Feralpy Workshops and Performances
2023-08-05 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite.

Films and Performances:12pm-4pm: “Three Acts From Love” Performance by Anahit Pogosians4pm-5pm: Film Screening and Performances with Feralpy ArtistsKaty McCarthyShiloah Symone ColeyRebecca Patek

Island Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing by Katy McCarthy, Digital video converted from Hi-8, TRT, 2023‘Island Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing’ is a video that takes its form from Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a psychotherapy that uses oscillating bilateral light and sound to help people heal from trauma. While watching the film, the viewer’s eyes are constantly drawn left and right across the screen: a flying bird, a ferry leaving the harbor, bonfire smoke wafting, a crab rolling. A soundscape pans left to right in time with the visuals.

“Grief is…” and can I keep it in my pocketbook?, by Shiloah Symone ColeyThe experimental animations, “Grief is…” and can I keep it in my pocketbook?, grew out of interviews with my mother and maternal grandmother, Wanna. The interview process is a method for understanding, connection, and unearthing the unsaid or unheard. “Grief is…” bears witness to grief through the lens of two women. can I keep it in my pocketbook? started with family photo archiving, grew to community archiving, and explores a shared feeling – from the interior to the exterior. With deep gratitude, I thank all those who trusted me with a piece of their family archive. To my mother and Wanna, I love you endlessly, forever, and always.

N Site by Rebecca PatekKey concepts and research will be presented addressing questions such as:

Is there a physical site within the brain which, if stimulated, leads to emotional healing? Can this physical space be accessed and stimulated through movement?

Is the body a repository of stored trauma, a flesh passageway to freedom, or a laboratory for direct observation of cause and effect?

Can we undo consequences of bad decisions through a kind of willful amnesia? How can we make it like it never ever happened? We can’t because time seems to only move in one direction. Why does time go only one way and why is that way towards chaos?

the audience will leave the presentation with tangible and concrete tools to pursue their own healing.5pm-6pm: Film Screening and Performances with Feralpy ArtistsLZ GrandersonNova Scott JamesBlack Butoh, loud visuals of silence by LZ GrandersonBlack Butoh is an experimental, movement-based short film using the Japanese art form of Butoh to navigate the anxieties of being a Black man in the United States.

In an article titled “Raising a Black Boy to Not Be Afraid,” Nicole Fleetwood navigates an all-too-familiar narrative for parents raising 12-year-old black boys in the US— one filled with, well, fear. The one-liner that triple-dog-dared me to make Black Butoh, read, “The violence done to Tamir Rice [sic] was not only his death but the silencing of his voice.” Black Butoh asks if the black body can speak for the voices that have been silenced. And like raising a Black boy to not be afraid in the US— it tries it’s damned hardest.

Black Butoh, in many ways, outlines the mounting tension leading up to recent protest. Like Butoh, It’s mourning, it’s triumph, it’s fear in celebration, it’s a call to action, it’s anxiety filled bones, it’s dynamic, it’s still, it’s life before death, indeed, it is a peephole into life itself.

Nova: A New Spelling of My Name by Nova Scott-JamesA young artist, born as Nicole, but renamed Nova, sets out on a healing journey on an indigenous sanctuary in upstate New York. Accompanied by the Wild Darlings, a black + queer, healing arts collective, she transmutes the trauma of her past by performing in white-face as the male teacher that sexually abused her as a child. Premiered at Camden International Film Festival 2021, screenings: 427, ARoS Kunstmuseum.

Feralpy Workshops and Performances
2023-08-06 12:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite.

Workshops:12pm-2pm: Listening With, with Grace WoodardIn this workshop we will connect to our bodies, the environment, and one another through listening, sounding, and moving. We’ll explore a series of site-specific scores developed to guide participants through embodied listening and creative collaboration — listening and responding to the inner as well as the outer world. By practicing these non-verbal modes of care and conversation with self and other, we aim to cultivate a sense of presence and shared resonance.2pm-4pm: BIG FEEL DANCE Movement workshop with Nicole MannarinoDO YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE MORE FREEDOM IN YOUR BODY THROUGH DANCE?

DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF A HIGH ENERGETIC WORKSHOP WITH OTHERS?

Join NYC based artist Nicole Mannarino for her BIG FEEL DANCE workshop where we will gather in community for an energizing and invigorating movement experience.

All are welcome, no previous movement experience necessary to attend.

Wear comfortable clothes and shoes you can move in.2pm-5pm: Tree+OysterAn interactive installation that aims to cultivate cultural intimacy through intersectional decolonization practices, Tree+Oyster create ritual loops to stoke embodied memory and resist historical erasure. Through myth making and tool use, they facilitate small groups in building bridges from land to sea, imagining sustainable ecologies.

With the aim to cultivate space for collective trust and shared dreaming, Tree+Oyster arrive with non verbal communication and play to shed anthropocentric perspective and facilitate opportunities for emergent ritual.

Tree+Oyster merge archipelagic Indigenous mythologies from the Dominican Republic and the Philippines in order to stoke memory, resist erasure, and generate new mythologies. With curiosity to discover cross-cultural parallels in land-water relationship between Indigenous communities and their own personal decolonization research, T+O engage in immersive research deepening their relationship to land and community. From this foundation, they facilitate creative gatherings bridging inner and outer ecologies — a practice in tuning our personal, communal, and digital relationship to the landscape.

Site-specific gatherings consist of co-creation exercises and games, sensorial ceremonies, body mapping, collective altar building, and musical forest jams. Seasonal elements, i.e. sand, soil, and vegetation, inform the location and structure of interactive installations. These onsite activations create a generative mediated space for communal storytelling. Rooted in the study of Indigenous histories, local-to-global community, and ecology, Tree+Oyster aim to build a cross-cultural campfire generating warmth, in empathetic pursuit of sustainability.4pm-6pm: “Bring Your Own Brat” Workshop with Sacha Vega“Bring Your Own Brat” stems from the craving to perform a tantrum in the face of conditioned modes of being, moving, and seeing. The workshop is facilitated by Sacha Vega and is part of ongoing studio experiments in expressions of personal needs. Through a series of shared movement exercises and writing prompts we will explore the archetype of the brat as a means to probe at moralized choreographies in our lives. Whether your brat emerges through foot stomping, vocal exclamation, a written decree, or total refusal – all are welcome. No previous dance or performance experience necessary.

Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader
2023-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies ReaderLaunch EventPioneer Works159 Pioneer Street in Red Hook, BrooklynSunday, August 13, 2023, 4:00-5:00 pm

Books will be available for purchase at the Launch Event, and can be pre-ordered here.

Founded in 2014, Rethinking Residencies is a network of New York–based artist and curator residency programs. The group generates knowledge and resources, anchored together in cooperation and collaboration. Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader is the first anthology on art residencies published in the United States. It is a companion to the Rethinking Residencies Symposium, which invited artists, curators, scholars, and residency organizations to address residency programs as critical sites of research and production within the visual arts. The eleven essays and three conversations in Bringing Worlds Together reflect on art residencies at present—at a time when residencies play a critical role in art’s ecosystem. They address a cross-section of ideas about residency programs, bound together by a deep concern for the care and ethics that go into shaping residency programs and hosting artists and curators.

Commissioning Editor: Rethinking Residencies

Editors: Kari Conte and Susan Hapgood

Authors: Nova Benway, Eve Biddle, Jamie Blosser, Tania Candiani, Viviana Checchia, Kari Conte, Christina Daniels, Robin Everett, Dylan Gauthier, Susan Hapgood, Galen Joseph-Hunter, Jeffrey Kasper, Irmeli Kokko, Catherine Lee, Eileen Jeng Lynch, Sally Mizrachi, Howardena Pindell, Sanna Ritvanen, Nat Roe, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Nicholas Weist

Graphic Design: Esen Karol

Size: 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches

Page Count: 128

Publication Date: August 13, 2023

Edition Number: 1st edition

ISBN: 978-1-7320876-3-7

Price: $25 USD Paperback and Free Digital PDF and EPUB

Hard copies can be purchased here.

Digital publication: rethinkingresidencies.org

All That Is Seen And Unseen Artist Talk
2023-08-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an Artist Talk with Amelia Marzec in conjunction with their exhibition, “All That Is Seen And Unseen.”

For additional information: ameliamarzec.com

“All That Is Seen And Unseen,” a solo art exhibition by Amelia Marzec at Flux Factory on Governors Island, opens Saturday August 19, 2pm-5pm. The exhibition presents a collection of objects on the topic of a “queer technological Eastern European diaspora.”

The installation includes: shrines that broadcast coming out stories over Family Radio Service; a typeface inspired by an AI’s opinion of early Slavic writing systems; a sculpture that listens for military aircraft through a radio hidden in a folk art ceiling decoration; and digital photographs that depict the body in ritual garments from Pagan marriage and Catholic priesthood.

Software with imagery based on traditional papercuts, depicting women’s bodies, weapons, and pre-Christian symbols, will be shown. It will also be projected on church buildings and institutional architecture during the run of the show, in conjunction with the Island Luminaria exhibition.

Additionally, a virtual reality piece will be presented at Harvestworks. It is a walking simulator filled with impotent paper-doll tanks.

Amelia Marzec is a Brooklyn-based artist engaging with communications infrastructure to inform a speculative future. Her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ISEA (Canada), University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland), ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain), NODE Forum for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany), and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She was a resident at Eyebeam, Ox-Bow, and Harvestworks; a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA, A.I.R. Gallery, and Columbia University; a visiting artist at CalArts; and nominated for the World Technology Awards for Art. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons, and a BFA from Mason Gross.

@ameliapractice

#allthatisseenandunseen

www.ameliamarzec.com

Artists Formerly Known as Prints Opening
2023-08-26 12:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for the opening of the Artists Formerly Known as Prints exhibition.

August 26-October 1, 2023Location: Upstairs, Colonels Row House 404AOpening: Saturday, August 26 12-6pm

The idea for this show began with a group of artists who at some point considered themselves to be printmakers. As their practices have evolved to include conceptually driven multi-faceted projects and access to facilities have come and gone their prints have often taken a back seat, tacked up in a corner or shoved away in a cardboard box. This exhibition is an opportunity to embrace the playful discoveries inherent in the printmaking process and showcase prints that these artists might not typically prioritize.

In printmaking, when an image is transferred from a matrix to a new surface (often paper) there is a suspenseful, yet magical moment of transformation and the artist lets go of control of the image giving it fully over to the process. For centuries artists have been producing prints, often editions of prints, that run parallel to their primary practices. Perhaps, this trusting of the process is part of what has drawn them to do so. Printmaking allows for a materially driven thought process which can generate imagery and ideas in a physical and freeing manner. A type of thinking which artists in the flux community apply to all types of making. Artists Formerly Known as Prints celebrates these printmakerly works that often get brushed to the side.

Events:2-5pmThis Saturday from 2-5pm, Jonathan Sims will be at the Flux Island space sharing The Elements, a newly emerging and constantly evolving form of divination/fortune-telling. This cleromantic system uses dice to generate random numbers and translates them into universal themes, inviting participants to interact with abstract form, themselves, and each other.

Participating Artists:Itala Aguilera, Amir Badawi, Maureen Catbagan, Abby Cheney, Sarah Dahlinger, Christina Freeman, Caitlin Foley, Louis Leung, Cayla Lockwood, Jemila MacEwan, Caitlin & Misha, Will Owen, Ethan Shoshan, Jonathan Sims, Tray Tsui, Sally Beauti Twin, Roopa Vasudevan, Asya Yaschenko, Jevijoe Vitug.

August Flux Saturday
2023-08-26 12:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
August Flux SaturdayAugust 26, 2023, 12-6 pm

Wanna explore the sounds and textures of Governor’s Island? Join Flux Factory at Colonel Row House 404A for Flux Saturday!12-2 pmVocal Workshop with Hand Motions led by DJ Yo Vinyl Richie

2-6 pm– Plein-Air Printing and Found Sound Collage—explore the textures through the frottage technique while collecting sounds around the island in a scavenger hunt activity, then stick around for a group collage activity with our found materials!

-Drawing Jam—Draw to live music!

-Drawing Parlor Games and more!

Organized by DJ Yo Vinyl Richie and Cayla Lockwood

Ink Outside the Box Opening & Print Demonstration
2023-08-31 18:00 - 21:00
Join Flux for an the opening of Ink Outside the Box with a print demonstration by the artist.

August 31-September 21Opening: Thursday, August 31, 6-9pmPrint Demonstration: 6:30-7:30pmRSVP for visiting information here.Reach out to christina@fluxfactory.org about gallery opening hours.

Ink Outside the Box is a solo exhibition of prints developed in Taiwan and New York City by Louis Leung. Through ink and wash experiments, the artist breaks through the limitations of traditional ink forms to explore new possibilities of artistic creation. Leung’s practice is centered on trial, patience and inquiry while playing with motifs of time and space. His ink paintings depart from the usual and mundane, offering a glimpse of a leap-frog like imagination. By resolving, refining and rebuilding unique visual images, a spontaneity emerges, representative of his inner and outer world on paper.

Leung graduated from the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is now a Hong Kong graphic and visual artist. His artwork Between:- has won the “2019 UOB Ink Art of the Year Award” and Gold Award, Landscape or Figurative (Open Category) at the year 2019 UOB Art in Ink Awards; while his another artwork Amidst:- has been selected for the “Ink Global 2020 Exhibition”. He has participated in various exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Taipei, Paris and Toronto.

@louis_artopus

Flaming Creature Crawl Parade
2023-09-03 19:30 - 22:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for the Flaming Creature Crawl Parade in conjunction with the Island Luminaria group show.Parade loop centering on Colonels Row and Nolan ParkSunday, September 3rd from dusk – 10pm

Island Luminaria will be a group art show composed of art that emits light and art depicting luminescent bodies (sun, moon, stars). Rooms within Colonels Row House 404A will have art categorically by room (projection room, celestial bodies painting and sculpture room, fluorescent art room, lamp art room, neon art room, etc)

Flaming Creature Crawl will be a night time luminary parade. Lanterns will be held depicting the flora, fauna and celestial bodies of Governors Island accompanied by quiet acoustic music. This event is free and open to the public.

The Epileptic Eye Artist Talk
2023-09-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an artist talk in conjunction with The Epileptic Eye group show.The Epileptic Eye is a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing the work of women artists living with epilepsy from around the world in order to raise awareness and create a dialogue through the empowering platform of the arts.

Short films that have been selected in festivals around the world, photography, installation, and crochet by artists Sally Cinnamon (Canada), Cintamani Calise (UK-USA-Italy), Cristina Breazu (France – Romania) and Malo Sutra Fish (France – USA) form this rare exhibition.

This show invites the public to enter an immersive, tactile space opening a discussion regarding our personal and shared experiences of this neurological condition. Our art, inextricably impacted by our condition, became our tool to communicate to others about the paradoxes rising from having epilepsy.

In this setting, we open our perspective on life with this common condition, and the art practices that form in response to it. We bring to light the transcendence that visits and motivates our survival together. The crushing contrast of our experiences with epilepsy – the way it can bring us to the edges of consciousness in a beautiful, fragile, frightening way – this is what we display.

September Flux Saturday - Dirty Signs
2023-09-30 13:00 - 17:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Even though dirt is where our food comes from, is where our bodies get buried when we die, and is literally everywhere we go, it is not represented yet in the emoji universe. Somehow we have emojis for unicorns, pufferfish, poodles and Santa Claus, but not dirt! Dirty Time is planning to try to correct this oversight and will be submitting a proposal for a dirt emoji to the Unicode foundation in 2024.

Dirty Signs is an exhibition of international artist responses to the idea of emojifying dirt, featuring works by B a r b a r a Schneider, Daniel S. DeLuca, Ed Woodham, Gustavo Gómez-Mejía, IPRAMENE, Lee Tusman, Liz Nofziger, M Greenwald, Maia Liebeskind, Noelle Salaun, Renée Crowley, Sarah Dahlinger and Vidya Giri in 2D, 3D and 4D formats. Dirty Time will also be collecting visitor suggestions for a potential dirt emoji through a “think tank” installation within the exhibition, and several participatory activities on September 30.

Dirty Signs runs from September 23 – October 1 2023, with a rousing closing event including live performances by Sarah Dahlinger and Ed Woodham on September 30 from 1-5pm.

Dirty Time is Hey There Kapplow and Walker Tufts. We have been investigating the impossibility of cleanliness since 2021 and we’ve dug up a dirty little secret: there’s no clean that’s not dirty.

Dirt feeds you and eats you. Dirt is your companion and your portal to the past and the future. We’re here to help you recognize your glorious, delicious dirtiness and your connection to all time through dirt.

The Epileptic Eye Screenings and Artist Talk
2023-10-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for weekly screenings and artist talks in conjunction with The Epileptic Eye group show.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS + ARTISTS TALK – 3PMOctober 13, 14, 15th

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday starting October 13th until October 31st.

Come for a full screening of the films + Super 8 goodies. You’ll share a conversation about filmmaking, photography, art making in general and of course epilepsy with Malo, curator of this show (except for Friday Oct 27th, out of town for business). If you wish to come at a different time on a different day, please reach out to artist: marielaure.cros@gmail.com

Flaming Creature Crawl 2
2023-10-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join us for Flaming Creature Crawl Parade in conjunction with the Island Luminaria 2 exhibition. Parade route coming soonSunday, October 19, 5:30 – 7 pm

Flaming Creature Crawl Two will be a night time luminary parade. Lanterns will be held depicting the flora, fauna and celestial bodies of Governors Island accompanied by quiet acoustic music. For the fifth time in three years we will parade maximum quality art and ecological reverence. This event is free and open to the public.

Want to join the parade? Review the list of represented species below and then click the link for the Observed Species of Governors Island. Choose a species that hasn’t been picked yet and email us your choice at: luminaria@fluxfactory.org

View the observed species on Governors Island here: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/governors-island-ny-us

// ALREADY SELECTED SPECIES //

Jevijoe Vitug and Marco Michel – AlgaeAlyssa Markowski – Praying MantisChris Santiago and Melina Kiefer Santiage – Wild Indigo Duskywing, Common Checkered Skipper, ChantrelleHeather Rose Piper – Pink Flamingo (Flux), Fish, Sea TurtleVeronika Rabinovich – Pink Flamingo (Flux)Melanie Brewster – Yellow Rumpled WarblerChristy O’Conner – Bird NestLucy Beizer – Human (crochet suit)Kristen Heritage – Twelve-Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly, Black Saddlebags DragonflyIviva Olenick – Goldenrod, Indigo, Patridge PeaTlyer Kline and Megan Bridge – Lace Beetle and FireflyHannah Lutz Winkler – FireflyShiraz Fazil – Bald EagleJude Tallichet – RatSally Beauti Twin – Red Tailed HawkMaya Edelman – Isabella Tiger Moth, MulberryClementine Martinez – Cormorant, AnglerfishNicole Schonitzer – WormAmanda Wu and Ying Chen – CoralMarcy Lerner – Cecropia Moth

The Epileptic Eye Screenings and Artist Talk
2023-10-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for weekly screenings and artist talks in conjunction with The Epileptic Eye group show.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS + ARTISTS TALK – 3PMOctober 20, 21, 22nd

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday starting October 13th until October 31st.

Come for a full screening of the films + Super 8 goodies. You’ll share a conversation about filmmaking, photography, art making in general and of course epilepsy with Malo, curator of this show (except for Friday Oct 27th, out of town for business). If you wish to come at a different time on a different day, please reach out to artist: marielaure.cros@gmail.com

Ornaphonism Opening Celebration and Performance Series
2023-10-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for the opening celebration and performance series of the Ornaphonism exhibition.

Saturday October 21st, 202312-5pm

Featuring Performances by:He-myong WooYo Vinyl Richie and ChoirSylvain SoulkayeGUSHESEugene Lew + Grace Villamil

Sliding Scale Tickets for the performances to support artists:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ornaphonism-performance-series-tickets-736786637667?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Epileptic Eye Screenings and Artist Talk
2023-10-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for weekly screenings and artist talks in conjunction with The Epileptic Eye group show.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS + ARTISTS TALK – 3PMOctober 28, 29th

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday starting October 13th until October 31st.

Come for a full screening of the films + Super 8 goodies. You’ll share a conversation about filmmaking, photography, art making in general and of course epilepsy with Malo, curator of this show (except for Friday Oct 27th, out of town for business). If you wish to come at a different time on a different day, please reach out to artist: marielaure.cros@gmail.com

October Flux Saturday - Nothing Island
2023-10-28 12:00 - 17:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Nothing IslandOctober 28, 2023Colonels Row House 404A

Pop up exhibition: October 28 and 29th, noon-5pm

An exhibition by Pratt Institute Art + Technology Studio III, on different states in the cycle of regrowth, including growth, derivation, nullity, decomposition, and decay.

The projects employ software, projections, game engines, and electronics in the creation and display of hybrid sculptures and screen-based artworks. They respond to the environment, conditions, and history of Governors Island.

With works by Sophie Brenner, Lila Cicurel, Soph Katsivelos, Wantong Lyu, Katherine Shen, Flora Sun, and Dylan Teaford. Organized by Amelia Marzec.

For additional information:Nothing IslandPratt Digital ArtsPratt Digital Arts Instagram

THINGS I'VE SEEN Opening
2023-11-02 18:00 - 20:00
Join Flux for the opening of the exhibition THINGS I’VE SEEN.

November 2-November 18Opening: Thursday, November 2, 6-8pmRSVP for visiting information here.Reach out to christina@fluxfactory.org about gallery opening hours.

THINGS I’VE SEEN is a duo show from Catarina Real and Gonçalo Duarte.

The constant imagery that surrounds us, and the overwhelming visual experiences in our daily life, are reflected into the successive imagetic upcycling in art production. Catarina and Gonçalo make use of this flow of images, remixing stolen images from other artists, representations of other artists’ works and visual experiences influenced by their New York experience. This recycling of images and constant daily reflection on them establishes a critical relation between intellectual property and communal sharing.

The two Portuguese artists will be presenting prints, drawings, paintings and books.

Catarina Real@_periclitante_

Catarina Real (Barcelos, 1992) works in the intersection between artistic practice and theoretical research in the expanded fields of painting, writing and choreography, mostly in long-term collaborative projects that address the question of how we can live better collectively. She is a PhD student at the Center for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minho with a research that crosses art, love and capital. Currently in residence at Residency Unlimited, developing Color Therapy project, a practice applied between color theory, postal art and choreographic intuition. She maintains a commentary practice – in the form of reflection texts, introductory texts to exhibitions, interviews and moderation of conversations – to the works and processes carried out by artists in her generational range, with the intention of contributing to a healthy environment of criticism and collective and communitarian creation.

Gonçalo Duarte@goncalo_duarte

Gonçalo Duarte (Setúbal, 1990) works mainly with drawing and comics, having published work with Chili com Carne and Kus! among others. He is a screen printer and has printed work by artists such as Alexandre Estrela, Carlos Gaspar and Teresa Arega. He founded Edições da Ruína in 2021, whose editions mostly use screen printing, and has published artists such as Filipa Cordeiro, Miguel Abreu and Rudi Brito. He regularly collaborates with other artists and collectives on publishing projects, art residencies and exhibitions. Among them, recurring collaborations include the ARARA collective, Pedro Nora and Catarina Real.

Edições da Ruína@edicoesdaruina

THINGS I'VE SEEN Closing Event
2023-11-16 21:00 - 23:00
Join Flux for the closing event of the exhibition THINGS I’VE SEEN.

Closing Event: Thursday, November 16, 9-11pmRSVP for visiting information here.Reach out to christina@fluxfactory.org about gallery opening hours.

The closing event will consist on a gathering around the duo exhibition of Catarina Real and Gonçalo Duarte and a concert from Diogo Neto at 10pm.

Diogo Neto (pt) Born in Lisbon 1992, founding member of the independent label Edições Umbria. Plays synthesizers, saxophone and keys in various projects namely Quebra, Erosão and DMDM. His studies in architecture contributed to an acute sensibility for space modeling, light design and scenography. This research has been materialized in multiple installations across galleries and concert halls.

@diogonetomachado

Dead Gods Opening Event
2023-12-31 18:00 - 20:00
Join Flux for the opening event of the exhibition Dead Gods.

Opening Event: December 31, 2023Exhibition by appointment until January 7, 2024

‘Dead Gods’ is a living monument that honors our prehistoric fungal ancestors as sacred earthly deities.

In a moment where humans are set to cause the extinction of one million species, MacEwan is reanimating an ancient terrestrial fungal giant that enabled the proliferation and diversification of life on Earth today. ‘Dead Gods’ pays tribute to a specific prehistoric super-fungi called the Prototaxite. This evolutionary triumph gave rise to the billions of terrestrial life-forms that followed. ‘Dead Gods’ is a practice of inter-species ancestor worship as ecological action. It is created through respectful collaboration with contemporary mushroom descendants of the Prototaxites. The ‘Dead Gods’ reward our attention and care by growing edible and medicinal mushrooms that are gifted to visitors of the exhibition.

A widespread expression of deity worship has been the creation of effigies and shrines that hold space for experiences with the metaphysical and the sacred. In contrast, to supernatural or immortal gods, ‘Dead Gods’ are mortal, earthly, extinct beings, which tell the story of our ancestral bond to all life on earth. As deities, they present an interpretation of our planet’s natural history as a vehicle for evolutionary spiritual transformation.

‘Dead Gods’ is an ongoing project for which MacEwan repeatedly resurrects the Prototaxities by growing them, at scale, with their contemporary mycelial descendants. These resurrections increase in size and species diversity with each iteration. Reminiscent of a science-fiction narrative, reanimating these now extinct life forms examines the utopic desire to reverse the inevitable process of extinction. Long-term, MacEwan plans to resurrect the ‘Dead Gods’ on a scale comparable to the largest Prototaxities in the fossil record: 20 to 30 feet tall. For Flux Factory, MacEwan presents a multimedia installation of the ‘Dead Gods’ project including living fungi and video projection in a structure reminiscent of a shrine. This presentation is an offering to the divine process of death and renewal as we bring in the new year.

Artist bioJemila MacEwan is an environmental artist known for their earthworks, installations, performances and expanded cinema projects. Their work takes an expansive view of time and geography, often created through slow acts of physical endurance. MacEwan invites audiences to take an interspecies perspective for working through the overwhelming emotional toll of reckoning with anthropogenic climate change and mass extinction.

MacEwan has performed and exhibited extensively internationally including at; ARoS Museum (Denmark), The Australian Consulate-General, Pioneer Works (NYC), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), NYCXDESIGN (USA), and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art (Iceland). In 2022 MacEwan was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, The Philip Hunter Fellowship, The BigCi Environmental Art Award and was invited by TEDxBoston to present as a Planetary Fellow. They have been invited to attend notable residencies including; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA), BANFF Center (Canada), NARS Foundation (NYC), and Ox-Bow School of Painting (MI). Their work has been published in Art in America, Boston Globe, SFMoMA Open Space, and Artist Profile Magazine. MacEwan has been generously supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Australia Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Ian Potter Cultural Council and is a recipient of The Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship.

Flux IV Opening Reception for Saturn Return
2024-05-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Flux IV, 56-21 2nd St, Long Island City
2 islands 2 furious! This opening reception at Flux IV is just part of the Saturn Return exhibition, which takes place both at Flux IV as well as on Governors Island. View full exhibition details for full schedule and exhibition information.

The opening reception for the Flux IV component of the Saturn Return group exhibition will coincide with the LIC Arts Open Kick Off Party, with performances curated by LIC Arts Open. This is our inaugural public event at Flux IV, and we’re thrilled to launch it as a part of a neighborhood-wide open studios festival!

Artists Exhibiting at Flux IV (56-21 2nd St, LIC) include: Alex Wolkowicz, Amelia Marzec, Caitlin & Misha, Cecilia Enberg & Eric Malmberg, Don Daedalus, Heidi Neilson, Li-Ming Hu, Lily Baldwin, Mare Liberum, Maureen Catbagan, Patrick Topitschnig, Richard Nathaniel, Roopa Vasudevan, Trasonia Abbott, Tray Tsui, WALKER TUFTS, Wieteke Heldens, and Will Owen.

Governors Island Opening for Saturn Return
2024-05-18 13:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
2 islands 2 furious! This opening reception on Governors Island is just part of the Saturn Return exhibition, which takes place both at Governors Island as well as at Flux IV. View full exhibition details for full schedule and exhibition information.

Flux’s fourth season on Governors Island kicks off with a group exhibition with a 1-day performance by Hey There Kapplow.

Artists Exhibiting on Governors Island (Colonels Row, House 404a) include: Angela Washko, Ben Galaday, Dario Mohr, Ethan Shoshan, Hey There Kapplow, Itala Aguilera, Jack Hogan, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Lee Tusman, Lena Hawkins, Lucas Abela, MaLo Sutra Fish, Maya Quattropani, 502 Bad Gateway, Ruby Kwon, Valentina Medda, and Zachary Handler.

Jessica Pavone Performance and Flux IV Reception
2024-06-01 17:00 - 21:00 | Flux IV, 56-21 2nd St, Long Island City
Meet us beginning at 5pm for a special reception at Flux IV, with 17 works on view in our Saturn Return Group Exhibition.

As the golden hour approaches (~7:45), we’ll walk from Flux IV a few minutes away to sit on the grassy park lawn and watch a live sunset solo viola performance by Jessica Pavone in front of the Manhattan skyline.

June Flux Saturday — Saturn Return
2024-06-15 12:00 - 17:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Flux Factory is celebrating its big thirtieth anniversary by exhibiting 37 alumni of our Artists-in-Residence program in Saturn Return, on view at Flux IV and Governors Island until July 1. For June’s Flux Saturday on Governors Island, we host performances including a set by DJ Smallcock.

Striped Light & Lucas Abela present Frankenstein 3
2024-06-17 19:30 - 23:00
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Our monthly Mondays Striped Light experimental concert series is in its 8th iteration with a special presentation by Australian sound artist Lucas Abela with Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Chuck Roth, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Brandon Lopez, Marcia Bassett, Samara Lubelski, Bob Bellerue, David Watson & Sandy Ewen.

We have a super-rare visit to New York by Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela, one of the truly stand-out sound artists/performers of our time. Folks, this one is simply not to be missed. On top of that, Lucas has put together a nine piece New York super-band to play a Frankenstein assemblage composition that he has made for this occasion: live improvising groups that will be ‘carved up’ in real time. And then stitched together. Kind of.

Initially viewed as a turntablist, Abela’s work has rarely resembled anything or anyone else. Early on he was stabbing vinyl with Kruger-style stylus gloves. Then he drag-raced the pope and pope-mobile across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a sonic showdown. He has performed deaf defying duels with amplified samurai swords. It was bound to happen, he was eventually hospitalized by high powered turntables that he’d constructed from motors. He landed pole position on Otomo Yoshihides’ Ground Zero remix compilation ‘Consummation’. And more. Much, much more. Lucas Abela is simply one of the sharpest artists working today, cutting a direct path through the same old.
