Founded in 2016 by Stanzi Vaubel, PhD, the festival creates site-specific, large-scale works inspired by unique environments such as grain silos, warehouses, fossil parks, and most recently, the historic porches of Nolan Park on Governors Island. The Indeterminacy Festival is committed to creating exceptional opportunities for lifelong artists, inviting an intergenerational ensemble of over one hundred community and professional artists to collaborate on the development and world premiere of these unique large-scale works.

Anchored by site-specific environments such as abandoned grain silos and the moon-like landscape of a fossil park The Indeterminacy Festival invites collaborators to use the imaginative canvas of a specific location to explore and design newly imagined realities. Grappling with the unpredictability of working in these locations, the aim is to direct this uncertainty towards creative outcomes.

Hosted in a different location each year, collaborators stress-test their creative practice in unfamiliar settings and learn how to adapt their process to conditions that do not remain stable. By responding to the unpredictability of local weather, unusual site constraints, and a roster of new collaborators The Indeterminacy Festival prepares collaborators to transform such moments into inspirational encounters.