FLUX: Ponce City Market

Ponce City Market, Atlanta - September 26–29, 2019. Ben Coleman, Curator.

FLUX: Ponce City Market presents a series of projects that investigate the location as an energetic center, and the building as a vessel through which visitors can commune with its rich and complex past as well as its immediate present. The work approaches Ponce City Market as a playground of acoustic space, a series of passages and chambers with unique sonic properties and opportunities. FLUX ‘turns up the volume’ of the building: manifesting the sonic qualities of Ponce City Marketing in engaging, unexpected ways, and bringing awareness to how the building exists around us and reacts to our presence.

Flux Projects’ mission is to produce temporary art projects that connect and grow artists and audiences in Atlanta through the creative power of place.

Photography: David W. Batterman

Medium: Paranormal Field Recordings and Compositions, 1901-2017

Curated by artist Ben Coleman, ‘Medium: Paranormal Field Recordings and Compositions, 1901-2017’ brings together original works from musicians, composers, and other sonic artists who operate within the liminal spaces between art and the paranormal; from clairaudient musical psychics to researchers of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). Also featured are compelling and previously unreleased field recordings from parapsychology archives in the US and Europe, including the infamous Enfield Poltergeist (1977-1979), and audio from a wax cylinder recording made in Siberia in 1901 that is considered by experts to be the very first EVP recording.

A comprehensive overview of the complex and shifting terrain covered by EVP ... will surely haunt the dreams of anyone who listens too closely -Ken Hollings, The Wire

Header image: 'Turbulence' installation, FLUX: Ponce City Market. Photography: David W. Batterman