Instead of having a thesis exhibition of art, we decided that what everyone really needs is an excuse to dress up and dance the night away.

"The isolated Studio Art facility is home to a close-knit community of students, each with diverse abilities and passions. Given the opportunity to collaborate and bring our community together, we set out to create an event the Studio Art program sorely needs - Prom! A space with its own set of rules and hierarchies, Prom offers a significant moment of celebration. The band plays a song, food is ceremoniously revealed, and prom royalty is indiscriminately crowned.

However, at the heart of prom for many of us is how it upholds a heteronormative and traditionalist group of systems and ideas. Systems and ideas that exclude many of the identities in our community. We view this endeavor as a radical reclamation of this format, which we imbued with a collaborative queer non-hierarchical structure. We will transform an event that has been inherently exclusionary in American culture into something both celebratory and transgressive."

Long Island City Artists presents: Shardeology - Making with the future in mind

In the distant future, archeologists will unearth our fragments, and try to decipher our chaotic, transformative era. There will be bits of phones, a lot of plastic. Will the clay shards surprise them?

Shardeology curated by Eric Lawrence will be on view November 6th - December 4th, 2024 at the LIC-A Art Space at The Factory LIC, 30-30 47th Avenue, LIC.

Extended to December 15th