Situated within an underground (soon to be demolished) carpark in Peckham, south London, Into the Flux presented a walk through experience of sound, scent, interactive installation, performance, video art, and sculpture. The show featured twenty-five artists - both emerging and well established - throughout various passages and small rooms, working together to navigate the theme of chaosmosis - the fusion of order and disorder.

Installing the show involved emptying the warehouse (which was being used as a storage unit), painting the entire venue black, and wiring multiple very large scale and technologically complex works, whilst managing and directing all installations and performance rehearsals. This was done across two days

Flux – The form that constantly changes; theaction or process of flowing or flowing out.

Into the Flux aimed to honour the potential of chaos in the present moment, and the malleability of an ever-forming future.

Whilst daily life is currently rhythmed with an air of instability – the economic landscape, social health, ecology, world politics, and our very conception of a future – this exhibition looked to harness instability as a potent force. What might emerge on the other side of a tipping point – what can be built in the breakdown of pre-conceived conceptions of order? Disillusionment need not be experienced as a stagnating, psychotherapeutic predicament, but instead as a gut grabbing encounter with the push and pull of flux itself. An encounter with disorder hence becomes a moment of potential othering. Disorder allows change. Revelling in chaos as it ensues means confronting possibility with curious, playful, and non-didactic urgency.

We tend to try to rationalise any encounter with madness in the name of a god, a political faith, in a ritual, or a material goal that might reassure us, fundamentally, that everything is in order. Yet here ritual, world building, martyrisation, and worship hailed the shrine of disorder and confusion. Margot Wilson’s durational performance saw her unwind her subconscious in an seven day performative practice of automatic writing, whilst Zayd Menk’s and Jozef Michalski’s sculptures built monuments from forms of decay, creating new orders from the disordered and discarded.

Into the Flux was about building a world in your own narrative. It was about recognising this massive, overwhelming, chaotic input and expansion that we’re surrounded with and bound by, and not rejecting it but playing in it, satirising it. It’s about finding the scraps to grab hold of, and creating something new.

Featuring: AMIANGELIKA / AM sin / Amir Behbahani / David Lazar / Fangmeng Liu / Flo Yuting Zhu / Jeanyoon Choi / Jiaying Ding / Jozef Michalski / Kai Laboratory / Letao Chen / Margot Wilson/ Matthew Howard / Mirko Febbo & Anne Lee Steele / Misia-o / Ruilin Fu / Sarmad Suhail / Shane Preston / Tj Chen / Will Muir Llia / Yihao Zhang / Zayd Menk / Zhao Jiajing