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SUMMARY:Din Din: Quick Slice by Lily Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Nightly Screenings Beginning at DuskLocation: 39-31 29th St\, Long Island CityLily Baldwin’s film installation “Quick Slice” will screen every night in Flux Factory’s front window with free slices every Friday in June (limited pizza! First come\, first serve). \nThis event is part of the exhibition Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor events which use food and art to build community. \nFilm Description\n“Quick Slice”\, 23 minutes on loop\, 2019 \nTHINGS AREN’T WHERE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE. \nNine lonely strangers converge over a quick slice inside a casual\, no bullshit\, non-committal community hub— the pizza shop. When a “contaigent” enters\, dance turns inconsequential moments into idiosyncratic gestures\, toggling between task and choreography. A subtle\, disorientating use of editing techniques and photographic devices manipulating time craft a visceral and sonically rich dreamscape. \n“Quick Slice” scales to respective environments\, utilizing available architecture and unsuspecting surfaces. Caught between the character’s gaze\, the viewer catches shards of the story projected onto their body. These seemingly accidental screenings encourage an unadulterated and kinesthetic reception of the project. \nInspired by Netta Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities Directed by Lily BaldwinProduced by Brighid GreeneEdited by Lily Baldwin\, Sara SowellVideo installation design consulting by Joseph SeamansSound Mix by Mark degli AntoniCinematography by Ben WolfAssistant Camera Sanjay SinghStills by Courtney DenkHair by Takeo Suzuki|Makeup by Hiro YonemotoMakeup Assistant Ken SuzukiFeaturing designs by PavonProduction Assistants Rishauna Zumberg\, Jaanelle Yee \nStarring Lily Baldwin\, Henry Chesley\, Geneva Frazier\, Dean Melaas\, Toni Melaas\, Katharine Padulo\, Wally Padulo\, Angie Pittman\, Peggy Schneider\, Gus Solomons Jr.\, Amy Meisner Threet \nThanks to New York Live ArtsFiscally sponsored by Los Angeles Performance Project \nArtist Bio\nBased in NYC\, Berlin and LA\, Lily Baldwin is known for her compelling\, intricate narrative forms. Her works have screened at festivals including Sundance\, SXSW\, Berlin\, and Venice\, as well as at Lincoln Center\, the V&A Museum\, and Carnegie Hall to Anthology Film Archives\, Judson Church\, and Blue Stockings Bookstore. They are featured on The Criterion Channel and NOWNESS. As a dancer\, Baldwin performed on a world tour with David Byrne and Brian Eno and with the Metropolitan Opera\, Trisha Brown Dance Company\, and other NYC choreographers. The New York Times says her “work has a visceral power similar to Cronenberg’s.”
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SUMMARY:¡Bienvenidxs! A Week-long Open Embroidery Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop dates\nJune 23rd – June 30th\,\nfrom 1 – 5pm\nIn the Flux Factory Gallery* \n\nDrop-in attendance!\n\n*Masks are required to be worn inside the gallery.\n\n\n\nBackstrap Weaving Workshop\nFriday\, June 25\n5 – 6:30pm\nLocated at the Windmill Community Garden\nJoin for a special backstrap weaving workshop with Cynthia Alberto\, a special guest artist from the Weaving Hand. Backstrap weaving is an Indigenous weaving technique using a simple loom that relies on tension from the weaver’s body. All materials will be provided.\nRSVP Here\n\n\n\nProgram Description\n\n\n\n¡Bienvenidxs!\, will be an installation of an embroidery workshop open to the public hosted by Maria Lulu Varona. Learning how to embroider while collaborating on a table cloth. Materials will be provided\, no need to have previous experience. Come to learn\, relax\, chat and have fun. This project is possible thanks to the Queens Council for the Arts. \n\n\nArtist Bio\n\n\nMaria Lulu Varona (b. 1993\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico) lives and works between Puerto Rico and New York City. Varona learned her embroidery techniques from her grandmother growing up applying it to make works addressing contemporary conditions. She has exhibited at Bronx Art Space\, New York (2017) Roberto Paradise\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico (2017)\, Flux Factory\, Brooklyn\, NY (2019)\, MACO Feria de arte\, Mexico City (2020)\, Embajada\, San Juan Puerto Rico (2020)\, amongst other group shows at independent galleries spaces. Also have participated in art-residencies such as International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn\, NYC (2018)\, Flux Factory in Queens\, NYC (2019)\, Program for Independent studies at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Puerto Rico (2020)\, and at Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions in rural southwest Wisconsin (2021).
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LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:Din Din: Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu and Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:This program is the closing event for Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community. \nLocation: 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City \nProgram Schedule\n7 – 9pm\nThe “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu” by Siri Lee and “Breakaway” by Heather Kapplow \n9 – 10pm – Short film and video art program featuring: \nJulia Hechtman “ONLY US”\nPhyllis Ma “Trip the Fruit Fantastic”\nRobbie Samuels “Hip Hop Cafe”\nZina Saro-Wiwa “Table Manners (Season 2): Dorcas Eats Roasted Snails and Drinks Maltina”\nRebecca Shapass “Eggless”\nDana Sherwood “Feral Cakes”\nTobias Rud “Sweetie O’s”\nForest Juziuk “Briars: I’m not good looking but my mother gave me something” \nRecalling Bitterness Tasting Menu\nSiri Lee’s “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu” satirizes the Cultural Revolution ritual of “Recalling Bitterness and Savoring Sweetness.” Emerging shortly after a period of unprecedented famine\, this hypocritical ritual was designed to contrast the “bitterness” of life before the Communist Party took power with the “sweetness” of life under its rule. In Siri Lee’s reinterpretation of this ritual\, she instead designed a contemporary “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu\,” with each “dish” serving a story of famine and food shortages under the Maoist regime.\n\nBreakaway\n \nHeather Kapplow creates participatory experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects\, alternative interpretations of existing environments\, installation\, performance\, writing\, audio and video. \n“Breakaway” consists of a varied series of audience-enacted gestures woven into multiple Din Din events. It is ritual activity that conflates the notion of theatrical breakaway props — things designed to be destroyed without hurting anyone — with the idea of freedom obtained by breaking away from dysfunctional patterns rooted in traumas from the past. \nFilm Program \nJulia Hechtman\, “ONLY US”\, 5:40 \nIn this multi-channel video installation\, the artist ritualistically covers her hands with\, and consumes fragments of\, her mother’s ashes. \nForest Juziuk “Briars: I’m not good looking but my mother gave me something”\, 12:00 \n\n“Briars” is an experimental soap opera based on the true story of a small group of men living in community apartments in 1980s Southeast Michigan. This episode\, entitled “I’m Not Good Looking But My Mother Gave Me Something\,” consists of a single breakfast-for-dinner scene\, approximately two minutes in length\, in which two newly acquainted friends discuss the meal. There is Otis\, who recently moved to town from parts unknown\, and Junior\, the host and chef. \n\nPhyllis Ma “Trip the Fruit Fantastic”\, 3:09 \nDragonfruits\, watermelon and other fruits come to life in this musical stop motion video. (music by Landen Griffith). \nRobbie Samuels “Hip Hop Cafe”\, 4:20 \nHip Hop Cafe is a film entirely made from golden age rap lyrics.\n \nZina Saro-Wiwa “Table Manners (Season 2): Dorcas Eats Roasted Snails and Drinks Maltina”\, 6:47 \nTable Manners (2019) is a continuation of the ongoing video series that sees individuals in the Niger Delta giving an eating performance for Zina’s camera. The viewer is encouraged to sit down and enjoy the meal with the eaters. All the performers in the series use their hands to eat. At the end of each film the place of the filming is stated. This documentation simply serves to highlight that “an important ritual has taken place”. Saro-Wiwa states: “A powerful exchange takes place when one not only eats a meal but watches a meal being consumed. One is filled up with an unexplainable and potent metaphysical energy that we normally pay no attention to.”  This work places a spotlight on and radicalizes this invisible force. The documentation of the meal and the place it was consumed forces the viewer to also ingest the names and cultural realities surrounding the oil production in the Niger Delta. Realities that are usually ignored or erased. \nRebecca Shapass “Eggless”\, 10:19 \nInspired by Betty Crocker’s marketing strategy (developed by Freud-devotee Edward Bernays) to have housewives “add an egg” to their cakes\, “Eggless” is a meditation on fertility & worship through the lens of eggs as a commercialized symbol of rebirth\, an erotic object\, and an American diet staple. \nDana Sherwood “Feral Cakes”\, 6:28 \nWhile residing deep within the suburban sprawl of South Florida Sherwood began setting out fruits\, vegetables\, meats\, cakes and other confectionery concoctions for the local animal inhabitants.  The menus grew from a knowledge of the natural diet of animals such as raccoons\, foxes\, possums and other creatures she expected to find living along the borders of human habitation. Filming over the days\, weeks and months Sherwood began to get to know the preferences and predilections of their régimes\, and a conversation started to emerge as she watched the videos each morning from the previous nights banquet and adjusted\, tweaked and tested them.  \nTobias Rud “Sweetie O’s”\, 4:00 \nA lonely middle-aged man becomes obsessed with a brand of children’s cereal\, that takes him back to his carefree childhood in his mother’s warm embrace.Animated traditionally with pencil and paper. \nArtist/Filmmaker Bios\nJulia Hechtman is a multi-disciplinary artist\, who makes works about place\, absence\, identification/identity and mortality. \nForest Juziuk is an American artist and writer. Taking inspiration from soap operas\, YA novels\, and TV sketch comedy\, he works with devices familiar and suggestive to explore memory sensation. His work has appeared in the magazine The Minus Times (Drag City)\, and the books The Minus Times Collected (Featherproof) and J&L Illustrated #2 (J&L). He also co-authored the chapter “The ‘Why’ of Arts Organizations in the DIY Era” in the book 20under40: Re-inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century. \n \nSiri Lee is an NYC-based interdisciplinary visual storyteller. A potluck of research\, mixed media\, and speculative fiction\, Lee’s work deploys image and wordplay to visualize analogies between material culture and ideology. A recent graduate from the University of Chicago\, Lee has been selected for inclusion in Project Anywhere’s Global Exhibition Program\, 2020; been an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited in New York\, 2020; and received the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Microgrant\, 2019. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago\, Los Angeles\, and New York. \nPhyllis Ma is a New York-based artist working in photography and animation. She studied visual arts at Columbia College\, Columbia University\, as well as printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art and fashion design at FIT. Her recent works include Special Nothing\, a book of travel still lifes\, and Mushrooms & Friends\, a photography series featuring foraged and cultivated mushrooms. Phyllis’s work has been profiled in The New York Times\, It’s Nice That and Sight Unseen. Select commercial clients include Netflix\, Vice\, Lazy Oaf\, SSENSE and A24. \nRobbie Samuels is a Black-British multi-award-winning advertising-creative\, writer and director. Hip Hop Cafe was a passion project\, and his love letter to the golden age of Hip Hop. \nZina Saro-Wiwa is an artist working primarily with video but also photography\, sculpture\, sound and food. She lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York as well as running a practice in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where she founded the contemporary art gallery Boys’ Quarters Project Space for which she regularly curates. Saro-Wiwa is one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2016recognized for her work in the Niger Delta. She was Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn 2016-2017 and in April 2017 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts. \nRebecca Shapass is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist from New York City. She works to create bio-mythographic\, audio-visual worlds where the fissures between personal and collective memory are mined to reveal fragile systems of perception and remembering. Her work has been screened and exhibited with institutions and festivals including Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Knockdown Center (Queens\, NY)\, Open Signal (Portland\, OR)\, amongst others. She has participated in residencies including Smack Mellon (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Signal Culture (Owego\, NY)\, and Crosstown Arts (Memphis\, TN). Currently\, she is pursuing her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. \nDana Sherwood has exhibited throughout The Americas\, Europe and Australia including solo exhibitions at the Florence Griswold Museum\, Nagle-Draxler Reiseburogalerie (Cologne)\, Denny Dimin Gallery (New York) and Kepler Art-Conseil (Paris).  Her work has also been shown at Storm King (New York)\, The Jack Shainman School\, The Fellbach Sculpture Triennial (Germany)\, Pink Summer Gallery (Italy)\, Kunsthal Aarhus\, The Palais des Beaux Arts Paris\, Marian Boesky Gallery\, Socrates Sculpture Park\, Flux Factory\, The Biennial of Western New York\, Prospect 2: New Orleans\, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche (Toronto)\,  dOCUMENTA 13\, and many other venues worldwide. \nTobias Rud is director and animator born 1991 in Copenhagen\, Denmark. Has a background in cinematography\, but has moved away from cameras and their limitations to start drawing his own films instead.
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LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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