FCINY and Flux Factory 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.

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