Make Money/Save Money: This multitalented Frenchman proves that home is where the art is.
Time Out New York / Issue 714 : Jun 4–10, 2009
By Jonathan Bender
The laws of physics state that bodies in motion come to rest only when an external force stops them. But Newton’s theory would have required tweaking had he [...]
Flux Factory is Moving, from FreeDimensional
By Todd Lester, March 19, 2009.
As with many civil society initiatives, it is sometimes necessary to change space … and sometimes necessary to fight for the one you already have. Herewith I am re-posting two notes from the Flux Factory and SFAI:
[Flux Factory]
After our recent eviction in October, Flux Factory [...]
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、ノイズ系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、エレクトリックな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。…
read more here
PERFORMANCE, NIGHTLIFE
Resquiescat in Flux
By MELENA RYZIK
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Betty Alexandra Bastidas for The New York Times
Artists at work in the Flux Factory.
The Flux Factory, a long-running artists’ collective in Queens, has lost its building to the M.T.A. Friday they hand over the keys, but Thursday night they’re planning [...]
WNYC – The Flux Factory is Going Places
August 6, 2008
L Magazine – July 29, 2008
Matt Levy’s Lost in History: All Boro Bonanza
Spare Times – NYTIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/11wspare.html?ex=1373515200&en=5ddc117d0609ba4c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Flux Factory Is Hoping To Take You Away
http://www.queenstribune.com/leisure/FluxFactoryIsHopingToTakeY.html
A Couple Weekend Ideas
http://www.thelmagazine.com/lmag_blog/blog/post__06130801.cfm
full recount of “Action & Direction” with Matt Levy, Saturday, June 14th:
Lost in History vol. 65: Staten Island Adventures!
First grand tour of the Going Places (Doing Stuff) project
Art factory still in Flux about move
BY LISA L. COLANGELO
Tuesday, April 29th 2008, 4:00 AM
[...]
19/03/07 – NEW YORK DIARY
One man’s failure is another man’s work of art
[...]
Rueters News on Grizzly Proof
DIRECT LINK TO VIDEO
TRANSCRIPT – Grizzly bear art, 10 Mar 2007
Tucked away in an industrial section of Long Island City, New York, an art Gallery called the ‘Flux Factory’ is launching an unusual art exhibit.
‘Grizzly Proof’ draws together works from over 20 artists inspired the film ‘Project Grizzly, a documentary about [...]
March 9, 7:54 AM
Grizzly Proof Exhibit Comes To Flux Factory
Katerina Lanfranco’s bear diorama.
By JENNIFER POLLAND
Jean Barberis, the head curator at Flux Factory, was casually browsing through a thrift shop in Montreal when he stumbled on “a childish drawing of a grizzly bear fighting a robot.” Intrigued, he asked the clerk about the drawing. That led [...]
Time Out New York / Issue 597: March 8–14, 2007
Kodiak moment
Eleven years after its release, Peter Lynch’s man-versus-bear documentary inspires artists at Flux Factory.
By Dan Avery
When Canadian documentary filmmaker Peter Lynch completed work on Project Grizzly in 1996, he knew he had something special on his hands. Detailing Troy Hurtubise’s quest to create the ultimate [...]
MONUMENTAL MOMENT
A playful approach to Tatlin’s Monument
By Aileen Torres
When I heard the title of Flux Factory’s latest show, Response to Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International Conceived in the Mood of Ambivalence, or R.T.T.M.T.T.T.I.C.I.T.M.O.A. for short, I thought I was going off to see a ridiculous, pretentious show full of highfalutin communist propaganda.I’m happy to [...]
JULY 12, 2006
C. EDWARDS
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
On the corner of Broadway and Jay Street a paranoid loner wanders an office complex at night; across town, on Rue de Poire, Julia Child is born and dies at the age of 92. Meanwhile, on Aggravation Alley, Nadia Comaneci and a group of costumed bunnies drift through heaven, hell [...]
07/06/2006
Flux Factory Breathes Life Into Mini City
by Farida Hariyanawala
(Farida Hariyanawala) Peering inside each window of “November House” to see a dream sequence played out frame by frame is one of the many sites in the Flux Factory.
It’s fall in the city of Opolis. Natasha is taking a leisurely walk in the [...]
FluxBox: Exploding the Miniature
by Bethany Ryker
Drawing by Stefany Anne Goldberg
The crank on the side of a wind-up toy or a music box is not just a mechanical device that sets things in motion; it is a generator of suspense. You give it a few turns and the tension mounts. When you get to the point [...]
L.I.C. art show
is dill-harmonic
BY CAITLIN KELLY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
It starts with – what else? – an electric pickle. A giant dill, replaced daily, contains enough salt converted into electrical impulses to power a roomful of funky, homemade musical instruments.
The dill is the opening act for Fluxbox, an art exhibition open until Saturday at the Flux [...]
Flux Factory is delighted to have been chosen to be a STAR participant in WNYC’s excellent program to support small non-profit cultural organizations.
We have been annointed, and we shall do our best to live up to the hopes and dreams of the entire WNYC listening community (and if we fail, please know that it was [...]
INS & OUTS MAGAZINE
ART WORK IN PROGRESS
By Justina Williams
Flux Factory’s warren of rooms unwinds like a Dr. Seuss landscape made manifest. Numerous small studio spaces spin off of common areas such as a library, darkroom, office, silkscreen area, well appointed shop, and a large exhibit/performance area.
Flux Factory began in 1994 in Williamsburg when a group [...]
From Yale School of Architecture 2005 Course descriptions
..
524b, Advanced Studio
9 credits
Sculpture Center Studios/Long Island City
…
Long Island City is home to artists and many of New York’s important arts institutions. Among these are the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, the Fisher Landau Center for Art, The Flux Factory, The Isamu [...]
View of exhibition lounge at Flux Factory.
What The Book?
Flux Factory
November 2004
An embroidered scroll emanating from a fat papier-maché kitten, a pop-up dungeon diorama, phone books twisted and turned into spiral waves, a flipbook of armpits bound in dirty tee-shirt cotton. In What The Book?, over forty artists show works that explore the ideas and craft [...]
Counter Culture
New Museum of Contemporary Art
September 2004
—Sonya Shrier
If nothing else, Counter Culture is a clever solution to the transitional state that the New Museum—along with most museums—is in: it is an effort to find a middle ground between the new $20 admission at MoMA and the Star Wars exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Awaiting the [...]
Treasure hunt
To get a sneak peek at the New Museum’s new digs you’ll need a map and sensible shoes
By Linda Yablonsky
Shake hands with the Bowery. It is there, at number 235 (near Prince Street), that the New Museum of Contemporary Art will soon break ground on its new home, slated to open in spring 2006. [...]
TALES WITH PLENTY OF TWISTS AND TURNS
Jim Melanson. New York Daily News. New York, N.Y.: Jul 24, 2004. pg. 25
Take a walk on the zany side. Visitors to Flux Factory in Sunnyside, Queens, today and tomorrow get to “choose their own adventure” depending on the turns they take inside the Cartnnel, a 1,500-square-foot maze [...]
Vol. 16, Iss. 48
Candy Land, A golden ticket into Flux’s Chocolate Factory.
At the entrance of the loft in Queens, a stenciled wall warns that my time here “may result in a blackening of the tongue, unrightly lengthening of the knees, including fore-thumbs, proceeding hairline, eternal heartbreak, facial uncertainty, silvering, [and] tingling.”
I have ventured to [...]
Flux Factory Explores Good Taste In All You Can Art Installation
by Keach Hagey, Chronicle Reporter
November 20, 2003
Charles a portrait in chocolate of the Prince of Wales, by British artist Prudence Emma Straite
Usually, the only gustatory experience the art world offers is in the overpriced cafe next to the gift shop. But Saturday, November 22nd, Flux [...]
in theThe Arts/Cultural section
For Art: Destination, Queens; The Modern’s Relocation Energizes Long Island City… (excerpt)
“There are tons of artists here, and their studios are everywhere,”
said Mr. Dorsky, the gallery owner. Among them is Flux Factory, an artists’
collective, which has an installation at the “Queens International”
exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art.
Last March, Morgan Mies, a [...]
Course#: 60389
Special Topic in Art History: Collaborative Art Movements
Course Title: The “Hairy Who” Meets “Instant Coffee”:
Contemporary Collaborative Art Movements in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Why collaborate now – In the last decade, there has been a charged interest in collective artmaking, in collectivizing the art experience, making individual input and signature anonymous, making art free, public, [...]
From: “Meis, Elaine”
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:05:25 -0700
To: “MORGAN J. Meis” , info@fluxfactory.org
Cc: lilan@aol.com
Subject: Kudos on the great work
Dear Fluxers,
I’ve been remiss but just spent the greater part of the afternoon catching
up on your news and projects. It was enthralling — almost as great as my
last visit in November. Seb, Jason, everyone –don’t [...]
“This non-profit artists collective, which relocated to Long Island City from Brooklyn just over a year ago, supports some of the finest experimental music-oriented happenings in the entire City. Their upcoming Soundscrape events offer a hybrid of visual and audio art from artist that slip through the cracks of more conventional music venues, and offers [...]
‘Miracle’ comes to Astoria for Flux Factory walk tour
There is no reason to be interested in 43rd Street between Northern Boulevard and the BQE in Queens, but some people are interested in it and they’re also interested in a miracle.
“Miracle on 43rd Street,” the latest project by the Flux Factory collective, will take place [...]
Flux Factory Takes Its Art To The Streets
by Paul Menchaca,
February 27, 2003
The Long Island City art collective known as Flux Factory is pushing boundaries in pursuit of public art.
For a group of artists who once took over a wing of the Queens Museum of Art, taking over a New York City street is the next [...]
Dear FluxFolks –
Land of Ice was outstanding! The energy and innovation y’all put into
this production MUCH appreciated !
Short-list of my personal favorites:
1. The Theme Song
2. the endlessly patient and generous purple-arts-&-crafts-lady
Costumes were wonderful [special mention to duct-tape-nose-guy's
coat] — Blizzard was brilliant — stump-forest mural and
[...]
http://www.fluxfactory.org/press/q_international.gif
New exhibit at QMA celebrates boro’s diversity
By Arlene McKanic 09/26/2002
“Queens International,” at the Queens Museum through Nov. 3, is huge, noisy, splashy, and exhausting. And that’s just the installation by The Flux Factory. The exhibit showcases more than 40 artists born all around the world who now call Queens home and have created art to [...]
