This off-site project will take place in various locations in the Financial District for the duration of the festival.

Artist: Artists Meeting (AM)
Location: Downtown District 1, Financial District
http://artistsmeeting.org

Title: Public Exhibition Space
Collaborative Interventions in Privately Owned Public Space (POPS)
Manhattan Downtown District 1.

Since 1961 the City of New York’s incentive zoning program has helped establish 3.5 million square feet of public space across Manhattan. For Conflux, Artists Meeting challenges the notions of public and private space, choosing Downtown Manhattan’s financial district as a geographic target area and destination for establishing creative dialogue with this concentrated community of residents, visitors and members of the public. Loosely based on Jerold S. Kayden’s book Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience, Artists Meeting has superimposed its own psychogeographic understanding on POPS by locating the places and times when our interventions will occur. Each project will engage specific micro-communities from downtown such as, the workers, residents, homeless, immigrants, tourists, etc.

Brought together by chance, circumstance, and a common purpose, Artists Meeting members gather in person and via technology. Free of commercial influence, participants draw on each other’s expertise to refine concepts, further experimentation and engage each other in collaboration. Artists Meeting members participating in Public Exhibiton Space include Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, James Andrews, Noah Apple, Daniel Blochwitz, Eliza Fernbach, G.H. Hovagimyan, Thomas Hutchison, Christina McPhee, Mayuko Nakatsuko, Raphaele Shirley, Maria João Salema, Lara Star Martini,Abigail Weg, Lee Wells and Edita Zulic. For more information and a detailed list and map of Conflux Artists Meeting related interventions, performances and events please goto the AM website at: http://artistsmeeting.org.

Projects

Pillows for (POPS)
Date: Sept. 11th to 14th, Time: continuous
Financial District, various locations

Artist - Artist Meeting & Noah Apple, Mayuko Nakatsuka, Abigail Weg

Public Experiment #2 - sound piece using metal benches
Date: Sept.13, Time: 12 noon (continuous),
Financial District, 200 Water Street

Artists - Leesa & Nicole Abahuni

Not Public!
Date: Sept. 11-14, Time continuous
Financial District, various locations

Artist - Daniel Blochwitz

Pillow Man - Walks around and distributes pillows -
Date: Sept. 11-14
Financial District, various locations

Artist - Artist Meeting

Artists Meeting Website - http://artistsmeeting.org Chris Borkowski & G.H. Hovagimyan
Rushing To Your Death? – Billboard and stickers
Date: Sept. 11th to 14th, Time: continuous, Billboard on NJ Routes 1&9 Eastbound towards Manhattan. Visible on the left hand side of the road before the Pulaski Skyway http://www.rushingtoyourdeath.com

Artist - Eliza Fernbach

Frowners’ Global
Date: Sept.12 & Sept.13, Various times
Financial District, various locations

Artist - Artist Meeting

Barrier Tape Piece - UnknownUnmadeUnseenUndone
Sept. 11th (noon) - Millennium Hotel & WTC site, Sept. 12th, (noon-7pm)

Plazaville - video remake, Sept.13 & 14. (noon-7pm)

Artist - G.H. Hovagimyan

Pleasant Places – free postcards
Date: Sept.11 to Sept.14, Time: noon to 5pm,
Location: 55 Broad St., Financial District

Artist - Maria João Salema

Melted City - Site specific installation
Date Sept.14th, Time:7pm-10pm,
Location: 60 Wall St. Plaza.

artist - Raphaele Shirley

Emoticon Job - happiness warning stickers
Sept. 11th to 14th, Time: continuous.

Artist - Lee Wells