In the spring of 1982, in New York, Sandro Dernini accepted the invitation from two architects, Roberto Brambilla and Gianni Longo, to open a new cultural center in a 7.000 sq.ft. loft, at 516 West 25th. Street, in the Chelsea neighbourhood, which was part of a larger real estate complex under development by them. Then, Richard Flood, an art critic, joined also this invitation and the Plexus project came up: a performance space with maximum flexibility to foster an international network of dreamers and realists, theoreticians and pragmatists.