AGS.YYC

Calgary, Canada

Adam Schwartz / AGS.YYC (he/him) is a born and raised Calgarian, and a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on “attaching stuff to city stuff” to make more cities more vibrant, enjoyable, and inclusive. Adam is fixated on the urban realm and the various ways it includes and excludes people from participating in its design and transformation. Adam works with found objects, recycled materials, bright colours, and engaging displays to answer questions about the ways citizens interact with their public surroundings. His work can currently be found hidden throughout downtown Calgary, and North Central neighbourhoods, as he incrementally attempts to turn obscure and meaningless spaces into more mysterious and whimsical places.

Adam is one of three Muster Point 2025 artists who have been selected for BUMP’s spring programmed. For his installation ‘STOP DROP AND KNOLL’, Adam chose to blend the niche internet practice of knolling (the art of arranging objects in precise, symmetrical order) with the nostalgic chaos of I-SPY, this installation transformed the act of systemized collection into an interactive meditation on Muster Point’s central themes. It asks the public:

How do we make sense of disorder?
How do we gather in times of crisis?

STOP, DROP AND KNOLL, the first of three Muster Point installations, invited audiences to pause, observe, and reassemble meaning through a playful yet methodical approach to objects, space, and memory.