Flux Factory, 3838 43rd Street, Long Island City, Queens; (718)707-3362.

The hiding is at Bowery Martial Arts, where the collective Flux Factory has designed "Secret Spaces."

Seventeen of the mostly youthful Fluxers, as they call themselves, live in the Flux Factory, a 7,500-square-foot space, which has the trappings of a college commune.

Its designer, Ian Montgomery, 24, is a carpenter and fine arts graduate of Bard College who has lived at the Flux Factory for eight months.

Flux Factory, 38-38 43rd Street, Long Island City, Queens, 3 p.m., $5.

EFA Studio Artist is Residence in collaboration with Flux Factory.

Mr. Yano lived at the Flux Factory, a 5,000-square-foot brick riverfront warehouse in Williamsburg, where 15 artists pay rent to work - but not to sleep.

They talked about renting a warehouse with friends from the Flux Factory, who suspected their building was going to be sold.

Congress of the Collectives (Month-long conference & projects - Flux Factory)

The writers at the Flux Factory have their own purposes, too, quite apart from the larger purpose of the installation.