SOMETHING FIERCE
November 22-23, 2025
Flux IV, 56-21 2nd Street, Long Island City, NY
How can nature inspire new modes of resistance through rising tides of hypercapitalism?
Something Fierce is an art festival on queer ecology at Flux IV in Hunter’s Point, Queens, opening Saturday November 22, from 5-9pm. The festival presents interdisciplinary works by leading contemporary artists encompassing new media, video, sculpture, installation, and performance.
The works engage with biodiversity, speculative ecology, psychogeography, and climate change, through the lens of queer desire, community, and persistence. The location is at the mouth of Newtown Creek- one of the most polluted waterways in the United States.
Works include a sound installation reconstructing the song of extinct Hawaiian birds, a database of multi-sex species, performance using live microscope videos of biological material, a video tour of cruising areas in neglected landscapes, disappearing writings using water from the Newtown Creek, and many other projects searching for queer futures in the anthropocene.
There will be performance programs and an exhibition on both days, which will also include a series of films.
Artists include: andrea haenggi with Muyassar Kurdi, Andrés Senra, Caroline McManus, Cherry Nin, Earthworks, Eli Brown, Elsa Brès, Esther The Bipedal Entity, Eva Tellier, Hannes Egger, Hey There Kapplow, Kris Grey in collaboration with Maya Ciarrocchi, Lea Fulton, Martha Steele, Mason Youngblood, Michael Abrams, Midheaven Or Nah, Noah Ortega, Ria Rajan, Sally Beauti Twin, Sandrine Deumier, Trasonia Abbott, Walker Tufts, Zack Handler, Zavé Martohardjono, and more!
The exhibition is curated by artist Amelia Marzec. It is presented by Flux Factory, in partnership with Fall of Freedom.
Festival Hours: Saturday and Sunday, noon-9pm
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, November 22, 5-9pm
Performances: November 22 and 23
For more information: www.fluxfactory.org/something-fierce
Accessibility: Flux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.
