urban policy\, and public health alongside models for ecological restoration and climate-adaptive design. This program reveals how water continues to shape everyday life and how some of the city’s most pressing environmental\, social\, and political challenges converge in the municipal waters of a warming New York City. It is a joint initiative of Shared Grounds and ECO Solidarity\, a collaborative project represented by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York\, Flux Factory\, and the Polish Cultural Institute New York. \n\n\n\nOften hidden beneath streets and woven into the built environment\, water infrastructure remains largely invisible despite its profound influence on public health\, urban development\, and climate adaptation. These systems\, ranging from reservoirs and waterways to public pools\, waterfronts\, and estuaries\, have shaped the growth\, memory\, and daily life of New York City for generations. As rising temperatures\, extreme weather events\, and aging infrastructure put increasing pressure on urban environments\, questions of stewardship and resilience become ever more urgent. Urban Water Awareness Day proves that cultural programs play an important role in this context by making invisible systems visible\, fostering public awareness\, and encouraging new ways of imagining climate resilience in the city. \n\n\n\nIn Public Pools research project\, Karolina Częczek reimagines New York City’s municipal pools as essential civic and ecological infrastructure beyond their seasonal use. The research explores the history\, form\, and social and cultural aspects of the swimming pool as an architectural type. The pool serves as a device to engage specific aspects of public space and architectural invention while revealing the undercurrents of urban policy. \n\n\n\nThe project is illustrated by a catalog of New York City public pools\, photographs and writings. Through the NYC Water Map\, the project reveals the city’s interconnected watershed\, from upstate reservoirs to neighborhood pools\, demonstrating how it influences public health\, heat mitigation\, and everyday urban life.  The project also proposes practical\, climate-adaptive solutions built upon the city’s existing water systems. These speculative proposals applied to five distinct typologies of New York City pools\, ranging from programmatic extensions to architectural interventions\, foster use of public amenities and promote climate resiliency.  \n\n\n\nExpanding this perspective from citywide water infrastructure to neighborhood landscapes\, Interval Projects explores how architecture can reconnect cities with ecological systems. The New York–based practice\, founded by Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette\, works at the intersection of architecture\, urban ecology\, and public space\, transforming overlooked sites into resilient civic landscapes. Their work on the Dutch Kills Loop in Long Island City proves how ecological restoration\, adaptive design\, and public access can reimagine post-industrial waterfronts in response to climate change.   \n\n\n\nTogether\, Karolina Częczek‘s Public Pools and Interval Projects’ vision for the Dutch Kills Loop reframe urban water as shared civic infrastructure. Through architecture\, ecological restoration\, and cultural programming\, Urban Water Awareness Day explores how design can strengthen public health\, expand access to the waterfront\, and foster more resilient relationships between cities\, freight rail\, hidden waterways and community-led reclamation. \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek: case study of environmental justice in Long Island City and Greenpoint \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek\, a 3.8-mile tidal estuary bordering Long Island City and Greenpoint\, has evolved from a vital wetland into one of New York City’s most polluted waterways and a federally designated Superfund site. Decades of industrial contamination\, combined sewer overflows\, and aging water infrastructure have made the creek increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events. In response\, the Newtown Creek Alliance has led community-driven efforts to restore habitats\, expand waterfront access\, and advance green infrastructure—exemplifying how ecological restoration\, civic stewardship\, and public engagement can contribute to a more resilient urban future. \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nSaturday\, September 19\, 2026\, 3:30–8:00 PM \n\n\n\nUrban Waterfront Walk3:30–5:30 PM \n\n\n\nLed by Hart Mankin\, the Newtown Creek Alliance Environmental Educator\, the educational waterfront walk explores Newtown Creek and Dutch Kills as living case studies of waterfront contamination\, climate vulnerability\,  and environmental justice\, tracing one of New York City’s most historically industrialized waterways as it undergoes ecological restoration. Starting at Hunters Point Avenue\, the route passes the Dutch Kills Loop beneath the Long Island Expressway\, continues along the Montauk Cut-Off rail corridor and the Borden Avenue waterfront\, before concluding at Flux IV. Together\, these sites reveal the layered relationship between freight rail\, hidden waterways and community-led reclamation. Experiencing the creek firsthand transforms an often-invisible infrastructure into a living landscape where environmental history\, urban planning\, and public space converge. \n\n\n\nPanel Discussion & Q&A5:30–6:30 PM \n\n\n\nA public conversation examining water as civic infrastructure and a catalyst for environmental resilience\, public health\, and community well-being. Participants include architect Karolina Częczek (Public Pools)\, architects Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette of Interval Projects in conversation moderated by Paula Vilaplana de Miguel\, Assistant Curator at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA). \n\n\n\nAn exhibition featuring selections from Public Pools by Karolina Częczek and Anna Morgowicz will be on view at Flux IV from September 18-20\, 2026. \n\n\n\nFilm Screening6:30–8:00 PM \n\n\n\nScreening of (2026) from Remedies by Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko. Through moving image\, the work reflects on ecology\, healing\, memory\, and the complex relationships between humans and the environments they inhabit. \n\n\n\nWorkshop6:30–8:00 PM  \n\n\n\nWater Portraits of Queens: A Community Ecology Archive by Adelle Yingxi Lin\, is an interactive installation and performance that weaves together community narratives\, multilingual calligraphy\, and Newtown Creek’s changing ecology into a collective portrait of Queens through gestures of collective healing\, and environmental care.  \n\n\n\nReception6:30–8:00 PM \n\n\n\nAn informal gathering that brings together artists\, architects\, designers\, environmental advocates\, researchers\, and community members for continued conversation and the exchange of ideas. \n\n\n\nExhibition\n\n\n\nSeptember 18–20 2026Source Materials presented by GBS Bioart\, featuring Public Pools\, with drawings by Karolina Częczek & Only If and photographs by Anna Morgowicz. \n\n\n\nThe Genspace Biomaterials Studio (GBS) presents the GBS Bioart Exhibition\, featuring artists who work with biomaterials such as mycelium\, SCOBY\, biocement\, natural dyes\, and food waste. At the intersection of art\, science\, and sustainability\, the exhibition showcases emerging material practices that address ecological challenges and envision new relationships between design\, the environment\, and the living world. \n\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nPanel Speakers \n\n\n\nKarolina Częczek\, Only If Architecture\, Public Pools \n\n\n\nKarolina Częczek is an architect and Principal at Only If\, a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism. Only If’s projects span a range of different types and scales\, from single- and multiple-family housing to larger-scale urban planning\, research\, and speculation. In 2023 Only If’s People’s Pool project was part of the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art\, “Architecture Now: New York\, New Publics\,” featuring projects that envision a more accessible\, sustainable\, and equitable New York. Karolina is also a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture and previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Hong Kong. \n\n\n\nOnly If Architecture is a New York based architecture and design practice founded by architect Karolina Częczek. Working across architecture\, urbanism\, research\, and public space\, the studio explores how design can address contemporary environmental and social challenges. Through projects that connect civic infrastructure\, ecology\, and public life\, Only If develops innovative approaches to climate adaptation and urban resilience. \n\n\n\nThe Public Pools research explores the history\, form\, and social and cultural aspects of the swimming pool as an architectural type. The pool serves as a device to engage specific aspects of public space and architectural invention while revealing the undercurrents of urban policy. The research is organized as a catalog of New York City public pools\, and is illustrated by photographs and writings highlighting broader issues related to urban waters. It is accompanied by speculative proposals\, ranging from architectural interventions to programmatic extensions\, applied to five distinct typologies of New York City pools. This project aims to spark a broader public conversation around the importance of free and accessible spaces for public recreation\, as well as issues related to climate resiliency and city planning. \n\n\n\nInterval Projects\, Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette \n\n\n\nInterval Projects is a New York-based architecture and urbanism practice founded by Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette. Working at the intersection of design\, public space\, and environmental justice\, the practice collaborates with municipalities\, advocacy organizations\, and local communities to develop projects that connect architecture with civic engagement\, ecological restoration\, and public access to urban landscapes. \n\n\n\nTheir work spans adaptive reuse\, community-led planning\, environmental remediation\, and waterfront design. Notable projects include the Dutch Kills Loop in Long Island City—a vision for transforming an overlooked industrial corridor into publicly accessible open space—as well as environmental restoration initiatives for the Silver Bow Creek Superfund Site in Montana. Through research\, design\, and public collaboration\, Interval Projects explores how architecture can support more equitable and resilient urban futures. \n\n\n\nModerator: Paula Vilaplana de Miguel Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA)\, Department of Architecture and Design \n\n\n\nPaula Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator\, cultural strategist\, and creative director working across architecture and design\, technology\, and contemporary art. Paula currently serves as Assistant Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA)\, where she has developed projects including Peggy Weil: Core Memory; The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower; Down to Earth\, and Body Constructs. She has developed projects for institutions such as the Shanghai Art Biennial\, The Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Venice Architecture Biennial\, and Triennale Milano\, and Ca2M\, among others and her work has been published internationally. \n\n\n\nWorkshop: Adelle Yingxi Lin – Water Portraits of Queens: A Community Ecology Archive \n\n\n\nAdelle Yingxi Lin is a Malaysian artist and technologist whose work bridges performance\,   language\, and participatory systems. Through installation\, embodied research\, and public ritual\, she explores how cultural memory\, technology\, and collective experience shape meaning. Her practice develops forms that foreground care\, ritual\, and relation. \n\n\n\nWater Portraits of Queens: A Community Ecology Archive is a participatory installation and performance project in which Queens residents create calligraphic textiles shaped by community stories and Newtown Creek’s shifting water chemistry. The work explores how place\, language\, and environmental conditions co-author a shared cultural archive. For this workshop\, Adelle invites participants to write gestures of healing in their own languages and place them into water\, where they are transformed into a collective portrait of the borough shaped by memory\, ecology\, and care. \n\n\n\nFilm: Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko – Sanctuary\, Mist (2026) from Remedies \n\n\n\nSasha Huber (b. 1975) is a Helsinki-based internationally recognised visual artist-researcher of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Huber‘s work is concerned with the politics of memory\, care and belonging in relation to colonial residues left in the environment. Connecting history and the present\, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based reparative interventions\, video\, photography\, and collaborations. Huber also usurps the staple gun\, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon\, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics and the possibility of repair\, symbolically stitching wounds together (pain-things). Known for her artistic research contribution to the “Demounting Louis Agassiz” campaign\, she is aiming at reassessing the glaciologist’s contentious racist heritage. She holds an MA in visual culture from Aalto University in Helsinki and is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD in artistic research at Zurich University of the Arts.  \n\n\n\nPetri Saarikko (b. 1973) is Helsinki-based artist and designer. In his site-specific installations\, Saarikko combines social commentary with his work as a designer and his background in new media. His work is highly performative in nature. Saarikko does not shy away from provocation. He often challenges ideas of national identity\, artistic authorship or official political discourses by changing their context and thus showing the true\, artificial nature of these phenomena. His work seeks to expose power relations\, to make room for individual narratives\, and takes a stand on behalf of equality.  \n\n\n\nSasha Huber and Petri Saarikko collaborate regularly in a creative partnership under the name Remedies. Together they have initiated the long-term project Remedies Universe (since 2011) which explores aural family-knowledge in different geographical and cultural contexts and been invited to artist residencies around the world. In 2018\, Huber was the recipient of a State Art Award from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. In 2021–2024 her work is touring under the title “You Name It”\, produced by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and Autograph in London. A comprehensive book with the same title was published by Mousse Publishing in November 2022. Sasha Huber’s work is continued to be supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland through a long-term grant. At Urban Water Awareness Day\, Remedies will be showing  (2026)\, a one channel video. Sanctuary\, Mist was commissioned by the 2nd Helsinki Biennale in 2023 and this is the documentation of the generative art installation filmed by Petri Saarikko. The new video work was commissioned for their exhibition in Germany\, entitled Shelter on view September 18-November 8\, 2026 at the Galerie für Gegenwartskunst\, Freiburg\, Germany. It focuses on colonial power structures and their lasting impact. Through their work\, the two artists explore artistic and Indigenous practices that open up new narratives of solidarity. \n\n\n\nUrban Waterfront Walk \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring\, revealing\, and revitalizing Newtown Creek. We work to restore community health\, water quality\, habitat\, access\, and vibrant commerce along Newtown Creek. Since 2002\, the Alliance has served as a catalyst for effective community action. \n\n\n\nExhibition: About GBS at Genspace Bioart \n\n\n\nGBS (Grow Beyond Soil) is a community-driven biomaterials research group at Genspace Bioart exploring the intersection of biology\, design\, and material innovation. Through collaborative research\, experimentation\, and its annual six-month Bioart Incubator\, GBS brings together artists\, designers\, scientists\, and community biolabs to develop sustainable biomaterials and imagine future ecological approaches to making. Founded in 2009\, Genspace Bioart is the world’s first community biology laboratory. Based in New York City\, it provides hands-on STEAM education\, public programs\, and collaborative research opportunities that make the life sciences accessible to artists\, researchers\, educators\, entrepreneurs\, and the broader public while fostering innovation across biotechnology\, neuroscience\, genomics\, and environmental science. \n\n\n\nPartners\n\n\n\nShared Grounds is a recurring experimental exhibition initiated by curators Elina Suoyrjö (formerly at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York) and Meghana Karnik (Flux Factory). Informed by eco-feminist thought\, the project speculates on placemaking through interspecies alliances and shared knowledge\, and imagines a public realm shaped by humans and nonhumans alike. Each edition gathers a new group of Finnish and New York–based artists\, who begin their research independently but share a conviction to live interdependently and to build ways of sharing space and understanding one another. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition grew out of an interest in the complexity of public space in a city like New York. It asks who has access to the public realm\, how we are allowed to use it\, and how space is shared. The artists are politically conscious and critical of the present\, but approach these questions through harmonious\, humorous\, empathetic\, or devotional means rather than irony or cynicism. Shared Grounds is a collaboration between the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Flux Factory artist collective. \n\n\n\nECO Solidarity is an award-winning international platform of the Polish Cultural Institute New York\, founded in 2020 in partnership with WantedDesign\, Studio Rygalik\, and the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). Exploring the role of design\, architecture\, and contemporary culture in addressing climate resilience\, public health\, and environmental sustainability\, the initiative brings together leading architects\, designers\, artists\, and researchers through exhibitions\, talks\, workshops\, and public programs.  \n\n\n\nSupported by two consecutive EUNIC Cluster Fund Awards\, ECO Solidarity received the ICFF Editors’ Award for Best Booth and was recognized by Dezeen as one of the “12 Things to See and Do” during NYCxDESIGN and by SixtySix Magazine in its “Best of NYCxDesign” selection (2023). The initiative’s name draws inspiration from Poland’s historic Solidarność movement\, reflecting a belief that collective action and cross-disciplinary collaboration can help shape more resilient\, equitable\, and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nFinnish Cultural Institute in New York works across the fields of contemporary art\, design and architecture\, creating dialogue between Finnish and American professionals and audiences. Founded in 1990\, the Institute has grown from a residency program to an organization commissioning large-scale projects and events that foster critical dialogue and work to build support for professionals in architecture\, design and contemporary art.  \n\n\n\nFlux Factory’s mis­sion is to sup­port emerg­ing artists through res­i­den­cies\, exhi­bi­tions\, edu­ca­tion\, and col­lab­o­ra­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties. Flux is an artist-led space that builds sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties and retains cre­ative vital­i­ty in NYC. Since 1994 Flux has host­ed over 300 Artists-in-Res­i­dence\, both local and inter­na­tion­al\, as well as staged over 700 exhi­bi­tions across all dis­ci­plines. Flux’s home in Long Island City is a cre­ative hive that incu­bates exper­i­men­ta­tion with col­lab­o­ra­tive process­es. Flux hosts over 75 annu­al mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary events; all are free to the pub­lic while all par­tic­i­pat­ing artists are com­pen­sat­ed. Each year Flux selects 40 Artists-in-Res­i­dence to devel­op their cre­ative prac­tices by offer­ing afford­able stu­dios\, shared work­spaces (such as a print shop\, wood shop\, and tech­ni­cal office)\, a solo exhi­bi­tion\, as well as pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment opportunities. \n\n\n\nPolish Cultural Institute New York (established 2000) is a diplomatic mission of the Republic of Poland to the United States operating under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The PCINY’s mission is to share Polish heritage\, history\, and art with American audiences and to promote Poland’s contributions to world culture. The Institute initiates\, supports\, and promotes collaboration between Poland and the United States in various fields\, including visual art\, design\, film\, theater\, dance\, literature\, and music\, as well as other areas of intellectual and social life. \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring\, revealing\, and revitalizing Newtown Creek\, a 3.8-mile tidal estuary and federally designated Superfund site bordering Brooklyn and Queens. Since 2002\, the Alliance has served as a catalyst for effective community action\, working to restore water quality\, habitat\, public access\, and commerce along the creek. Our programs combine hands-on ecological restoration with environmental education\, including school field trips\, guided walking tours\, and public stewardship events. Through advocacy\, monitoring\, and community partnerships\, NCA works to ensure Newtown Creek’s recovery reflects the needs and voices of the neighborhoods it runs through. \n\n\n\nThe Hunters Point Parks Conservancy enhances\, activates\, and advocates for the parks and waterfront of Long Island City\, bringing communities together\, protecting vital outdoor spaces\, and ensuring lasting access for all. Hunters Point Parks Conservancy was formed in 1998 by a group of  dedicated Long Island City residents determined to improve the quality of life at the waterfront in Hunter’s Point\, Long Island City. We run over 200 free programs a year for the community\, including yoga and fitness sessions\, kids programs\, movie nights\, and art classes\, and bring volunteers to the parks to help support the local ecosystem. We also run environmental education\, public paddle\, and advocacy programs from the Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center.  \n\n\n\nWantedDesign\, founded in 2011\, has evolved into a membership program. It is a dynamic connector and amplifier for global design\, fostering creative synergy and serving as a pivotal crossroad for the international design community.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/urban-water-awareness-day/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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