Flux Night 2015: an outdoor art happening in Old Fourth Ward

Flux Night, the massively popular free art event that was postponed in October, has been rescheduled for Nov. 7, and hosts are hoping for more cooperative weather.

A mix of performance, installation art and musical happenings, the one-night-only event, called “Flux Night 2015: Dream,” will take place outdoors in the Old Fourth Ward, including in the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.

Curated by Nato Thompson, chief curator of Creative Time NYC, the event will, for the first time, be staged outside the Castleberry Hill neighborhood, where it attracted 20,000 people in 2013.

Among the activities scheduled for the evening is a performance titled “Disarm,” created by Pedro Reyes, a Mexico City artist who has constructed musical instruments out of confiscated and destroyed weapons, including revolvers, shotguns and machine guns.

The instruments will be played by Bent Frequency, a performance ensemble in residence at Georgia State University.

To see an interview with Reyes, go here.

Another artist participating in "Flux Night 2015: Dream" is Jennifer Wen Ma, the chief designer for visual and special effects at the Beijing Olympics. She will be using projections, lighting and smoke in an installation called "Bending the Arc." The title refers to the famous quote from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."

Intended to demonstrate the power of the individual to cause social change, the piece will incorporate the voices of those at the event, who will actually affect the shape and appearance of the projection.

Wen Ma's event includes a performance by the Georgia Tech Chorale and Chamber Choir directed by Timothy Hsu, and by the D'Air Aerial Dance Company.