Artist Lineup Announced For 'Flux: Ponce City Market'

ATLANTA — FLUX: Ponce City Market, an art event exploring the community hub with acoustic space, has announced the lineup of featured exhibition artists. Each year, FLUX explores a select site through temporary public art projects, and this year’s artists will be featured during the exhibition held this September 26 through 29.

Curator Ben Coleman said, “A project about sound is also a project about listening,” and FLUX: Ponce City Market will create moments that invite visitors to “listen” to the space in a way that helps reshape how they view the site and its history.

“Because of the impressive physical scale and vibrant activity of Ponce City Market, sound became an attractive way to explore the site. Through sound, artists are able to evoke the history of this place while investigating how it continuously changes around us,” says Flux Projects Executive Director Anne Dennington. “By asking our audience to focus on listening, not looking, we hope to inspire them to experience the site differently.”

The event will feature works incorporating sound as the primary medium from artists including:

• Eli Keszler – A New York-based artist, composer and percussionist, Keszler’s music, installations and visual works use the environment, architecture and percussion to explore how sound and space transform locations.
• Jane Foley – Foley is an Atlanta-based sculptor, performer and sound artist whose sound works explore isolation and connectivity in public spaces, beginning with subtle repeated experiments in deep listening and reciprocity.
• Mark Wentzel & Andrew Lackey – For their first collaboration, the two will combine Wentzel’s background with public projects addressing human perception and awareness with Lackey’s expertise in creating interactive soundscapes.
• Otherpole (Kai Riedl and Éric Marty) – Otherpole is a creative research collective working at the intersection of visual art, sound and technology. Riedl and Marty are also co-founders of the Slingshot festival of music, electronic art and tech in Athens, Georgia.
• Talecia Tucker – Tucker is an Atlanta-based interdisciplinary artist and designer, whose work explores the social and cultural nuances of identity in America.
• Tricia Hersey – Hersey is a poet, performance artist, theater maker and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an Atlanta-based organization.
• Unexpected Collective (Rebecca M. K. Makus, Elly Jessop Nattinger, and Peter A. Torpey) – Unexpected Collective is a group of artists who met through a project at MIT Media Lab and continue to collaborate while living in Atlanta, San Francisco and Boston.