This weekend I was invited to document the Flux Factory’s Going Places, Doing Stuff III overnight trip, entitled “Camp!” and led by Jeff Stark and A’yen Tran. An explanation of Going Places, Doing Stuff:

Flux Factory is pleased to announce the third annual Going Places (Doing Stuff) artist-led bus tours! Think of it as “adventure as performance art.” The content of the tours is entirely up to the artist, and destinations are kept secret. Artists have “carte blanche” to lead a bus-full of people on an odyssey around the greater New York/Quad-State area.

Before each tour, we provide only the following information: artists’ name, title of adventure, duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when people sign up for a tour, they know what to bring and how long they’ll be gone, but will have no idea where they’re going or what they’ll experience. Last year’s adventures included ziplining to swimming holes, breaking world records, a trip to an abandoned mental asylum, a demolition derby, and camping in the rain.

Suffice to say, it was an adventure and a half. Jumped off some cliffs, slept in an abandoned campground, rode around in a veggie oil powered schoolbus… I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking!

Here is the list of upcoming Going Places (Doing Stuff) tours. Tickets sell out fast, and are only available a week before each date. Big thanks to A’yen Tran, Jeff Stark, Jean Barberis, Georgia Muenster, and everyone else!