Visualizing Connections and Patterns

Public markets have always been a primary site of complex commodity exchange, and yet, were also once known as vital cultural centers for social and political exchange within an urban setting.

FEED, a migratory exhibition presented by Fragmental Museum, seeks to experimentally explore the public space within the historic Essex Street Market through the installation and performance of visual arts and cultural projects. With the aim and process in dynamic unison, they do not necessarily seek to institute new connections, but to highlight and creatively bring into focus the relationships that are already at play. These interactions--between merchant and shopper, product and consumer, artist and audience--are fluid and ever-changing. Through fostering animated conversations and conscious experiences, FEED seeks to encourage these existing open connections; intending to better understand the patterns and implications of the myriad of ways we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environment as a whole.

Through a synthesis of their related approaches to topology, this collaboration creates a sculptural cartography--a collective mapping--of the Essex Street Market. Inside, there will be a site-specific stadium by Constance Armellino & OFF Architecture, built of recycled materials and engraved with benefactors name to memorialize their (your?) endowment to FEED.

Designer: OFF Architecture, Constance Armellino Artist.
Team: Manal Rachdi, Tanguy Vermet,
Occasion: Commissioned by the FRAGMENTAL MUSEUM
Location: Cuchifritos gallery, Essex market, New York.
Website: www.offarchitecture.com
Date: opening, 09/09/18 end 09/09/26
Photo credit: OFF architecture.