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Flux Factory Open Studios

November 2 @ 1:00 pm 5:00 pm UTC-5

Flux Factory
404A Colonels Row, Governors Island
Open Studios: Saturday, November 2, 1 – 5 PM

Join us on November 2 for Flux Factory’s Open Studios on Governors Island. Our last event this season on Flux Island, we’ll be closing out our fourth year celebrating our beloved resident community. Explore the work of 9 artists, our season-end exhibition and Island Luminaria Two.

PERFORMANCES

1-3 PM: Lera Lerner invites you to a participatory performance with the Non-Clairvoyant Tarot Deck
3 PM: Daria Orlova and will owen will be performing a sound composition with a collaboratively created sculpture. The sculpture itself is meant to perform on its own and collaborate with Daria and will.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Itala Aguilera is a visual artist born and raised in Mexico City, based in New York City where she works as a teacher at the Textile Arts Center and as a costume designer. Through her artistic practice she imagines an alternative reality in which the objects that surround us aren’t made for profit, but instead are compelling and reveal the complexity of human emotions.

Yasmeen Abdallah is an interdisciplinary artist, working across intersections of sculpture, textiles, painting, and social engagement. Drawing from the personal and the political through elements of memory, empowerment, trauma, resilience, and persistence, her work takes shape in various capacities from minimal gestures to maximal installations. This work is inspired by contemporary culture, history, space, place and personhood. She is interested in the stories told, and secrets kept by imprints and objects that speak to our contemporary culture.

502 Bad Gateway is the artist duo of Alexander Baumann and Robert Ruth, whose collaborative artistic disciplines include motion capture performance, oil painting, 3D game development, sculpture, vintage tech restoration, building audio synthesizers, animation, and filmmaking. Their practice focuses on integrating their artistic methods with deprecated technologies from many different eras, drawing on the history of usage to underline the intent of the work. With a foot in the world of experimental film and live performance, and the other in fine art and installation, 502 Bad Gateway desires to break the traditionally static, immutable nature of gallery work, by incorporating the real-time responsiveness of interactive live performance.

Zack Handler is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist interested in representing worlds that feel at once utopic and neptunian. In creating spaces that reflect boundless fantasy and somber interiority, Zack is possessed by the idea that emphasizing imaginal spaces can reawaken narratives for alternative futures. 

Lera Lerner (b. 1988, Leningrad) is an artist, curator, and mediator based in Paris. Through participatory projects, she investigates the paradoxical nature of expectations, the energy of side effects, the ethics of lying, suppressed desires, distracting maneuvers, and the possibilities of interspecific and cross-disciplinary communication.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in NYC.  Her work often explores site-specificity through performance and installation art while investigating colonial histories pertaining to her Afro-Caribbean, Asian, and European heritage. Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has been shown internationally.

Amelia Marzec is an American artist engaging with communications infrastructure to inform a speculative future. Their current project, Itinerant Signal Institute, examines the effect of local emissions on global climate change, and an ethnography to denote the changing of seasons.

Sally Beauti Twin
Why is the sky blue water wet? These are things that Sally Beauti Twin, the world’s most vacuous artist, hasn’t considered yet…but plans to do so soon. Artists make the dreams that make the future. In the future Sally wants  some dreams. Like bubbles, her art levitates viewers to empyrean realms. Like other trans artists she paints with a love of nature and tonalist fantasy. 

Daria Orlova is an trancedisciplinary artist from Murmansk. At the beginning of her artistic activity, Daria built total utopian installations, placing her works and the viewer there as direct participants in the interaction process (“Cafe of Dancing Lights”, Winzavod, Moscow; “Shimmering Letters. Agency of Memory”, Future3, Kiel). Now her practice pays more attention to situativeness, invisible choreography and mistakes. Total installations have become routes. The artist tries to fix the movement of thoughts, bodies and their agents by drawing with her eyes closed, moving away from an open dialogue with the artistic process, turning off one of the senses. Errors that neither a person nor a technique can exclude from their work are guides and assistants in recognizing images. Daria is also engaged in sound, listening, research of acoustic environments, for communication with non-human agents. Archives field recordings and collages them, turning them into a special kind of sound documentation. Composes sound plays and operas, plays noise and drone on modular synthesizers.

WILL OWENoriginally from western North Carolina, US, is an artist, composer, and curator currently based in Philadelphia, PA. Will graduated in 2022 with a Master of Fine Arts from UPenn and received the Sprintz Prize and Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship award. Will is currently a Master’s level Thesis Advisor at NYU’s Integrated Design and Media program. Will’s work is about urgent state changes: physical, emotional, political, and environmental. Often working with historical and site specificity, Will works with many mediums to convey conceptual ideas, but returns most often to three: Sound, Sculpture, and Food. 

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