Debra Marie Drexler
The installation based on the painting “The Boogie Men Who Live Under Your Bed”, which inhabits a bedroom of Flux Factory. All furnishings and found objects in the installation were found on site in the bedroom. The installation takes an absurd look at fear.
Eleanor Lovinsky
Flux Factory Goes Boom
wood paddles, rubber balls
Explosive wooden paddle balls to commemorate the destruction of Flux
Factory by the MTA
Junko Shimizu
In The Search
Oil on Canvas (H25 x W30), pencil on board (10×10)
Flux Factory has always been a piece of art as a whole, a giant living sculpture. I’d like to commemorate Flux Factory by recreating a wall and being a part of it.
-Paint one of the walls and put patterns
-Hang my paintings on the wall
Marco Scoffier
Miwa Koizumi
Marie Losier
Flying Saucey!
2006; 16mm, color, sound, 11 min.A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with 280 pounds of spaguetti. A battle for sauce and survival ensues.
Brandan Doty
Flux Hockey League, Logo
Oil on Wood
A logo for the Flux Hockey League, which was an awesome and dangerous league
Rémi Marie
”A RIDDLE”
audio player + headphones
sound track : I read a letter from new-york to vienna about… precariousness of the being… and the life in flux factory
Carly Liebman
drip, dread, drop
found metal, paint, fan, fabric, cotton, plastic, balloons, twine, silicone, wax, pantyhose, etc.
The laundry room is a projection into the future at Flux. Forgotten by the MTA, the room falls into disrepair. An elaborate plumbing system creates the necessary moisture for a new form of life to emerge.
NG
ROAD MOVIE chapter 1 FLUX FACTORY
Video
I will show the first chapter of my ROAD MOVIE , a film I’m doing since I ‘m moving for two years from town to town. This first chapter shows the life of a small group of artists and curators living working and showing their work in Flux Factory a warehouse in Queens, in a no man’s land of railroad, old factories, supermarket…with an impressive view on Manhattan. To film is my way to comprehend the people and the space, how we inhabit an architecture how we transform it, play with it, how people and space interact, how the space affect the way of doing and thinking (and vice versa).
Laurie Stone and Richard Toon
“The Vase Isn’t Hurt by Being Put in a Glass Case”
Compact Disc
A sound piece including human voice and original music that meditates on being a human exhibit in the Flux Factory’s show “Novel.”
Ethan Weinstock
Body Double
Video
Body Double is an installation about a dream I had in my bedroom at Flux. In this dream, my body was an ideal canvas for individual creativity and self-reinvention. A way to challenge social values and cultural assumptions about beauty and identity. The opportunity to cross boundaries of gender, national identity, and cultural stereotypes. My body was where confrontation is expressed: male/female, living/non-living, human/non- human…I was ‘Baywatch’ Superstar’s Pamela Anderson!
co-produced w/ Francois Leloup-Collet
Amelia Geocos
Ghetonik
video
Ghetonik is a video mixing France’s new dance craze going on right now called Tektonic and New-York Ghetto spirit. The result of this combination is a raved out discoed up version of the Macarena. A true spirit of French-American cultural exchange at its highest level!
co-produced w/ Francois Leloup-Collet.
Zoë Cohen
Show Someone How You Feel About Something
paper, marker, wheat paste
Participatory drawing project, Fluxers and visitors will be invited to make a drawing showing someone (anyone) how they feel about something (anything) and then wheat-paste it to the wall.
Anibal Catalan
flux energies
digital prints, 30×30 cm
digital drawings where the energy of all fluxers are represented in different locations or warehouses from abroad.
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria
“PERSONS IN TRAINS PLEASE CALL 718 707 3362″
Meg Duguid
Nick Yulman
Requiem 38-38
Mixed Media
A song installation. Mechanical instruments and a chorus of singing radios perform a requiem for 38-38 43rd street. The mood is alternately “reflective somberness” and “total dance party”. Lights are low with projected images, recalling a 19th century phantasmagoria show and at times, a disco.
Nicole Tucker
“Flux Factory Factory”
Paper, soil, seeds, visitor, precipitation, solar energy
Folded paper seed packets for vistors to carry away from Flux and put wherever they want. Flux is not a site but experiences that unfold over time - seeds travel like Flux, unfold, reproduce. Flux can be public or private. Put your Flux Factory where you want it.
John Roach
fluxlotto
Fans, plastic, styrofoam, lights, etc.
A machine for selecting artists for future Fluxfactory exhibitions, drawn from the enormous roster of past Flux Artists.
Nick Normal
Ziggurat Viscose (works to protect you)
tower-style structure compiled from objects and materials constituting ones life. precarious, stacked, it will be wrapped in cellophane making the structure a single, encased form.
Simone Meltesen
Soft House Project: Flux Factory
Felted Wool, Silkscreening ink, embroidery floss
I will make a small soft sculpture of Flux Factory for each person who lives in the Flux Factory currently, so they can take the Flux Factory with them even when it is gone.
Bridget Parris
Beacon for Good Luck
Porcelain, wood, and glitter
My piece is a porcelain tugboat with a Grizzly Bear, Wolf, and the Chrysler Building sailing away into the future in it. Dolphins swim along it’s side as beacons of good luck, and happiness for the future of Flux.
François Leloup-Collet
Body Double
Video
Body Double is an installation about a dream I had in my bedroom at Flux. In this dream, my body was an ideal canvas for individual creativity and self-reinvention. A way to challenge social values and cultural assumptions about beauty and identity. The opportunity to cross boundaries of gender, national identity, and cultural stereotypes. My body was where confrontation is expressed: male/female, living/non-living, human/non- human…I was ‘Baywatch’ Superstar’s Pamela Anderson!
co-produced w/ Ethan Weinstock.
Ghetonik
video
Ghetonik is a video mixing France’s new dance craze going on right now called Tektonic and New-York Ghetto spirit. The result of this combination is a raved out discoed up version of the Macarena. A true spirit of French-American cultural exchange at its highest level!
co-produced w/ Amelia Goecos
Carrie Fucile
Exit
inscribed door, paper, crayon
Johannes DeYoung
“Forget It”
Reclaimed wood and C9-light strands.
“Forget It” is a text-based sign comprised of reclaimed wood fragments and C9-light strands that sits atop the Flux Factory roof, facing the gallery’s interior, with the gallery’s scenic Manhattan view as its backdrop. The urban backdrop acts as an implied support for the sign, aesthetically absorbing the weathered wood letters during the day, while resonating and affirming it’s illumination at night. The text “Forget It” is a non-descript directive to all of its viewers, evoking the viewers own wealth of memories in its command, while conversely underscoring and enforcing the very same memories it commands the viewer to forget.
Justin Braun
eminent domain
wood, posterboard, paper, marker
Elizabeth White
Twining
MATERIALS: Twine
With a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s Mile of String,Twining takes the form of an all-encompassing network diagram, creating a visual web throughout the space. With Flux Factory relocation now inevitable, the installation also suggests a space filled with cobwebs, and the tying up of packages for moving. Pointing to the value Flux Factory places on collaboration and interaction, Twining is formed in “in between” spaces and the title of the piece is a play on the animation technique of “tweening”: the creation of smooth transitions between frames.
Jay Braun
Soundhenge
Computer with pro-tools, 24-track console, speaker cable,
speaker amplifiers, speakers
A composition comprised of sounds recorded around Flux projected into a three-dimensional nvironment using speakers varying in size, type and location preferably speakers from around Flux). The composition’s source (Pro Tools) will have many (up to 24) outputs routed to different speakers at different times to help shape the composition’s sound and movement round the room.
Ranjit Bhatnagar
Voicevat
Wood, plexiglass, electronics, vinyl record
The voices of flux factory members and friends are recorded on vinyl and played back endlessly by a sloppy homemade gramophone until it falls apart.
Mikey Barringer
Every Day My Birthday
MATERIALS: Drums and found objects.
Every Day My Birthday will be an enormous drum set that will take over my bedroom for the duration of the show. I will have space only to sleep and to drum, and others are invited to come in and play on the set as well. It will be an ungainly drum set, and there will be no way to play it all without moving throughout the space. Multiple drummers, I would think, are ideal.
Marion Arnaud
Urban Jungle
Materials: Mixed Media
The computer room has the maps to the city and instructions. It’s got the family picture. It’s white and not really décorated. It’s the representation of the structure of the city that I wish to take over with the beauty of the jungle (where I was before nyc in peru). Plus, new york is the archetype of the urban jungle… The theme is perfect. One may easily argue that Flux is a jungle as well. Wild animals. Structured chaos.
The representation is of nature taking over the city. Walls green, leaves, sound of nature. snakes, branches. Decaying city, maps, being covered. birds . smells.