Pickles & Concrete
Photo: Michael Webster. Courtesy of the artists.
November 15 – December 13, 2025
Flux IV, 56-21 2nd Street
Open Saturdays & Sundays, noon – 6:00 pm or by appointment
Opening: November 15, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Flux Factory is pleased to present Pickles & Concrete, an exhibition by Kosmologym, Walker Tufts, and Greg Stewart. Pickles & Concrete is a time negotiating kitchen laboratory where bacteria makes pickles & bioconcrete. Pickles & Concrete also examines human attempts to alter the flow of time.
In the kitchen we freeze, dehydrate and pickle foods to remove them from their usual cycle of decay. In contrast, we freeze and thaw concrete to simulate the passage of entire seasons in a single day. Pickles & Concrete invites players to get tangled up in the time scales between food preservation, building materials, bacteria and geology in an attempt to re-story science.
Pickles & Concrete was originally created with CEPA Gallery & Coalesce Center for Biological Art as part of Walker Tufts’ 2024 NYSCA Fellowship. It unfolded most recently as part of Living Things at TSA: Greenville and then at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.
About the Artist
Kosmologym is an art and game design collective. Our work challenges players to encounter more-than-human others and places human bodies in physical relationships to global systems. Kosmologym has created games for Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN; the Philadelphia Science Festival and Winterfield Community Garden in Charlotte, NC; Art Prospect Festival 2018 in Saint Petersburg, RF; the Kulturhavn Festival and VEGA Arts in Copenhagen, DK. We have performed our games in London and Leeds, UK; Copenhagen, Aalborg and Aarhus, DK; Philadelphia and New York City, US. Pickles & Concrete is part of Dirtball, an ongoing Kosmologym project with lead artists: Greg Stewart & Walker Tufts.
Walker Tufts is a collaborative artist and game designer. Walker’s work has been shown internationally and they’ve created commissioned pieces in Wales, Denmark, Germany, Russia and the United States. Walker received a BS in Art from James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA, US) and an MFA at University at Buffalo. They’ve been a resident with Styrian AiR; the Goethe Institut: Boston; Flux Factory; Franconia Sculpture Park; CEC Backapartment; Epicenter; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Corwen, a Welsh town of 2,300 and more.
Greg Stewart is a Virginia based sculptor, performance artist, and teacher. He creates rituals that celebrate potential futures through imaginary agricultural and environmental practices, among other things. Perhaps he is inventing a species of combined origins both plant and animal. Or, a suit made of materials that will generate static charge, activating a mechanism to attract dust and other toxins from the air along the Great Salt Lake. Most recently Greg’s work focuses on the disappearance of things. His actions seek to establish a different kind of playfulness. He received his BFA from SUNY Brockport and his MFA from Ohio University.
Media & Visitor Contact
Meghana Karnik, Curator & Exhibitions Director
meghana@fluxfactory.org
Accessibility
Flux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.