The Fluff Constructivists (also known as the Fluff Construct) collaborative art entity began in 2000 in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Cedar Falls, Iowa

Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States, and it is home to one of Iowa's three public universities, the University of Northern Iowa. The population was 39,260 in the 2010 census, an increase from the 36,145 population in the 2000 census...

. Principal members Ethan Kruszka and Mikel Bisbee-Durlam combine elements of phantasmagoria with post-situationist

Situationist

The Situationist International was an internationalist European revolutionary group founded in 1957, and which reached its peak of influence in the general strike of May 1968 in France....

 interventions in order to create images, scenes and experiences at times reminiscent of regional museum dioramas and B-grade horror films. Fluff Constuctivism draws from modern strains of formalism

Formalism

The term formalism describes an emphasis on form over content or meaning in the arts, literature, or philosophy. A practitioner of formalism is called a formalist. A formalist, with respect to some discipline, holds that there is no transcendent meaning to that discipline other than the literal...

, post-minimalism

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

 and the dangerous realm of county fair

County Fair

"County Fair" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was originally released as the second track on their 1962 album Surfin' Safari. On November 26th of that year, it was released as the B-side to The Beach Boys' third single, "Ten Little...

 aesthetics.

In recent years, a special collaboration has existed between the Fluff Construct and Shawn Cheatham of Q & A Productions.

Major works

• gift by/as/for location. IA, MN, NY, FL, 2001-2
• transatlantic (in orange). NY, FL, IL, Netherlands, 2002-3
• Parumpa and the Uber-Decoration. FL, 2003-4
• Stages in Short Gasps. FL, NY, 2004
• Thornton Biennial (and 2004's Kruszka Pavilion). IA, 2004-ongoing
• Enter Starbreath (with the Meme-Rider Media Team). FL, 2005 http://tampabay-online.org/eventdetail.php?Id=5
• Frontiers At Dawn. FL, 2005-6 http://tampabay-online.org/eventdetail.php?Id=116
• October Funeral. FL, 2006
• The Bats Will Cum: The Drain/ The Bats Will Cum: Antecedents. FL, 2007
• The Black Black. Romania, 2007
• Motion Picture (never to see the light of day). AK, 2008

External links

• www.thefluffconstruct.com Artists' Website
• Lost Camp Records Artists' Record Label
• Artist Profile at Tampa Bay and Beyond
• Frontiers At Dawn from the St. Petersburg Times
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• For All The Wrong Reasons Contemporary Art Museum of the University of South Florida