Takako Oishi – THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END

昨日のパーティーは、ものすごかったです。とっても広ーい会場に、何百人かのアーティストとその友人が詰めかけていました。この会場となったFlux Factoryは、パーフォーミングアーティストを支援するNPOらしく、そのせいか、広い倉庫のような場所が、細かくたくさんの部屋に仕切られていて、今回のパーティーでは、それぞれの部屋をそれぞれのアーティストが飾り付けし、それらの小部屋ごとに、パフォーマンスやらライブやらが繰り広げられていました。オルタナティブジャズの部屋、ノイズテクノでダンスする部屋、アコースティックな女の子の歌の部屋、エレクトリック民族音楽系バンドの部屋、ビデオアートの部屋、DJ付きのダンスの部屋3つ、、、などなどなど。屋上+大小20個くらいの部屋で大変なことになっていました。

呼ばれていたミュージシャンがみんなレベルが高く、アーティストも納得のカッティングエッジな ライブパフォーマンスが同時に各部屋で行われていて、長居しても全然飽きないパーティーでした。結局、夜9時くらいから行って、3時くらいまでパーティー にいました。6時間も同じパーティーにいて飽きないなんてなかなかないので、とても良いパーティーだったのだと思います。人生のなかのCrazy parties トップ3にランクインするような楽しいパーティーでした。

また、さらに素晴らしいのが、このパーティー、入場料が一般10ドル、学生5ドル。さらに、ハンターMFAでは生徒会のお金でビールが既に買ってあって飲み放題、たった5ドルで6時間も楽しみました。コストパフォーマンスのことも考慮すると、間違いなく今までに行ったパーティーの中では一番のパーティーだったと言えます。

携帯でとった写真しかありませんが。載せておきます。

バンドの名前がわからないのですが、そのうち調べてまた改めて紹介します。

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NY TIMES – Resquiescat in Flux – October 30, 2008

 

PERFORMANCE, NIGHTLIFE

Resquiescat in Flux
By MELENA RYZIK

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Resquiescat in Flux

Betty Alexandra Bastidas for The New York Times
Artists at work in the Flux Factory.

TheFlux Factory, a long-runningartists’ collective in Queens, has lost its building to the M.T.A. Friday they hand over the keys, but Thursday night they’re planning afinal blow-out, with15 rooms of performance- including a “birthday party room, slam poets on stilts, heavy metal, D.J.’s, a video confessional booth, dance lessons VH1 style, interactive sound art, ballet, campfire stories, costumed buffoonery, oracles,” plus music and dancing culminating in a final tear-down/clean-up of the whole space. Don’t miss it.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/urbaneye/index.html

The New York Times: Urbaneye. The Best of New York Today. Thursday

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THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END*

$10
october 30-31st
potluck 6:00pm
party 8:00pm-4:00am
cleanup 4:00am-6:00am

building demolition


Flux Factory, a long-standing artists collaborative based in Long Island City, is pleased to announce The End of the End of the End of the End (To Be Continued…), a fundraiser and celebration of eminent domain. A giant party with eight hours of art, music, performance, and sheer insanity will take place at our collective work/gallery space on Thursday, October 30th.  It’ll be Halloween at midnight, so wear a costume silly.  There’s going to be a potluck at six, performances at eight (it’s a school night, we’re getting started early…), and we will end the night with a collective final clean of the space, leaving it broom-swept clean with nothing remaining but the fixtures. This is because we are giving the keys to the Metropolitan Transit Authority the next morning, when they will seize our building through eminent domain for the LIRR expansion project.  Over 60 totally awesome performances will be taking place in what used to be our gallery space.  23 dynamic architectures of Pure Fun.  Acts include the following, but come expecting surprise guests:
Abigail Ohlheiser presents “Come Get Washed in the Blood”, A drag king and a puppet show, Andy Gilliss, Bright Mares, Brooke McGowen’s “Action for Iraq”, Campfire Stories, Carlos Rigau, Cathy, Cave Bears, Caylie Staples, Children of Terminator X, D.A. Meeks, David Felix Sutcliffe presents “There’s a Gerbil in my Asshole”, The Danger presents “In the Wake of the Serpent’s Tattoo”, Ducktails, Flux Factory Fashion Show, F/M presents “Drone to Dance”, The Genderless Siblings from Yellow Bizarre, Greg and Ted’s Satisfaction Factory, Golden Times / Giggle Town, The Hemlock Society, The Heuristic MC, Igor and Tony Have a Spat, Jeremy Chance, Jeremy Williss, Kate Ferencz, Kitlace/The Stink, Konnichiwa, Lady Firefly feat Wolfgang von Stuermer, Lily Maase, Manburger Surgical Presents “The Final Incompetancy”, Mary Ivy Martin’s “Communidate”, Miss Scarlett, No Sound, The NYC Minutes Confessional Booth, The Oracle of Random Quotes, Peter Bonos, Poetix on Da Rox, The Play Party, Rosa Rugosa, The Spirit of a Century (Junk or chains pressure neglects Rogers-in-cranks) GET LOST, SURPRISE!!!, Soul 45′s from Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train productions, Taliesin, Tarot, Ted Lee, The Mob, Tiger Mouth, Timothy Hospodar and 0H10M1KE present “Omnium-Gathera”, Unicornholio featuring Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria  + Marie Losier, Bernard Losier (dad), and Coco (his wife), The Venn Diagrams, White Limo, The Wonderland Collective, Zebu, Zenith Foundation, and Zuvuya Collective presents “Twilight” and “Ladies Room”

This is a party you don’t want to miss, it’s your last chance to hang out with Flux Factory.  But just because we’re losing our space doesn’t mean we’re going away!  Keep your ear to the ground about future Flux Factory events, including a benefit art auction on December 5th. We travel light- we may be homeless for the time being, but there’s tons of stuff still in the works.


*HEY Just because we’re losing our space doesn’t mean we’re going away.  Keep your ear to the ground about future Flux Factory events, including a benefit art auction on December 5th.  We travel light- we may be homeless for the time being, but there’s tons of stuff still in the works!
Check out our website or drop us a line: fluxfactory.orginfo@fluxfactory.org
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING
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