NOW WITH DOWNLOADABLE MAP!

From May 16 to 23, 2009 the Kindness and Imagination Development Society (K.I.D.S.) will partner with Flux Factory to carry out a series of events and actions in parks, on quiet streets, on busy sidewalks, at workplaces, in private residences, in public libraries and museums, and anywhere else the K.I.D.S. can think of to play and work. The series will be characterized by an ethic of generosity, innovation, and open exchange.

The series of activities will be co-produced collaboratively by an open, changeable, and inclusive group of individuals, including you, we hope!

These events will take place throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.
To learn more about the K.I.D.S. and for schedule updates please visit

kidsociety.wordpress.com

You can download a PDF of the map and activity book with the schedule for the week. Print out on two sides of a sheet and fold up into a book on your own. Just fold on the dotted lines and cut on the solid line (in the middle of the page), then fold it up into a book with the map poster concealed within!

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES – MAY 16-23, 2009

Saturday, May 16
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Union Square steps, 14th Street and Broadway, Manhattan.
Kickoff Gathering for the week of K.I.D.S. Work:
*Emt McEternalMojo leads us in a demonstration and sharing of his encyclopedic knowledge of all known handshake/highfive/hug based greeting variations. Bring your favorite greeting methods!
*Dress up party/imagination bee/costume swap. Bring costumes!
*Temporary fort/environment building exercises with cardboard boxes and fabric. Bring materials!
*Ice cream walk with kick-the-can ice-cream-makers and tin-can-telephones. Bring milk, ice, and empty coffee cans!
*Snacks galore, and much more.
*Get your activity book and guide to the week of K.I.D.S. Work.

Sunday, May 17
3:00 p.m.
Start at 615 West 113th Street, Manhattan.
*Songlines/What A Neighborhood: A singing, ice-cream-making walk around the neighborhood. As we pass sites associated with composers, we will sing snatches of their works. We will carry a banner that reads,
“What A Neighborhood!” (Elizabeth Adams and the Orfeo Duo leading. Contact: elizabethadams@musician.org)
Other days and locations for this project throughout week with improvised songs/music TBA.

Monday, May 18
7:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Herald Square, 34th Street and Broadway, Manhattan.
*Farty Party: a pep rally at the entrance of the subway station cheering on the commuters entering/exiting the train. Bring pompoms!

Tuesday, May 19
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
42nd Street at Lexington Avenue, Manhattan.
*Lunch Time Theater, or Text Me Theater will be an attempt to engage workers to perform their cell phone text messages and twitter updates on a make-shift theater stage that will imitate the soap box platform. Text Me Theater is a way to give office workers a chance to expose inner office conversation, offer the opportunity to exercise a workers’ right to speech, and also call attention to the performative nature of text message language. (Hong-An Truong, Huong Ngo leading.)

Wednesday, May 20
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
42nd Street at Lexington Avenue, Manhattan.
*Let’s Make Lunch! is a lunch time game with three goals: to engage workers in play; to reveal the difficulty of language and communication in relations of power; and to feed people who need a lunch. (Hong-An Truong, Huong Ngo leading.)

Thursday, May 21
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
*Intermittent balloon parade. Something mysterious will drift down the street. Get a helium balloon and join it! (Diane Dwyer leading.)

Friday, May 22
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Near school at 28-01 41st Ave, Long Island City, Queens.
*Blowup Sale: People will have the opportunity to blow up special balloons with multiple holes, such that a group has to work together to blow up the balloon. In exchange for this special balloon reaching a set size, the participants will get to keep it. (Eva Jung leading.)

Saturday, May 23
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Meet at the park by the East River, on Vernon Boulevard at 41st Ave., Queens.
Wrap-up Gathering of the K.I.D.S. Work Week
*Seedbomb/kite-building workshop. Build a bird-shaped kite and fly it over a nearby empty lot to drop seedbomb eggs that will grow into wildflowers. (Elizabeth Chaney leading.)
*Play with portable lawns and gardens and put mud and grass in your shoes (Emcee C.M. and Caroline Woolard leading).
*Get your feet washed afterwards (David Sutcliffe leading).
*Play music on fences with sticks.
*Spontaneously innovate card games while walking around the block.
*Rolling ball of people growing bigger like a snowball game (Jorge Rojas leading).
*Show and Tell of things that happened throughout the week, things made while at work, pictures printed by a someone special, somatic treasure map dolls, etc.
*If you have filled up your activity book through attending all the events, pick up your prize: a K.I.D. KIT to go.
*Raffle to win a K.I.D. for a day!

All Week

*Make Other Things While At Work: Make whatever you want or need while at your job this week, and bring it for Show and Tell on Saturday, May 23.

*Film From: Take your camera and load it with a roll of film (or use a disposable camera if it’s easier). Take pictures of whatever whenever wherever however. Take as much time as you need. You can forget about it and rediscover it, take a picture a day, go through a roll in two hours, whatever. When you finish the roll, unload your camera, take the roll, put it in an envelope and mail it to someone special. Friend, lover, neighbor, grandparent, pet fish, teacher, stranger, admirer. Before you send it off write a letter to the someone special about whatever, as open or as detailed or as mysterious or as perplexing as you want to be, and put it in the envelope with the roll of film. Mail it.
The someone special should develop the film.
The someone special will have your prepared photographs, a piece of you.
The someone special should do the same.
The someone should bring the pictures to the show and tell at the end of the week, on Saturday, May 23.

*The Electric K.I.D.S. performance exchange with Bulgaria: A pre-selected group of people will be performing actions based on (mis)interpreted instructions sent back and forth between Sofia and NYC.

*Somatic Treasure Maps Project: Caroline wants to hear about your aches and pains. Please tell her about every single event that ever affected your body with great detail. She will listen to everything you have to say about life’s passage and the marks it leaves behind. You are free to talk for ten minutes or two hours, without interruption. While you will be talking, she will be busy taking notes on a sheet of paper, recording your story with words and images. On Saturday, May 23rd you will be able to receive drawing for a doll, a 3-D map of your aches and pains. The doll will be yours to keep, your secret portrait, your somatic treasure map. (By Caroline Boileau. Ongoing at all K.I.D.S. locations)

*What are “Spiritual Problems”? Julia writes, “I don’t know, but I think I have some… If you’d like you can call me to speak about ’spiritual problems’ in whichever way occurs to you: as a topic, if you think you have some, other ways… I will be around to speak on Friday the 22nd and Saturday the 23rd in the evening from 6-10pm at (484) 432-1898. If you miss me or would rather, you could write me an email: juliakathrynrich@gmail.com. My name is Julia.”

The K.I.D.S. so far:

ELIZABETH ADAMS
JEAN BARBERIS
MICHAEL BERENS
AMANDA BOEKELHEIDE
CAROLINE BOILEAU
CHRISTINE CARUSO
ELIZABETH CHANEY
PEDRO DOS REIS
DIANE DWYER
TED EFREMOFF
SAM EKWURTZEL
CORDELIA ERICKSON DAVIES
KIM ESSEX
GREEM
TAKASHI HORISAKI
ASHLEY HOWARD
TIM HYDE
EVA JUNG
EVAN LAURENCE
ALAN LUPIANI
BRYAN MARKOVITZ
MARY IVY MARTINS
EMCEE C.M.
ANDREW MCMULLAN
BRENDAN MCMULLAN
EMMETT MCMULLAN
HUONG NGO
REBECCA PARKER
DOUGLAS PAULSON
JULIA RICH
DIANA RO
JORGE ROJAS
SHALIN SCUPHAM
ERIN MARIE SICKLER
DAVID SUTCLIFFE
CHEN TAMIR
JADE THACKER
CASSIE THORNTON
KYLE TRIPLETT
HONG-AN TRUONG
SARAH VALERI
JOHN WALKER
CHRISTINE WANG
NADIA WILLIAMS
CAROLINE WOOLARD

June – August 2008

sign up for tours: jean@fluxfactory.org or call: 718-707-3362. Aug 16/17th – double tour! THE SECRET LIFE OF FRANKLIN CRUMP (a secret 2 day bus tour, led by David Felix Sutcliffe) click for more info! Aug. 23rd w/ Jeff Stark SOLD OUT

Going Places (Doing Stuff)— Flux Factory invites New Yorkers to take a tour with artists who have become tour guides for the city. For six weeks, the general public can sign up for personally designed artist tours that range from a single afternoon to 3 days. The content of the tours are entirely up to the artists, though where you will be going is secret. Even to you!

Each tour has simply the following information: the artist, a title, a duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when you sign up for a tour, you know what to bring and how long you will be gone, but you will have no idea where you are actually going or what you will experience.

There is always mystery in traveling, even if you know where you are headed. Going Places (Doing Stuff) is all about this mystery, asking the general public to give themselves over to our artists. The excitement of simply stepping on a bus to who-knows-where becomes a metaphor and catalyst for the leap of faith inherent to aesthetic experience in general.

The tours will all be free and open to the public, the only limitation being capacity. All tours will be first-come first-serve. Riders can sign up for tours by writing jean@fluxfactory.org or calling 718-707-3362.

All tours will meet at 38-38 43rd Street unless otherwise indicated.

TOUR DATES

UPCOMING TOURS: DATES and ARTISTS

8/23/08             Jeff Stark

PAST TOURS:

Saturday, June 14th
“Action & Direction” with Matt Levy

TOUR DURATION: Day trip
WEAR: Comfortable shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting a little bit dirty (some walking in muddy areas might be involved)
BRING: Plenty of water, bring some money for lunch, drinks and souvenirs

About the artist: Matt Levy is a born-and-bred Brooklynite (represent!), a licensed NYC tour guide, an ex-poet, current romantic, urban historian and spectacle enthusiast.  His blog, Action & Direction (the two major requirements for a fully adventurous life) is mostly about NYC cultural history and spectacle. He is also the event coordinator at the City Reliquary Museum in Brooklyn. His knowledge of New York City and his rambunctious personality make him the greatest guide you could wish for.

http://actiondirection.blogspot.com/

Sunday, June 29th
“The Pennsyltucky expedition” with Douglas Paulson

TOUR DURATION: Day trip
WEAR: Comfortable shoes, clothes you don’t mind getting a little bit dirty
BRING: Some money for lunch, drinks and souvenirs
PROVIDED: Safety goggles, gloves, respirators and an MRA s’mores kit.

About the artist: In addition to his own work, Douglas Paulson joins Copenhagen’s Parfyme to become Parfyme Deluxe, and collaborates with Ward Shelley.  Based in Long Island City, Queens, he works in New York and Europe, and got his BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2003. Among other things, his work deals with urban exploration on land and water, and turning everyday experiences into extraordinary adventures.

http://www.douglaspaulson.com

Sunday, July 6th: I LIVE ON REICHERT AVENUE, led by Annie Reichert

TOUR DURATION: Day trip, roughly 7am to 7pm
WEAR: Comfortable shoes, sunblock, sunglasses, and a big shoulder bag
BRING: $10-$100 in small bills and a camera, booze whatever.
PROVIDED: morning coffee, water, and a big afternoon meal

ARTIST BIO: Annie Reichert is from Seattle, New Jersey, and Ohio. Annie enjoys photography, eavesdropping, gold paint, fake blood, hiding spots, good storytellers, and talking about building things. Professionally, she keeps busy but rarely profits from it: her pictures have been published in USA Today and US News & World Report for free! As an artist, she is interested in making oblique references to her childhood, hoping that no one will notice. Annie has a BA in Photography and Film Theory from Antioch College. These days she is working with photo, video, fabric, and food.

Saturday July 12th: WANDERING RESTAURANT, led by Gary Wiseman

TOUR DURATION: Day trip, 10 am to 9pm
Wandering restaurant mostly caters to omnivores but vegetarians and vegans are welcome to attend.

ARTIST BIO: From March 2006 to January 2008, Gary Wiseman produced 30 interactive performances under the heading Tea Project in collaboration with Red 76, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Cooley Memorial Gallery at Reed College and hundreds of performers and participants. Wiseman is currently engaged in numerous smaller scale collaborations and ongoing projects such as Personal Favorite Places (an ongoing exploration of the world through the experience of strangers), Ephemeral Temple Ltd (Purveyors of high quality low overhead temporary sacred-space), Penny For Your Thoughts (with Amy Steel) and T-Folk: Granville and Reginald Sing the Sacred Songs For You which debuts at the upcoming Artcity festival in Calgary, Alberta.

Saturday July 19th: WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
w/ Flux Factory senior trio: Jean Barberis, Stefany Anne Golberg and Morgan Meis

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GOING PLACES (DOING STUFF) is made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, as well as generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Materials for the Arts.

the last show at 38-38 43rd Street

April 4, 2008 – April 27, 2008

Opening:
Fri, Apr 4th, 7pm
w/ performance by KapOw!

Closing:
Sat, Apr 26th, 8pm
w/ Make It Go, dance party!

click here or on whale to enter exhibit site..

w/ artists:
Morgan Meis, Shalin Scupham, Angie Kang, Sarah Glidden, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Mitch Dickson, Leonora Retsas, Lisa Dillin, James Rouvelle, Annie Reichert, Douglas Paulson, Coco Gordon,
Carl Ferrero, Carla Aspenberg, Anthony Rhoads, Andrea Dezso, Debra Marie Drexler, Eleanor Lovinsky, Junko Shimizu, Miwa Koizumi, Marie Losier, Brandan Doty, Rémi Marie, Carly Liebman,
Laurie Stone and Richard Toon, Ethan Weinstock, Amelia Geocos, Zoë Cohen, Anibal Catalan, Meg Duguid, Nick Yulman, Nicole Tucker, John Roach, Nick Normal, Bridget Parris, François Leloup-Collet, Carrie Fucile, Johannes DeYoung, Justin Braun, Jay Braun, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Mikey Barringer, Marion Arnaud, and others.

Soon, very soon, the Flux Factory space at 38-38 43rd Street will be demolished. In anticipation of this event, we are turning the entirety of Flux Factory into a giant installation of itself.

For the past six years, Flux Factory has developed its gallery and aesthetics laboratory at our space in Long Island City. We have had scores of shows and many hundreds of artists have graced these halls. Now it must all be destroyed. Our entire block will be razed by the pitiless bulldozers of the MTA. Everything Must Go. Alas, such is the fate of all terrestrial things. So, to mark the end of an era and the beginning of a new one, we’re inviting artists to transform all of Flux into one giant installation. An orgy of aesthetics that takes the whole building as its raw material. The stuff of Flux will be the subject for videos, sculptures, installations, and performances. There will be an ongoing garage sale featuring Flux ephemera you always wanted (or didn’t want) from Flux, a Best-Of Flux Thursday Salon performance, and other special surprises. There will be a live feed transmitting works by Flux Factory artists from around the globe, a Flux Factory lotto machine, a bedroom transformed into a golden shrine, an opera, and so very much more.

EVERYTHING MUST GO will not be Flux Factory’s last show ever. But it will be the last show we have at 38-38 43rd Street. Be a part of the little death!

EVERYTHING MUST GO is made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, as well as generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Materials for the Arts, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

a Flux Factory collaboration at ABC No Rio:

Prospect Park Peninsula, Brooklyn, NY

October 3rd – November 16th

Opening reception: Sunday, October 7th, 2007. 12pm-4pm

Click Here for a map of Prospect Park

Click here for directions to Prospect Park

About Anytime, Now. Somewhere, Here.

A couple of years ago, I found a diary written by a man named Henry sitting in a box on top of a stack of old books near Prospect Park. The diary contains thoughts and drawings for six structures meant to be built in and around Prospect Park. I’ve decided, in time, to build all six, using Henry’s drawings as a guide. Anytime, Now. Somewhere, Here: Peninsula, is the first. It contains a song written using diary entries and free copies of excerpts from Henry’s diary are made available to the public.

Click here to read excerpts from Henry’s Diary

This project is part of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreations 40th Anniversary of Art in the Parks

Stefany Anne Golberg was reared in a Science-fearing household in an overlarge house in Las Vegas, NV. She received a BA in Philosophy from Eugene Lang College at the New School for Social Research and has an MFA in Music/Sound from Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College. Stefany is a founding member and Executive Director of the arts collective Flux Factory.

—Excerpt from Henry’s journalI had a curious dream. I was in the park, alone, completely alone, at that moment between light and dark, and I felt in the dream, I felt that I was waiting for darkness to come but it didn’t…all around the park, I saw these strange constructions, by the carousel, on Sullivan Hill…In the dream I counted six in all…And when I awoke in the morning, with the dream as fresh in my mind as any waking thought I had ever had, I said to myself

I AM A CABINET

Special thanks to Clare Weiss, Arielle Dorlester, and the Public Art Program at NYC Parks & Recreation; Tupper Thomas, Jasmine Haynes, and the Prospect Park Alliance.

Anytime, Now. Somewhere, Here. would not have been possible without the generous support of the following:

Lou Ann Alsip, Gloria Fenster, Howard & Joan Golberg, Terrence Hardcastle, Elaine Meis, and Flux Factory, Inc.

The artists in Secret Clubhouse #2 received a key to the LMCC space at 125 Maiden Lane. They alone listened to the phone messages from Secret Clubhouse #1 but never went to that space. Listening to the messages, they created graphical representations of and responses to the descriptions they heard. The events at Secret Clubhouse #1 were thus translated through verbal descriptions to the artists at Secret Clubhouse #2 and now take on a second life on the walls of 125 Maiden Lane. Including works from: Sarah Glidden, Andrea Dezsö, Daupo, David Sandlin, Eun-Ha Paek, Lauren Berke, Fay Ryu

In Secret Clubhouse #1, a still-unrevealed location in a warehouse in Long Island City, artists have been working for six months. Each artist received a key to the space but had no idea what they would find. Each artist was given two weeks to produce work based on whatever was left behind by previous artists. None of the artists know each other, yet each has the same task: to solve the unfinished aesthetic ‘problems’ left behind and create new challenges for the next artists. As they work, they leave phone messages on an answering service explaining what the space looks like as they’ve found it, what they have changed, and why.

Special thanks to Radhika Subramaniam and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for their support of this project. And special thanks to The Believer Magazine, which will publish a story about the project in the coming year.

December 14, 2007 – January 2008

Opening, Friday Dec. 14th, 2007 – 7pm

CLICK HERE FOR NYNYNY INSTALLATION VIEW

Opening night performances by:
Miwa Koizumi: “New York Flavors Ice Cream”
Matt Levy: “Action, Direction, Creation presents: Interactive activity”

“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.”
–Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York (1978)

Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir. Original concept by Jean Barberis.

Panel Discussion: Sunday, January 6, 4pm

Closing reception: Saturday, January 12, 6pm. With Film Program curated by Marie Losier, 7pm-8pm

Gallery hours: Fridays – Sundays, 1-5pm. Closed Dec. 23rd and 30th.

Imagine Coney Island’s Dreamland, Steeplechase, and Luna Park reborn. Imagine a sea monster in the East River, a volcano erupting in Manhattan, Midtown in ruins. The contemporary brownstones of Cobble Hill buried beneath its original namesake hill, a big whale in the place of the Museum of Natural History, and The New York Crystal Palace returned to 42^nd Street.

In short, a New York City that is the forgotten past and the fantastic future all at once. A New York City where anything is possible.

New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia installation. It is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in urban landscapes and takes inspiration from the Panorama, Robert Moses’ scale model of New York City in the Queens Museum of Art. Members of the Flux Factory art collective will work in collaboration with over 100 artists from all five boroughs and around the world to re-imagine the public and private spaces of New York.

Each artist will contribute a building, a landmark, a street, an avenue, a block, a park, a neighborhood, an expressway, a bridge, an island, an airport—one or several elements of the urban environment. All of these individual works will be combined to produce a cohesive yet chaotic installation, a multimedia, scale-model of the city. Instead of being an exact replica to scale of the city of New York, this project offers a mental map, a replica of an imaginary New York. The goal of the show is to explore the architectural and conceptual elements of everyday space. It is an investigation into the collective unconscious of the cultural capital of the planet: The sum of all of New York’s potential exposed in a great experiment in psychogeography.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Boris Achour, Sandy Amerio, Carla Aspenberg, Leah Beeferman, Dominique Blais, Lise Brenner/Uli Lorimer/Katrina Simon, Adam Brent, Adam David Brown, Jason David Brown, Ben Bunch, Paul Burn, Ian Burns, Matthew Callinan, Anibal Catalan, Emmy Catedral/Valerie Opielski, Andrea Christens/ Takashi Horisaki, Emily Clark, Cluster8 (Parsons the New School for Design), Lewis Colburn, Daupo, Johannes De Young, Andrea Dezsö, Brandan Doty, Thomas Doyle, Kerry Downey/Alan Resnick, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpelier, Gregor Eldarb, Stephane Gilot, Tamara Gubernat, Ira Joel Haber, Aya Kakeda, Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, Israel Kandarian, Stephanie Koenig, Miwa Koizumi, Yunmee Kyong, Katerina Lanfranco, Maria Levitsky, Matt Levy, Ellen Lindner, Katja Loher, Marie Lorenz/Douglas Paulson, Molly Lowe, Marian Macken, Mapping it Out (Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts), Evie McKenna, Mary-Anne McTrowe, Greg Martin, Simone Meltesen, Ian Montgomery, Kirsten Mosher, Martina Mrongovius, Joel Morrison/Hiroshi Shafer, Heidi Neilson, Jo Q. Nelson, Rashaad Newsome, Lothar Osterburg, Miguel Palma, Gail Pickett, Bridget Parris, Bruno Persat, Annie Reichert, Leonora Retsas, Renée Ridgway, Jaimie Robson/Kristal Stevenot, Karl Saliter, Jon Sasaki, Jean Shin, Mike Peter Smith, Soft City (Rose Bianchini, Sarah Couture McPhail, Yvonne Ng, Catherine Stinson, Jason van Horne), Claudia Sohrens, George Spencer, Joel Braden Stoehr, Etosha Terryll, Nick Tobier, Joseph Craig Tompkins, Momoyo Torimitsu,Christopher Ulivo, Gabriela Vainsencher, Jason Van Horne, Vydavy Sindikat/Anytime Development, Lee Walton, Barbara Westermann, Lauren Wilcox, and Ian Wojtowicz.

Parfyme Deluxe attempts to intimidate Flux Factory!!!! Click to watch!!!

But Fluxers are hard to scare!!!!

Parfyme Deluxe challenges Flux Factory to a true-blue capitalist competition. The dueling art-enterprises will divide Flux Factory, creating DeluxeFactory. The two factories will race to out-produce and out-sell the other. Each week will be a new product(s) assignment, demanding the entrepreneurs radically alter their factories and production methods. Each collective will hit the streets to deliver their innovations. Fantastic delivery trucks, espionage and sabotage will be just some of the tricks of the trade. Whoever sells the most wins.

DeluxeFactory is a collaboration between New York/Copenhagen-based collective Parfyme Deluxe and Flux Factory.

DeluxeFactory: Bring your checkbook

Production Line
Hosted by Flux Factory, we will return Flux Factory to its original state – a factory. On conveyer belts, with big machines, a lunch-break whistle and on a 8-5 schedule, each group will go to work: producing objects, trinkets, and curios. For three weeks, at the end of each week, right on schedule, rain or shine, we will load up our truck and peddle our wares throughout New York City.

A Three-Part Perfect Competition
As any production unit, we will be judged by the market and the costs of production. What market and what costs? – The rules and conditions will change for each new product: what is available for input, output, distribution and purpose. Constraints of all kinds will force each factory to apply new procedures and strategies to become successful. The fate of the products will be determined by consumers.

The Factory
The Flux Factory space will be divided: half for Flux, half for Deluxe. Neither outfit will be able to see the other, but above each factory will be a foreman’s catwalk, allowing spectators to walk over each factory, monitoring production, critiquing diligence. A few choice products will not be shipped out, but will go to two Factories’ showroom, where, despite the possibly grim working conditions of the Factories, the products will be displayed tastefully, bathed in futuristic lighting.

Competition
Each outfit will work to dominate the market, attempting to drive the other out of business – or just stay afloat. We see in this show a very meaningful way to expand the way artists work together, as individuals and as groups, by working in a competitive atmosphere while needing to collaborate. By putting pressure on each other and creating a sense of interdependence, well both explore the means by which each artist produces and creates objects and working methods.

For information about Parfyme Deluxe:
www.parfymedeluxe.com
www.parfyme.dk
www.douglaspaulson.com

*****DELUXEFACTORY WORK SCHEDULE*****

Note: Visitors can come to Flux Factory to watch the production process during the week by appointment.
Call 718-707-3362.

WEEK ONE: New Product
Teams create a mass-produced consumer good

Saturday, September 15, 7pm:
Opening Party

Sunday, September 16, 12-5pm: DeluxeFactory goes to the Conflux Block Party to sell their wares (http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2007)

WEEK TWO: Beach Brawl
Wrestling Franchises flex their really big muscles

Saturday, September 22, 1-5pm: Factories race to mass-produce co-branded cans of whoop-ass

Sunday, September 23, 1-5pm: Wrestlers duke it out at Coney Island while support crews sell memorabilia. Meet at the parachute jump at the end of the boardwalk.

WEEK THREE: Battle of the Boy Bands

Saturday, September 29, 1 -5pm: Boy Bands make videos, costumes, t-shirts, etc.

Sunday, September 30, 1-5pm: Boy Bands rehearse and make products

CLOSING PARTY: Friday, October 5, 8pm
Boy Bands battle it out! A winner is chosen!

DeluxeFactory is made possible with public funds from: The Danish Arts Council / DaNY Arts. New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, as well as generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
The Greenwall Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Flux Factory is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization

Welcome to the city of lofty courtyards, flying gardens, and earszikha!

Click to see DOCUMENTATION OF OUR WORK HERE IN BUDAPEST

This summer, Flux Factory partners with the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York and a group of Hungarian artists and architecture students from the Szent József Studió Kollégium to bring the Pavilion for the City of Budapest New York to the 2007 Sziget Festival in Budapest.

Taking its cue from two ride/exhibitions from the 1939 New York World’s Fair—GM’s Futurama and the iconic Democracity—the Budapest New York pavilion will be a mechanical ride that takes visitors around a scale model of the imaginary city of Budapest New York. The model will blend architectural elements from both cities to create a cityscape that is tantalizingly recognizable yet entirely unique.

The festival runs from August 8-15 and we will be in Budapest for 5 weeks building, so if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and drink some pálinka with us. And don’t forget to follow documentation of the project starting in July on the Hungarian Center website.

The project is also co-sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Participating Artists:

Albatross
Flux Factory at Socrates Scultpure Park
May 6th – August 5th, 2007

July 1 – July 14: Exhibit at Flux Factory

an artistic collaboration between Flux Factory and an entire city.

Opening Party: Saturday, June 2,
4pm at the Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ

Paterson participants

Jean Barberis, Mikey Barringer, Angela Beallor, Jason David Brown, Christine Conforti, Joseph Costa, Giacomo De Stefano, Peter Duyan, Alita Edgar, eteam, Neil Freeman, Dana Gramp, The Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic of Paterson, Suzanne Joelson, Branden Koch, Don Kommit, Joe Milutis, The Paterson Museum, Leonora Retsas, Joe Ruffilo, Shuli Sade, Ruth Stanford.

*Conceived and Organized by Stefany Anne Golberg and Morgan Meis*

EVENTS & TOURS DIRECTIONS TO PATERSON

TELL US YOUR MONUMENT IDEAS

I guess the Paterson area is where I had a lot of my contact with quarries and I think that is somewhat embedded in my psyche. As a kid I used to go and prowl around all those quarries. And of course, they figured strongly in Paterson. When I read the poems I was interested in that, especially this one part of Paterson where it showed all the strata levels under Paterson. Sorta proto-conceptual art, you might say. Later on I wrote an article for Artforum on Passaic which is a city on the Passaic River south of Paterson. In a way I think it reflects that whole area. Williams did have a sense of that kind of New Jersey landscape.”
–Robert Smithson

Paterson, New Jersey is a special place. Founded as the first planned industrial city by Alexander Hamilton and others, it played a major role in the development of the United States as an industrial powerhouse and economically independent nation. But Paterson has also worked its way into the cultural imagination of the United States. William Carlos Williams wrote an extended lyrical poem in five books, taking Paterson as his title and subject of inquiry. The important American artist Robert Smithson considered Paterson and the surrounding Passaic Valley to be a source of inspiration for his earth works. Indeed, Paterson and the American Imagination seem deeply connected.

Flux Factory explores this connection by organizing a unique art event and exhibit called Paterson. Working in collaboration with the Paterson Museum in Paterson’s historic mill district, Flux has assembled a team of artists, designers, architects, and urban planners who will develop plans for a proposed monument to Paterson. A space set aside for us within the Paterson Museum acts as a monument headquarters and is open to the public on a daily basis. Citizens of Paterson are encouraged to present their ideas, concerns, dreams, and desires to the team. There is also a schedule of open forums, tours, presentations, walks, and parties. For six weeks, members of the team, as well as the general public in Paterson and in the Tri-State area, will have the opportunity to experience Paterson in all its facets.

As in every Flux Factory project, the emphasis is on collaboration and a process that is open-ended by design. Everyone involved will address a central question: What is a monument’s role and how does the establishment of a monument affect a community?

At the end of this six-week period, an official proposal will be presented to the City of Paterson that reflects the experiences, thoughts, and ideas of the team. What happens with the proposal from then on will be the choice of the people of Paterson.

PROJECT GOALS

The goal of this project is to develop a plan, through a creative collaborative process, for a monument to Paterson that will be built in Paterson. It is quite possible that this project will culminate in the actual construction of a monument. But in a very real sense, the more important part of the project is the process itself. That is where the ideas and interests of Patersonians and outside artists will be tapped and explored. This is what is most exciting about the project and where it is genuinely unique. There are a lot of energies just beneath the surface of Paterson, both in terms of the hopes and dreams of its residents and in the latent historical memories of the place itself. The Paterson monument proposal will be a focusing point for those hopes and energies.

Sert, Leger, and Giedion wrote in the ‘Nine Points on Monumentality’:
Monuments are the expression of man’s highest cultural needs. They have to satisfy the eternal demand of the people for translation of their collective force into symbols. The most vital monuments are those which express the feeling and thinking of this collective force—the people.

What is a monument? Is it an ode to bygone days? A celebration of the past or an expression of the future? We think that “Paterson” will create an artwork out of the process of thinking through these questions. Most fundamentally, this project carries forward an idea of collaboration that animates everything we do at Flux Factory. Flux Factory projects are always about bringing groups of people together in order to create an experience. In this case, the idea of collaboration is being pushed to a whole new level: a collaboration that involves an entire city. Indeed, more than an entire city, since a basic assumption of this project is that Paterson is a lens through which one can discover things about the American experience in general and potentially involve people from all over the world.

As William Carlos Williams once wrote:

Yet there is
no return: rolling up out of chaos,
a nine months’ wonder, the city
the man, an identity—it can’t be
otherwise—an
interpenetration, both ways.
…
divided as the dew,
floating mists, to be rained down and
regathered into a river that flows
and encircles:
shells and animalcules
generally and so to man,

to Paterson.
‘Paterson’ is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, as well as generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Morgan and Stefany on patersononline.net (no, we didn’t intend to dress the same that day…)

March 9th- April 12th, 2007
Opening: Friday, March 9th, 7pm

Our story begins with Troy Hurtubise who was attacked by a grizzly bear in the Canadian Rockies. Troy survived and decided that he would one day return to the Rockies, this time fully prepared to win. Cut to director Peter Lynch, who created a documentary called “Project Grizzly” about Troy and his quest to create a grizzly-proof suit. It is one man’s obsession to defeat nature. In the film, Troy has his friends “test” his suit in various violent ways (ramming trucks, flying logs, etc.) and then heads to the heart of Grizzly country for an adventure that ends, unceremoniously, in failure.

Flux Factory has invited artists from around the world to create their own response to Troy’s body of work and life’s ambition. Artists were asked to take on the age-old theme of human-versus-nature, the conflicting desire to understand the natural and to commune with it, and the need to control its cruelest aspects. Just as “Project Grizzly” addresses one man’s obsession with invincibility it also gives voice to a dream that is at the heart of the human experience. Troy’s dream may be a little bit insane, but it is moving nonetheless.

Please join us in exploring, uncovering, and paying tribute to this extraordinary narrative.

ARTISTS
Kristoffer Ardena, Dominique Blais, Paul Burn, Johannes DeYoung, Lisa Dillin,
Chris Hackett & Eleanor Lovinsky, Aya Kakeda, Katerina Lanfranco, Fabienne Lasserre,
Marie Losier & Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Peter Lynch, Ian Montgomery,
Motomichi Nakamura, Frank Olive & Rudy Shepherd, Douglas Paulson, Bruno Persat, Hideki Takahashi, Hiroshi Shafer, Shawn Spencer.

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm and by appointment.
please contact: jean at fluxfactory.org

READ ABOUT ‘GRIZZLY PROOF’ IN

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Friday, March 16th at 8pm, LIVE MUSIC
Chris Black from the Golden Arm Trio
Sex with an Angel

Sunday, March 18th at 2pm, DIORAMA DAY
* Katerina Lanfranco presents
“Myths of Nature in Art, Science, and Religion: From Dioramas to Dogmas”

*Aya Kakeda teaches a hands-on how-to diorama workshop
We provide all materials! FREE!

VIEW DOCUMENTATION OF THIS EVENT

Thursday, April 12 at 8pm, CLOSING
Bear-themed party
With special performance by artist Johannes DeYoung
*wear a costume and/or prepare to dance!
BYOBear

PAST
View Nick Normal’s pics of the opening

Special one-night screening of
“Project Grizzly” –the film that inspired the show!
Presented by director Peter Lynch with follow-up Q & A
New Center Cinema
4217 Queens Blvd.
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-361-6869

Why Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International?

Well, it’s quite a monument. Of course, it isn’t a monument at all, having never been built. But it is a striking and impressive idea for a monument. The model for it alone is unforgettable in pictures and drawings. It is a bold piece of work. Lacking any definitive function, it is the testament to a need, a desire, a concept. Pushing the very boundaries of human technological capacity at the time, it could only have been built using the newest methods in metal engineering and construction. It is an optimistic monument. You cannot look at the monument without thinking of the future and of human possibility. It is solid and dynamic at the same time. It portrays movement with purpose. It is beautiful.

Why ‘conceived in the mood of ambivalence’?

It is all form and no content. It is the idea of human possibility without any articulation of what human possibility actually looks and feels like. With so much life, it is dead. It is an ideal monument in the good sense, but in the bad sense as well. There’s no debate in it, no place for the contested milieu of civil society. It can’t be amended or changed, it just is. It would have to exist outside the boundaries of day to day urban life; alone, infinite, empty.

What do we mean by ‘response’?

Our monument will be Tatlin’s monument plus all the mess of lived experience. It’s the ‘hands-on’ approach to utopia. It will change and transform during its lifetime according to the fights and discussions and ideas of the people who interact with it. And so, it will have a beginning and an end. It will be finite. To put it simply, our tower will be the kind of place you’d actually want to spend some time in. It will have a café. It will have a room for napping. And still, it will gesture to something beyond what we are now, to a better version of ourselves that we still hope to attain, whether or not we know how.

ARTISTS

Briony Barr is English and Australian but has called New York home for the past 6 years. The daughter of a painter and a picture-framer, a life in art was on always on the cards and indeed, she has made a lot of drawings and other things in her time. Recent work has ranged from plotting the movements of a waiter on the floor of a restaurant with tape to making time-lapse drawings of people moving through customs at the airport. Most recently she worked with fellow friend of Flux Martina Mrongovius to create a line structure, grown over several weeks on a fence in Queens. Briony’s work can be seen as part of the viewing program at The Drawing Center and in Pierogi 2000’s Flat Files. She is currently having a solo drawing show in Mexico City.

Mikey Barringer studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. There he learned how to act, make films, and speak German. All three skills have turned out to be quite useful for life at Flux Factory, and you’d think it was somehow meant to be that way. This is his first show.

Ranjit Bhatnagar has been exhibiting sound sculpture and alternative musical instruments since 1995, such as the Silence Organ and the MIDI Ironing Board. Recently, Ranjit has taught students at Parsons School of Design to make their own instruments and play in a band, contributed robotic musical instruments to Flux Factory’s Fluxbox show, and to Artbots NYC at the Location One gallery in SOHO. A selection of his photos are currently on exhibit at the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn.

Jason David Brown

Mikala Hyldig Dal was born 1979 in the medieval city of Aarhus, Denmark. She is now an inhabitant of the great city of Berlin, Germany, a student of the infamous University of Arts Berlin studying media art, experimental film, graphic-, photographic- & digital design. Mikala is concerned about the transformation of 3-d space into a 2-d realm and vice versa, an ongoing subject matter being architecture on tape. A recurrent strategy is the intertwining of analogue and digital media creating hybrid visual expressions, in general trying to accomplish radical abstractions of source material (/subject matter) in the recording process rather than in the post-production.

Daupo is the Neo-Primitivist Folk Collective of One, and is known to the mundane world as David Gassaway. R.T.T.M.T.T.T.I.C.I.T.M.O.A. is his umpteenth collaboration with Flux Factory, with which he has dressed funny, made watercolour paintings, auctioneered, cartographed, demolished, constructed, construed, and conceived. Left to his own devices he is a draughtsman more than anything else.

Marie-Eve Jetzer believes in the multitude of the I. After her Central Swiss Ministry of Culture and Education residency in New York is over, she is looking to settle down in the city of the great and the mighty at least on a semipermanent basis. After graduating from Glasgow School of Art a few years ago, she has been working as a multi-mixed media artist and very much enjoys the materialshuffling spaceshifting explorations of her mental realm. If anybody has a room to spare from the beginning of next year please let her know.

Born-n-bred in St. Louis, Missouri, Nick Normal pursued his undergraduate degree overseas at Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design (London, UK) where he graduated with ‘honours’ in Fine Arts (and unbelievably, he didn’t pick up an accent, although he does now drink his body weight in tea every week). With a firm approach to working with whatever he can get his hands and mind on, Nick enjoys making scale models, maquettes and installations and buying dollar-store items to integrate into his surroundings – that is, both his life and his work. He is also a lifelong biblioholic, which has recently turned into assembling an ‘expansive library’ of cardboard books. Nick is also building an archive of press releases, postcards, flyers, brochures, etc. related to art exhibitions – in progress now since November 2003, it is estimated at 3,000 individual items and spans a plethora of three- and four-ring binders.

Emma Stone Mackinnon believes in both collectives and solitude. Growing up in Brooklyn, she learned to love other people; getting her degree from Harvard, she learned some philosophy and political theory, and also managed to learn to love making installations with other people (especially others of the Reasonable People’s League). She learned to make ice cream in Boston, ice cream capital of North America, at Toscanini’s, where Daupo also once worked (he made the cakes). These days, when not at Flux Factory, Emma spends most of her time doing political media strategy at Fenton Communications.

Ian Montgomery was trained as a carpenter and furniture maker. His current work combines found materials with organic patterns and processes. Ian received his B.A. in Studio Arts at Bard College in 2003 and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Lacoste School of the Arts in 2002. He received international attention for his project in Flux Factory’s NOVEL show.

Annie Reichert swears she is from Seattle, New Jersey, and Ohio. She enjoys photography, eavesdropping, gold paint, fake blood, avocados, good storytellers, and building things–even though she’s not very skilled at it. Professionally she keeps busy but rarely profits from it: her pictures have been published in USA Today and US News and World Report for free! As an artist, she is interested in making oblique references to her childhood, hoping that no one will notice. Annie has surprisingly soft hands and wishes she could tell lies better and less often.

Ksenya Samarskaya is a designer-artist-inventor concerned with narrating and structuring grandiose plans for the minutiae. Notwithstanding, it often ends up the other way around. She lives in Brooklyn, is fond of rotating dinners and would love to hear from you if you happen to have an electric kiln or a letterpress that you no longer care for.

Matthew Slaats is the new kid on the block, making his preliminary excursion into the New York art scene. Working in a multitude of areas, his main interest is in engaging people through his process. He accomplishes this by recontextualizing spaces through performance. He recently worked in Singapore as a project manager for the Ong Keng Sen’s production Diaspora. Other work includes working as a production manager with theatre artist Richard Gough. In the meantime, he’s out exploring the already explored.

For press inquiries, contact stefany @ fluxfactory.org

THIS SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Performances by Mr. Resistor and the George Galliano Jazz Trio starting at 7!
Ice Cream and Delicious snacks in the Kafeteriaeria!

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TATLIN, HIS TOWER, AND CONSTRUCTIVISM,
HERE’S A GOOD PLACE TO START…CLICK NOW…

illustration by Briony Barr

illustration by Briony Barr

illustration by Daupo

illustration by Daupo

This past year, and especially the last few months, we began to notice the streets of WesternQueens becoming filled with new works of public art. More and more, it seems that the neighborhoods of Long Island City, Astoria, Sunnyside, and Woodside have become a laboratory for the latest in street art.

Further research revealed a hitherto unknown collective called Queens Blackout Division that has recently put out a call to artists asking them to produce art in the streets of Western Queens. They want artists to post information about the work on their website, queensblackoutdivision.net.

The more we thought about it over here at the old Flux Factory, the more we realized that we have something of a movement on our hands. Our show, therefore, is simply a concerted effort to get the public out on the streets and interacting with the work. To facilitate this interaction, we’re organizing audio tours, walking tours, bike tours, maps, and other material. The exact schedule for these tours will be posted on this site soon. By the opening of the show, September 23, most of this material will be easily downloaded directly from this site. These tours should be good fun and will all be different.

Our space on 43rd Street will become a video archive, headquarters, and giant map for charting all the work going on in the neighborhood.

Looking forward to seeing you out on the street!

CATALOGUE by Melanie Cohn
you may view and purchace a copy here

AUDIO TOUR BY STEFANY ANNE GOLBERG and MORGAN MEIS
Download tour here (zipped folder, mp3 format)
Instructions: There is currently one Audio Tour. Listen to all individual tracks in order.

VIDEOS
Showing in the Flux Factory space: Open Air by Knox, a street art documentary starring ESPO, Marco, Dan Witz, FAILE, Michael De Feo, Skewville, Tiki Jay-One, Lou. www.myspace.com/openairstreetart

MAPS
Map are free and downloadable. Print one out and see the streets of Queens on your own.

TOURS-All tours meet at Flux Factory at 3pm unless otherwise indicated.
Bikes for bike tours will NOT be provided by Flux Factory.

Sunday, September 24: Bike tour with Jean Barberis

Saturday, September 30: Walking tour with Andrea Dezsö
THIS TOUR IS NOT MEETING AT FLUX FACTORY! Meet at 3 pm on Ditmars Blvd. in front of the Starbucks. Take the N or W to Astoria get off at the last stop, the Starbucks store is right there at the end of the elevated train as you come down the stairs.
(***more info below)

Sunday, October 1st: Bike tour with Kerry Downey

Saturday, October 7th: OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK WEEKEND!
and Walking tour with Melanie Franklin Cohn

Sunday, October 8th: OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK WEEKEND!
and Bike tour with Ellen Kleckner

Saturday, October 14th: Walking tour with Meg Duguid

Sunday, October 15th: TBA

Saturday, October 21st: Street Tour and Pub Crawl with Morgan Meis and Ellen Kleckner

***Andrea Dezsö and Adam Gurvitch: Chasing Berch Walking Tour

High Art, Low Art, No Art – Berch in Queens

Depending on one’s class and neighborhood, many Americans’ exposure to ‘art’ is limited to what they see in advertisement: billboards, TV commercials, product packaging, calendars; homes, bars, and shops display reprints of vintage beverage logos, travel posters, and promos for movies and music.

Astoria and Long Island City, solidly working class neighborhoods being revived foremost through immigration and increasingly through gentrification, are distinguished by a streak of nostalgic painting on shop windows and exterior walls by the artist Berch. Berch has given the neighborhood a subtle, defined visual brand invoking the American dream of the neighborhood’s Italian, Irish, and Greek settlers of decades ago. Berch’s street paintings depict Easter feasts, Christmas regalia, autumnal bounties, Greek New Year’s delicacies, fruit cornucopias, bouquets, loaves of peasant bread, and crisp pizzas.

Berch gives us an expression of enduring aspirations, a common thread extending the desires of the neighborhood’s established ethnic enclaves to the newest generation of settlers who seek the neighborhood’s promise. Walking the neighborhood’s commercial avenues from Broadway to Ditmars, residents of western Queens are enticed to indulge in each new season’s festivities and the idealized goods on offer inside the shops that Berch has adorned. Forego the latest, hippest trends, and Berch will point you to family businesses that have sustained Astorians for generations with prosciutto, Sicilian slices, stuffed grape leaves, fresh fruit, and all the rest.

Berch’s style is reminiscent of the commercial art of an earlier period. His content and subject matter are strictly proscribed, but he paints with a free hand. After September 11th, 2001, Berch contributed to the city’s burgeoning impromptu wall memorial movement. His work is distinctive enough that you can always recognize a Berch without having to see the signature, which is high praise for any street artist. We’ve sought out Berch, but haven’t yet been able to speak with him.

So who is Berch, and what are we to make of his art? Are the neighborhood’s pervasive, custom hand-painted still lifes decoration, advertising, mural, or something beyond?

And Dubok Demolition Rok duo

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OPOLIS presents Comix-Fluxture-as-city. Opolis is an imaginary city, located in the Flux Factory main space. Individual city blocks have been assigned to individual cartoonists and illustrators. These cartoonists have designed the buildings and environments that will fill the city blocks (an apartment building, a looming office skyscraper, a library, a public park…) with invented characters that are the citizens of Opolis.

OPOLIS is the third manifestation of Flux Factory’s annual “Comix Fluxture” exhibit. These exhibits have brought cartoonists and illustrators into the gallery to create comics narratives that also function as installation art. The ongoing objective of the series is to create works of art to be read intimately—as a comic strip—but also contribute to an overall installation spectacle.

OPOLIS was made possible from generous support by
THE GREENWALL FOUNDATION and
NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

FINAL OPEN HOURS:
Friday the 4th from 4 – 7 pm
Saturday the 5th starting at 12pm with closing party starting at 7pm.

PERFORMANCE BY BRIAN AND LEON DEWAN AT 8:30pm!
Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan will perform on the Dual Primate Console and
other handcrafted semi-automatic electronic instruments for the closing
party of OPOLIS, August 5th. The open-air performance will take place at
8:30 pm on the Flux Factory roof, a veritable drive-in-movie without the
movie. The Dual Primate Console requires two operators, and the Dewans will
weave together intertwining rhythms. In addition, two rhapsodic solo
instruments, the Swarmatron and Melody Gin, will also be featured.

MORE INFO HERE

FLUX FACTORY’S SPRING BENEFIT BAZAAR 2006

With donations by no less than 250 artists, from over 20 countries, on five continents! click here for details

READ ABOUT FluxBox in TIMEOUTNY!

AND IN THE NEW YORKER!

New Yorker (see bottom of page)

AND ON WNYC!

Soundcheck on WNYC (Yes, I got to meet Patti Lupone for about 2 glorious seconds and I know you are jealous…)

Get the limited edition FluxBox silkscreen nowish!!!

Take a look at some excellent photos of the opening from photographer Catherine Aman here.

Our first offering up for grabs is Bone Bleach by Jim Drain.

Jim Drain recently won the Baloise Prize at Art Basel, and the work is, well, amazing.

$350, unframed, dims: approx. 16″x16″

Interested parties should contact morgan@fluxfactory.org about purchasing this piece outright; as well, pay attention to this space over the next couple of months as we rotate all the (few) works that didn’t move at the Auction. it’s the opportunity of a lifetime, at least this lifetime.