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Flux Saturday: Aleatoric Audio for an Infinite Island
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AAleatoric Audio for an Infinite Island is an experimental sound art event featuring performances and sound installations by artists and musicians from the NYC area working in sound art, generative…
Parade of the Species
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AParade of the Species is an art show and parade celebrating the ecology of Governor’s Island. The parade will proceed in a loop starting and ending at Soisson’s Landing. Puppeteers,…
Creekworthy Opening: Films, Puppetry & Tattoos
Hunters Point South Kayak Ramp P2QQ+9W Long Island City, Queens, NYRain delay date will be June 11 @ 8:00pm - 11:00 pm Creekworthy is an event series taking place through the warm-weather months of 2022 on the Newtown Creek and…
Solstice Pop-Up Group Exhibition
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AExhibition open hours are on Saturdays (June 18 & 25) 12pm-8pm, Sundays (June 19 & 26) 11am-5pm Learn more about Flux Factory's projects on Governors Island. Solstice is a convening…
Place People at Spectacle Theater
Spectacle Theater 124 S 3rd St, BrooklynFluxers filmmakers Patrick Topitschnig and Catalina Alvarez will present a selection of films at Williamsburg's cooperatively led Spectacle Theater.Purchase tickets at this link. PLACEwherethereisawill, 2005, Video, 2:42, Austria, Patrick TopitschnigCarusel,…
Remember Last Night? Archiving 50 Years of NYC Club History
Nowadays 56-06 Cooper Ave. Ridgewood, NYFind visiting and accessibility information for Nowadays. Our community has been around for five decades, but little of our history has been preserved. Curator, researcher and NYC-based DJ PlayPlay will…
Art During War: Fundraiser for Ukraine
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AFlux Factory together with BIRUCHIY contemporary art project and SPILKA NGO is hosting a fundraising event in support of the people of Ukraine affected by the full-scale Russian invasion. We…
Creekworthy: Unfiltered
Hunters Point South Park Extension https://goo.gl/maps/QmuDfLjeQLbDRskm9Find our group at this pin! For the second installment of Flux Factory's Creekworthy series, which takes place on the water/waterfront near Hunters Point South park, Flux presents artists who…
Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux Grand Opening
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesJoin us for the grand opening of our group show on temporary nightclub spaces, Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux! After a talk with the curators, warm up the dancefloor with…
Algoclub Workshops
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesJoin us for the following coding workshops from LiveCode.NYC: -Sound as Collage: Mixed Media Zine Making by Sabrina Sims -Intro to Digital Video Synthesis with Hydra by Cameron Alexander -Beatmaking…
July Flux Saturday: Dirty Time on Governors Island
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AJoin Dirty Time for a day full of activities celebrating dirt and dirtyness! We'll tell stories about Dirt, play Dirtball, and finish with Dirty Karaoke.
Algoclub: Light Mode/Dark Mode Club Event
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesJoin LiveCode.NYC for livecode visual and music performances during their main club event. Performers: Visuals Nicole Schwartz (schwaz) Cameron Alexander (emptyflash) Gwen Pasquarello (gwenprime) Sidney San Martín (s4y) Shelly Xiong…
Meal8: Open Kitchen with Red Flower Collective
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AMeal8: Open Kitchen is centered around dishes that can be cooked in the absence of fire. With the limitations of the available kitchen in mind, we explore in this menu propositions for a kitchen without heat: cooking without a stove or oven; operating with limited access to water; and focusing on fermented, cured, macerated, preserved, and pickled ingredients.
Benefit for Trans Justice Funding Project
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404ASongs from some of the biggest trans music stars in a fundraiser for Trans Justice Funding Project played in the beautiful lawn at Colonels Row House 404A featuring short solo music sets by Erica Dawn Lyle (Bikini Kill, Art in America), Gavilán Rayna Russom (LCD Soundsystem), Erica Freas, Sulynn Hago, Worm Mother, Amelia Jackie, Starly Bri, and Kate Slauter.
Every Nigga Is A Star Trek Club Event
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesThis is the main club event for the Black Bliss Rave Exhibition. **Update - this event is limited capacity and invite only. For the general public, please come by for…
Black Bliss Rave Open Studio Hours
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesOpen Studio Hours with the Black Bliss Rangers. ***We center Black people and Black joy. With this in mind, this space is designated as a BIPOC-folx only social experience.*** This…
Into the Limelight Workshop Hours
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesDuring these workshop hours guests are invited to come to the cell to share stories, photographs, and memorabilia from their past experiences in nightclubs. Audio recordings and video or photos…
Into the Limelight Workshop Hours
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesDuring these workshop hours guests are invited to come to The Cell to share stories, photographs, and memorabilia from their past experiences in nightclubs. Audio recordings and video or photos…
Into the Limelight Club Event
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesThis club night pays homage to NYC’s Limelight nightclub of the 1990s. Held on the second floor of the cell theatre, it will feature a dancefloor with disco balls, colorful…
Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux Closing Party
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United StatesJoin us for our final closing party, featuring DJs muse(o)fire and Anton Lapov in the gallery + karaoke in the chillout room by Jevijoe Vitug. Also last chance to check…
August Flux Saturday
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AFlux Factory hosts Flux Saturdays, a monthly public program, on the last Saturday each month through October. The exhibition opening of Julio José Austria, open studios with Amelia Marzec and Itala Aguilera, and outdoor performances by Jemila MacEwan, Jack Helfrich, Erica Mancini, Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, Jevijoe Vitug, and Maureen Catbagan.
Newtown Odyssey Public Workshop
Plank Road Ecological Park 50-0-50-98 58th Rd, MaspethIn conjunction with our ongoing Creekworthy series of events on and around the Newtown Creek, Flux Factory is happy collaborate with Newtown Odyssey and the Newtown Creek Alliance. Join early…
September Flux Saturday: Help Wanted!
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AFlux Factory on Governors Island is pleased to present for Flux Thursday: Help Wanted! taking place on September 24, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Help Wanted! Features the screening of performances by Brendan Fernandes, and Jevijoe Vitug & Maureen Catbagan as the Abang-guard Duo, poetry by Alyssa Andrews and in situ performance by Kahori Kamiya.
Conflict / Resolution
Governors Island, Nolan Park, Building 10aAn event at Harvestworks on Governor's Island, focusing on sound art and new media works-in-progress from the Flux Factory community. We will consider how being part of a group of socially engaged artists working as a collective contributes to the development of creative technology practices.
Flux Treasure Island
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AHours:10am-5pm Friday & Weekends Flux Treasure Island is an island-wide scavenger hunt, taking place over Friday October 21 through Sunday October 23. Artworks will be hidden all across Governors Island…
UltraViolet Archive (Censorship is Spooky)
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AA nomadic collection of endangered creative works including films, graphic novels, music, literature, visual and performing arts that were banned, challenged, or partially censored. The Flux Island installation will feature a Halloween-themed collection of frequently censored works.
Double Foreign New Zealand Chinese Kitchen
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AAn installation by Li-Ming Hu is a part of the Mama’s Augmented Reality exhibition series, where artists are asked to create/interpret their mother’s kitchens as they exist in memory with whatever materials they have at their disposal. Curated by Eleni Zaharopolous.
Spooky Sound Effect Community Orchestra
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AJoin us in playing a spooky sound composition live! We will have various instruments, objects, and microphones set up to create our own live haunted house soundtrack for Colonels Row on Governors Island! Everyone of all ages are welcome to participate in creating sound effects.
Soft Opening: The Voice of Many, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid
The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street, ManhattanThe Soft Opening of The Clemente and The Flux Factory Rhizome Project which includes The Artists Reception and The Art of land: Cultural Workers and The Community Land Trust Movement with MoMA PS1 of two panel discussions exploring how cultural workers have been involved in re-envisioning the use and stewardship of land in New York City.
The Voice of Many, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid
The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street, ManhattanThe Clemente and The Flux Factory Rhizome Project present visionary work from a range of artists working in and through collective action, creating solidarity networks that facilitate different ways of being with one another. We asked the artists to respond to the following set of questions: How, as a collective, do you center the work of building and sustaining communities? In what ways does your collective support others to surThrive? How have you activated creativity in your world? Who are the people of your collective and community?
Ceremony: Self-Care for Collective Liberation by Rebecca KellyG
The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street, ManhattanCeremony is a an interactive sound experience for releasing limitations and cultivating inner abundance. In this workshop we will start to disentangle from the ideas of “self” given to us by the oppressive systems we live within and begin tapping into our own gold.
Chrysalis Kali: Pay Salutation
The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street, ManhattanJoin us for an artist talk and performance with Caroline Garcia and the Chrysalis Kali Collective. This performance opens up a deeper dive into the potentials of Kali when one is not operating in the reactive modes of fight, flight, or freeze. It offers slowness as an aesthetic platform for somatic curiosity and assessment, as well as offensive drills and combinations to demonstrate the importance of repetition and practice, all useful techniques in the spectrum of healing collective trauma.
The Autonomous Artist – An Artist Talk with Yon Mi Kim & Ariel Mercado
The Clemente Center 107 Suffolk Street, ManhattanJoin us on Sunday February 19th for an afternoon conversation with Yon Mi Kim and Ariel Mercado two of the founding members of The Salon a New York City based cooperative comprised of working class artists of color. Together they will discuss the content of their featured work within the "The Voice of Many, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid" show and the urgency of The Salon's "The Autonomous Artist Manifesto" co-written together.
Flux Factory 2023 Benefit Gala
The Clemente Center's Flamboyán Theater 107 Suffolk St, ManhattanJoin Flux Factory's community for our first gala since 2019! Proceeds from the big night will support our free public exhibitions and affordable artist-in-residency and Flux Factory reopens its recently purchased building in an exciting new era of sustainability in our thirty year history.
Feralpy OPEN CALL
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AFeralpy is a radical and untamed exploration of experimental forms of therapy by artists curated by Jemila MacEwan and Amelia Heintzelmann for Flux Factories summer programming. Taking place on Governors Island over consecutive weekends over the summer this wild and free-range exhibition is open to performances, meditations, classes, installations, video work, and one-on-one experiences offered by artists.
May Flux Saturday
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AJoin us for our first Flux Saturday and celebrate a new season as an Organization-in-Residence on Governors Island! Welcome to Flux Island picnic 12pm-3pm & Karaoke 3pm-9pm
June Flux Saturday: Tangled Vines
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AFor June Flux Saturday @governorsisland Abby Cheney and Hanna Washburn invite you to join them in creating Tangled Vines, a temporary installation made of reused and recycled materials happening at 404A Colonels Row. We invite anyone to bring any materials they wish to add to the installation to the island on Saturday, June 24. We will also have materials on hand for anyone to use. The work will be constructed on Saturday and will be on view through 5pm on Sunday, June 25.
Feralpy Workshops and Performances
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AJoin Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition.
Feralpy Workshops and Performances
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AJoin Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition.
Feralpy Workshops and Performances
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404AJoin Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition.