- three cities
- two hemispheres
- one comic book…
… and many authors!
A workshop joining both coasts of the US plus the south of Brazil.
All working on a single story at the same time.
When: June 30th 2004 7 PM - 10 PM
Where: Flux Factory - New York, NY
The Know - Portland, OR
Unisinos - Porto Alegre, Brazil
How: using the Shuffleupagus collaboration method!
MORE INFO HERE
This is a walk thru of the Cartunnel show.
a comix fluxture
The artists: established and emerging cartoonists, illustrators, and graphic novelists. The project: create a maze of intersecting paths in the Flux Factory gallery space over which comic book characters will interact and develop. Visitors are invited to walk through the maze and experience a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story, with side-plots, dead-ends, and parallel narrative universes, created in a collaborative atmosphere. Depending on which directions visitors choose at various junctures along the way, the course of the story will be altered accordingly. A visitor would be able to walk through the maze several times and see different versions and permutations of the narrative each time they do. The Comix Fluxture takes comic art and illustration seriously as a vibrant contemporary art form, but not by refusing to have fun
Participating Artists: Woojung Ahn, Vanessa Davis, Andrea Dezso, Daupo, Alex Holden, Aya Kakeda, Joy Kolitsky, Wendi Koontz, Yunmee Kyong, Jason Little
click here to view online documentation
SECRET PLACES
July 10th to August 15th, 2004 at The New Museum (details here)
click here to view secret mission video
read a sample mission 
click here to listen to the self-guided walking tour created by artist Raul Vincent Enriquez
THE CLIENT: NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Profile: Founded in 1977. Erecting new headquarters in the Bowery district, Manhattan, New York. Has hired Flux Factory to infiltrate and profile immediate environs for future “operations”.
THE AGENCY: FLUX FACTORY, INC.
Profile: Information architects and idle masterminds. Artist-types. Have developed missions to be carried out by people, people not themselves. Compile and assess data from completed missions, then return to New Museum. Instrument of choice: Faux-tech.
THE INFILTRATORS: JOHN Q. PUBLIC
Profile: Contracted out by Flux Factory to complete important missions. Scouts, Moles, Patsies. Individuals will receive mission dossiers at Bowery Martial Arts and proceed incognito from there.
THE MISSIONS
The Flux Factory command center is located in an undisclosed recess of the Bowery Martial Arts store. Agents pick a difficulty level, easy, intermediate, difficult, or impossible. Instructions are relayed by telescreen, and any equipment needed to complete the mission is provided in a mission pack. Agents are advised to choose wisely and carry out their mission— whatever the cost.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
For the spy on the go.
Pedestrian infiltrators are tasked to perform simple acts of derring-do such as: make a confidential delivery in the neighborhood, deposit an object in a vital location, initiate a sequence, or post a secret message to a contact . Even small or seemingly inconsequential acts provide key links in the command network.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
Mid-range espionage.
Agents will gather information by means of an elaborate audio sequence retrieved from public payphones, or orchestrate a photographic composition replete with hidden meaning. Forethought and follow-through required from can-do specialists.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: DIFFICULT
Elite intrigues.
Caution: For dedicated individuals only. Agents will be asked to delve deeper, uncovering, for example, a riddle wrapped inside an enigma behind a veil of secrets sitting in a pool of inky shadows. Once the process starts there can be no turning back.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: IMPOSSIBLE
Missions impossible.
Secret missions which cannot be publicly revealed.
, Williamsburg - $10.00 or 2 for $17.00
Jabz Joint,
318 Grand Street
(corner of Havemeyer)
L Train to Lorimer/Bedford
1-718-599-6624
All Fluxers are more or less blankety blank, honkey kike frenchies, lazy asses, poorly dressed, weird freaky alien beings.
These are stereotypes.
Join Anheiser Busch and Jabz Joint, a new Cajun restaurant, in the old Flux Hood at Jabz Joint,
as they help to break stereotypes and support the Flux Factory, and a new documentary film which focuses on Stereotypes. The film (not yet titled), produced and directed by Sally W. Herships will look at stereotypes - what they are, where they came from, and how to break them
You get: Food, Beer, Live Music and “Stereotype Trivia”, Corn on the Cob Eating Contest, Fortune telling, Face Painting, Caricatures
JabzJoint will be providing lip smacking snacks suchas hot wings, Cajun fried potatos, etc..
Anheiser Busch will be bringingthe kegs and one free Budweiser to each guest! Eat,
drink and be merry - half the bar goes to the Flux Factory and Sally’s
movie so we encourage heavy drinking!
While you indulge catch the entertainment below.
7:00 - 8:00pm Jake Leg, Jake Leg is dedicated to preserving and re-interpreting the songs of America’s great musicaltraditions. Focusing on Country, Bluegrass, and Blues, they sing of the finer things in life: love, liquor, freight trains and Jesus.
9:00 - 9:30pm Stereotype Triva, Every wondered where the term “Honky” came from? Do you already know? Now’s your chance to find out! Show up and join a team. **WINNING TEAM gets a set of Mugpies from designer Daniel Harper!!
(These mugs sold at the Whitney Museum design store for $50 so now’s your chance to nab a set for free!)
9:30 Corn on the Cob Eating Contest,Flux’s own Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria will face off contestants in a timed display of gluttony. Who ever thought Corn on the Cob could be so suspenseful?
10:00 - 10:25pm Another Band (Clifford Lane - guitar/vocal, Megan Pearl - bass, Spencer Cohen - drums)
flows from quiet lyric passages to fuzzy epic rock. Each song feels like a journey,but is crafted like a pop song. They have been playing the New York City area for four years.
11:00 - 11:25 Another Band
AND Fortune Telling by Madam Irina. Sit down with the lovely gypsy, Madam Irina,
and listen as she reads your fortune in her cards.
ALSO If you’re not music or kern-ally inclined get your face made fun of in
permanent ink by Fred Harper (www.fredharper.com).
Fred has done illustrations for The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, D.C. Comics and countless other impressive
publications - now it’s your turn - let Fred draw your caricature.
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Questions about the project please contact: sally@sohosally.com
ABOUT THE FILM
About a week and half after September 11, in 2001, I began working on an
oral history project, “Tell Us Your Story”, collecting people’s thoughts and
reactions to the events of that day. One evening, while interviewing in
Union Square Park, in New York City, I met a group of Sikhs. The men wore
turbans and many of them told similar stories of being mistaken by ignorant
people, unfamiliar with the traditional Sikh headdress, for Muslims or
residents of the Middle East. Men were forced to hide out in their
apartments, to remove their turbans, unthinkable in the Sikh religion, all
for fear of being attacked. Some even told of being chased down the street.
So many battles that are fought, both abroad and at home, are born out of
fear and ignorance. Fear of what we think we know about each race, age group
and cultural enclave, and fear of what we don’t. What will happen if one
group is allowed to marry? Or if another moves into a neighborhood?
Stereotypes stunt our education about each other and propagate fear of one
another. Therefore while our country is engaged in a physical war, we need
to be at war with stereotypes and learn to embrace our common humanity.
Across cultures, religions, ages and races, New Yorkers from the youngest to
the oldest are celebrating life not necessarily in ways you would imagine.
Through interviews and footage, this film seeks to embrace the joy of New
York City while waging war on stereotypes by exploring and archiving the
amazing array of New Yorker’s experiences during their days and nights out.
“A Night Out” will ultimately break down the preconceived notions that are
often assigned not only to race, but also to age, occupation and
socio-economic level.
Chamber Exhibition, by Bulgarian artist, Nikolay Petkov
Every day the contemporary man encounters tens, even hundreds of designed images produced by the advertising, entertainment, politics, sports, and media industries. To accomplish their task of selling specific products or behavior these images must have an intensity that produces a fast, almost immediate impact on the not-so-innocent gaze of the spectator. As an artist concerned with the creation of stable and lasting image-objects, I decided to survey the reverse relation between an image’s intensity and its possible exposure time. The works in this exhibition are based on the assumption that reducing an image’s intensity increases its resistance. Thus pictures as reduced intensity images are more able to bear and attract a viewer’s multifaceted approach and recurring interest, allowing them to function as works of art today.
Includes Series “Strokes A/G” – 7 sheets, 50×65cm each, 2003
Series “Observations A/F” – 6 sheets, 50×65cm each, 2003
“Generic/Genetic”– 50×65cm
Series “Squares A/D” – 4 sheets, 50×60cm each, 2004
For more information: http://gallery.passion4art.com/members/kolio/index.html
