Shared Grounds
June 28 – August 10, 2025
Hunter’s Point South Park (along Center Blvd, south of 54th Avenue), Long Island City, NY
Opening Performances: Saturday, June 28, 2025, 3:00 – 8:00 pm
Flux Factory and Finnish Cultural Institute in New York (FCINY) are pleased to announce Shared Grounds, a roaming outdoor exhibition in Hunter’s Point South Park. The exhibition gathers performative works by Carmen Baltzar, Kastehelmi Korpijaakko, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jemila MacEwan, and Lotta Petronella — three Finnish artists and two New York-based members of the Flux Factory artist collective. Shared Grounds will be activated in a series of performances on June 28, 2025 from 3:00 to 8:00 PM, in Hunter’s Point South Park, Long Island City.
Informed by eco-feminist thought, Shared Grounds speculates on placemaking via interspecies alliances and knowledge production, and gives thought to the potential for neighborly relations, codes, and customs in a public realm defined by humans and nonhumans alike. The exhibition has sprouted from the complexity of thinking about public space in a city like New York, while considering Flux Factory’s new venue, Flux IV, a community space located at a mixed-use waterfront building at Hunter’s Point. The transformation of Hunter’s Point from former colonial village and wild forest area, to decommissioned shipyard, to Superfund site; and its most recent incarnation as an urban redevelopment with a lush, re-indigenized park, has served as the seeding point for each artist.
Shared Grounds is curated by Elina Suoyrjö (FCINY) and Meghana Karnik (Flux Factory), with curatorial assistance by Rowena Hurme. It is co-presented by Flux Factory and Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. Shared Grounds’ neighborhood partner is the Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center and the graphic designer is Gonzalo Guerrero of Secret Riso Club, a New York-based artist-run space at the intersection of art, design, learning, publishing, printing, activism and community building. The exhibition is part of the pARTir initiative funded by the EU – NextGenerationEU, with additional support from New York State Council on the Arts and The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Opening Program Schedule
Link: Map of Performances
3:00 – 3:30 pm: Lotta Petronella, sparrows and mystics
Location: Luminescence Sculpture (Center Blvd, between 54th & 55th Aves)
A choir with neighbors of Hunter’s Point
3:45 – 4:15 pm: Kastehelmi Korpijaakko, Negotation (an attempt)
Location: Salt Marsh in Hunter’s Point South Extension (Center Blvd, between 55th & 56th Aves)
A press conference by the waterfront
4:30 – 5:00 pm: Carmen Baltzar, nothing to be seen (a closed practice), accompanied by Sandy Williams IV
Location: Take the public walkway off 2nd Street (between the Kayak Ramp and Flux IV) to view the performative action behind Flux IV (56-21 2nd St)
when a child passes on young, a sapling can be planted in the place of their burial. this way, it’s possible to continue visiting your child and watch them grow. this is a burial event.
5:15 – 6:00 pm: Jemila MacEwan, ZERO: THE BIRTH OF VENIS with live music by ExquisiteCorp
Location: Hunter’s Point South Kayak Ramp (near 2nd St & 56th Ave)
A microbial awakening
A eukaryotic extinction
A molecular revenge
6:15 – 8:00 pm: Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, The Picnic: Harvest of the Soft Sweet Sound
Location: The Park of Barnie in Hunter’s Point South Extension (near Center Blvd, between 55th & 56th Aves)
Cast: Leopoldo Bloom, Justin Sterling, Fitzmore Prince Codogan, Vidho Lorville, Trasonia Abbott, Hsiao-Chu (Julia) Hsia, Gabriella Bornstein, Ronit Levin Delgado, Anna Ting Möller, and Rose Malenfant
Accessibility: All performances take place in Hunter’s Point South Park (Center Blvd, south of 54th Avenue). The closest subway station is the Vernon-Jackson stop on the 7 (purple) line. The nearest ferry stop is on the East River Ferry to Hunter’s Point South Park. There are public restrooms nextdoor to Flux IV (56-21 2nd Street, LIC) and by the East River ferry stop.
Presenters and Community Partners
About Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York works across the fields of contemporary art, design and architecture, creating dialogue between Finnish and American professionals and audiences. www.fciny.org
About Flux Factory
New York City-based and collectively led, Flux Factory’s mission is to support emerging artists through Artist-in-Residencies and Exhibitions, education and collaborative opportunities. www.fluxfactory.org
About Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center
The environmental education team at Hunter’s Point South Conservancy leads various environmental programming throughout the year. We conduct nature walks, speaker talks, environmental art classes, and more. https://www.hunterspointparks.org/environmental-education
About Secret Riso Club
Secret Riso Club (SRC) is an artist-run space that fosters a creative practice at the intersection of art, design, learning, publishing, printing, activism, and community building. SRC is run in collaboration between Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell. https://secretrisoclub.com/
Press Inquiries: Meghana Karnik, Curator & Exhibitions Director | meghana@fluxfactory.org