May Flux Thursday

Posted on April 30, 2015 by admin

Thursday May 14th
Dinner at 7 pm. Presentations begin at 8 pm.
The event is free, but please do bring something to share!

Jemila MacEwan Maiden (Grass) Voyage, 2013

Spring is here and Flux is in motion. This month, in conjunction with LIC Arts Open we’ll host a sidewalk BBQ, exhibition preview and artist talks.

The artists invited to speak this month are interdisciplinary, working in a multitude of approaches and media, ranging through performance, sculpture, video, projection mapping sound-based media and creative coding. Roopa Vasudevan will speak about her technology-based, socially conscious artwork and give a preview of her exhibition “Hands Up”, a collaboration with Atif Ateeq, opening the following day at Flux Factory. Freya Powell is a Brooklyn-based artist, working in photography, text and time-based media; she will talk on the process of finding a medium for memory. David Kagan will talk about his work as a myth-maker, performance artist and musician. Jemila MacEwan current resident of flux will talk on the unpredictable transformations that occur when performance becomes documentation. Kathryn Sclavi, current Flux resident, will present a streetside interactive installation. In addition to our talks, Ben Seretan will lead an opening meditation. And Flux’s own Carina Kaufman will be lighting up the grill for the evening. The event is free, but please do bring something to share!

RSVP on Facebook here.

The Menu for Mars Kitchen

Posted on April 30, 2015 by admin

Flux Factory Presents The Menu for Mars Kitchen at Pierogi’s The Boiler
Opening Reception May 29th
On view May 29th- June 20th
Open hours Thursday-Sunday, 12-6 pm or by appointment.
Organized by Heidi Neilson & Douglas Paulson

Join the Menu for Mars Supper Club as we pioneer a menu for the Red Planet, and construct an analog Mars kitchen.

From May 29 to June 20, the Menu for Mars Kitchen will be open to the public. Visitors are invited, alongside special guests, to prototype a dish using Marsfeasible ingredients. Dishes will be documented, sampled, evaluated, and vacuumpacked. At the exhibition’s end, the prototype dishes and a summary of findings will be sent to NASA to augment their preparations for colonizing Mars. The Kitchen will also test off-Earth cultivation of edible plants and mushrooms, food preservation, and related topics through a series of workshop and events. See events here. Over the last year, Menu for Mars Supper Club met monthly with guest experts over dinner to consider how the circumstances on Mars would affect colonists’ food—and their physical, cultural, and psychological needs. The Menu for Mars Kitchen culminates these discussions and related research.

The Menu for Mars Kitchen will be open in The Boiler May 29 June 20. Gallery hours are 12 6pm Thursdays through Sundays, and by appointment. Come and taste-test the future!

Participating artists, gardeners, musicians, and cooks are: Albert Park, Alex Tsocanos, Alice Gorman, Anna Dabney Smith & David Grainger, Gil Lopez, Heather Kapplow & Thalia Zedek, Hoi Cheng, John Roach, Joshua Liebowitz, Justin Amrhein, Kerim Zapsu, Lindsay Iserman, Marco Castro, The Planetary Society New York City, Sian Proctor, Tattfoo Tan, Ward Shelley, Will Owen with Matthias Borello.

Contact:

The Boiler

718.599.2144

info@pierogi2000.com

and

Menu for Mars Supper Club HQ

menu4marsHQ@gmail.com

www.menu4mars.net

More info on the Menu For Mars Supper Club here.

Holonomic: New Holograms by Eric Leiser

Posted on April 27, 2015 by admin

Holonomic: New Holograms by Eric Leiser
Opening Reception Friday May 1st, 6 – 9 pm
On view through May 11th
Open weekends 2-6 pm and by appointment (email info@holocenter.org)

The holographic image evokes with its multidimensional existence, eludes with its transparent volume and draws with perceptual phenomena the viewer into a philosophical paradox. The dynamic flux of perception understood through intuition is the idea of the intertwining of perceiver and perceived linked by light. The holographic image not only is spatial and color perception, the pure product of light, but this light coded information is always in the process of self-construction with our eyes, according to our movements and the point of view adopted. In Holonomic, Eric Leiser presents a series of luminous holographic images on Agfa Film of sculptures involving falling snow and light on splashing water made with a Ruby Pulse Laser in conversation with holonomic brain theory, developed by Neuroscientist Dr. Karl Pribram (1919-2015), a model of human cognition that describes the brain as a holographic storage network. Neuropsychology describes engrams as a means by which memory traces are stored as biophysical changes in neural tissue in response to external stimuli. This investigation of perception as the medium which can be applied to understanding all reality, Leiser points out how human cognition is intrinsically involved with co creating our perceived world.

Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer, holographer working in the New York and California. A graduate from CalArts Experimental Animation program, he creates animated and live action feature films and shorts as well as works integrating animation, holography, puppetry, painting, live performance and installation. His most recent solo exhibitions include Gallerie Du Haut Pave, Paris, France, All Things Project Gallery in New York, Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Goldsmiths College of Art London, the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum in San Diego. Group exhibitions include Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Holocenter, Cabinet Magazine, Mass MOCA among others. His stop motion animated/live action films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Istanbul Modern Museum of Art, MoMA, New Museum, The MIT Museum, The Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum, Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Museum, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas Museum de Buenos Aires, MASS MoCA,(BFI) British Film Institute, Four-Dimensions Space Art Museum, Beijing, CAFA Beijing, Aster Arts Plaza Hiroshima, Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Filmforum, San Francisco Film Society, Goldsmiths College London, California Institute of the Arts and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago among others. Eric is an alumni of CalArt’s Experimental Animation program.

This exhibition was funded by the Queens Art Fund Grant.

Join Leiser and guests for a discussion about the holonomic brain theory, May 3 @ 3 pm

RSVP for HOLONOMIC on Facebook here.

Inside the Stairs, at the Edges of My Body #1

Posted on April 7, 2015 by admin

Inside the Stairs, at the Edges of My Body #1

Opening & Performance
Friday April 17th 7 pm
Final installation on view through Saturday 18th

…If we embrace these differences open-minded, nothing bad can happen. It’s when we point them out, and start calling them you and me, or mine and yours, that we lose our freedom and we start a war

Inside the Stairs, at the Edges of My Body #1 is a first study on borders- borders between self and other, inside and outside, past and present, intimate space and shared environment.

Marginalia: On the Edges of Art, Money & Access

Saturday April 18th, 12 pm

A brunch salon discussion led by Gabrielle Mertz on actions in the underground and overground of the art world, direct and applied interventions at the intersection of art, money, and access and reading from “How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood” with editors Michi Jigarjian and Qiana Mestrich about the balance and unbalance within the intersection of life and art.

At the end of the brunch, the installation will be taken down through another intervention.

Please RSVP for brunch to vmedda@yahoo.it.

Valentina Medda is an Italian artist from Sardinia based in NY. She holds an MA in Philosophy and a certificate program from ICP –International Center of Photography.

Her work has been shown internationally in different venues: Copenhagen Photo Festival; Triennale BOVISA -Milano; MANIFESTA07 –Bolzano; movie kill –Berlin; TinaB_Prague’s Antibiennal; PERFORMA09 –NY; DUMBO Art Festival –NY; Palazzo della Gran Guardia –Verona; Couvent de Récollets –Paris; NoGallery NY 2011; Gallery ps 122, NY 2010.

She has been artist in residence in Les Bain:Connective-Brussel, 2006; in Rencontres internationals aux Recollets –Paris, 2011; Cité des Arts –Paris, 2012, OPEN CARE/FARE, Milan, 2014. She received the kodak Award, the MOVIN-UP Award, the Master&Back Fellowship, and the NYFA Mentorship for Immigrant artists. Among her recent publications, an article in the international review of Art and Psychology ; an interview on her work in the Art&Culture magazine EXCLAMA (Colombia); an article in the monthly art magazine Arte Mondadori (IT); an interview on her recent project “My Blood runs” in the webplatform Copypaste cultur;, and a photogallery on her interventional project “How to be beautiful” in La Repubblica. She has been recommended for the 54^th Venice Biennale. Her article “Arte e forma” will be published in Novembre in the “Quaderni di Piscoarte” for the international Psycological review. She’s currently an artist in residence in Flux Factory –NY.

Gabrielle Mertz is a visual artist and choreographer and serves as the Director of Collaboration House. As the Founder/Artistic Director of Ondine and Company, she created multimedia dance performances and site-specific installations for ten seasons. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe at the Cultural Center of Krakow, High Museum, International Dance Festival, Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, American Dance Festival, 7Stages, King Plow Arts Center, and the Performance Space, among others. She is the recipient of commissions/awards from the Cultural Olympiad, City of Atlanta, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Georgia Council for the Arts, and Center for Puppetry Arts, among others. Her work with nonprofit/international institutions includes The Carter Presidential Center, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Global Philanthropy, Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and Foundation for Arts & Humanities. She has taught/lectured at New York University, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Emory University, and Image Film & Video Center.

Michi Jigarjian is a visual artist and the Co-President of Baxter Street Camera Club NY. She is a co-founder of Secretary Press and New Draft Collective and received her M.F.A from ICP Bard. Recently her work was a commission by the Maritime Foundation to install a site specific exhibition on the historic sailboat Sherman Zwicker. Her books include Writing as Practice, How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood and the three volume series Mold. Jigarjian’s work has been exhibited internationally and she is a 2013 recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Residency.

Special thanks to Adrian Owen!

RSVP on Facebook here

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More Art: Art Walks

Posted on March 31, 2015 by admin

April 18, 2015
3:00 – 5:30 PM

More Art‘s Art Walk is coming to Flux Factory! Art Walks focuses on specific NYC neighborhoods that have a vibrant arts scene and a strong history of community.

On each walk we will visit the studio of a More Art artist and discover what they have been up to since collaborating with us. Honoring our commitment to local communities, we will also explore the neighborhood’s roots and recent developments, as well as its current art resources and art institutions. A historian, whose expertise lies in the neighborhood’s rich cultural history, will always accompany us on our walks.

Reservation is required and space is limited. Please contact Audra@moreart.orgto reserve your spot!

April Flux Thursday

Posted on March 30, 2015 by admin

Thursday April 9th
Dinner at 7 pm. Presentations begin at 8 pm.
The event is free, but please do bring something to share!

“The quest for food security can be the common thread that links the different challenges we face and helps build a sustainable future.”– José Graziano da Silva

Spring has sprung! Come share stories and recipes, and learn about what other community members, growers, and organizations are doing to create just and sustainable food systems right here in Western Queens.

This April, Flux Thursday is co-hosted by the Queens Action Council (QuAC), The New York City Coalition Against Hunger, City Harvest, Hour Children Community Food Pantry and Flux Factory’s community organizer in residence Gil Lopez. Come hear about the decentralized, collective farming model Hellgate Farm is deploying in Astoria. QuAc members will summarize the recently released NW Queens Community Food Assessment, and we’ll learn about upcoming living foods workshops at the Flux Factory and more!

Potluck starts at 7 pm, mini workshops at 8 pm.

We expect a spectacular showing of food and beverage just like our last food justice roundup, so bring your A-game to the potluck folks!

RSVP on Facebook here.

Counterfeiting for Cash Closing Reception

Posted on March 12, 2015 by admin

Counterfeiting for Cash

March 21 – An Evening of Fakes, and a Real Closing Reception 7 – 9 pm.

Join us on March 21st for a special look in to the world of some very unexpected counterfeits. Broc Blegen will discuss curating his collection of counterfeit masterpieces, and Joshua Liebowitz will take us on a tour of the counterfeit egg industry, show you where to find it on the dark web, and with a little luck, let you have a bite.

Participating artists: Broc Blegen, Cassidy Toner, Eric Doeringer, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Joshua Liebowitz, Kathryn Sclavi and Christine Zapata, Robert Levy, Sean Benjamin, Tega Brain, Tessa Rex, and Valentina Medda. Curated by Douglas Paulson.

More info on Counterfeiting for Cash and Facebook RSVP here.

Creating Your Unique Workshop for Teaching Artists (3 Part Series)

Posted on March 12, 2015 by admin

April 1st, 8th and 15th
6-8 pm

This workshop is designed for individuals who work as teaching artists, workshop instructors, or other types of educators who are not full time classroom teachers. These individuals often find themselves working within a larger system, working with new populations and age ranges frequently, and often need to be adaptable and flexible to the environments they work in. This workshop series will teach you how to create a lesson plan for the creative practice you want to teach, and how to problem solve even the most challenging teaching situation, and how to effectively engage with your students. Come gain valuable, practical skills in how to teach a class, and walk away with a new network of fellow teaching artists, a complete lesson plan, and a practical plan on how to organize your class!

-Learn how to structure a class for the time you are given
-How to break down your creative skill into easily digestible pieces for your students
-How to engage all of your students, even the noisy or quiet ones
-How to create a class for different age levels, and different skill levels depending on who you are teaching.
-Use the workshop to problem solve your own unique teaching situations
-How to work within your budget
-How to work in unique situations and as a “new” person, be it a school, community center, or other setting

RSVP on Facebook here.

Instructor Bio:

Kathryn Sclavi is an artist, educator, and art education consultant originally from based in Philadelphia and New York. She received her B.A. in Art Education and B.F.A. in Fine Arts from The College of New Jersey, and her M.eD. in Art Education with a focus on Community Arts Practices from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.

Sclavi’s work focuses on creating imaginative installations, events, and participatory experiences through collaboration with diverse communities. She creates socially-engaged projects such as colorful forts, art parades, social gatherings, and workshops designed to encourage communication, celebrate spaces, and create new dimensions of shared experiences. In addition, Sclavi makes drawings, photographs, fiber, and costume pieces that draw on her love of the vibrant and fantastical.

With over a decade of experience in art education, Kathryn works as an artist-in-residence and creative consultant in a diverse range of settings including schools, non-profits, museums, prisons, and many public spaces, creating collaborative, community art projects. Some of her clients include the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Fleisher Art Memorial, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Young Audiences of both NJ/PA and Louisiana and many more. Her focus is on creating community partnerships, collaborative art making experiences, and approaching curriculum with an arts integration approach.

She was a recipient of a 2013 grant from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to create socially-engaged art in vacant lots in Philly, awarded an Innovative Curriculum award from Fleisher Art Memorial, and is a featured Graduate Alumni from the Tyler School of Art. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Flux Factory, in Queens.

Shibori Surface Design Workshop

Posted on March 12, 2015 by admin

Tuesday March 24th
6-8 pm
Free!

Shibori is the Japanese art of resist-dyeing using traditional methods used for centuries. In this class, students will receive an introduction to three techniques using indigo dye.

Objective: For students to learn three different Shibori techniques used in Japanese textiles, and using a (version of a) traditional Indigo dye, dye material with three different patterns.

All materials are included, however, if you would like to Shibori dye one of your own garments (each student will dye 3 12″x12″ squares of cotton) please bring a 100% natural fabric, and so we have enough dye for everyone, please only one garment per person.

RSVP on Facebook here.

HANDS UP

Posted on March 4, 2015 by admin

HANDS UP

a project by Atif Ateeq and Roopa Vasudevan

Opening Reception Friday May 15th, 7 – 10pm

On view May 15th-19th

Open hours Saturday and Sunday 1-8pm and Monday and Tuesday by appointment only (email roopa.vasudevan@gmail.com).

HANDS UP is an interactive installation that explores law enforcement’s relationship with people of color. The installation will simulate the experience of being confronted by the police in the manner that resulted in the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, MO. The piece directly places visitors in the chaotic and overwhelming moments that have since led to an ongoing debate about the state of race relations in America.

Roopa Vasudevan is an artist, creative coder, and researcher currently based in New York. She is interested in utilizing technology in order to explore and expose subconscious patterns in our culture and behavior. Her work has been exhibited at venues around the United States, and has been featured in Slate, the Huffington Post, the New Yorker blog, Jezebel, GOOD Lifestyle, Complex, and on French and German television. Roopa holds a BA in film studies from Columbia University, and an MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she also served as a post-graduate research fellow during 2013-2014. She is a past (and upcoming) Flux resident, and adjunct faculty at ITP and at Fordham University.

Atif Ateeq is a visual artist and interactive designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Atif’s work has been exploring ideas of race and cultural identity for over a decade and hopes that his contribution will impact the conversation in a positive and insightful way. Armed with a background in Photography/ Film and an MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program Atif continues to meld mediums and create experiences that unfold in a simple yet unique manner.

RSVP on Facebook here.

Press:

Animal New York: “‘HANDS UP’: NEW INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION AIMS TO FOSTER CONVERSATION ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY”

Art New News: “Hands Up: Flux Factory Installation Simulates Police Shooting”

Daily News and Pix11.com: “NYPD Union Slams ‘Hands Up’ Art Installation in Queens”

Hyperallergic: “Crimes of the Art”

Reuters, Channel News Asia and AOL.com: “New York Exhibit Taps Into Dialogue on Race and Policing”

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Hogshead Hoedown

Posted on March 2, 2015 by admin

March 26-28, 2015

Smiling Hogshead Ranch is producing a three day event including performances, workshops and dance parties. This Hogshead Hoedown is a benefit for the Ranch and will provide learning opportunities, spotlight local talent, serve as outreach to potential members, and raise funds to promote urban agriculture in Western Queens and beyond.

Smiling Hogshead Ranch is collaborating with the Flux Factory to host three days of events, including a variety show (6:30pm, Thursday, 3/26), a comedy night (7:30pm, Friday, 3/27) and a full day of skillshares, films, a community potluck dinner and late night dance party (1pm till late, Saturday, 3/28).

The Hoedown kicks off on Thursday with a variety show curated by Hogshead co-founder and community organizing resident at Flux Factory, Gil Lopez, with emcee Roberto Buscarsi. Tickets are $8-$18 online, $20 at the door.

Friday‘s comedy show is produced by Hogshead board member Colin Anton Samuel with Lindsay Goldwert of SunnysideComedy.NYC The evening will feature a lineup of talented NYC based comedians. Both events will include a raffle items. Entry and raffle ticket proceeds will support infrastructure improvements, insurance and free programming at The Ranch in 2015. Tickets are $20 online, $25 at the door

Events on Saturday are free and open to the public. The day will feature films and skillshares punctuated with interludes of music and movement. The day will be capped off with conversation over a community potluck dinner (starts at 7:30, space is limited, please RSVP to SmilingHogsheadRanch@gmail.com) followed by a toast to four years of cultivating community. The day will end with late night DJ sets.

Artwork from Hogshead members will be on display during all events. These include the Ranch’s recently published zine “The Feed” and features artists including Caetlynn Booth, Smiling Hogshead Ranch’s artist-in-residence; Dee Dee Maucher of MoS Collective, prints from the Beehive Design Collective, and installations by Jennie Pea and Gil Lopez.

Come to one event or all three, but do not miss the opportunity to support this lively grassroots organization, and to meet Smiling Hogshead Ranch members to learn about opportunities for participation and collaboration! Some participants can volunteer during events to have entry fees waived. Email event organizers at SmilingHogsheadRanch[at]gmail[dot]com if you are interested in volunteering.

RSVP on Facebook here.

March Flux Thursday

Posted on February 11, 2015 by admin

Thursday March 12th
Dinner at 8 pm. Presentations begin at 9:30 pm.
The event is free, but please do bring something to share!

Join us on March 12th for our famous Flux Thursday potluck dinner and salon! Paul Kuniholm Pauper will simultaneously archive and create mediated images of recent Sculpture Pop-Ups in Central Park and Socrates Sculpture Park. Gil Lopez will plant the seeds for some upcoming doings at the Smiling Hogshead Ranch community garden. Lee Tusman will speak about his recent generative art and art by bots, including auto-generated Twitter storytelling bots, a camera that prints photos made out of text from google searches, and his upcoming plans to build a robotic replacement for himself. Dinner designed by Kathryn Sclavi.

We’ll cook some good food, and you should bring some too! Dinner starts at 8 pm, and the presentations begin at 9:30 pm.

RSVP on Facebook here.

Open Call: 2015 Exhibition Season

Posted on February 6, 2015 by admin

Flux Factory announces an open call for our 2015 exhibition season!

Flux expands the creative experience beyond the typical gallery setting, using our exhibition space and the public realm as sites for critical intervention. This approach has helped Flux build a reputation for being inventive, risk-taking, and playful, while supporting the creation of new collaborative work and serving as an access point for audiences to experience the multidisciplinary creative process.

Please visit our 2014 group exhibitions for reference: Exquisite Contraption, Nightlight, Homecoming, and Utopia School.

To apply for any of the exhibitions listed below, email the appropriate address with the exhibition title in the subject line. See individual exhibition descriptions for deadlines, notifications, and additional requests for relevant info. If you wish to apply for more than one exhibition, please send a separate email for each and make your application specific to the exhibition.

Hotel Wars (October 2015) ** OPEN CALL STILL RUNNING!
Hotels are popping up left and right in LIC. What makes each hotel unique? Who are the people inside of them? Flux Factory is organizing the first LIC Olympics to answer these questions. We’re calling upon hotel guests, neighbors, and tourists to fight for glory. Flux is seeking game designers, artists, musicians, and performers to collaboratively invent games and challenges, create anthems and ceremonies, and design team crests and costumes. We’ll stage actions both inside participating hotels and outside during a block party. Together we’ll engage a wide range of participants and encourage everyone to think critically about the expansion of tourism and hotels in LIC.

It’s not about ratings, it’s not about pools, it’s about who can win in a battle of wits, strength, and agility.

Please send your proposal to exhibitions@fluxfactory.org. In your project proposal, please also tell us about one experience you’ve had in a hotel. Applications are due June 15st, and applicants will be notified mid-June.

Counterfeiting For Cash (February 2015)
In early 2015, we’ll be hosting a show about counterfeits and counterfeiting. We are looking for artworks (real, fake, or really fake) and interventions that might:

– confound notions of authorship & authenticity
– engage the public
– engage social media
– intervene in hubs of culture and commerce (such as museums’ collections and galleries)
– can be sold on the black market

Please send proposals to p.picasso@fluxfactory.org by January 1st and include a link to your work.

STROBE Network (June 2015)

STROBE Network is a temporary channel set to broadcast in June 2015 via live internet stream as part of Flux Factory’s 2015 programming. STROBE Network is a platform for artists to envision what they want out of mass communication that conventional programming denies. In addition to internet streaming STROBE Network will welcome a studio audience for live tapings at the sound stage in the Flux Factory gallery in Queens, NY and offer kiosks and viewing parties at a variety of off-site host spaces.

We welcome submissions for live and pre-recorded works that make use of broadcasting as a means of presenting artworks. We are interested in performance, sound, new media, objects, and video art. All media and concepts are encouraged to apply. There are three ways to get involved with STROBE Network:

Submitting works for broadcasting
1. Suggestions: Episodic works, fine art, entertainment, pirated materials, humor, mind expansion, electric boogaloo, art objects, movement, and noise
Proposing a position at the network
1. Suggestions: Abstract interpretations of major network roles, executive, weatherman, vj, daytime host, late night band, food stylists, experimental marketers, coders, animators, gif artists, sound designers, web technicians
Joining the project as a host space
1. Suggestions: Art Spaces, web publications, and venues that want to host viewing events or programming, spaces in the NYC area interested in hosting a kiosk.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

You may apply as an individual or a group
No length requirements—your proposed project can be anywhere from a few seconds to several hours
Please email your submissions in .pdf format to strobe@fluxfactory.org and include:
- A description of your proposed project or position for STROBE Network, no more than 500 words
- CV
- Optional artist statement or bio (no more than 200 words)
- What reality show, existing or fabricated are you most likely to be featured on? (no more than 100 words)
- Up to 10 examples of your work: images submitted as a single pdf or no more than 3 videos submitted as public links

All submissions due February 15th, 2015.

Flux Factory’s 2015 Exhibitions program is supported supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Flux’s 9th Annual Benefit Auction 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by admin

Save that date! Flux Factory’s 9th annual “Not-So-Silent” Art Auction is coming up on April 23rd, 7-10pm at 79 Walker Street in Manhattan. Celebrate with hundreds of your closest friends in support of one of New York City’s most unique and longstanding residency programs. This benefit event supports Flux’s 2015 operations — over 50 artists-in-residence, who produce over 40 exhibits, concerts and workshops in addition to 4 major annual group exhibitions. Additionally, we will host a 2 week opportunity for online bidding, beginning April 8th, hosted on Paddle8. The Art Auction is always a fabulous time, with an open bar, light fare, DJs, sideshows, and of course the art — over 75 works from Flux artists-in-residence and friends such as Genesis P Orridge, Swoon, Cecily Brown, Richard Garet, Tod Seelie and a very, very many more.

We’re humbled to include this year’s guests of honor, Alanna Heiss (founder of PS1, director/founder of Clocktower) and Pablo Helguera (pioneering social engagement artist). The auction is presented in loving memory of old-school Flux resident Matthew Power. Nathaniel Sullivan will MC the festivities, with DJ Ben Dierckx on the 1s and 2s.

Levels of Support

Our tickets to this year’s auction refer to Flux’s 2014 major exhibitions:

Night Life $45 includes one auction ticket ($55 at the door, save $10 by pre-ordering!)

Homecoming Queen $125 includes one auction ticket + limited edition print produced in the Flux silk-screen studio by Artist-in-Residence Lena Hawkins + acknowledgement as auction patron in promotions.

Exquisite Contributor $250 includes two auction tickets + limited edition “moon calendar” print produced in the Flux silk-screen studio by Artist-in-Residence Lena Hawkins + Flux’s 20th anniversary publication + acknowledgement as auction patron in promotions.

Utopia Builder $1000 includes a block of 10 tickets for you and your friends + everything exquisite contributors receive + our limited box set of Flux-commissioned artworks + highly visible acknowledgement for your contribution.

ONLINE TICKETS ARE NOW CLOSED

RSVP on Facebook here!

This year’s auction features works by:

Adriana Atema, Ayden Grout, Chloe Bass, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Merche Blasco, Aliya Bonar, D. Carlton Bright, Cecily Brown, Miguel Cardenas, Jacob Ciocci, Eric Leiser, Eric Corriel, Kerry Cox, Danny Crump, Donald Daedalus, Mark Dion, Kerry Downey, Zackary Drucker, E Team, Caitlin Foley, Richard Garet, Elliot Green, Ayden Grout, Drew Hamilton, Lena Hawkins, Wieteke Heldens, Pablo Helguera, Scott Hirst, Connie Hockaday, Haley Hughes, Rodrigo Imaz, Carina Kaufman, Tina Kohlmann, Danae Lagoy, Christine Laquet, Fabienne Lasserre, Jonah Levy, Michelle Levy, Robert Levy, Kayrock, Yeni Mao, Sean McIntyre, Valentina Medda, Martina Mrongovius, Alex Nathanson, Heidi Neilson, Alison Nguyen, Leah Oates, Will Owen, Adrian Owen, Paul Pauper, Dan Phiffer, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Steve Pavlovsky, Misha Rabinovich, Duke Riley, Pete Rogina, Kathryn Sclavi, Tod Seelie, Ben Seretan, Ward Shelley, Dana Sherwood, Ingrid Staats, Jeff Stark, Pierre St-Jacques, Sto Len, Swoon, Kazue Tagachi, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Walker Tufts, Roopa Vasudevan, Tomas Vu, Angela Washko, Andrea Wolf, Christine Zapata.

Our auction would not be possible without our fearless Auction Committee, including…

Jean Barberis (chair), Janet Oh, Sally Szwed, Julian Navarro, Beth Colleton, Jakab Orsos, Roddy Schrock, Elyse Mallouk, Asher Remy-Toledo, Andrea Wolf, Jennie Lamensdorf, Christopher Day, Victoria Rogers, Chloe Bass, Sarah Watson, Juliana Driever, Melanie Cohn, Nathalie Angles, Jake Pratt, Jason Brown, Carina Kaufman, Jeff Stark, Morgan Meis, Oriana Leckert, Stephanie Griffin, Scott Hirst, Carl Rutberg, and Martina Mrongovius.

Thank you for support from…

Cory Arcangel, Barry Haggard, Klaus Biesenbach, Angela Goding, Francis Greenburger, Ralph Crispino, Susan Shaw, Andrew Tarlow, Perry Chen, Brittni Zotos, Laura Lupton, Creative Time and Michaela Martegani.

And a massive THANK YOU to our auction sponsors!

Thank you to Art F City and The Brooklyn Rail for promotional support. Brews at the auction are lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery. Austin’s Deep Eddy Vodka will feature their 5 vodka flavors, infused with real fruit juice, and will collaborate with Polar Soda for mixed drinks and non-alcoholic options.

February Flux Thursday

Posted on January 16, 2015 by admin

Thursday February 12th
Dinner at 8 pm. Presentations begin at 9:30 pm.
The event is free, but please do bring something to share!

Wieteke Heldens “I am trying to make a point” 2013, marker on canvas, 50x150cm

Join us for the next Februray Flux Thursday with presentations by Wieteke Heldens, Kayti Didriksen, Duo Clakula, and the keepers of the Exquisite Contraption here at Flux. Artist Wieteke Heldens will speak about her upcoming show, “Painting, Painthing, and Paintthing” and how it has changed in the last few years since her last show at Flux in 2011. Artist Kayti Didriksen will present a talk on the practice of blind contour her work and process. Ashley Bell Clark and Matej Vakula will speak about their collaborative practice, Duo Clakula, an organization committed to the advancement of innovative and alternative positions in the arts and public sphere, involving DIY, science and politics. Finally, Jason Eppink, Alex Nathanson, and Adrian Owen, keepers of Flux Factory’s Exquisite Contraption, will deliver a hopefully not too premature postmortem on the building-wide Rube Goldberg machine and monument dedicated to, among other things, the glory of failure.

Dinner designed by Alisha Monypenny

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Exquisite Contraption: Quit While You’re Ahead Party

Posted on January 7, 2015 by admin

Over the last year, a giant Rube Goldberg machine has activated the walls, ceilings, and stairways of Flux Factory. Its gears, levers, servos, ball tracks, toy cars, cameras, catapult, and shredder have been busy, completing the machine’s task to create a living record of its residents. Against all odds, it’s operated flawlessly; we set out to make a machine to last a year, but we created a machine to last a million years.

Sadly, the end draws near. In the spirit of impermanence, unpredictability, and glorious failure we invite you to QUIT WHILE YOU’RE AHEAD, the final party celebrating the Exquisite Contraption. We’ll set off the machine throughout the night to the sounds of DJ Vinyl Richie and Lost Colony (DJ Great Boyfriend, DJ Corey Hell, and DJ SEAARCH) until everything devolves into a dance party.

The Exquisite Contraption was created by Stephanie Avery, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Jason Eppink, Justin Lange, Adrian Owen, Amelia Marzec, Alex Nathanson, Nick Normal, and Eric Petersen

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Past Press for Exquisite Contraption:

Animal NY – http://animalnewyork.com/2014/flux-factory-rube-goldberg/

Impose Magazine – http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/exquisite-contraption-flux-factory

Counterfeiting for Cash

Posted on January 5, 2015 by admin

Counterfeiting for Cash

February 27 – March 22

Open Hours: Saturdays and Sundays Noon-6PM

Monday-Friday viewable by appointment only.

Opening celebration February 27 at 7 pm.

March 21 – An Evening of Fakes, and a Real Closing Reception 7 pm – 9 pm.

Flux Factory is proud to present Counterfeiting For Cash, an exhibition that confronts notions of authorship and authenticity, value, and celebrates ingenuity. Twelve artists have been commissioned to intervene in the systems we rely on to establish value, or investigate the rich history of unexpected counterfeits of ubiquitous and readily available objects.

From February 27th to March 22nd, the Flux Factory gallery will function as a hub for these counterfeits, as they are inserted into the systems they will exploit: Craigslist, the dark web, antique shops, the art market, and major universities; or manipulate value we take for granted: branding, ubiquitous chachkies, eggs, and the value of a quarter. These artworks will go far beyond the gallery, and touch the lives of investors, collectors, shoppers and eaters. This exhibition is a window into a real world where nothing is what it seems, and the motives of the makers are dubious, confounding, and irreverent.

More information forthcoming here, on Facebook and Twitter.

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Counterfeiting for Cash is one of Flux Factory’s Four Major Exhibitions of the 2015 Season and is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Press :

Queens Chronicle

Together We Are Stronger: Greater Brooklyn Zine Release and Workshops

Posted on January 1, 2015 by admin

TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER
Friday January 16th- Sunday January 18th

“Together We Are Stronger” is a celebration, education, and community building event that includes a zine release party and a weekend long series of workshops, forums, and skill-shares. We strive to connect the cooperative and collective peoples of greater Brooklyn, promote our community-culture and spaces, and provide opportunity for the involvement of all.

☞ FRIDAY (Jan. 16th)

7:30 – 1:00am // PARTY // A fundraiser for the zine! DJ’s will be spinning all night, live visuals will bathe you in light, the bar will be serving up delicious cocktails, there will be participatory art, a barter wall, surprise performance art, a zine distribution table (bring zines you want to distribute!!), live screen-printing courtesy of the OWS Occupy Wall Street Screen Printers, amazing people to meet, and – of course – plenty of Greater Brooklyn zines there for pickup! There’s also an epic RAFFLE with lot’s of amazing prizes! Not to be missed!!!

DJ sets by:
// DJ Area D
// DJ Make Believe
// Vinyl Richie
// DJ Housewife
// Stewey Decimal

Live visuals by:
// The Illuminator

☞ SATURDAY (Jan. 17th)

11:00 – 12:45 // PANEL // Radical and Cooperative Businesses // How do we align our values and economic activity? This panel includes members of cooperative businesses discussing everything from the ‘how-to,’ to best practices.

1:00 – 2:45 // WORKSHOP // How to Facilitate a Consensus Meeting // This two hour workshop combines consensus theory with facilitation practice. Techniques include place and agenda setting, brainstorming techniques, proposal formation, and setting action items.

3:15 – 4:30 // WORKSHOP // Intro to Zine Making // A how-to for the initial steps of putting together a zine. This will include gathering and arranging content, printing, folding and binding techniques, and more!

4:45 – 6:15 // WORKSHOP // Cottage Industries: Live/Work Cooperatives // Description forthcoming

6:30 – 7:45 // WORKSHOP // Self Help Housing Research 101 + Q&A // This workshop will provide you with the research tools you need to investigate your landlord and your building, from a “knowledge is power” perspective. We will particularly focus on the fundamentals of rent regulation, and how to determine if you are being (legally-speaking) overcharged for rent. Question/answer to follow, as well as a discussion about how to move forward in fighting for housing justice in Brooklyn and beyond.

8:00 – 9:00 // FIELD TRIP // Dumpster Diving // Approximately 40% of good food in America ends up in a landfill uneaten. Dumpster diving (salvaging food) is one great way to help stop unnecessary waste and supplement your diet! We’ll be guiding you on a trip to a magical dumpster a short bike ride from Flux. To join, you must have: Bicycle, large backpack, flashlight.

☞ SUNDAY (Jan. 18th)

11:00 – 12:30 // DISCUSSION // An informal discussion facilitated by SolidarityNYC about how we conceptualize economies and our place in them, drawing on activities and examples from J.K. Gibson-Graham’s Take Back The Economy.

12:45 – 2:00 // WORKSHOP // The Communes of New York // How to start an FEC modeled communes in NYC, presented by members of Point A and communards from F.E.C. communities.

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Greater Brooklyn is a project that seeks to facilitate communication, cooperation, cultural sharing, and growth within radical spaces in Brooklyn and beyond. The main output of the collective is a quarterly zine that’s released with the seasons, and is distributed widely amongst radical spaces in the Brooklyn area. You can read past issues on our website. If you’re interested in getting involved, send us a message! Visit our website and stay tuned for more!

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January Flux Thursday

Posted on January 1, 2015 by admin

Thursday January 8th
Dinner at 8 pm. Presentations begin at 9:30 pm.
The event is free, but please do bring something to share!

This month’s Flux Thursday, organized by Flux Artist-in-Residence Valentina Medda, will focus on the relationship between the body and architecture with particular focus on the idea of sensuality as a way to reconsider how we relate with space and place: a way that is creative, playful and physical rather than rational, unemotional and disconnected. How can we, as artists and activists, open up a space of freedom in a constrictive urban space?

During the evening will draw a line between different ways to think of our relationship with architecture. Jaime Iglehart will present pieces of a work in progress, Architecture of La Zad: selected moments from a visitor’s lens, a work which looks at the detailed innovation of anarchic architecture, composed in a space who’s circumstances of conflict constantly shape its growth; Valentina Medda will share some considerations (and images) on the possibility to, through our senses, developing a sense of belonging to our environment, and therefore a sense of community and responsibility toward the place we life in and are part of; Stephen Polk will talk about the transformative act of physically intervening in space as a means to resist injustice and capitalism.

After the presentations, Kathryn Sclavi will propose a participatory art experience dedicated to develop new cognitive strategies for spatial negotiation. Participants will be encouraged to explore Flux Factory as a navigator, using their emotional state as a guiding point to locate places or situations within the space.

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2015 Not-So-Silent Auction Open Call

Posted on December 25, 2014 by admin

Flux Factory’s annual “Not So Silent” Art Auction will return on March 12, 2015. Join hundreds of your closest friends in the warm glow of gallery lit artworks, the warmer glow of an open-bar buzz, and the warmest glow of keeping Flux alive another year. Yea and verily, when Flux crosses the East River to land on 79 Walker Street, we’ll take no prisoners and leave the earth scorched in our mission to…well…support nice artists to offer free, inventive culture to Queens year-round…we’ll stop at nothing!

Our Executive Director Nat would sure love to work alongside a dedicated volunteer in the coming months to help line everything up. For the night of, we invite folks to pitch spectacles, side-shows and decorations. In the past, we’ve had bathroom valets, photo booths, knock-off masterpiece painters – we’re interested in quirky ideas to add to the fun without overshadowing the seriousness of the art auction. No need to go through the formal process as with our other exhibitions on this one — if you’d like to get involved, email nat@fluxfactory.org with materials that get across your ideas and experience.

Check out photos from our previous auctions in 2014, 2012, 2011, and 2010.

Center for the Holographic Arts Presents: Parallax:Perspectives

Posted on December 4, 2014 by admin

Parallax: Perspectives
Friday December 19th, 7pm-11pm
Free

At years end, we always take a glance back at how the past twelve months affected us. But what if you could place the most effective moments in a single room and have them all play back at the same time?

At Parallax:Perspectives, we will be looking back in time but standing still in space. Maximus Clarke’s “Around the Clock”, a 3D panorama of our former home at the Clock Tower runs in a loop. Viewers may contemplate the relations between space and time and the tension between time’s linearity and its circularity — the renewal promised by each sweep of hands round the dial, each cycle of light and darkness. Jake Nelson’s live painting uses video that travels through New York City onto a blank canvas. Tracing the images for hours, the resulting canvas will be hundreds of layers of the city superimposed onto each other. Over time, the buildings and windows will become so overlaid that a sense of geographic space will be challenged.

Over a dozen artists will be bringing their installations from the Parallax series on Governors Island to Flux Factory’s gallery. For one night only you can see planes of light forming a cube in fog, while dots of light fire from a sculpture and spin in space. Also, while forming a sense of psychogeography developed from a day of exploring our summer island home, Erik Sanner will be projecting Governors Island of Cones, his collaboration with Pete Emerick and Glenn Amico. Legendary 3D artist Gerald Marks will be presenting a series of images from Governors Island’s history as well as the Holocenter’s history in Nolan Park and the ClockTower of LIC. Along with a number of thoughtful and stunning projection pieces, enjoy Eternal Now: culling from dozens of hours of footage shot from the roof of the Holocenter House, Carlton Bright’s 3D video installation melds the life of Nolan Park with light painting elements.

See traditional holograms, enjoy tasty refreshments, purchase affordable prints and celebrate a head-spinning 2014 while wishing us a successful 2015!

Carlton Bright
Todd Bryant
Dave Battin
Julian Burgess & Aurelia Moser
Maximus Clarke
Eric Corriel
Dafydd‐Dale Jones
Gerald Marks
Sam Moree
Jake Nelson
Ray Park
Steve Pavlovsky
Pete Rogina & Eileen Cohen
Erik Sanner, Glenn Amico & Peter Emerick
Kazue Taguchi

Curated by Jonah Levy

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www.holocenter.org

December Flux Thursday

Posted on November 25, 2014 by admin

Thursday December 11th
Dinner at 8:30 pm. Presentations begin earlier at 6:30 and continue later at 9:30 pm.
The event is free, but please do bring something to top your pancakes!

On Thursday, December 11th, at 8pm explore 10,000 years of grain at Flux Factory with a time-traveling pancake potluck dinner. Pancakes will be made with einkorn, one of the earliest cultivated grains; Kernza, a perennial grain currently under development at The Land Institute in Kansas; and Corn flour, a contemporary staple grain. Bring a historical or futuristic tasty topping to enjoy with pancakes.

Join us before, at 6:30, and after dinner to discuss Kitchens & Capitalism which examines the way different types of kitchens resist and/or replicate capitalism. The exhibit will collect drawings, models, diagrams and stories of different kinds of kitchens: historical, home, collective, and industrial. Performances and workshops will examine ways of performing the kitchen and how our performances of the kitchen shape our worldview. As part of our research we will map and remodel Flux Factory’s collective kitchen.

Kitchens & Capitalism involves Walker Tufts, Emily Ensminger, Greg Stewart, Carina Kaufman, Grace Amber, Hannon Welch, Will Owen, Athena Kokoronis, and others.

This project is partially funded by Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant with special thanks to The Land Institute. Flux Thursdays are supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

December Iron Chef Flux

Posted on November 25, 2014 by admin

IRON CHEF FLUX: Sunday December 7th, doors at 8pm.
Competition begins at 8:30pm sharp!
Location: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, New York 11101
Cost: Free!

Join us for the most anticipated and contested battle of the culinary arts among Flux Factory eaters and, dare we say it, eaters of the world. Our Flux Iron Chefs will have 1 hour to prepare outrageous edible masterpieces that best articulate the flavor of the secret ingredient, unveiled at the beginning of the battle.

Midway through the competition our Culinary Scientist will introduce a surprise additional secret ingredient from our local bodega, which all chefs must then incorporate into their dishes. Judges will be chosen from a random lottery from our studio audience: their taste buds alone will decide WHOSE CUISINE REIGNS SUPREME!!!

You won’t want to miss this evening of suspense, salivation, seduction, and sass. See you at the Kitchen Stadium. If you can’t be there, tune into our livestream video of the action (URL to be announced).

Emcee: Executive Director Nat Roe
Culinary Scientist: Walker Tufts
Livestream Specialist: Jason Eppink
Participating Iron Chefs: Aliya Bonar (current reigning Iron Chef), Lena Hawkins, Carina Kaufman, Gil Lopez, Will Owen, and more TBA.

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#FUEELESTADO

Posted on November 24, 2014 by admin

#FUEELESTADO
December 5 -6
Opening Reception: December 5, doors at 7 pm.
December 6: open 4-7 pm.

“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

#FUEELESTADO is a project about the lack of social justice and the gross human rights violations in Mexico. It examines the conflict between state power and personal autonomy and responsibility, a conflict that, in Mexico, involves missing persons and unidentified bodies and that can’t be silenced anymore.

Since 2006, over 26,000 individuals have gone missing in Mexico as a result of the violence and mayhem caused by the law enforcement officials’ war on drugs. The 43 students from Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa who went missing while in the custody of Iguala’s police force in September 2014 brought these social justice violations to the forefront and world wide. This project is a wake up call to engage reality.

Lavinia Raccanello‘s work focused on the relationship between human beings, society and social justice, with a particular emphasis on the power of dialectic and participatory practice, and the conflict between state power and personal autonomy and responsibility.

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Flux Hospital

Posted on November 17, 2014 by admin

Flux Hospital
November 27 – 30: 1-6pm daily.
Opening Reception: November 27. Doors at 5pm, Thanksgiving potluck 7-10pm

Friday 28: Leftovers by Julia Sherman & Sarah Keough (2-5 pm)- A collective Thanksgiving sandwich competition (bring your favorite Thanksgiving leftovers).
Saturday 29: Where I end and you begin: A Beginner’s Guide to Listening by Kerry Downey (live, 2 pm) + Open discussion between participating artists, curator and guests on hospitality as tool and premise (4 pm).

FLUX HOSPITAL is an exhibition on social art practices that use and address hospitality as a central human force and resource. Through the artworks presented in the exhibition, made by a group of international artists, FLUX HOSPITAL asks: What is hospitality and how is it used as an artistic tool?

Acknowledgement, empathy, dialogue and inclusion are some of the key terms ascribed to social art practices, and FLUX HOSPITAL is a way of discussing these as proposals to think, act and meet other human beings in hospitable ways. Not to simply attack the xenophobia of contemporary life and culture, but also to argue that dialogue and acts of sharing can lead to bigger experiences, knowledge and happiness.

And what better occasion could there be to celebrate hospitality than the American tradition of Thanksgiving?

With works by: Kerry Downey, Sandy Smith (UK), Dillon de Give, Julia Sherman & Sarah Keough, Kenneth A. Balfelt (DK), Douglas Paulson & Rancourt/Yatsuk, Walker Tufts, Ayden LeRoux, Will Owen and artists from Flux Factory. Curated by: Matthias Borello (DK).

Matthias Borello is a Danish critic and independent curator focused on art practices, exhibition formats and curatorial strategies within social practices. In 2012, Matthias curated the international festival Visit Tingbjerg 2012 in a Copenhagen suburb. In fall 2014 he will publish a book on social practices in collaboration with Danish artist Kenneth A. Balfelt. Matthias currently lives in Copenhagen, where he is the co-founder and editor of the Danish art publication KUNSTEN.NU. Beside all of that, he loves drumming in any form.

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PB is coming to LIC

Posted on November 16, 2014 by admin

Quite a few Fluxers have their eyes on Participatory Budgeting (PB), a democratic way of dispersing city money for community projects. Over the coming year, folks who live and work in some NYC neighborhoods (including our own neighborhood of Long Island City) will propose public works projects and collectively vote on a million dollars worth of improvements. If you’re not in the Long Island City-ish district, check pbnyc.com to see if your neighborhood does PB.

You can get involved very soon. Below you’ll find a calendar of upcoming Neighborhood Assemblies. The first one is Thursday the 16th! At these Assemblies, you can pitch ideas about improvement projects and work with others to develop the ideas into full approvals to get funded. There you’ll see if Flux Factory’s idea to add slides next to subway stairs stands to be laughed at or voted up!

If you want to chat with us about PB, do email nat@fluxfactory.org to steer you in the right direction.

While the above video gives a general idea of why PB is good for NYC, nothing happens without you. Don’t be an armchair critic of developments in the city, take a look at the below calendar and get thinking about some ideas to bring to the next Neighborhood Assembly.

Painting, Painthing and Paintthing, (the verbs)

Posted on October 26, 2014 by admin

“The Legend” 2015 mixed media on canvas, 62×87

Painting, Painthing and Paintthing, (the verbs)

Preview February 19 by appointment.
Opening Reception February 20, doors at 7 pm.
Open hours Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 from Noon- 5 pm.

I am pleased to present my second solo show at Flux Factory: “Painting, Painthing and Paintthing, (the verbs).” I will show new work made during my third residency, but also look back at work made during my other two residencies in 2011 and 2012. I will reflect on them, resize them, give them new titles, or destroy them. In 2011 my show was about the “Paintings, Painthings and Paintthings.” Now it is about the “Painthing, Painthing and Paintthing (the verbs).” By giving old work a new meaning, by changing the size and the weight of a painting, by giving a painthing a new title or by destroying paintthings that are not functional anymore. I am also painting new work, painthing new work and paintthing new work. “I make paintings, painthings and paintthings. Often I tried to make my last painting but I never succeeded. I am consistently inconsistent and obsessively need the canvas to be able to understand life. In my work I use everything around me but turn these personnel anecdotes into abstract concepts. In my drawings I relentlessly repeat the same deed over and over again. I would like to be like Hanna Darboven or On Kawara, but I am not. There is often a conflict in my work that needs to be solved and that’s why I can’t stop painting.”

Wieteke Heldens (1982, Ottersum) graduated in 2007 at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Followed by a 2 year post-graduate in The Hague named DNA. During this time she worked in Chongqing, China at the Sichuan Fine Arts institute. Heldens exhibited in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and internationally in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Denmark and USA. In 2011 and 2012 Heldens was an artist in residence at Flux Factory in New York. In 2013 Heldens won the Royal prize for painting. She works and lives in New York and The Hague.

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Press :

DutchCultureUsa

Flux Factory invades ACE Hotel

Posted on October 5, 2014 by admin

ACE Hotel invited five Flux Residents to participate in their Sunday Artist-in-Residence Series. The following Fluxers are using their hotel-stays to research, open up dialogues, and delve deeper into current projects.

Sunday October 5th: LENA HAWKINS & MICHAEL DIPIETRO: FALLEN PEARLS (V.S.O.P.) is a new performance installation work by artists Michael DiPietro and Lena Hawkins. Drawing on psychological case studies and daytime dramas, Fallen Pearls (V.S.O.P.) unfolds a narrative of unrequited lovers, stifled by the oppressive demands of high society and the family name. Perhaps promised to others, or perhaps brother and sister, there is an insidious force that conspires Maryanne and Daniel F. from fulfilling their desires; given one last night together, they are drawn into a dark, consummating ritual that can only end in a cliffhanger.

Sunday October 12th: GIL LOPEZ: Through his ACE A.I.R. Gil Lopez will gather a small group of activist artists to critique the exploitation of creatives as social capital for corporate branding. Complicit or combative, artists play an active, yet sometimes invisible or unidentified, role in advertising, gentrification, capitalism and other social mechanisms. On this evening we will playing our role as cultural provocateurs, unpack some of these concepts and leave our dissenting notes as artifact of our resistance.

Sunday October 19th: AYDEN GROUT: Ayden L.M. Grout will continue work on her recent project “Pillow Book,” which uses photography, installation, video, and text, to explore the physical, emotional, and spatial influence of beds. Within the walls of the ACE Hotel, she will consider the wealth of stories that the ever-changing list of occupants have imprinted on the hotel’s rooms.

Sunday October 26th: WILL OWEN: Will Owen intends to ride the elevator at the ACE hotel all night and request recipes from anyone riding the elevator. These recipes will be added to a growing collection of recipes that people have memorized. Will has been gathering people’s memorized recipes for more than 8 years across Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Cambodia, Italy, Slovakia, Greece, Czech Republic, and the US. The first volume of these recipes and stories of their collection will be released as open source material in Spring 2015.

Utopia School

Posted on October 1, 2014 by admin

October 1 – 31, 2014

Open Hours: Wednesday – Sundays, 12pm-10pm

All classes take place at Flux Factory unless otherwise noted. View full class schedule here:

What kinds of information are useful for re-imaging the future?

Utopia School is a month-long social center* hosted at Flux Factory for the purpose of studying Utopian experiments throughout time, as well as practicing our skills towards building new free spaces and practices. These classes, screenings, discussions and games will be connected by the essential question: What kinds of information are useful for re-imaging the future?

To us, utopias take the form of intentional communities, squats, community gardens, communes, and other initiatives geared towards communizing resources, (including those which don’t self-describe as Utopian.) We hope these classes and explorations will help to document and further these specific knowledges.

There will be several Utopians-in-Residence as well as class leaders involved in running the space at any given time, co-learning together, and teaching classes. You, too, can propose a residency project which interacts with the space. We hope you will join us!

Utopia School is open from 12pm-10pm Wednesday-Sunday, from October 1-31st on location at Flux Factory, except when otherwise noted. There are a bunch of field trips in the works, and some classes will take place at other venues, so pay attention to the location in “class descriptions”.And, finally, it is never too late to propose classes. Please visit utopiaschool.org to propose a class. See you in the classroom!*Social centers (or social centres) are community spaces.

They are buildings which are used for a range of disparate activities, which can be linked only by being not-for-profit. They might be organizing centers for local activities or they might provide support networks for minority groups such as prisoners and refugees. Often they provide a base for initiatives such as cafes, free shops, public computer labs, graffiti murals, legal collectives and free housing for travellers. The services are determined by both the needs of the community in which the social center is based and the skills which the participants have to offer. Social centers tend to be in large buildings and thus can host activist meetings, concerts, bookshops, dance performances and art exhibitions. Social centers are common in many European cities, sometimes in squats, sometimes in rented buildings. Also known as a free space, social centers may be designated “safe-space” where specific forms of dialogue and activism are encouraged and protected from harassment, or they may be intended to serve as open space for community interaction among widely disparate groups without censorship. There is a great deal of overlap between the two types.

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Utopia School is one of Flux Factory’s Four Major Exhibitions of the 2014 Season and is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

The Rhythm That Laughs You

Posted on September 14, 2014 by admin

“The Rhythm That Laughs You” explores diverse approaches to humor and the comic in works by female artists who foreground bodily experience through object-based practices. The exhibition borrows its title from a statement of Hélène Cixous in her seminal “The Laugh of Medusa” (1975). Cixous describes the peculiar materiality of laughter and the subject position, conceiving the experience of laughter in the form of a rhythm that traverses us. Rather than deciding to laugh, we abandon ourselves to it, and by participating in the emotion of the one who laughs, lose ourselves in another. Laughter is both a dislocation and a communion of bodies. But laughter, in its excess, also threatens meaning. Whether a slapstick or a joke’s punchline, the unexpectedness of humor always forces us to shift our assumptions and expectations. Humor resists, transgresses, or subverts the order of things.
From Agnes Heller to Simon Critchley, contemporary theories of humor point out to the ultimate heterogeneity of comedy. Although analysis of the comedy breakdown into three main theories—superiority, incongruity, and relief—however, the question has moved from the essence to the form of laughter. As distinct from the comedy as a form of drama, the idea of the comic gathers together things that are laughable or humorous. Entirely heterogeneous, there is nothing beyond a family resemblance among the different manifestations of the comic. Even more, how can we know the laughter from the comic? Laughter is nothing but a vibration or a tremor, as Jean-Luc Nancy writes. The experience of laughter is always dangerous and violent. Convulsive, contagious laughter throws everything off balance: it is a form of dissolution not without joy and pleasure. “The Rhythm That Laughs You” comprises five different comic visions and genres of laughter: light, camp, surreal, grotesque, and carnivalesque.

Thermospheric Station

Posted on September 5, 2014 by admin

Thermospheric Station
Friday, September 5^th 2014
Door opens at 7pm, Performance starts at 8:30pm

The space you have just stepped into has no weather. Is your body pulsing like volcanic lava or stiff like a giant iceberg? The inhabitants expose their bodies to cosmic rays and experiment with their tolerance limits. Some astronauts made themselves fall from phenomenal heights. However, no one knows whether they fell or not. When the Sun has more magnetic storms, the night auroras shine with greater intensity. Only during the nighttime, music here travels a great distance, almost reaching to the earth. Are your movements holding gravity tight? Or did you accidentally slip into outer space as if you were dusted off by solar wind?

The Thermospheric Station brings together sound artists, contemporary classical composers, experimental musicians and contemporary dancers from different sides of the world to create an experimental sound performance. Coming from Greece, Portugal, Bosnia, USA, Japan, and South Korea, this diverse group is presenting their work at Flux Factory in New York.

Nuno da Luz, a current artist in residence at Residency Unlimited, will play field recordings enhancing some resonance ranges with percussive instruments and feedback loops. To describe his piece, he quotes the composer, Maryanne Amacher: “Tone-of-place, experienced, heard through skin, detected by unnamed sensibilities, and impression carried-in through skin even when not in the physical place. Tone around you and with you. I don’t like your tone. I like your tone. I like the tone of this place.”

Composer Dimitrios Skyllas wrote a piece for a trio based on Rilke’s poem “Autumn.” The vocalist Motomi Tanaka will perform alongside percussionist Cory Bracken, and Skyllas will complete the trio on melodica. An emphasis is given on the word “Someone,” where the composer contemplates the (non) existence of a superior force.

Jung In Jung, a current artist in residence at Flux Factory, will present a dance and sound collaboration. The sound composition will be improvised by both the limited and free physical movement of two dancers, Dane Lukic and Quentin Burley. Triggered by a game controller’s red wires, data relating to the position and length is then programmed to manipulate sound.

In “Pull,” the band Cesspool explores magnetism and verticality. They experiment with three-dimensional speaker placement and vertical space, and build arrival points into the structure of the piece, approaching said points with exponentially increasing and decreasing momentum. Cesspool will present their works under the artwork, “Sound Cave,” by Danny Crump. The shape of the dome creates a unique acoustic amplification, further layering the effect of the sound.

Richard Garet‘s performance will focus on creating processes that interact and activate sonic material such as electromagnetic waves, modified tape, cracked media, sonification of light, and computer processing. This sonic construction will surface in real-time, creating a poly-layered sonic field where the final outcome consists of amplifying manifestations between the materials and articulating colliding forces being carefully treated, weighed, and measured.

The concert is organized by Jung In Jung and produced by Sungpyo Hong. Audiences are invited to explore the variety of performances with delicious refreshments provided by Cup&Cup and Yonda Inc.

Poster design by Amela Parcic. Special thanks to Nat Roe, Will Owen, Tina Kohlmann, Sandy Gordon, Lola Bengen, and Julian Navarro.

Program of the event

August Flux Thursday – August 14

Posted on August 14, 2014 by admin

Thursday August 14
Dinner at 8pm, Presentations begin at 9:30pm
The event is free, but do bring something to share!

Our 15 year long tradition continues! This month, on August 14th, Flux artists-in-residence Roopa Vasudevan and Amela Parcic will present. In honor of our Homecoming Exhibition closing, Ayden L. M. Grout will invite attendees to scavenge the building to add contributions to a Time Capsule, celebrating Flux’s 20th Anniversary; Homecoming Curator (and Flux Board Member) Jean Barberis will present; Doug Paulson and Daupo will present a display of deep Flux lore…

Nat Roe

Posted on July 8, 2014 by admin

Nat Roe is Flux Factory’s Executive Director, so he spends all his time at Flux sending emails, attending meetings and making spreadsheets in front of our big office window.

Nat is a co-founder of Silent Barn’s current space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Silent Barn is a collectively directed space for living, working and performing. He has organized and performed at numerous concerts since moving to New York in 2009.

For many years, Nat DJed a weekly radio program at WFMU. His program centered around a style of audio collage that drew influence from turntablism and dancehall Clash style as well as the cut-up and appropriation techniques of artists like Brion Gysin and Christian Marclay. You can listen to all his years of live improvised radio collage on Nat’s archives page. Nat performs and records in the audio-visual duo Private Language with new media artist Melissa F Clarke. Nat has also released a 7″ with Kakutopia records, a tape on Spleencoffin records, a CD with Tanzprocesz records — you can hear all these recordings at freemusicarchive.org

Before getting involved in collective-centric arts spaces, Nat was active as a music journalist. He has written for publications such as Wire Magazine, Signal To Noise, Rhizome, Fader, Noisey, and was the editor of WFMU’s blog for several years.

Find links to all Nat’s doings over the years and my full CV at natroe.com

20 years of Flux and hello to our new Director

Posted on June 30, 2014 by admin

As August’s Homecoming exhibition approaches (RSVP for our opening gala here), Flux Factory marks 20 years of collaborative energy through artifact, lore and friends. As we look backward, we’re excited to move forward with our new Executive Director, Nat Roe. Expect dramatic news and growth from Flux Factory this year!

The transformation of Flux Factory from impromptu art collective into pillar for exhibition, education and arts residencies has been a long and winding road with plenty of detours, rose smelling and…well…flux. Please do celebrate 20 years with us at our August 2nd Homecoming gala and by taking home our accompanying publication.

This gaze backward follows quick on the heels of a new addition to Flux – me – Hi, I’m Nat Roe and I’m the new Executive Director here. I’m thrilled to say that I’ve found a real dream job in joining the Flux family. As a co-founder of Silent Barn’s location in Bushwick, I have experienced first-hand the power of collective thinking and action. I am a firm believer in DIY as a philosophy that the most efficient route is not the best – that heuristic, collaborative routes during creation are as important as the finished project. I believe that spaces like Flux Factory perform a massive civic duty for New York City and beyond, and that our model of coworking is an antidote to many of society’s ills.

Flux’s new director Nat enjoying a vinyl at WFMU

I first collaborated with Fluxers as an organizer of the 2012 DIYBA basketball tournament of art spaces. I refereed the heated final round between Shea Stadium and Flux Factory, and was even accused that my biased reffing led to Flux’s 1-point victory. I won’t comment on those accusations, but I will say some good deeds do go unpunished. I’m excited to wear the Flux jersey in 2014’s DIYBA.

Flux Factory has immediately felt like a home to me in my first days on the job, and I’ve been amazed at the level of kindness, thoughtfulness and productiveness of our residents, staff and board. Filling the shoes of my predecessor Christina Vassallo is intimidating, I’ll admit, since she left such a gargantuan mark on the space and brought Flux to such a high level of functioning and ambition. I am immensely grateful to step into Flux with a balanced budget and general order. Many thanks to interim director Doug Paulson for holding the fort down under heavy stress.

We will have some dramatic news and exciting initiatives coming up soon – for now I’ll say that I’m honored to play a part in pushing Flux toward a new chapter, and to continually raise this collective to higher heights.

Exquisite Contraption

Posted on April 18, 2014 by admin

Exhibition dates through February 2015: by appointment and during select public events. Contact Jason Eppink to schedule an appointment.

The Exquisite Contraption has been operational for two months! See how the machine has evolved, including all the photographs it’s taken so far. We’ll run the machine several times an hour and it’s totally going to work every time.

Exquisite Contraption, a collaboratively conceived and constructed machine that spans the entire building has facilitated a weekly “family photograph” since the official opening in February. Over the current year, the Flux community will exist inside the machine, activating it at the begining of weekly Monday meetings to set into motion a series of automated steps that move throughout the building to announce, instruct, prepare, and photograph those gathered. At the end of its life, Exquisite Contraption will have produced a year-long record of residents and guests who have gathered inside the machine.

Exquisite Contraption is both an interactive, building-wide engineering spectacle and a long-term experiment in creating a community ritual. The work will evolve over time as residents elaborate on the weekly tradition, respond to mechanical failures, and integrate (or not) the machine into their daily lives. Since Exquisite Contraption can be activated at any time, it will be available to the public throughout its year-long run by appointment and during select public events.

Created by Stephanie Avery, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Jason Eppink, Justin Lange, Adrian Owen, Amelia Marzec, Alex Nathanson, Nick Normal, Eric Petersen

Exquisite Contraption is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

If you’d like to help support this project, please go to our Donate page.

within a tournament of value

Posted on April 15, 2014 by admin

Opening Reception: April 3, 6-9pm
Office Hours: April 1 – April 15, 4-7pm daily

Visitors to the space will engage with artworks and texts engaging with ideas of commodification and planned obsolescence, as well as the curator who will hold office hours in the space each of the 15 days.

Full Exhibition Text

An exhibition is to be set up as a salon from April 1st until April 15th (April Fool’s Day to Tax Day). This showcase will involve several sculptural works that move beyond the normative constraints of commodification and engage in a broader critique of systems of exchange. Additionally, a selection of texts theorizing these ideas will be available. Visitors to the space will engage with these artworks, these texts, as well as the curator who will hold office hours in the space each of the 15 days, presenting information both historical and registrarial. The gallery will remain otherwise devoid of text and the exhibition will produce no catalog.

To begin, some anthropological and economic considerations about the items and terms that surround us and this project. An item that passes through any exchange system can be broadly defined as a commodity. All objects are therefore commodified at some point. The shape of these transactions vary depending on the item in question and the narrative it tells. This period of commodification occurs within a tournament of value.

Perhaps then we might consider art objects as offering an opportunity to explore the nature of the commodity through their ability to critique social forms. We may also consider the critical writings of anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and sociologists as yielding essential views on the same set of social concerns.

By looking specifically at the notion of a caveat emptor clause, which reads ‘buyer beware,’ we can distill a more singular set of perspectives. The caveat emptor clause defines the limitations or faults of a thing in exchange. It should be noted that all objects have similar considerations and specific caveats. That said, at times certain commodities employ a scheduled obsolescence thereby internalizing this notion of a buyers’ warning. This tactic has been seen as a function of conspicuous consumption.

Art objects, with all the perspective discussed above, can engage with this idea so as to manifest a critique of consumption and of capitalism more broadly. The art objects selected all willfully employ obsolescence to varying degrees. Let us review briefly. A small print of a coupon on a dollar bill from Ryan McGinness will present an opportunity to address the cultural mainstay of currency as the root of most commodity exchanges. Roman Ondák’s Breath on Both Sides will cut through the architecture of the space and presents an air of the artist’s personage. Peter Simensky will take a measure of gold and disperse it in the form of dust. Dana Sherwood will present two projects: the first will be a collection of living butterflies; the second will be a reminiscence of a previous project in the shape of a slowly decomposing but opulent cake. Julia Weist will present an object made of glass and ice to be cracked and to melt away. Necessarily, all important gestures for such a discussion.

The scholarship available equally engages with commodification, consumption, and critique. These thinkers, from a variety of academic backgrounds, analyze the vast and varied nature of exchange systems. Jean Baudrillard and Pierre Bourdieu afford us both semiotic and sociological perspectives. Arjun Appadurai, Marcel Mauss, and Grant McCracken approach the issue from a more anthropological perspective, examining a wide variety of exchange systems in their respective writings. Finally, Vance Packard, Thorstein Veblen, and Olav Velthuis present to us the economists’ angle, focusing on conspicuous consumption and the art market respectively.

In the course of 15 days we will examine these art objects as they function in concert with these texts. In full we will consider equally the works of Arjun Appadurai, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdeau, Marcel Mauss, Grant McCracken, Ryan McGinness, Roman Ondák, Vance Packard, Dana Sherwood, Peter Simensky, Julia Weist, Thorstein Veblen, and Olav Velthuis. From April 1st until April 15th the gallery at 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, Queens will be open from 4-7pm.

within a tournement of value is curated by Flux’s Curator in Residence, Christopher Stiegler of the Institute for American Art. Exhibition made possible in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

April Flux Thursday: April 10

Posted on April 10, 2014 by admin

Thursday April 10, 8pm +
FREE! But please bring something delicious to share!

Join us for Flux Thursday, our monthly potluck dinner and art salon, which is organized this month by Flux Curator-in-Residence, Chris Stiegler. This time around Flux Thursday is all about collectivism! Around our dinner table members of our community will toast to ideas of collective practice, communal ideologies, and how we find a productive place in between.

The plan is simple; We’ll use this as a chance for us to have a conversation about our practices in collectivism. We’ll use the kitchen the way we do during parties: actively cooking, presenting food, eating, talking. Intermittently, anyone is invited to stand up and give a toast to the triumphs (and trials) of collective art practice.

The evening is structured similarly to, where members of a dinner party eulogized the god Eros in short speeches about the ups and downs of love — except this time for collectivism.

STRANGE PINK GLIMMER RISING

Posted on March 30, 2014 by admin

An evening of performances, meditations, and tea service

Sunday March 30, doors at 6:30pm, show begins at 7pm. A suggested four dollar donation. RSVP suggested.

Featuring:

Satellite Installation by Taylor Sakarett

Songs by Dear Suzy (Zuzia Juszkiewicz)

Environment and Performance by Michael DiPietro & Lena Hawkins

And a performance of “Three Sisters Music” in its entirety by Ben Seretan:

Sudden, velvety darkness on an empty beach. The wind sweeps around your ankles and in the hair on your arms while color returns to the world. The colors and the clouds – they’re talking to you. No, wait – they’re singing. In the key of Bb. You’re reminded of the touch of a lover kissing your neck as ravens take the to sky and the ocean crashes against the mountains.

So begins the psychotropic tone zone hallucination that is “Three Sisters Music,” a 90+ minute continuous song cycle for stereo electric guitar, electronics, and voice. Written at the base of a mountain range on a small island on the coast of Alaska, the piece ungulates, drones, and wobbles through songs of swimming, heartbreak, friendship, waterfalls, and horses. Never before officially, fully performed for a public audience! There will be no intermission.

Flux Thursday: March 13, 2014

Posted on March 13, 2014 by admin

March 13th, 8pm+
FREE!, but please bring something delicious to share.

Join us for Flux Thursday, our monthly potluck dinner and art salon, organized this month by Flux Artist-in-Residence, Ayden L.M. Grout. Dinner starts at 8pm in the kitchen, and then around 9:30pm we’ll head to the gallery for artist presentations and performances that explore themes of psychogeography and contemporary creative interpretations and uses of landscape.

N.D. Austin and Ida Bendetto of Wanderlust will present their wunderkammers. Elizabeth Eisenstein will be share her recent photographic work which explores how Google Street View accommodates the passive approach landscape photography takes to the documentation of beauty. Flux Artist in Residence Zuzia Juskiewicz will read excerpts from her novel, which ruminates on the numinous qualities of the city. Urban cultural geographer and astrologer Dr. Bess Matassa will help you discover your N.Y.C. neighborhood of fate, and provide an introduction to the space production method. Richard Aufrichtig will play four new compositions from his latest musical project Ocean Music.

Photo Credit: Ocean Music (work in progress), William Moody

Flux Thursday: February 13, 2014

Posted on February 13, 2014 by admin

February 13th, 8pm+
FREE!, but please bring something delicious to share.

Join us for Flux Thursday, our monthly potluck dinner and art salon, which is organized this month by Flux Artists-in-Residence, Chris Stiegler, Serge Stephan, Zuzia Juszkiewicz, Ben Seretan, and Jimmy Riordan. It will be an night of curated experiences including poetry, movement and experimental food pairings. The event starts at 8pm.

He made some reservations for dinner but I don’t know where we are going. He said that I have to come to the date with an open mind ready for anything. Oh and to bring my appetite. He used the phrases transcendental and unlikely eating arrangement. Whatever that means, it sounds interesting. And oh, he said levitation. I hope there will be a magician.

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Exhibition dates through February 2015: by appointment and during select public events. Contact Jason Eppink to schedule an appointment.

Opening Reception: April 3, 6-9pm Office Hours: April 1 – April 15, 4-7pm daily

Thursday April 10, 8pm + FREE! But please bring something delicious to share!

An evening of performances, meditations, and tea service

Sunday March 30, doors at 6:30pm, show begins at 7pm. A suggested four dollar donation. RSVP suggested.

March 13th, 8pm+ FREE!, but please bring something delicious to share.

Opening Reception: April 3, 6-9pm
Office Hours: April 1 – April 15, 4-7pm daily

Thursday April 10, 8pm +
FREE! But please bring something delicious to share!

March 13th, 8pm+
FREE!, but please bring something delicious to share.