BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Flux Factory - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Flux Factory REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T200000 DTSTAMP:20240112T203903Z CREATED:20231026T212103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T203903Z UID:32515-1698948000-1698955200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:THINGS I'VE SEEN Opening DESCRIPTION:Join Flux for the opening of the exhibition THINGS I’VE SEEN. \n\n\n\nNovember 2-November 18Opening: Thursday\, November 2\, 6-8pmRSVP for visiting information here.Reach out to christina@fluxfactory.org about gallery opening hours. \n\n\n\nTHINGS I’VE SEEN is a duo show from Catarina Real and Gonçalo Duarte.  \n\n\n\nThe 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. \n\n\n\nThe two Portuguese artists will be presenting prints\, drawings\, paintings and books. \n\n\n\nCatarina Real@_periclitante_ \n\n\n\nCatarina 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. \n\n\n\nGonçalo Duarte@goncalo_duarte \n\n\n\nGonçalo 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. \n\n\n\nEdições da Ruína@edicoesdaruina URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/things-ive-seen-opening/ CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-25-at-18.55.14.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T210000 DTSTAMP:20240112T203948Z CREATED:20230810T161746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T203948Z UID:32279-1693504800-1693515600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Ink Outside the Box Opening & Print Demonstration DESCRIPTION:Join Flux for an the opening of Ink Outside the Box with a print demonstration by the artist. \n\n\n\nAugust 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. \n\n\n\nInk 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. \n\n\n\nLeung 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. \n\n\n\n@louis_artopus URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/ink-outside-the-box-opening-print-demonstration/ CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Ink-Outside-the-Box.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210611T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210620T180000 DTSTAMP:20220914T165512Z CREATED:20210327T180229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T165512Z UID:28023-1623430800-1624212000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Haa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced): Dual Exhibition by Hana Mire and Samia Osman DESCRIPTION:Gallery dates*\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 11\, 5 – 8pmSaturday & Sunday\, June 12 & 13\, 1 –  6pm\n\n\n\nThursday & Friday\, June 17 & 18\, 3 – 8pm\n\n\n\n\nSaturday & Sunday\, June 19 & 20\, 1 – 6pm \n*Masks are required inside the gallery. \n\n\n\n\nOpening Reception\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 11\, 5 – 8pm\n\n\n\nIn the Windmill Community GardenRSVP Here Join Hana and Samia in the garden and enjoy some tastes of Somalia by Safari Restaurant. They will be serving Shaax\, Sambusa\, Bur Mandazi\, Buskud. With traditional music by Somali-American harpist Iliana Hagenah.\n\n\n\n\nArtist Talk with Hana & Samia\nThursday\, June 17\, 6pm ETRSVP HereHana and Samia will show their work and discuss their collaborative practice.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced)\nHana Mire in collaboration with Samia Osman will premiere an experimental short film and showcase selected documentary photography work made in Mogadishu\, Somalia ( locally known as Xamar). Some of these images were previously displayed in Mogadishu during the Somali Arts Foundation (SAF) contemporary photography exhibit titled Still Life ( Oct. 2020). \nCentered on video and photography\, Haa Guumoben Waaliga is an exhibition that explores the passage of time through the everyday contemporary life of  Mogadishu residents before and after the civil war. \nAs artists of the Somali diaspora raised in the United Arab Emirates\, we’ve understood our culture through oral stories from our parents\, theater\, literature\, music\, poetry and folktales. Longing to experience the motherland ourselves\, we traveled to witness firsthand the magical memories and complicated history our parents kept stored in their hearts. Included in our showcase are still and moving images captured by us throughout the years woven with archival sourced from friends and family. \nHaa Guumoben Waaliga aims to offer a time portal to familiar landscapes and sounds in hopes to contribute towards intergenerational conversations about Somali identity at home and in the diaspora today. The sequence of images is a love letter to the people of Mogadishu that are so often stripped of their humanity in Western images. Our exhibition honors their resilience\, dignity\, and beauty. \nWe are not less human— despite the instability\, we remain steadfast in faith and joy. \n– Hana and Samia \n\nArtist Bios\nSomali independent filmmaker Hana Mire studied at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi. Her short documentary SILENT ART was awarded a prize at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival\, and she has worked with Abu Dhabi National TV and twofour54 Abu Dhabi Free zone Media. She is a fellow of the Chicken and Egg Diversity Initiative & Accelerator Lab and has been selected to attend the Greenhouse Development Lab. Hana was an Artist in residency at Flux Factory she is currently directing and producing her first feature-length documentary\, which has already received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Bertha Foundation\, Sundance Documentary Institute\, HotDocs Pitching form\, Durban FilmMart\, and The Harnisch Foundation. She’s currently an artist resident in Jacob Burns film center. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSamia Osman is a Somali Filmmaker who studied Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi\, UAE. Her short film JUST ANOTHER ACCENT premiered in Cannes Film Festival short film corner\, and Internationally screened across Europe and the Middle East. She was mentored by the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at the International Filmmaking Academy in Bologna\, Italy. Samia is currently developing her feature documentary film in Dhagaxbuur in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. And In the production phase directing a documentary Series about The Afro Arab Experience in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nOpening Reception Musician\n\n\n\nIliana Hagenah is a Somali-American harpist based in New York City. For over 20 years\, she has played recitals and events. She was a member of The George Washington University orchestra\, where she played concert halls. She attended the Longy School of Music where she was trained with principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, Elizabeth Morse. Off season\, she experiments with scales and cultural sounds to bring a richer and varied understanding of the harp to her audiences. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/haa-guumoben-waaliga/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Hana_PressImage-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210604T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210606T180000 DTSTAMP:20220914T165328Z CREATED:20210419T163421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T165328Z UID:27960-1622829600-1623002400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:I Love You\, I'm Sorry\, Come Here: Solo Exhibition by Natalie Tsui DESCRIPTION:Gallery Dates: June 4 – 6\nGallery Hours*\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, June 4\, 6 – 10pmSat & Sunday\, June 5 & 6\, 1 – 6pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Night\n\n\nFriday\, June 4\, 6pm – 10pm \nArtist Talk and Screening\n\nSunday\, June 6\, 6pm ETRSVP for link here \n\n*Please note: Masks are required inside the gallery. \n\nExhibition Description\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUsing an accidental two-hour voice memo of emotional processing with a former partner as a script\, Natalie Tsui has gathered together friends\, a couple\, and actors to dissect and reenact the conversation for the camera. As Natalie films and directs\, a secondary camera films an uninterrupted wide shot of the entire shoot day\, documenting discussions around script analysis\, character motivation\, and Natalie’s highly subjective recollection of lived events while the participants work to condense the two-hour conversation into a narrative story. \n\n\nAn examination of the complexities of personal memory\, I Love You\, I’m Sorry\, Come Here is a multichannel video installation combining footage from the filmed recreations\, personal video archives and documentary footage to explore the limits of documentary film production and the latent ideological drives of the moving image. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Bio\n\n\n\n\n\nNatalie Tsui (they/them) is a non-binary artist primarily working in film\, video\, and performance to investigate and problematize the colonial and capitalist drives latent in visual culture\, western pedagogy and collective memory. Tsui holds a B.A. in Film Studies and English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University. \nTheir work has screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum\, Frameline\, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero\, Shapeshifters Cinema\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, and the New York LGBT Community Center. They were a Flaherty Seminar Fellow\, NYFF Artist Academy Fellow\, Queer Art Mentorship Fellow\, and a Princess Grace Film Awardee. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/you-or-me-or-perhaps-someone-else/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/YOU-camera-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210528T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210531T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T071954Z CREATED:20210507T192110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T071954Z UID:27819-1622221200-1622484000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:To Hold Water: Solo Exhibition by Anika Todd DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours*\nFriday\, May 28\, 5 – 8pm\nSaturday – Monday\, May 29 – May 31\, 1 – 6pm \nArtist Talk\nFriday\, May 28\, 5pm ET\nAnika Todd will speak about the history of the view from above.\nRSVP Here \nLive event During the 29th Street Block Party\nMay 31\, 2–6pm\nThis event is part of the exhibition Din Din\, a series of free\, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community. \nYou can read more about the Block Party here. \nWindow Screening\nMay 28 – 31\, After Dusk\nVideos from To Hold Water will screen in the front window of Flux Factory at 39-31 29th Street\, LIC\, NY. \n*Please note: Masks inside the gallery are required. \nTo Hold Water\nTo Hold Water is an exhibition that considers the paradox of ownership. Presenting a challenge to Western traditions of private property and surveillance\, the works investigate the implications of the human impulse to survey\, to organize\, and to control in an effort to understand that which is uncomfortably unknown.  \nThe video work at the exhibition’s center\, Self Portrait\, exposes the implications of a traditional god’s-eye-view. While one camera submerges into the murky waters of the East River\, a second flies on a set of balloons above Wall Street\, creating a two-channel video that tracks the artist’s efforts to extend sight. The humble technology of the balloons shifts our experience of the conventional “God’s eye-view” characteristic of military and government-controlled technologies. The unsteady image of the work subverts this customarily controlled top-down perspective\, creating a portrait of precarity in the effort to understand oneself and one’s world from above.  \nArtist Bio\nAnika Todd (b.1992\, Boston\, MA) received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Todd is a sculptor/media artist investigating landscape and ownership; Todd’s work functions through acts of trespass — simultaneously enacting and challenging systems that oppress\, compartmentalize\, and own in order to control. Todd’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at VisArts Center\, Richmond\, VA and Co-Lab Gallery\, Austin\, TX featured in the Washington Post (2018) and Glasstire (2019) respectively. She has been selected to participate in numerous residencies including Salem Art Works (2017)\, Haystack School of Craft and Design (2018)\, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019). URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/to-hold-water/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Anika_Todd_LrgFeature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210523T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072134Z CREATED:20210511T164631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072134Z UID:27520-1621083600-1621792800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Cada Cabesa Es un Mundo: Solo Exhibition by Diego Espaillat DESCRIPTION:Gallery Dates: May 15 – 23\nGallery Hours*\nSat & Sundays\, 1 – 6pm\nWeekdays by appointment\nEmail maya@fluxfactory.org for appointments \nOpening Reception\nSaturday May 15\, 3 – 6pm\nAt the Windmill Community Garden\nRSVP Here \nArtist Talk via zoom\nWednesday\, May 19\, 7pm EST\nRSVP Here \nJoin Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence Diego Espaillat for the culminating exhibition of his Residency. \n* Please note: Masks inside the gallery are required. \nExhibition Description\n\n\n\n\n“Cada Cabesa Es Un Mundo\,” a phrase often used by one of Diego’s Uncles in Dominican Republic\, is offered as a framing for the sculptures in this exhibition. Concerned with the lineage and evolution of Spanish Caribbean mask-making and culture\, Diego Espaillat seeks to insert himself into the often-changing art form by working through the forms in his personal fashion. \n\n\nThe mask-making histories are relatively new\, still evolving\, and grow out of a mix of traditions\, including Spanish Catholic holidays and Yoruba spirituality. In creating these pieces\, Diego uses the laborious traditional paper mache process\, reframed through his own creative style. These masks are not made to be worn\, they are instead sculptural objects. By committing himself to the specific lineage of this metamorphic art form as a diasporic member of Dominican culture\, Diego adds his lived experience to this unfolding tradition and explores his own identity through process. \n\n\n\nThe ceramic pieces in the exhibition are situated in the long tradition of earthenware\, and recognizing that Spanish-American-Caribbean culture remains connected to its pre-Colombian roots. Again\, Diego seeks to develop novel understandings of tradition by engaging with form\, process\, and history from a personal perspective. \n\n\n\n  \nArtist Bio\nDiego Espaillat\, born 1994 graduated from Lyme Academy College in 2017. He currently lives and works in New York City. Diego is a sculptor whose work is inspired by objects and activities that collide between the Caribbean & New York. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/cada-cabesa-es-un-mundo/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Diegos_LrgFeature.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210506T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210509T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072008Z CREATED:20210406T173014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072008Z UID:27404-1620320400-1620583200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Don’t Let It Slip Through Your Fingers: Solo Exhibition by Dario Mohr DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nThursday\, May 6\, 5 – 8pm\nFriday\, Saturday & Sunday\nMay 7\, 8 & 9\, 1 – 6pm \nOpening Reception\nMay 6th\, 5 – 7pm EST\nAt the Windmill Community Garden\n(Across from Flux Factory)\nRSVP HERE\n \n\nAudience members are invited to participate in a letting go ritual using a grief journal that will sit on a podium during the reception. \nArtist Talk & Conversation\nMay 7th\, 5pm– Via Zoom\nInterview and conversation with the artist\nRSVP HERE \nExhibition Description\n“Don’t Let It…” “Slip Through…” and “Your Fingers” includes three acrylic painted and assembled works that are inspired by the loss of a cherished object. Objects are endowed with the power of reference by the signifier. This can include memories\, philosophies and in some cases\, a spiritual connection. Very often when an object is lost\, so too are the memories that they inspire. This can leave us spiraling into despair and grief.\n\n\nThis work was created in an attempt to fill this void by memorializing what was lost\, and serve as an example of the power objects have over us: how we process their loss\, create something new to continue their legacy and deepen the emotional power that the original object stood in for. \nArtist Bio\nDario Mohr is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist. Born in 1988\, Mohr received a BFA from Buffalo State College\, and an MFA from The City College of New York. He creates interactive sanctuary experiences using an interdisciplinary approach.  In addition to work created in painting\, sculpture or made digitally\, he often includes assembled objects to build immersive “sacred spaces”.  These often exist in unexpected places\, using mundane objects.  Because objects are endowed with the significance that the viewer blesses it with\, his work can provide a lot of space for divergent perspectives and interpretations.  The recycling of old work is also fundamental to Mohr’s practice. You will see previously created paintings and sculptures as well as the reuse of objects\, textiles\, cushions and other elements in future works.  Sometimes a previously used item provides the perfect juxtaposition to enhance or add depth to new explorations. In addition to his individual art practice\, he is also the founder and Director of AnkhLave Arts Alliance\, Inc. which is a non-profit for the recognition and representation of BIPOC artists in contemporary art.  URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/dont-let-it-slip-through-your-fingers/ LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Flux_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210410T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210410T200000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072119Z CREATED:20210111T210818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072119Z UID:27373-1618059600-1618084800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:THREADS DESCRIPTION:Gallery Viewing @ 1-5 pm\nPoetry Program @ 5-7 pm\nVideos screened @ 7 pm\n\nTo join us for the Poetry Program at the Windmill Community Garden (Across the street from Flux Factory)\n\n\nPLEASE RSVP HERE \n\n\nFlux Factory is happy to be hosting THREADS\, an exhibition curated by an international collective of arts organizations from Bogotá\, NYC\, Manila and Chicago: Bliss on Bliss Arts Projects\, Maleza Proyectos\, Nodo 51 Area Cultural\, Poets of Queens and Yara Arts Group. \nThe THREADS Project and its expanding global network helps artists and audiences establish a dialogue between images and poetry to find greater connections and understanding in these difficult times. This exhibition at Flux Factory\, is an introduction to a THREADS future and an opportunity to stand in solidarity against the violence being enacted upon our Asian family members and communities. \n\nTHREADS is curated by Virlana Tkacz\, founding director of Yara Arts Group\, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York since 1990. Olena Jennings\, the curator and founder of Poets of Queens\, acts as poetry\ncurator. \nThreads clothe us\, threads expose us\, threads bring us together. \nParticipating Artists\nCatalina Bolivar\, Juliana Canal\, Waldemart Klyuzko\, Cayla Lockwood\, Isabella Lopez\, Ged Merino\, Nadenka Art Group\, Aze Ong\, and Jevijoe Vitug. \nParticipating Poets \n\nPichchenda Bao\, Rosebud Ben-Oni\, Olena Jennnings\, and Wanda Phipps. \n\n\nOne of the homes for THREADS is Bliss on Bliss Art Projects founded by Ged Merino. Bliss on Bliss Art Projects has been bringing arts and culture to the Sunnyside neighborhood in Queens since 2011. It provides a venue for new and established artists. The shows at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects have consistently led to cross cultural collaboration. \n\nOther core participants of THREADS include Nadenka Art Group made up of members from Omsk\, Novosibirsk\, Moscow\, and St. Petersburg. They were formed in 2014 in Omsk. The group includes Anastasia Makarenko\, Masha Alexandrova\, Maria Rybka\, Nadezhda Valetskaya\, and Alena Isakhanyan. Videos of their textile book projects will be shown at Flux Factory. The poets will address awareness of anti-Asian sentiment and acts. Artists Cayla Lockwood and Jevijoe Vitug will unveil a banner to encourage action against Asian hate.\n\nFinally\, videos by Waldemart Klyuzko\, Aze Ong\, and Nadenka Art Group will be shown\, bringing another aspect of the textile art to life. In his video\, Waldemart Klyuzko weaves the words of Serhiy Zhadan’s poem “Home” in tape. Aze Ong performs to Wanda Phipps reading an excerpt from her poem “Womb Dreams.” Nadenka presents textile books that allow us to experience the pages along with them. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/threads/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Threads_feature02.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072020Z CREATED:20210316T173917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072020Z UID:27332-1617282000-1619546400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:OnlyPods: New Works by Remi Dalton & Jevijoe Vitug DESCRIPTION:Open Gallery Hours\nApril 14 – 27\nFriday – Sunday 1 – 6pm EST\nWeekday hours by appointment\nemail maya@fluxfactory.org \nOpening Reception\nApril 15\, 5 – 9pm EST\nREGISTER HERE\nWindmill Community Garden \n  \n\nApril 1 – April 14\n7:30 – 9:30pm EST\n\nView Remi’s Studio Live Stream EVERY NIGHT \nView Jevi’s Studio Live Stream EVERY NIGHT \n\nLive Streams Projected in the Flux Factory Windows\n39-31 29th street\, LIC\, Queens \n\n\nFollow Remi Dalton and Jevijoe Vitug at OnlyPods. Like and subscribe to new channels of work that employ the translational essence of the meme. Watch as these artists labor on live-streaming platforms. We can all be heroes just for one stream. Username: ArtHistoryPrisoner and username: ArtHistoryguard empower streamers through a collaborative process of framing. Paintings are created that combine private\, public and aspirational space in novel ways. Lags in wifi provide frames for social bonding from the hilarious to the devastating. \nOnlyPods\, a collaborative exhibition by Remi Dalton and Jevijoe Vitug is on view from April 14th – April 28th. This exhibition features a selection of paintings by each artist\, video projections\, and a large-scale collaborative painting. Dalton and Vitug examine what live-stream culture means to our conception of private spaces. The exhibition’s title refers to the popular internet subscription service OnlyFans. “Fans” is replaced with the word “Pods” which refers to the artist’s studio in which they live and work. Like OnlyFan’s creators\, artists must delicately balance spectacle and sincerity to protect their vulnerable economic position. Both Dalton and Vitug explore this balance\, as well as the blurring of the boundaries of aesthetics and ethics caused by social media and live-streaming platforms. \nThe medium of oil paint historically imparts heroism on its subjects. Both Dalton and Vitug use this aspect of their medium along with the translational essence of the meme to depict worlds in which the promise of going viral induces greatness and madness. Dalton’s Dream Room paintings depict the cluttered refuge of a contemporary romantic hero who isolates themselves halfway between the digital and physical realms. Vitug’s #indigenizemememoji.2020 encodes pandemic memes based on the socio-political cult of personality with a presence of indigeneity. \nIn 2021\, both artists lived and worked together in New York. During this time Dalton and Vitug created a series of portraits\, live-streamed with studio spaces\, and collaborated on the largest painting in the exhibition entitled Sleepofreasonxxx (after Francisco Goya\, after Manuel Ocampo.) Dalton’s portraits\, the Twitch Glitch paintings\, depict female Twitch streamers adorned in a\nmanner that is equally informed by early renaissance painting and fangirl culture. Femme performance and fetishization on Twitch is the subject of Dalton’s work\, which celebrates the bravery of female streamers in showing vulnerability and angst on a male-dominated platform. #zoompintados\, a series of portraits by Vitug\, honors the tattooed indigenous ancestors known as Pintados from his country of birth and the people who are in his current circle of friends and neighbors in New York City. Portrait references are screenshots from Zoom which are digitalized and printed on canvas. Subsequently\, Vitug paints on them in an indigenous mark-making manner using fluorescent pigments and invisible ink to create a three-dimensional effect to reference the supernatural. By tying two groups separated by time and space in which Vitug found support and community\, he venerates them both. \nBoth Dalton’s and Vitug’s painting vocabulary are combined in Sleepofreasonxxx (after Francisco Goya\, after Manuel Ocampo.) This large-scale painting depicts a streamer haunted by demons while resting during a live stream. Vitug’s work as a guard at the Met Museum brought him in close contact with the original print by Goya\, which both artists were able to see in person. The artist’s reimagining of this print\, which also takes from Ocampo’s 2017 version of the classic\, depicts the isolation\, heroism\, and vulnerability of live streamers during a global pandemic. The fraught nature of live-streaming has been personally experienced by both Dalton and Vitug. Before this exhibition\, both artists publicly streamed their studios for two weeks every night. This performance\, which was meant to open the artists’ studio to a more collaborative working atmosphere during a time of physical distancing\, challenged both artists immensely. Over just the short span of this live-streaming project\, the artists were forced to address acts of sexism\, racism\, and humiliation. \nOnlyPods also features video projections of recorded footage from Dalton’s and Vitug’s live streams. These videos are projected publicly from 7:30 pm EST to 9:30 pm EST from April 1st – 28th at Flux Factory. These videos document traditional places of seclusion being transformed into portals of connection in real-time. This transformation is accompanied by uncomfortable blends of authenticity and performance. Taken together\, Dalton’s and Vitug’s works along with their extensive research present insight\ninto what the artist’s evolving role in a digital society might entail. Lags in wifi frame the hilarious and the devastating. Painting and performance become muddled into digital apparitions which take on new lives without their authors. \n \nRemi Dalton and Jevijoe Vitug\, Sleepofreasonxxx (after Francisco Goya\, after Manuel Ocampo\, 2021\, Oil on Scenic Backdrop\, 84″ x 84″ \nRemi Dalton (b. 1991) is a San Diego-based artist. Her work investigates how internet culture has blurred the boundaries between art and life\, aesthetics and ethics. Her practice is centered around painting\, but also includes video\, mixed media\, and installation. Remi received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from San Diego State University in 2019\, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Visual Arts and Chemistry from the University of San Diego in 2014. The artist has received awards and residencies including the Windgate Fellowship\, the Art Produce Residency in San Diego\, CA\, and the NTC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Residency\, which provided free studio space for 18 months in Liberty Station’s Arts District in San Diego. Remi has taught studio classes at the University of San Diego\, San Diego State University\, and Lux Art Institute. She has shown in multiple exhibitions in San Diego and Los Angeles\, CA. \nJevijoe Vitug is a Queens-based artist that creates paintings\, performance\, and community projects as an avant-garde strategy to make labor visible\, indigenous legacy\, and the forgotten history of people of color. Jevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005\, 2006)\, Singapore Art Museum (2006)\, Diego Rivera Gallery\, San Francisco\, CA (2009)\, Contemporary Arts Center\, Las Vegas (2012)\, Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY (2017\, 2019)\, Queens Museum\, NY (2018)\, San Diego Art Institute\, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF\, Japan (2004)\, Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA\, San Francisco\, CA (2008)\, London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012\, 2014)\, Flux residency at AroS Museum\, Denmark (2018)\, Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019)\, UP Vargas Museum (2019). In 2019\, Vitug is a recipient of the Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is a member of Museum Union Art Workers\, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/onlypods-by-remi-dalton-jevijoe-vitug/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OnlyPods_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072029Z CREATED:20210225T213305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072029Z UID:27265-1615899600-1617213600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:There Is Something Here: Solo Exhibition by Carlos David TC DESCRIPTION:Open Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm EST\nOr by appointment\, email maya@fluxfactory.org \nMarch 25\, 6 – 7pm EST\nJoin Carlos and other Queens based Artists for Creative Conversations organized by QCA\nRegister Here\nThere is Something in the Windows\nVideo in the Flux Windows @ 7-10 PM EST\,\nViewable from the sidewalk*All visitors are required to wear a face mask. Four visitors are allowed in the gallery at one time.* \nMarch 27th @ 3-7 PM EST\,\nThere Is Something Here Closing Reception\nRegister here \n\nThere Is Something Here looks at the components of filmmaking through the lens of the artist’s process\, and the challenges of mastering artistic craft while wrestling with self doubt\, lack of experience and fear of failure. Originally titled: Nothing to See Here\, Carlos David TC leaves behind the self-deprecation that many artists experience to instead focus on celebrating the process of growth and exploration. \nAfter a year of lockdowns\, quarantines\, and unfinished projects There Is Something Here examines the gap between a creative idea and its full realization\, reveling in the uncomfortable but generative midpoint of the filmmaking process. From initial sketches\, to editing\, color grading\, sound mixing and everything in between\, there is something here and Carlos wants you to see it with him.Carlos David TC’s solo exhibition features installations of unfinished\, deconstructed\, incomplete\, raw\, finished and mastered video work\, conceived in collaboration as an Artist-in-Residence at Flux Factory during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The works will be presented via text\, color waveforms\, sound and traditional moving image. Some of the works include: My Quarantine Shoes\, The Self* Tapes\, Pass The Hours\, Spencer’s Gift and the premiere of the trailer for his newest short film: Jevi from 9 to 11.Accompanying the exhibition will be a video series There Is Something In The Window\, a series of short films on display from 7pm to 10pm in the main window in the Flux Factory building. (No appointment required)\nJevi from 9 to 11 is a fictionalized documentary about a painter who works at a museum during the pandemic and is set to be released in October 2021. The short film is part of a series called Artist* from 9 to 5 which follows immigrant artists from “9 to 5” the traditional American business hours.\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlos David TC (born Caracas\, Venezuela\, 1984) is a Queens based artist and experimental filmmaker. His work explores identity in the digital space\, coming of age in the era of reality tv\, and mobile content creation as a means of communication.\nBy combining humor\, alter egos\, self interviews\, obsolete technologies and infinite digital storage the artist attempts to blur the line between performance and reality by experimenting with the documentation of the “process behind the work” as a performance of its own. The constant need to articulate an identity through documentation produces different sets of self-portraits that are presented via moving image\, screenshots\, screen recording\, films\, memes\, music videos\, text based work\, performance and site-specific installations. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/there-is-something-here/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/There-is-something-here_Feature-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210207T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072046Z CREATED:20200605T191023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072046Z UID:27040-1611925200-1612720800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:The Gift in the Wound DESCRIPTION:Quarantine Day 121\, 2020 by Megan Bent \nThe Gift in the Wound \nJanuary 29 – February 7\nCurated by Noah Phillips \nGallery Hours*: 1-6 PM EST on Saturday\, January 30 & February 6\nOr by appointment\, email maya@fluxfactory.org \nDownload the Catalog Here \nArtist Talk and virtual exhibition\nFriday\, January 29\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon registration\nOn Friday\, January 29th @ 7pm EST\, join curator Noah Phillips for a live\, virtual celebration of resilience with the exhibiting artists. We will discuss their creative processes\, their work\, and the personal journeys that led them each to face\, and learn from\, their individual challenges. Although our wounds may be unique\, the gifts are collective. Our artists have lived to tell the tale—come listen!⁣ \n“Without the weight given by a wound consciously realized\, [one] will lead a provisional life.” — Robert Bly \n\nParticipating Artists \nMegan Bent || Aloe Corry || Betty Eastland || Valeria Haedo || Angela Rogers || Jonathon Sims || Ellen Wetmore \nThe Gift In The Wound highlights the work of artists who have confronted their fears\, traumas\, and shadows\, and emerged on the other side with unexpected insights\, treasures\, and talents to share with and enrich their communities. The wounds explored vary from the physical to the emotional to the spiritual\, and the media from paint\, fabric\, glass\, and beyond. Each work celebrates an enduring process of transformation reflected in nature\, in myth\, and in our bodies. \nThe Gift in the Wound is Noah Phillips‘ curatorial debut. Before beginning his residency at Flux Factory\, where his work has focused on the intersections of folk ritual and innovative understandings of psychological “plurality\,” Noah was working as a Peer Specialist in the New York City’s public mental health system. He is also a Licensed Master of Social Work and an organizer with the Institute for the Development of Human Arts\, a training institute for transformative models of mental health. \n*The exhibition will take place at Flux Factory’s Garage Bay Gallery. In response to COVID-19\, all visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-gift-in-the-wound/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GiftintheWound_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201031T220000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072225Z CREATED:20200407T185134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072225Z UID:26729-1603440000-1604181600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Created Jobs - Exhibition by Cayla Lockwood DESCRIPTION:CREATED JOBS\nA Project by Cayla Lockwood \nCreated Jobs is an exhibition and boutique temp agency that examines the current labor economy and questions the definition of work while employing unemployed and under-employed artists from Queens for one day. \nFriday October 23rd–Saturday\, October 31st\nInstallation visible in the Flux Factory Gallery windows at 39-31 29th street\, LIC\, Queens\nLive Performance Monday-Friday 12-9pm \n\nWORK DAY\nFriday\, October 23\, 9am – 5pm\nWatch us work! Join www.twitch.tv/fluxfactory\n6-8 Unemployed/Under-employed Queens-based Creatives who were hired for one day of remote “work”. Each participant will be paid $25/hr. \nFLUX THURSDAY: OFFICE HALLOWEEN HAPPY HOUR\nThursday\, October 29\, 7–9pm\, Zoom Party \nJoin us for a festive remote office happy hour party. Share work stories\, Wear your office Halloween costume\, Fun Games and Prizes!\n**Premier of Created Jobs Work Training Video – made in collaboration with Carlos David Trujillo\, Will Owen\, Danny Crump\, Sarah Dahlinger\, Jonathan Sims\, Jevijoe Vitug and Amir Badawi**\nRegister here! – Zoom link sent upon Registration \nThis project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/created-jobs/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/createdjobs_logo_feature.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200809T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200909T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072247Z CREATED:20200530T205407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072247Z UID:26519-1596974400-1599674400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:#indigenizemememoji.2020 - New Works by Jevijoe Vitug DESCRIPTION:#indigenizemememoji.2020\nNew Works by Jevijoe Vitug \nLaunching August 9\, 2020 \nOn the event of the International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples\, Flux Factory is pleased to present #indigenizemememoji.2020\, a solo exhibition of paintings by Philippine-born artist Jevijoe Vitug. This exhibition\, initially cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic\, is presented here in digital form. \nDescription\, Artist Bios and List of Works Below\n \n\nExhibition Gallery\nTitles\, size and medium listed below \nPurell meme + Health Worker! (2020)Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020)Corona Extra! Stay Calm! (2020)Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020) – DetailCorona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020)Corona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020) – DetailClorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020)Clorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020) – DetailGoodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020)Goodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020) – DetailDisaster of War Addict #junkterrorbillPh (2017)Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020)Corona meme + The Scream (2020)Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020) – DetailThis……is Why (2020) – DetailThis……is Why (2020)Terror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020) – DetailTerror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020)Zoom Supper\, Social Distancing meme (2020) – DetailFight the Power\, F*ck the Police meme (2020) – DetailFight the Power\, F*ck the Police meme (2020)Zoom Supper\, Social Distancing meme (2020)\n\n\nProgramming \nIndigenization and the Dreamland: Jevijoe Vitug in conversation with Museum Educator Francis Estrada\nAugust 20th\, 7pm EST\nVia Zoom – REGISTER HERE \n\nExhibition Description\n\nCombining satirical humor with socio-political and cultural concerns\, #indigenizemememoji.2020 reimagines history painting through the lens of memes and emojis\, encoded with an indigenous presence. Layering graphics referencing the COVID-19 pandemic and statewide protests against systemic racism\, each painting amplifies this historic moment as translated through digital culture. \nThis new body of work is composed of 13 paintings\, in which Vitug continues his painting technique titled “pintados\,” painterly brushstrokes that have nuances of indigenous mark making. Similar to digital pixel units\, these marks become codes to forming imagery invisible at a first glance. Working in oil paint\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint overlapping one another\, the artist uses a diversity of painting media. \nA repeated motif in the works are brands around which viral memes were made during the pandemic\, such as Corona beer\, Purell hand sanitizer and Clorox bleach. The painting Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020) is based on a meme by Saint Hoax in which Beyonce holds Purell bottles\, while emoji hands reach out for the sanitizers. This work\, part of a diptych\, sits next to This is……Why (2020) which appropriates a meme posted by NBA star LeBron James showing a police officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck\, next to a former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest of police brutality. Both rendered using marking details similar to the tattoos of indigenous warriors in the Philippines\, depicted in the Boxer Codex manuscript (1590). Vitug combines a diversity of technique and reference to draw attention to the complex and interdependent forces impacting this social moment. \nOver the prolonged period of lockdown\, Vitug has continued painting in his studio as a coping strategy and to reflect on his experience living in Queens\, NY\, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak that has disproportionately impacted immigrants of color. He uses coded humor\, layered with straightforward messages and hidden meanings to make visible his pre-colonial/ indigenous heritage\, and his continuing quest for decolonization. \n\nArtist Bios \nJevijoe Vitug \nQueens-based artist Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings\, performance and community projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor\, indigenous legacy and the forgotten history of people of color. \nJevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005\, 2006)\, Singapore Art Museum (2006)\,\nDiego Rivera Gallery\, San Francisco\, CA (2009)\, Contemporary Arts Center\, Las Vegas (2012)\, Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY (2017\, 2019)\, Queens Museum\, NY (2018)\, San Diego Art Institute\, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF\, Japan (2004)\, Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA\, San Francisco\, CA (2008)\, London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012\, 2014)\, Flux residency at AroS Museum\, Denmark (2018)\, Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019)\, UP Vargas Museum (2019). In 2019\, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is member of Museum Union Art Workers\, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory. \nFrancis Estrada \nBorn in the Philipines and currently residing in Brooklyn\, Francis Estrada is a visual artist\, museum educator at the Museum of Modern Art\, and freelance educator of Filipino art and culture. Francis has a fine arts degree in painting and drawing from San Jose State University\, and he has taught in a variety of studio\, classroom\, and museum settings to diverse audiences\, including programs for adults with disabilities\, cultural institutions\, and after-school programs. He was also an administrator and educator at the Museum for African Art\, where he enjoyed teaching about the amalgamation of art and culture through objects. Francis exhibits his work nationally\, including online publications. His work focuses on culture\, history\, and perception. \n\nList of Works \n\n1) Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n53 inches x 50 inches \n2) Corona Extra! Stay Calm! (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n60 inches x 48 inches \n3) Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n40 inches x 40 inches \n4) Corona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n5) Clorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n50 inches x 50 inches \n6) Goodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n7) Disaster of War Addict #junkterrorbillPh (2017)\nAcrylic on canvas\n36 inches x 48 inches \n8) Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n40 inches x 40 inches \n9) Corona meme + The Scream (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n10) This……is Why (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\nDiptych: 30 inches x 24 inches each \n11) Terror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n480 inches x 36 inches \n\n12) Fight the Power\, F*ck the Police meme (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n13) Zoom Supper\, Social Distancing meme (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n36 inches x 36 inches URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/indigenize/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/QueenBey_Feature-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200614T090000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072305Z CREATED:20200506T204850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072305Z UID:26231-1588966200-1592125200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:A Song For Sickness by Jonathan Sims DESCRIPTION:A Song For Sickness\n\nBy Jonathan Sims \n\nMay 8 – June 14\, 2020\nIn the Flux Factory Gallery Windows\nSafely viewed from the sidewalk \nOn May 8th at sunset\, Flux Factory will launch A Song For Sickness\, a light installation by Jonathan Sims in the windows of the Flux Factory Gallery. \nThis new piece will join the Center of Holographic Arts Light Windows\, a public-facing exhibition of light art in spaces around New York City and the world. A global event to mark the International Day of Light on Saturday\, May 16. \n\nStatement for A Song for Sickness:\n \n\n“I spent the first ten days of quarantine in New York City in self-isolation with a persistent cough\, shortness of breath\, and terrifying waves of anxiety. A Song for Sickness began as a desire to represent the immense emotional energy I expended in panic attacks and in desperate pleas for intercession and wellness. It is also an inheritance of the countless prayers and spells that human beings have devised over the millennia to ask the universe for healing or\, in my case\, strength to accept the potentially permanent changes that the virus could bring as a new norm in my life. \n“The work is about the constant evolution that every individual undergoes throughout life\, and the unique beauty of that growth. This durational nature of the piece is punctuated by a collage of abstracted symbols that represent our psychic reverberations to these changes. \n“Though this piece came to be in an extraordinary time where the entire planet is hyper-focused on a single virus\, my intent is for this invocation to gather energy to all people for whom illness is a part of their lives. I also want to acknowledge those at greatest risk now\, not only because of the threat of a novel virus\, but because of the failures inherent in capitalist institutions there are those whose tenuous existences are now even more precarious. These include the chronically ill\, those with compromised autoimmune systems\, the elderly\, the caretakers\, and the workers–all of whom are being asked to make sacrifices to uphold the very economies and institutions which have already been failing them. I ask viewers to not only consider this work as a potential conduit for healing\, but as a meditation on the complex relationships every human being experiences with sickness.” \n\n– Jonathan Sims URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/a-song-against-sickness-by-jonathan-sims/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SongAgainstIllness_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200330T220000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072316Z CREATED:20200306T203721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072316Z UID:26149-1585249200-1585605600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:人柱の物語 (hitobashira no monogatari): solo exhibition by Nine Yamamoto-Masson DESCRIPTION:人柱の物語 (hitobashira no monogatari): solo exhibition by Nine Yamamoto-Masson\n\nThis exhibition has been cancelled in response to heightened concerns relating to the spread of COVID-19 \nIn her first solo exhibition on Turtle Island\, Nine Yamamoto-Masson presents new works that reflect on the private dimensions of war and US imperialism in Asia that\, sidelined by hegemonic regimes of knowledge and cold bureaucratization of violence\, often elude representation and public discourse – especially within the US public imaginary of Asia and of US military actions. \nIn this exhibition\, Yamamoto-Masson chooses a reduced formal language and visual codes to unlock engagement with the history\, reality\, and the private and political afterlife of the Manhattan Project and the ongoing global nuclear colonialism it is but one aspect of – including its legions of ghosts around the world. In drawings\, collages\, installations\, and sculptures\, the artist negotiates the politics of what can be publicly revealed of the active legacy of gendered and racialized state-sanctioned violence – including rape as a technology of power – and what remains incommunicable and unwelcome. \nThe works in this exhibition are part of a lager body of intermedia\, academic\, and activist work in which Yamamoto-Masson maps how fascisms and rape culture operate necropolitically in the battlefields of bodies\, memory\, historiography\, and media representation. \nNine Yamamoto-Masson is a French-Japanese artist\, theorist\, writer\, community organizer\, activist\, and translator. In academic research\, artistic and activist practice\, her work analyses the gendered necropolitics of (neo)coloniality with regard to the legacies of European and Japanese colonialism and how they presently manifest as configurations of power and economies of knowledge that exert violence on bodies and futures. She studies the modes of organization of networked resistance\, and the workings of resistant memory challenging hegemonic dominant narratives\, focusing on the role of art and inter-diasporic\, internationalist\, inter-generational solidarities. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam; in 2018 and 2019 she was a visiting researcher-artist at Hiroshima City University. \nwww.nineyamamotomasson.com\nPlease share on Facebook URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/%e4%ba%ba%e6%9f%b1%e3%81%ae%e7%89%a9%e8%aa%9e-hitobashira-no-monogatari/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Evidence2YamamotoMasson_Fluxweb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T210000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072407Z CREATED:20200128T191557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072407Z UID:25983-1582916400-1582923600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:An Evening of Quadraphonic Sounds DESCRIPTION:February 28\, 7pm\nFREE \nPlease invite friends on Facebook \nAn experimental sound performance in four channel speakers that will envelope the audience with evolving and sonorous motion. Visual artist Jonathan Sims will be providing live projections \nBorn in Evergreen Park\, IL in 1984\, Anthony Janas. Retired Magician. Boat Captain. Sound Artist with a focus on advanced modular synthesizer techniques and digitally processed field recordings. Member of multimedia group known as Urbe and seminal noise/performance group Panicsville. Contributing artist for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.  Anthony Janas has presented work throughout the United States\, Mexico and Western Europe. Anthony Janas work has ranged from sound installations on sailboats to playful performances such as juggling cheeseburgers. Anthony Janas’s work attempts to merge the institutional and pastoral moments of human existence. \nJenn Grossman is a sound/experiential media artist concerned with the psycho-spatial possibilities of time-based media\, exploring displaced realities\, staged synchronicity\, cyclical time\, collective memory\, embodiment/disembodiment\, perceptual affect\, and transcendent experience. She treats sensory media as a portal into the surreal\, subconscious\, and otherworldly; through its displacement into everyday settings\, objects\, and spaces. Her work has taken the form of modular sound sculptures/installations\, multichannel sound works\, light/projection events\, ambient music/soundscapes\, video\, and public interventions. \nJeff Kolar is an independent sound and media artist\, composer\, and curator. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius\, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work\, described as “speaker-shredding” (Half Letter Press)\, “wonderfully strange” (John Corbett)\, and “characteristically curious” (Marc Weidenbaum)\, activates sound in unconventional\, temporary\, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects\, installations\, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices. \nJonathan Sims is a New York City based visual artist who originally hails from Texas. His visual arts practice is characterized by brightly colored geometric abstractions and simple\, minimalist symbology that evokes language and universal\, ancient design. \nJonathan began his practice with painting\, but has since moved into digital animation\, sculpture and projection installations\, print\, long exposure photography and graphic design. His work is intended to elicit a sense of familiarity and artistic intent in viewers\, but his compositions remain stubbornly non-objective\, and his fictional “glyph” languages refuse transliteration. A consistent premise underlying his work is based on the idea that a modern human’s relationship with the very ancient past is mirrored in their relationship with the distant future. \nPast exhibitions include gallery shows and large scale projection installations in San Antonio\, Bushwick\, Governor’s Island\, and upstate New York. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/an-evening-of-quadraphonic-sounds/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/WEBSITE-LOGO.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T170000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072416Z CREATED:20200124T224428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072416Z UID:25967-1582099200-1582131600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:After You: Carlos David TC + Cameron A Granger DESCRIPTION:AFTER YOU\nFebruary 19 – 23\nCarlos David TC + Cameron A Granger \nSpecial event: Heartflux Hotel\nFeb 14\, 9pm – 1am\nWhere hearts don’t break\, they’re only in flux.  \nFeb 19\, 7pm Opening\nFeb 23\, TBD Closing + Artist Talk \nPlease share on Facebook \nAfter you is a two person exhibition of video and installation works by Carlos David TC and Cameron A. Granger. \nDrawing on their personal and shared histories\, the places they call home and the digital spaces they frequent\, the duo looks to find a new home through the work of one another. \n“After You is dedicated to the wonderful gift of being loved by the ones we love\, and the life that gift can bring.” – Carlos + Cameron \nCameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland\, Ohio alongside his mother\, Sandra\, inheriting both her love of soul music\, and a habit of apologizing too much. A 2017 student of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture\, his work explores his place and role as a product of American history and media. His most recent projects include “Ten Toes Down” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago\, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland\, and “A library\, for you” a traveling community library founded in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nCarlos David TC is a Miami based multidisciplinary artist who explores identity in the digital space. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/after-you/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Horizontal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T010000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072428Z CREATED:20200121T185618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072428Z UID:26001-1581714000-1581728400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Heartflux Hotel DESCRIPTION:Heartflux Hotel\nFebruary 14\, 9pm \nWhere hearts don’t break\, they’re only in flux.  \nPlease invite hearts on FB \nFlux Factory invites you to check-in for a one night get away. Together we’ll dance out what’s been building up in our bleedin’ hearts. \nWe’ll have signature delectables and art installations to get you going\, with sounds from Satele to whisk you away. \nHeartflux Hotel is part of the two person exhibition After you\, running from February 19 – 23\,  with video and installation works by Carlos David TC and Cameron A. Granger. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/heartflux-hotel/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HeartfluxHOtel_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200125T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200125T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072440Z CREATED:20200101T214746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072440Z UID:25926-1579950000-1579975200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Good Morning\, India! DESCRIPTION:Image description: A decaying wall mural of the Indian flag\, gold on the top a blue wheel in the middle and green on the bottom\, with a pile of rubble and bricks on the bottom. from Bangalore circa. 2014. \nSaturday\, January 25\nMedia Making Workshop\n11am–4pm \nArtist talk by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy\n4pm \nPlease share this event on Facebook\nThis workshop is open to people of all ages and backgrounds but an RSVP is required. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to maya@fluxfactory.org \nInquilab Zindabad! \nThe spirit of resistance is alive in India. The forces of facism are met with the love\, care\, humor\, and strength of a newly forming people’s movement. For a month the whole nation has been in protest against Hindu supremacist laws that suppress the basic rights of several minority groups\, particularly Muslims. Sounds and images have been a vital part of this resistance. WhatsApp memes\, songs\, music videos\, kolams\, and a range of posters have flooded our imagination\, describing the nation that we want to live in. Join us for a workshop and talk with Flux resident Sindhu Thirumalaisamy where we will listen\, view\, read\, and contribute to the resistance with sounds and images. \nPrior to the talk\, the Flux Factory gallery will turn into a workshop for media making. Do you want to make a poster? A meme? Want to record a video? A song? Want to learn how to draw a kolam? Want to chat with about what is happening in India and beyond? We will gather materials\, equipment\, and people to help make all of this happen! \nSindhu Thirumalaisamy is an artist working across sound\, video\, text\, and installation. She is a participant of the Whitney Independent Study program in 2019-20. Sindhu holds an MFA in visual art from the University of California\, San Diego\, is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and a fellow of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/good-morning-india/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/banner-image-DCD.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200119T190000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072452Z CREATED:20191227T190936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072452Z UID:25805-1579201200-1579460400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Know The Ways: Solo Exhibition by Marjan Verstappen DESCRIPTION:Know The Ways:\nSolo Exhibition by Marjan Verstappen\nFriday January 17 – Sunday January 19 \nOpening reception: Thursday\, January 16\, 7 – 11pm\nOpen Hours: Friday\, Saturday & Sunday\, 1 – 6pm \nPlease share this event on Facebook \nA solo exhibition by Flux resident Marjan Verstappen\, Know The Ways is a critical exploration of colonial understandings of the frontier\, as received through the abstract landscapes of Florence Martin. A virtually unknown contemporary of the Transcendentalist painting group\, Martin destroyed her paintings in the 1960s during a crisis of faith. Using x-rays and rare historical photographs of the paintings\, Verstappen has recreated a collection of Martin’s major works. Through these actions\, Verstappen explores deep spiritual and cultural conflicts within Martin’s paintings\, and ultimately\, the legacy of guilt and greed within settler relationships with the land. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/know-the-ways/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/FF_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200101T220000 DTSTAMP:20211108T072507Z CREATED:20191125T204802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T072507Z UID:25605-1576954800-1577916000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Solstice: An Exhibition of Works in Light DESCRIPTION:Solstice: An Exhibition of Works in Light\nDecember 21 – January 1 \nOpening: Saturday December 21 7pm-1am\nPerformances start at 8pm\nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \nOpen Hours\nSunday Dec 22: 2pm to 8pm\nSaturday Dec 28: 2pm to 8pm\nSunday Dec 29: 2pm to 8pm\nFor visits by Appointment\, contact wintersolsticeexhibition@gmail.com\n(evenings preferred). \nClosing Reception: Wednesday January 1: 4pm to 9pm \nCurated by Jonathan Sims \n\n\n\n\n\nSolstice is a convening of ten artists on the night of the winter solstice\, the longest night of the year. Each of these sculptors\, installation artists\, and performers incorporate light as a central element of their practice. To celebrate the darkness of the midnight sun\, the typical gallery lighting will be removed and the Flux Factory gallery plunged into blackness. To celebrate the coming return to longer days\, all light in the space will emanate from the LEDs\, digital projectors\, fiberoptics\, and incandescent bulbs in the artists’ work– reflected\, refracted\, directed\, and lensed into being. \nInstallations:\nLuba Drozd\, Laurent Fort\, Sizhu Li\, Lindsay Packer\, Ksenia Salion\, Jonathan Sims\, \nOn December 21\, the night of the winter solstice\, four artists will present audiovisual performances that push the boundaries between the digital and analog media:\nÉMU\, Night Shining\, Paloma Kop\, Testu Collective URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/solstice/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/solstice-exhibition-graphic_800x240.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191006T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074151Z CREATED:20190826T191751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074151Z UID:24851-1569610800-1570384800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Amir Badawi and Maria Lulu Varona: Works in Thread DESCRIPTION:Amir Badawi and Maria Lulu Varona: Works in Thread\nSeptember 27th to October 6th\nFree and Open to the Public \nOpen Hours:\nThursday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm\nOpening Reception\nSeptember 27th\, 7 – 10pm \nThank you to our beer sponsor Big aLICe Brewing!! \nFlux Factory presents an exhibition of works by two current Artists-in-Residence\, Amir Badawi and María Lulu Varona. Each uses colorful embroidery thread to arrive at radically different ends. A quiet medium\, both in its delicacy and in the time it takes to produce an object from tiny strands\, it is a material that encourages deep looking. \nPuerto Rican artist\, María Lulu Varona works with a cross-stitch technique to produce short narratives\, done in an 8-bit style referencing classic video games and comic strips. Made of cotton thread and Aida cloth\, each work is made up of between three and 23 frames and is presented as a scroll\, table cloth or on clothes. \nVarona employs a sensitive curiosity to address themes of becoming\, transformation and human relations with our environment. She sees space and color as her main instruments for story telling; color as character and essence. These are works of love\, and in the meditative silent process of making them\, she finds comfort to think\, feel and envision possible futures. \nAmir Badawi‘s work on the other hand uses the language of abstraction to elicit contemplation and play; referencing the aesthetic lineage of Lee Bontecou\, Ernesto Neto\, Senga Nengudi\, and Roberto Matta. Made of thin metal wire and rods\, meticulously wrapped with cotton thread\, Badawi’s compositions are slight and airy\, and often seem to float against a white background. Playing with negative space\, and by using directed lights\, the sculptures make shadows that extend and double the compositions\, which shift and change as the viewer moves through the gallery. \nBadawi takes inspiration from nature\, mathematics\, and the background noise of every day life.  His artistic process is driven by improvisation and non-verbal thinking\, allowing an exploration of material to weave together with trains-of-thought to produce otherworldly skeletons\, plants\, micro-organisms and other tendrils of imagination. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/works-in-thread/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/feature-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T220000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074202Z CREATED:20190818T185901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074202Z UID:24900-1568988000-1569016800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Party Dress Party by Dew Igworia DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 20th \nOpen Studios\, 2 – 7pm\nParty Dress Party 9pm – 12am\nOpen mic at 10pm \nWear your best party dress for a dance party and celebration starting at 9pm. All are invited to bring a poem\, song\, question\, list\, story or other performance to the open mic at 10pm. \nLet us know you’ll be coming on Facebook \n\nRecent Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence\, poet and designer Dew Igworia\, has been working on a series of party dresses that celebrate and honor cherished garments that she collected over years\, which helped form her identity. These dresses connected her to a realm of fantasy and an expansiveness of self\, but were lost in the removal of a storage unit due to financial insecurity. Recreating these garments summons not only a multiplicity of Igworia’s selves\, but meaningful friendships and life trajectories that\, even if never realized\, still hold weight in memory and fondness. \nParty Dress Party and Dew Igworia’s practice seeks to understand the feminine body. Through textiles and garments\, she investigates the material process of moving from a girl to a woman\, as well as the slippage between these two states. How is personal style used to define these categories\, and how does celebration itself shift for feminine people both individually and collectively? Party Dress Party is also a tribute to a joyous masculinity that was embodied by Igworia’s father and brother; The two central men in her rearing\, who opened space for her to choose how she exists within femininity. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/party-dress-party/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Dew_PartyDress_Feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T223000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074209Z CREATED:20190810T221032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074209Z UID:24508-1568314800-1568327400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Flux Thursday: At the Twelfth Hour\, Confessions of a Hong Konger DESCRIPTION:Flux Thursday: At the Twelfth Hour: Confessions of a Hongkonger by Tse Fei\nSeptember 12th\n7 – 10pm\n \n  \nFlux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program\, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month. \nFlux Thursday started in 1994 and is a monthly potluck and artists salon where artists present their work and gather for food and socializing. \nThis event is free but please bring food or drink to share! \nSeptember’s Flux Thursday will be in tandem with Tse Fei’s Residency Exhibition. Tse will address the current protests in Hong Kong in response to the 2019 extradition bill. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the idiom “the eleventh hour” refers to the final moment\, then “the twelfth hour” means that it is too late. For the artist Tse Fei\,the twelfth hour references a feeling of guilt that he may be missing out. \n\nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \nMost Flux Thursday events take place in the ground floor Gallery\, which is ADA accessible. The event information will specify if the event takes place in the kitchen on the 2nd floor. \nUpcoming Flux Thursday 2019 \nOctober 11th\, 2019\nNovember 14th\, 2019\nDecember 12th\, 2019 URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Untitled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T200000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074219Z CREATED:20190808T202729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074219Z UID:24622-1567944000-1567972800@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Rebuilding Work: Open Studio and Artist Talk with Hunter Creel DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 8th\n Open Studios\, noon – 8pm\nArtist Talk\, 6pm \nPlease visit Hunter Creel on Sunday\, August 8th in the Flux Factory Gallery\, while he rebuilds a coffin as part of his ongoing work\, Gate to the Multi-Verse. At 6pm join him for an artist talk and discussion about the project. \nThe work explores the life and death of an individual in correlation to a coffin he exhumed from a parallel world\, and his attempt to re-gain access to the multi-verse. Creel builds fictional narratives around his sculptural works\, below is an excerpt from Gate to the Multi-Verse. \n\n“I have come back from the dimensional travel with my own coffin. I found my gravestone\, dug it up\, and found it empty. I can’t explain this yet\, but I can say that the realization was not a surprise to me. I felt as though the Hunter Creel of this dimension\, or another one\, was guiding my hand in the excavation. One of us has been here before. \nIn transporting my coffin through the portal\, it was changed. I can only assume then that I was changed as well\, though not so visibly. The coffin is in parts unfinished wood\, as I would expect a carpenter’s coffin to be\, and other parts it is stripped yellow and orange. It is striped like the ambulance on the way to the hospital. It is stripped like the scar that runs though my chest and\, at time\, itches like a low flow of electricity through my body.” \n Bio\nHunter Creel is an artist whose practice revolves around his unique access to the multi-verse in\nattempt to discover\, collect\, observe new forms of technology\, information\, energy\, and\nresources. His work produced is a combination of the materials of our world in combination with\nones in parallel. Hunter is building new machines and narratives in an attempt to improve our\nrelationship with each other and our environment. He is also consumed by observing himself in\nanother context as a form of parallel reflection. Problems do occur and mistakes and setbacks\nhave been made\, but he is hopeful through the research of new forms of energy\, we as a species\ncan learn to coexist with our environment and each other. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/rebuilding-work-open-studio-and-artist-talk-with-hunter-creel/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Image_Creel_feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190823T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190826T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074233Z CREATED:20190729T221123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074233Z UID:24409-1566565200-1566842400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Diving Into The Surface: Solo Exhibition by Marta Masternak DESCRIPTION:Diving Into The Surface\nA solo exhibition by Marta Masternak  \nAugust 23rd – 26th\nGallery Hours: 1pm – 6pm\nOpening Reception: August 23rd\, 7:00pm \n  \nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \n\n\n\n\n\non the edge where the outside ends and the interior begins\, \nfrom tomorrow to today\, from today to yesterday\, today\, yesterday\, tomorrow\,\nnon stop\,\nthe same movement\,\nthe same bread\,\nthe same taste of coffee\,\nthe same set\,\nof societal punctuation marks on our lives\, everything melting into one surface\,\nform one place to another\,\nform one text to another\,\nfrom one word to another\,\nwe know something\,\nwe don’t know all\,\nwe are a copy of our copies\,\nbuilding on our parents feelings\,\nto create a world on the rules of our grandparents\, breaking what is right\,\nbreaking what was bad\,\nbuilding what is good\,\nbuilding what was false\,\nliving on the surface\,\nmelting with the lines\,\ngathering points form place to non-place\,\nfinding utopia\,\ncreating dystopia\,\nuploading pictures\,\ntyping feelings\,\nnot knowing anything\,\nknowing everything\,\nposting\, copying\, recording\, processing\, deleting\, moving\, postponing\, saving\, forgetting\,\nbecoming a surface\,\nwithout any significant points\,\njust diving\,\nfrom utopia to dystopia\,\ninto blurred boundaries \n\n\n\n\nMarta Masternak was born in Poznan\, Poland and now lives and works in Berlin. She studied Painting\, Sculpture\, and Multimedia at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Fine Art at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Before she studied Architecture\, which was natural pre-development of her current artistic activities.\nMasternak´s work oscillates mostly between sculpture\, film\, sound\, and drawing and it is presented in site-specific arrangements\, that intend to evoke a mood rather than telling a story. Her installations are built from mixed media and are based on research into shapes\, the fluid transition of material and color from one form to another\, and how this impacts the viewer´s perception. Her compositions strike an odd balance between spontaneous expressions and precise calculations\, often relating to elements of forms and lines\, it creates a visual rhythm and fluid continuity\, which exposes the phantom of time\, the fragility of movement and the present-day human condition. Another important subject in her works is the processing of memory and how this has shifted through engagement with digital media. She is also a member of the experimental jazz/noise/punk band: permanenterror. Marta’s Residency at Flux Factory is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/diving-into-the-surface/ LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/800x240-divingintothesurface.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190809T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190811T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074254Z CREATED:20190716T194501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074254Z UID:24282-1565355600-1565546400@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Jargon: Solo Exhibition by Catalina J. Alvarez DESCRIPTION:Jargon \nby Catalina J. Alvarez \nAugust 9th – 11th\nFriday to Sunday 1-6pm\n\nSalon (with coffee) 1-4pm Saturday August 10th \nThe main trait that distinguishes Jargon from other language is specialized vocabulary. Filmmaker Catalina exhibits her word drawings. \nCLICK HERE to learn more about Catalina and her future events! \n\nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \n\nCatalina J. Alvarez\nBiography \nCatalina J. Alvarez grew up in rural Tennessee with a Colombian mother and an American father. Her work across video\, performance\, and text often highlights strange elements of cultural norms and movements of the human body. Her films have screened at festivals including New Orleans\, Los Angeles\, Slamdance\, Fantastic Fest\, Edinburgh Short\, Oxford\, and Palm Springs. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College in Yellow Springs\, OH and a resident artist at Flux Factory in Queens\, NY. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/jargon-exhibition/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Jargon6CUStick.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190718T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190729T180000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074305Z CREATED:20190703T193431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074305Z UID:24215-1563454800-1564423200@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Everyday Practice – Dual Solo Exhibition by Sai-lok Chan and Tzu-an Ko DESCRIPTION:Everyday Practice – Dual Solo Exhibition by Sai-lok Chan and Tzu-an Ko \nJuly 19 – 29\nThursday to Sunday 1-6pm\nOpening Reception and Performance on July 19 at 6pm \nOr by appointment at annhikali@gmail.com\n \nTwo Asian artists meet at Flux Factory at the height of this summer. \nTzu-an Ko\, a Taiwan based artist\, searches for employment as her alter-ego Super Perfect Working Robot\, which intervenes with the alienated nature of existence under Capitalism. While Hong Kong based artist and art critic Sai-lok Chan continues his reflections on the relationship between painting and text\, and explores issues surrounding cultural identity. \n*The Exhibition by Sai-lok Chan is presented by United Overseas Bank (UOB). \n\nARTIST TALK AND WORKSHOP: Have a Bit of Culture\, and Write Your Own Queerness\n27 July\n2:30pm – 4:30pm \nThis event combines an experiential Artist Talk and Workshop\, and is divided into two parts. \nThe first part will include learning how to make delicious marinated eggs\, using tea leaves\, red dye and a potpourri of spices. Tzu-an Ko will take you on a journey of cultural metamorphosis. \nIn the second part of the event\, participants will create their own written character or calligraphic symbol. How would you create a script for a queer word that is difficult to define? If typography is more than to please the eye\, then writing can be a process of introspection into ones own identity. \n\nExhibition Statement: Sai-lok Chan \nFor Chan\, winner of the 2017 UOB Art in Ink Awards\, taking time to be an Artist-in-Residence at Flux Factory allows for a mid-career moment of introspection\, and an opportunity to clarify his conceptual framework and plan his future trajectory. \nIn Chan’s recent body of work\, he returns to the roots of his artistic journey holding a dialogue with Chinese ink painting. The works ask questions about the nature of narrative in painting\, and the use of material in service of meaning. On top of its delicate materiality\, (painting on) silk has also become a cultural symbol in an Asian context. While text is a familiar motif in Contemporary Art\, how are Chinese characters interpreted in the context of the New York art scene? \nNew York City is extraordinarily culturally diverse\, and Chan roots his practice in adapting to such diversity and connecting with people. His work\, which includes writing on exercise books and painting on canvas frames\, are both physical exercises but also a process of discovery\, clarification and an acceptance of values. The work produces a meandering journey\, emotional and full of self-doubt. \n  \nExhibition Statement Tzu-an Ko \nRepeat the same thing every day: put on the pale robot makeup\, move stiffly\, interact with human society\, and observe the outcome. The chameleon senses its environment and changes color in 5 seconds. Super Perfect Working Robot needs to do the same thing every day to learn how to adapt to its environment. Part of that process has been changing genders. \nKo has been doing Super Perfect Working Robot since 2013. Dressed as a robot she goes to different countries looking for work to explore the existential experience of capitalist employment. She wants to know the feelings and stories of immigrants when they are working. \nFor this exhibition\, Super Perfect Working Robot exhibits more of its cyborg side\, with installed mannequin arms and legs representing Robot’s days spent walking around New York City handing out flyers. The installation will also include photographs and excerpts of Robot’s diary. Each individual piece is like a pixel in an image or scene from a film; when viewed altogether they show the experience of Super Perfect Working Robot’s life.\n \n\nArtist Bios Tzu-an Ko \nAs an artist and writer\, Chan Sai-lok glides across the fields of art and literary practice\, education\, art criticism and gender studies. He has always taken text and literature as points of departure in his artistic endeavor\, through which he contemplates the intimate relationship between painting and literariness. There is a certain queerness in his paintings\, as his aesthetics and use of material often convey a sense of ambiguity\, while the positioning in form between Asian or European styles rejects simple categorization. Chan is a freelance artist\, part-time lecturer in universities\, and co-founder of an art critic group Art Appraisal Club. He has published exhibition catalogues One Way Ticket\, Future\, at Variance with Memories\, Writing Painting\, and The Countenance of Text. \nIn 2017\, Chan Sai-lok won the UOB Ink Art of the Year Award and was entitled to a residency program at Flux Factory in NYC in autumn 2018 as part of the prize sponsored by Regal Hotels. With the support of UOB\, Chan organized a solo exhibition titled Land of Longing and Exile in February in 2019 summarizing his response to the New York experience. As the Lead Partner of Art Central\, UOB exhibited Chan’s award-winning artwork titled Sealed at the 2018 and 2019 Art Central in Hong Kong. \nTzu-an Ko is concerned with popular culture and the conflict between personal identities and social values. Since 2013\, Super Perfect Work Robot – Rich Ann program series has been developed and shown in various cities such as New York\, Paris\, Tokyo\, Singapore\, and Cambodia. Through the program series\, she invites audiences to contemplate new and different perspectives\, to think about the relationships between people and the robots of existential labor. \n  URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/everyday-practice/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/EVERYDAY-PRACTICE_feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T160000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074320Z CREATED:20190702T183146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074320Z UID:24202-1563109200-1563120000@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: Cross-Stitch with María Lulú Varona DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP: Cross-Stitch with María Lulú Varona\nSunday\, July 14th\n1pm – 4pm \nMaterials and instructional manual included\nSuggested donation\, $20\nNo one turned away for lack of funds.\n\nThis location will be in the Flux Factory office and is not wheelchair accessible \nPlease tell us that you’ll be coming on Facebook \nParticipants will learn the basics of cross-stitch and other basic embroidery techniques\, such as how to follow a chart and translate a pre-designed image to fabric. This workshop offers an opportunity to practice your skills with guidance from visual art María Lulú Varona. URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/workshop-cross-stitch-with-maria-lulu-varona/ CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LuluCrossStitch_feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190712T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190712T173000 DTSTAMP:20211108T074331Z CREATED:20190613T214901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T074331Z UID:24035-1562943600-1562952600@www.fluxfactory.org SUMMARY:Drinking Beer at the End of the World: A Booze Cruise in the Anthroposcene DESCRIPTION:Drinking Beer at the End of the World: A Booze Cruise in the Anthroposcene\nWith Shane Farrell\nJuly 12th\, 3:00pm-5:30pm\nPlease RSVP on Facebook \nMeet at Smith & 9th street Brooklyn G stop. Look for Death\, our guide. \nThis event is part of the Exhibition Wicket Leeks\, in the Flux Gallery from June 22nd to July 13th \n\nIn “The Bloody Latte” Ian Svenonius figures our beverage consumption as a type of colonialist bloodsucking. Vodka comes to represent the United States’ victory over Russia in the cold war\, and\, even further\, the totalizing power of capitalism. Coffee represents colonial dominion over Africa. In this manner we drink the blood of our “enemies.” My project “Drinking Beer at the End of the World” is somewhere between a Situationist derive (Debord\, an infamous drunk who oft bemoaned the homogenizing effect of capital on local styles of drink\, once remarked “I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink”)\, a Speed Levitch tour (or “cruise”) of NYC\, and the recently popular “beer run” events in which health conscious imbibers sprint from bar to bar to guzzle pints. But wait\, you’re saying\, beer isn’t food! Wrong! Just ask the monks of Paulner\, who developed the doppelbock in the 1600s as a “liquid bread” on which they sustained themselves for the 40 days of lent. Or perhaps ask your average English field laborer circa 1400 or so\, for whom a glass of ale was a critical source of calories at both breakfast and lunch (until coffee\, with cream and sugar for calories\, became widely available\, radically transforming the productive capacity of the workforce). Ok\, but what does beer have to do with sports? Well I’m sorry but if you really have to ask that question you must be quite dense. Beer and sports of course go hand in hand. Many a television screen has been destroyed by a half empty Labatt Blue can haphazardly chucked by a intoxicated and long suffering Buffalo Bills fan. Americans even go so far as to make drinking a competitive sport unto itself\, the grand prize being a case of cirrhosis (a tendency that has been particularly amplified by social media\, see accounts such as: @officialusadrinkingteam on instagram). Ok ok\, but WHAT is this piece exactly? Well its simply a kind of marathon performance lecture and beer tour through New York City\, hosted by Death (played by yours truly). Participants will start out jogging to their first destination and are encouraged to dress in athletic wear. We will bounce from brewery to bar\, sampling local styles and probably slowing to a stroll as the day wears on\, discussing topics from the role of craft beer in gentrifying neighborhoods and re-invigorating disused industrial spaces to how climate change threatens to destroy the art of lambic brewing. Along the way we might find ourselves playing surreal versions of classic pub games\, or seeing who can kick a proper field goal after a pint or two. I’m hoping to rope in friends from the beer and art worlds to help me along the way (and give me a chance to catch my breath). The event will\, of course\, be designed to discourage intemperance and be safe and fun for anyone of drinking age. Teetotalers are begrudgingly welcome. \n  URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/drinking-beer-at-the-end-of-the-world/ LOCATION:Smith and 9th Street G Train\, Smith - 9th Street G Train Station 9th St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States CATEGORIES:Residency Shows ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/web-event-Gentrification-Pub-Crawl-Tour-WL-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR