Conflux Festival

Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets.

Here are some examples of the great works that have been shown at this festival:

Have a Seat by Caroline Woolard



At night, Caroline Woolward fixed a dozen seats on street posts so people could take a rest:

I feel that this architectural intervention allows any pedestrian to experience the monotony of everyday life in a new way. Perhaps this small fissure in reality will open doors for the public to re-evaluate the status quo. [...]
Anyone can rest without removing themselves from the reality of urban bustle and going to a picturesque park.


Picture is from WMMNA where you can find also more info.


Waste Carrier by Gertrude Berg

Gertrude Berg made an outfit where she could store her personal trash sorted in different bags and carry it during the festival:
For the duration of one week I will wear this uniform to all occasions, except for sleeping, and any other circumstances that would make it impossible for me to wear it. My interest lies in the experience of the extra weight on my body accumulated by waste material that normally is put out of ones sight as soon as possible. As bags could easily be subjects for suspicion in public places and on public transportation systems in NYC, I am also challenged by the reaction I will receive from the public and the officials.

Picture is from WMMNA where you can find also more info.

the house of water

A rainwater capturing installation by Christoph Roßner.

Work by Santiago Cirugeda

Strategies for subversive urban occupation
Public Domain Occupation with skips
Sevilla, 1997



House enlarging with scaffolding
Sevilla, 1998



Tree occupation with insect house
Sevilla, 2001


from his website:
Reasons for building one-self an urban reserve can be as many as citizens are, that dare doing it. What man can certainly say, is that this personal and intimate action takes place outside everything politicians and professionals may plan, it follows ways that are labelled by difference, by independence, and it makes obvious that the citizen plays a very important role in the development and construction of the environment he lives in.

Blinkenlights

by Chaos Computer Club



CCC transformed a large building in Berlin into a gigantic display that could be controlled online or via cell phones – for creating animations, messages, playing pong...

Anwohnerpark

by osa - office for subversive architecture

Campinski workshop

Workshop by osa - office for subversive architecture



Students were asked to transform selected locations in a predominantly industrial harbour area via precise interventions in the existing building structure using only simple igloo tents.

Simple City

by Jonas Liverod


The City of Lund's left-overs return. Is that a hut, a nest or a parasite emerging on the roof of the bank 
building?It´s shape is ephemeral, a temporary refuge. To the passers-by who happen to catch a 
glimpse of it, the construction may raise longing and curiosity. - What is it doing there? Who built it? Why? 
How do you get up there? An extension of the city, a manifestation of human longing or a result of housing 
problems? The city giving birth to the city.