IN_FLUX

Tracing Coastal Connections:
Ecological Grief to Awareness, Renewal and Celebration

April 9-11, 2026

Interactive Gallery: 4 to 7pm
Performance: 7pm

Experimental Media Performance Lab
Contemporary Arts Center
UC Irvine

Free Admission
RSVP Required

Threads

IN_FLUX is a cyclical journey, weaving threads between time frames, allowing crisis and hope, loss and beauty, grief and joy to coexist, just as they do in lived experience and ecological reality.

Web of Life

Web of Life

Tidal Alchemy

Tidal Alchemy

Entwined Paths

Entwined Paths

Sacred Sanctuary

Sacred Sanctuary

Submersion's Edge

Submersion's Edge

Encroaching Shadows

Encroaching Shadows

Whispers of Hope

Whispers of Hope

Timeless Embrace

Timeless Embrace

Eternal Flow

Eternal Flow

Echoes of the Ancestors

Echoes of the Ancestors

Ephemeral Exchange

Ephemeral Exchange

Tidal Memories

Tidal Memories

Spectral Contamination

Spectral Contamination

Vanishing Sanctuaries

Vanishing Sanctuaries

Essence of Belonging

Essence of Belonging

Graceful Confluence

Graceful Confluence

Journey

Journey

From elemental wisdom through embodied encounter, into the heart of ecological grief and finally ascending into renewed belonging and grace, IN_FLUX charts an emotional and ecological journey through the coastal edge.

The Source

Coastline as a sacred text of interconnection and ancestral knowledge

The Encounter

Reveries where human experience becomes inseparable from landscape

The Unraveling

A dark turn into crisis, desecration and environmental collapse

The Return

Hope of restoration, not as simple reversal but as deeper understanding

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