GATHER>ASSEMBLE>PERFORM>EXHIBIT

Prepared with intensive training in improvisation and a philosophical standpoint, Reactor headed out to Flux Factory in New York City. An online team of ‘Remote Members’ based in the UK and Norway aided the ‘Physical Members’ installed in the gallery. People from the local community joined Reactor occasionally to share the walks and derives, and to experience new places.

The project was divided into four phases over subsequent weeks enabling the collective to take a reverse approach to traditional production techniques employed by Reactor. Previous completed projects usually leave behind mountains of discarded objects and environments haunted by the departed characters and audience. However, Log!c ?stem was to be temporally pivotal to Reactor’s methods. This work began with Gather, a phase of gathering seemingly meaningless objects and anecdotes before moving into Assemble, a phase of assembling and arranging these things ready to perform them. The experience of gathering and assembling informed the team how to perform this new world of situations and things, culminating in a three-hour live performance in the gallery. At the conclusion of the Perform phase, the gallery at Flux Factory became a space in which to exhibit the work that had gone before. As the Exhibit began Reactor said farewell to New York and almost farewell to Reactor’s old ways.

To find out more details about each phase of the project visit the blog.