Flux Projects Takes Over Ponce City Market For The Weekend
Through Sept. 26th to 29th, Flux Projects hosted an installation art event at the Ponce City Market here in Atlanta, Ga. The event displayed various interactive sound themed art by a wide range of local artists. H&F Burger host Gabriel said it was a busier weekend as people were coming through to view the exhibition. “I noticed it was more of a younger crowd” he highlighted when addressing the age group that the installation seemed to resonate with the most. Gabriel was working on the Saturday and mentioned it was great business for H&F Burger, and Ponce City Market overall.
Flux Projects is a nonprofit organization that focuses on “producing temporary public art projects in Atlanta”, said executive director Anne Archer Dennington when asked to explain what Flux Projects is about. Dennington said they [the team] were interested in sound for a while and wanted to “give that medium [sound] a space”, which prompted them to make the project be centered around sound.
Upon finding artists to display their work at the installation, Dennington is very supportive of artists and said the Flux team decided to create a more accessible application process as many artists had mentioned that providing the full list of requirements was time consuming and wasted a lot of their time as more often than not, they are turned down. They now only ask for name, contact info, website, and concept, which also allows for more submissions — they received over 90. “We also did a call for concepts” she said about how the theme came to life, and that concepts are encouraged to be somewhat tied to the history of the location itself. A 250-word proposal going into detail about the theme, message, and technical direction of the installation. It’s less of a commitment and helps to shift the focus back onto what really matters — the art.
Cienna who works at a cafe in West Elm said on Thursday (opening night) the ‘Teleportal’ installation centered around workers of Ponce City Market, and they were able to be a part of it, too. They said them and their fellow workers were asked about their personal lives and given a platform to be open about their realities, humanizing them and recognizing them as more than just employees.
Dennington mentioned it’s hard to build a firm community as the events are free and no kind of sign-in is required. They instead look at social media numbers to gauge where the level of support is, and where they’d like it to be. As for upcoming Flux events, ‘Remembrance as Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives’ by Charmaine Minniefield will be premiering on Juneteenth 2020 at the Oakland cemetery.
