Flux Factory

Sound Program w/ Catalina and Victoria Keddie, Daniel Fishkin and Alex Nathanson
2021-08-18 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
An evening of live experimental audio-visual performances including the duo of Catalina Alvarez and Victoria Keddie, Daniel Fishkin and Alex Nathanson
Victoria Keddie and Catalina Alvarez will present 56.1629° N, 10.2039° E, a site-specific live performance involving the tracking and sounding of space debris over host coordinates of ARoS. A collaboration between Victoria Keddie and Catalina Alvarez will realize a new work involving 360 video, the relationship between fiction and knowledge with regards to astronomy, and the assemblage of the real and the virtual as simultaneous bodies.
Victoria Keddie is an artist working in experiential media, with a focus on sound transmission and video broadcast. For over a decade, Keddie has been the Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio, and episodic cable access serial, that hybridizes technologies to realize synthetic environments and deconstruct the televisual for live performance. Keddie teaches Immersive Sound for Video and Advanced Televisual Broadcast. Keddie has performed live productions, with commissioned compositions, and exhibited internationally at venues and festivals such as The Barbican (London/UK), Fridman Gallery, The Swiss Institute, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, Museum of Moving Image, The Museum of Art and Design, Queens Museum of Art, Microscope Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives (New York/US), Human Resources (Los Angeles/ US), Lightcone, (Paris/FR), Syros International Film Festival (Syros, GR), Studio XX (Montreal/CA), LOOP Festival (Barcelona/ES), Pallas Projects (Dublin/IE), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Reykjavik/ IS), General Public (Berlin/DE), Axis Art Centre (Crew/UK), The Independent Film Festival (Naples/ IT), Liste Art Fair (Basel/CH), Seeing Sound Festival (Bath/UK), and Daimon (Gatineau/CA). Video works are distributed through Lightcone, (Paris/FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (NYC/US). Sound work released with Chaiken Records, (NYC/USA) and In Context Music (Toronto/CA).
victoriakeddie.com
esptv.com
instagram.com/vict_0r
Catalina Alvarez is a film director and artist. Her films draw on local research and are informed by theories of gender performativity and sound studies. She is a recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Flaherty Seminar, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Flux Factory and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Her films have screened at festivals including Slamdance, Fantastic Fest, New Orleans and Palm Springs, and venues such as the ICA Philadelphia, the San Diego Art Institute, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Alvarez has taught Media Arts at Antioch College since 2018. In her documentary in post-production, Sound Spring, Yellow Springs residents become actors lip-syncing to their own interviews, as they narrate their personal entanglements with the village’s larger history, creating a collage of past and present.Together with Liz Flyntz ’02 Alvarez co-founded Ant Farm Antioch Art Building Creative Preservation Initiative (AFAAB), an initiative to restore Antioch’s historic art building, the only publicly accessible building designed by the radical media art and architecture group Ant Farm.
catalinaalvarez.com
instagram.com/catalinaajalvarez
twitter: @catalinanights

Intro To Video Feedback Workshop by Jon Sims and Carlos David TC
2021-08-19 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Jon Sims will be leading an Intro To Video Feedback Workshop where he will go over the basic techniques to create Video Feedback. Video feedback is the process of pointing a camera at the screen displaying the camera’s output. This creates a feedback loop of images infinitely repeating onto and over themselves creating interesting patterns.
Using Video Feedback techniques, a video mixer, old cameras and a music playlist, artists Jonathan Sims and Carlos David TC will create visual projections in the space and take photo portraits in real time of those in attendance.
Artist Bios:
Jon Sims is a New York City based visual artist. Born in Austin, Texas, he began his practice with painting, but has since moved into sculpture, projection installations, print and curation. His visual arts practice is characterized by geometric abstractions and light. A consistent premise underlying his work is that a modern human’s relationship with the very ancient past is mirrored in their relationship with the distant future.
www.chromadetic.com
Carlos 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 mean of communication.
By 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.

Flux Factory at at Juxtapose Art Fair
2021-08-20 - 2021-08-22 | Godsbanen
Flux Factory artists Sholeh Asgary, Heather Kapplow and Jonathan Sims presented at the Juxtapose Art Fair 2021, which featured 25 artist groups for 3 days at Godsbanen in Aarhus, Denmark.
3123 Telegraph Yes
Presented by Sholeh Asgary + Heather Kapplow, 3123 Telegraph Yes is part of an ongoing effort, through play, to remind ourselves that interfaces are not neutral, and that we don’t have to accept how they frame us. As we consider meeting in person again, 3123 Telegraph Yes offers activities in physical form that resemble early Zoom prototypes to encourage a further blurring of boundaries.
Asgary (USA) and Kapplow (USA) began working together in Aarhus in 2019, and have spent 2020-21 collaborating on a series of audience-participatory Zoom explorations that questioned this piece of corporate technology that has been colonizing our homes, schools, places of worship and other gatherings since Covid began. Their work focuses on disambiguating image from experience, and opening up more space for the unresolved.
We Move in Infinite Space
We Move in Infinite Space (2021), by video artist Jonathan Sims, uses mirrors and video feedback to capture and transmit the disorientation of being in our current moment. It is also an invitation to play, a place to test the waters of feeling joy and freedom again.

[Mobilise / Demobilise] with Eva Ursprung
2021-08-24 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Mobilise/Demobilise is an artistic response to a world of increasing conflict, crisis and emergency. Human mobility and the impact of mobile technologies are explored through a series of networked performances, as Covid19 lockdowns and travel restrictions force us to live more and more of our lives online.
Mobilise/Demobilise wlil present a series of cyberformances as part of the launch of the rebuilt UpStage platform.
UpStage is an online venue for cyberformance (live online performance). Remote players collaborate in real time, using all kinds of digital media including images, animations, audio-visual streams, live text, live drawing and more, to present live performances for online or hybrid online/proximal audiences.
Participating artists: Doris Jauk-Hinz (AT), Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ), Vicky Smith (NZ), Eva Ursprung (AT).

Flux Digital Drink + Draw
2021-08-24 20:00 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Via Zoom
REGISTER HERE
Zoom link sent upon registration

BYOB + art supplies.
Hosted by Lexy Ho-Tai (@lexymakesthings, she/her)

About Drink + Draw
Each week we have four amazing models, most of whom are artists and performers. To see images of previous models and some drawings, visit the Digital Drink + Draw album!
Feel free to drop in for part of it. Bring your own drawing materials and a beverage of your choice. Everybody is welcome!

FAQ

Q: Where does it take place?
A: Good ole’ Zoom! Links will be sent upon registration.
Q: Is it okay if I come late for the Drink + Draw?
A: Yes! The event is ‘drop-in’ style, so come through any time between 7-9:30pm. Stay for as long as you can!
Q: Do we have to share our drawings?
A: Not at all! In between sets, we spent about 5 minutes sharing our drawings (i.e. holding them up to the screen and being spotlit). It’s a very supportive environment, as folks often say encouraging words about the drawings. However, this is totally optional – if you’d prefer not to share, that is absolutely okay!
Q: Is it free?
A: Yes! If you’re in the position to support, we do have a $5-20 suggested donation, which goes towards tipping the models. All the models are volunteering their time, so this is very appreciated. However, no one is turned away due to lack of funds, and you can show gratitude to the models in other ways: sharing your drawings, following their creative practices, etc. BTW, 15% of the proceeds goes towards Flux!!
If you have any Access Needs or questions about the event, please reach out to lexyhotai@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!!

Cicada Waves Screening with Ben Seretan
2021-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Cicada Waves (NNA Tapes, 2021) is a startling record in that, throughout its 47 minutes, we never hear anything else besides some footsteps, a piano quietly ringing out, and the remarkably varied sonic landscapes encountered in a dance studio in the woods one summer. It’s rich and evocative, but there is truly no other content contained therein.
It makes sense, then, that Ben Seretan – the piano player in the woods – incorporated two ways of inflating these recordings, of adding grist to the mill. First, there are accompanying essays for each track – pieces of writing that examine the colonial history of the land whose sound has been captured and commodified or looks deeply at the weird wood marvel that is a baby grand piano. And there are corresponding videos for each track with images of piano keys dancing like spectres on the horizon, digital woods, flowers, bugs, stop animation, and a shirtless hula in a snowstorm.
This event will gather and screen the entire visual album for an audience for the first time ever, a stark contrast to the Internet-only release and deep isolation of its creation. These videos – in combination with the spare, lovely recordings – are transportative, nearly hypnagogic, and at times quite funny. Join us as we “throw open the windows and let the world in.”
Artist Bios:
Ben Seretan is a musician and writer from Troy, New York who is working hard. In 2018, he released a 24-hour-long album of guitar clouds called My Life’s Work. In 2020 came Youth Pastoral, a lightly dance-music-influenced collection of cathartic full band jammers about breaking up with God (named one of the best albums of the year by Pitchfork). This year – emerging from the Internet as if from a 17-year burrow in the woods – Seretan whipped up Cicada Waves, a visual album of piano recordings from the riotous and cacophonous woods of north Georgia where, more often than not, the piano isn’t played. And every Thursday he sends a new track and a 1,000 word piece of writing via My Big Break, a hard-to-describe email newsletter.
www.benseretan.com
read.mybigbreak.zone
Featuring work by visual artist Bahareh Khoshooee: baharehkhoshooee.com
And footage by documentarians Hal and Henry Jacobs: www.hjacobscreative.com

Solar Powered Art Book Launch and Artist Round Table with Alex Nathanson
2021-08-26 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
This event is in celebration of the launch of the book A History of Solar Power Art and Design by Alex Nathanson (published by Routledge on July 30, 2021). Alex will discuss his practice and introduce guests to this current and innovative topic. Alex will be joined by artists whose work is profiled in the book. The event will also highlight some past Flux Factory members who have worked with solar power. The discussion will be followed by a reception.
Book Description:
A History of Solar Power Art and Design examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, industrial design, digital media, building integrated design, and many others.
The growth in artists and designers incorporating solar power into their work reflects broader social, economic, and political events. As the cost of PV cells has come down, they have become more accessible and have found their way into a growing range of design applications and artistic practices. As climate change continues to transform our environment and becomes a greater public concern, the importance of integrating sustainable energy technologies into our culture grows as well. The book can be purchased via most book retailers. Use code FLY21 for a 20% discount when purchasing the book through Routledge’s website.
Alex Nathanson Bio:
Alex Nathanson is a multimedia artist, designer, technologist, and educator. His work is primarily focused on exploring both the experimental and practical applications of sustainable energy technologies, particularly photovoltaic solar power.
His artistic collaborators have included Dylan Neely, Kid Millions, Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, Will Owen, Kendall Williams, and Lindsay Packer. His work has been featured at Issue Project Room (NYC), the Climate Museum (NYC), the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC), Dome of Visions (Copenhagen, Denmark), and the Art Prospect Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia), among other venues. He was one of the long-term artists in residence at Flux Factory, in Queens, NY from 2012 to 2016, and in collaboration with his multimedia performance group Fan Letters was awarded residencies at The Watermill Center in 2017 and 2019. In 2020, Solar Protocol was awarded a fellowship from Eyebeam. Most recently, his book A History of Solar Power Art and Design was published by Routledge.
Website: www.alexnathanson.com
Instagram Handle: @alexnathanson
Twitter Handle: @solar4artists

Flux Intentional Listening Lab with Ben Seretan
2021-08-30 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Two workshops took place on August 30 and September 10. Students received a lecture in contemporary music from musician Ben Seretan and went through various listening exercises to deepen their ability to listen and appreciate new forms of music.

Fluctuations with Georgia Muenster
2021-09-01 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Fluctuations is an evening of video art featuring works by current Fluxers-in-Residence at the ARoS atelier. Fluctuations, beyond the Flux pun embedded in the title, is themed on change and collaboration, while taking cues from the Situationist International: How do Fluxers together interact with the city, collaborate within this environment, or disrupt the day-to-day? The screening will also include collective works from Flux Factory’s previous times in Aarhus, notably Jaime Iglehart’s Public Broad Fluxing, from the “Infamous Outpost of the Semi-Legitimate Nation of Flux” exhibition at Spanien 19C in 2012.
The event is curated by Georgia Muenster. Georgia is a New York-born and London-based independent contemporary art curator with a focus on urbanism, video, and collectivity, and she has been a member of Flux Factory since 2008. Learn more about Georgia’s work at georgia-muenster.com

Express Yourself Movement workshop with Kalon Hayward
2021-09-02 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
This workshop is a movement based class. Kalon Hayward will help the class express themselves using West African inspired movement and music. we will unlock creativity in our bodies by exploring west African and Congolese dance techniques. This is a safe space to explore the individual body and move as a group. This class is for all levels.

Duration: The workshop will last for 1.5 hours

Bio: Kalon a multidisciplinary performance Artist, teacher, and curator. He is a graduate of both the Duke Ellington school of the Arts and Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He has performed throughout the United States, Africa, and Europe.

Kalon uses movement, soul music, and theatre to explore sexuality and spirituality. His performance pieces have been presented at The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Flux Factory. He serves as a teaching artist and company member of F.U.S.H.A Dance Company (West and Congolese dance). He is excited to release his Music film project later this year.

Live Zones with Ben Seretan
2021-09-02 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Slowly unfurling clouds of tones, swirling drones, and other lovely sounds conjured up right before your eyes – a live set of music you could lie on the floor for by notable US ambient musician Ben Seretan.
Ben Seretan is a musician and writer from Troy, New York who is working hard. In 2018, he released a 24 hour long album of guitar clouds called My Life’s Work. In 2020 came Youth Pastoral, a lightly dance music influenced collection of cathartic full band jammers about breaking up with God (named one of the best albums of the year by Pitchfork). This year – emerging from the Internet as if a 17-year burrow in the woods – Seretan whipped up Cicada Waves, a set of piano recordings from the riotous and cacophonous woods of north Georgia where, more often than not, the piano isn’t played. And every Thursday he sends a new track and a 1,000 word piece of writing via My Big Break, a hard-to-describe email newsletter.
benseretan.com
instagram.com/benseretan
benseretan.bandcamp.com
twitter.com/BenSeretan

Book Release: History of Solar Power Art
2021-09-04 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Alex Nathanson will be celebrating the release of his new book A History of Solar Power Art and Design. He will be joined by NYC-based artists and designers working with solar power whose work is featured in the book, including Ted Victoria and Benedetta Piantella.
The book, which was recently published by Routledge, examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, industrial design, digital media, building integrated design, and many others.
The growth in artists and designers incorporating solar power into their work reflects broader social, economic, and political events. As the cost of PV cells has come down, they have become more accessible and have found their way into a growing range of design applications and artistic practices. As climate change continues to transform our environment and becomes a greater public concern, the importance of integrating sustainable energy technologies into our culture grows as well.
The book is available directly from publisher and most book retailers. Use code FLY21 for a 20% discount when ordering directly from the publisher.
Alex Nathanson is a multimedia artist, designer, technologist, and educator. His work is primarily focused on exploring both the experimental and practical applications of sustainable energy technologies, particularly photovoltaic solar power. His work has been featured at Issue Project Room (NYC), the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC), Dome of Visions (Copenhagen, Denmark), and the Art Prospect Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia). He was one of the long-term artists in residence at Flux Factory, in Queens, NY from 2012 to 2016, and his multi-media performance group Fan Letters was awarded residencies at The Watermill Center in 2017 and 2019. Solar Protocol, a collaboration with Tega Brain and Benedetta Piantella, was awarded a fellowship at Eyebeam in 2020. As a solar power designer, he has created interactive and educational projects for The Climate Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Solar One, and the NYC Department of Education, among others. Most recently, his book A History of Solar Power Art and Design was published by Routledge. (https://alexnathanson.com)

Flex Factory with Georgia Muenster
2021-09-07 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Flex Factory is back and getting SWOLE. After a brief hiatus, we’re back and lighting up the ARoS museum space with a series of very Fluxy games! Expect rooftop rainbow calisthenics, mini-mini-mini golf, Flexin’ ring toss, security guard basketball, giant craps (the game), silly costumes, and more.
The event is organized by Georgia Muenster with Flux. Georgia is a New York-born and London-based independent contemporary art curator, normally with a focus on urbanism, video, and collectivity. She has been a member of Flux Factory since 2008.
Participants: Kaylon Hayward, Tzuhuan Lin, Georgia Muenster, Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, Noah Phillips, Nat Roe, Carlos David TC, Kemar Wynter, and special guests from Institut for (X).

Governors Island Open Studios
2021-09-08 11:00 - 2021-09-12 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Flux Factory will participate in an Governors Island-wide open studios program on September 8-12, 11am-5pm each day. Flux Factory artists will be collectively working on multimedia artworks and performances in the Flux studio space on Governors Island. Come meet them to talk about their work and see works in progress.

Schedule for Fall Arts Week September 8-12, 2021

Wednesday-Friday, 11am-5pm: open studiosSaturday, Sept. 11:11am-5pm: open studios with special events:11-5pm: “Matarile Ediciones” Soft Press Launch by Martha Naranjo Sandoval2pm-5pm: “Practical Performant Programming for Humans” performance by Lee Tusman

Sunday, Sept. 12:11am-5pm open studios with special events:12pm-2pm: “Mother Tongue Karaoke: From Philippine Islands to Governors Island”, an interactive installation by Jevijoe Vitug2pm-5pm: “Practical Performant Programming for Humans” performance by Lee Tusman3pm-4pm: “Bahay Kubo on the Water” storytelling performance by Abangguard Duo Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug4pm-6pm: “LIVE! Drink & Draw” with Lexy Ho Tai

Flux Factory’s space is located at Colonels Row House 404A

For programming announcements follow us: @flux_factory and use the hashtag #WelcomeToFluxIsland

2021 Participants include:Trasonia Abbot, Catalina Alvarez, Amir Badawi, Aliya Bonar, Maureen Catbagan, Danny Crump, Sarah Dahlinger, Jess Dilday, Abigail Enstminger, Daniel Fishkin, Lena Hawkins, Lexy Ho-Tai, Li-Ming Hu, Dew Igworia, Anthony Janas, Sleth Larson, Joshua Liebowitz, Jemila MacEwan, Dario Mohr, Martha Nranjo Sandoval, Richard Nathaniel, Alex Nathanson, Nat Roe, Jonathan Sims, Teng Teng, Anika Todd, Natalie Tsui, Lee Tusman, Sally Twin, Cody Umans, Lulu Varona and Jevijoe Vitug.

Love Spell with Kalon Hayward
2021-09-08 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
A concert & musical theater experience that will include original music and movement. Kalon explores spirituality and sexuality in his search for love. He will collaborate with local artists from the art collective LoftSound.
Kalon bio:
Kalon is a multidisciplinary performance Artist, teacher, and curator. He is a graduate of both the Duke Ellington school of the Arts and Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He has performed throughout the United States, Africa, and Europe. Kalon uses movement, soul music, and theatre to explore sexuality and spirituality. His performance pieces have been presented at The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Flux Factory. He serves as a teaching artist and company member of F.U.S.H.A Dance Company (West and Congolese dance). He is currently doing an artist residency at the ARoS museum in Aarhus, Denmark. He is excited to release his Music film project later this year.
Social media – @uni_versek
About LoftSound:
Once upon a time there was a loft that had a sound, that organically grew. Loftsound is located at Institut for X. It is a music & event platform for culture & community. It is inspired and driven by a collective of artist based in Aarhus, Denmark. Loftsound likes to collaborate, innovate & activate. It is located at A-Loft, situated with a cosy common space, and a music studio. The studio is run by musicians + producers. Loftsound is an organic and ever-changing space.
instagram.com/loftsoundx/

institutforx.dk/users/loftsound/

Comics Club with Noah Phillips
2021-09-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
During Comics Club, participants will enjoy a series of guided and timed drawing exercises that will invoke unpredictable comic characters, scenes, and strips. With both group and individual activities, attendees will explore how to use their imaginations for healing and growth.
Led by Noah Phillips, an artist interested in the intersection of myth, mental health, and creative expression.

Drink + Draw: LIVE from Governors Island Edition
2021-09-12 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Sunday, September 12, 4-6pm
Location: Colonels Row House 404A on Governors Island or via Zoom (link sent upon registration)
RSVP via WithFriends
This experimental Drink + Draw will feature masks, costumes and props created by multi-disciplinary artist Lexy Ho-Tai, and modeled by fellow artists. Bring your drawing materials and make marks in a low-key, supportive environment! This is our first *in person* event after over a year of virtual Drink + Draws. Celebrate + express with us on Governors Island!
The event will also be streamed on Zoom for virtual drawing; link will be sent upon registration. Feel free to drop in for part of it. Event is free with a suggested donation of $5-20 to tip the models.
If you have any questions or access needs, please email lexyhotai@gmail.com.

Jimmy Sommer popup exhibit & screenings by Carlos David TC and Shubhdeep Singh Parwana
2021-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Join us for two screenings with Q&As from each director as well as a one-night-only pop-up exhibition.
17:30 -18:20: Untitled* “Pop-Up Exhibition” by Jimmy Sommer @arospublic18:30- 19:10: Soulitate a film by Shubhdeep Singh Parwana / Denmark / 2021 / 23 min / ENG + Q&A in the auditorium19:20- 19:45: ‘Jevi From 9 to 11’ Preview Screening by Carlos David TC / USA/ 2021 / 25 min / ENG + Q&A in the auditorium20:00- 20:45: Reception in the Atelier.

“Untitled” a pop-up exhibition by Jimmy SommerJimmy Sommer is an upcoming artist based in Institute for (X), Århus. He seeks to understand the textural and structural possibilities that cement has to offer. The paintings are abstract and organic. They resemble whatever the viewer sees, like looking at clouds, you’re interpretation is right, but only partially. what do you see? Alien landscapes, vaginas or slushice? Jimmy Sommer laver kunstværker fra sin base på Institut for (X), Århus. Han lader sige lede af makroperspektiver og former i værkerne. Billederne er abstrakte og organiske. De forstiller hvad end du som seer ser i dem, så hvis du ser et landskab fra en fremmed planet, en vagina eller et udklip af en slushice, så har du ret, men kun til dels.
“Jevi From 9 to 11” by Carlos David TC is a fictionalized documentary directed by Carlos David TC and featuring artist Jevijoe Vitug. Inspired by Agnes Varda’s “Cleo from 5 to 7,” the short film follows Jevi, a New York based Filipino painter, as he makes his way from his small studio in New York to the museum where he works 5 days a week as a security guard during the COVID-19 pandemic. A preview screening of an unfinished version of the film will premiere in the auditorium at ARoS Museum, on September 15 ahead of its New York premiere in October and will be followed by a Q&A with online attendance by Jevijoe Vitug.
Carlos David TC is a video artist and experimental filmmaker based in NYC. Born in Venezuela and raised in Miami, 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. His practice uses documentation to produce self-portraits that are then presented via moving image, screenshots, films, memes, music videos, performance and site specific installations.
This event 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. Carlos David TC is is one of 500 New York City-based artists to receive a grant by the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre. Website: www.carlosdavidtc.com || IG: @carlosdavidtc
“Soulitate”, by Shubhdeep Singh ParwanaA political feel-good film from a street corner in Aarhus, where a chai bar becomes a social experiment beyond the echo chambers of the 2019 elections in Denmark. Here, you could enjoy a cup of chai and a chat with someone who might not resemble you in terms of opinions and appearance. In response to a political debate that rapidly turned black-and-white, soulitate is a wonderful reminder of how much we actually have in common – and how much we can learn from each other when we engage with and listen to each other.

100 Song Karaoke Challenge
2021-09-16 17:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Join Flux Factory at Book1 Design Hostel on Thursday, Sept 16 as we sing 100 Karaoke Songs to celebrate our time in Aarhus.
Starting at 17:00 with an Open Bar for all singers.

Hosted by Nat Roe and Carlos David TC.

Trivial Pursuits Dinner Party: Island Edition
2021-09-19 12:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Nolan Park Grill Site
TRIVIAL PURSUITS DINNER PARTY: ISLAND EDITION
EVENT IS AT CAPACITY! SORRY BUT WE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE ANY MORE GUESTS.
Nolan Park Grill Site, Governors Island
Sunday, September 19, 2021
1-4pm, Seating at 12:30pm *Allow extra time for ferry travel
This is a ticketed event, space is limited.
Proof of vaccination is required
Trivial Pursuits Dinner Party: Island Edition is a food-based performance and interactive dinner party. Led by our panel of experts, 36 dinner guests will be served 6 courses of pie and participate in a series of activities.
Performances by Li Ming Hu, Body Roll featuring Haus of Sweat, Sally Beauty Twin, Amir Badawi, Jonathan Sims, Seth Timothy Larson, Will Owen, Danny Crump, and Jevijoe Vitug. Hosted by Sarah Dahlinger and produced by Springboard Collective.
We recommend attendees wear clothes for messy activities.
This project is generously supported by an NYFA and DCLA City Artist Corps Grant.
For inquiries, email: sarahjdahlinger@gmail.com
Documentation from Trivial Pursuits v1.0 at Flux Factory, 2017.

Sydhavnen X Flux Factory mixer
2021-09-21 17:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Sydhavnen, Aarhus
Join Sarah Jarsbo, Flux Factory and artists from Sydhavnen for a tour of the harbor’s art spaces and an open bar and supper mixer.
Flux Factory is a NYC Artist Residency, Exhibition space and collective which is currently in its third year at ARoS Public – view full information about this program at this webpage.
Please RSVP by emailing nat@fluxfactory.org so that we can prepare enough food & drinks.
Meet at Frontløberne i jægergårdsgade 154, 1. Tv. Email nat@fluxfactory.org or call +1-347-379-5821 if you can’t find us 😉
Tuesday, September 21 5pm-late
5pm – Tour of current exhibitions and studios
6pm – Drinks and dinner served
8pm – Ghost tour of Sydhavnen at the witching hour

Screening: "The Wake" and "Nova: A New Spelling of My Name" with Jemila MacEwan and Nova Scott-James
2021-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Join us in the ARoS Public theater for a screening of two new films by Flux Artists-in-Residence.
The Wake
In this program MacEwan will walk audiences through strategies for responding to ecological grief and overwhelm. We will be guided through an empathetic eco-morphic approach to making sense of humanity’s role and responsibilities within the larger network of indwellers with whom we share this planet. The program will begin with a screening of MacEwan’s film ‘The Wake’.
‘The Wake’ (2019) is a performance-art film about environmental grief. In the film, Europe’s largest glacier Vatnajökull is melting and its wisdom teeth have become unrooted. The protagonist attempts to restore the teeth but eventually succumbs to the irreparability of the situation. After all hope is lost, one of the teeth speaks to the protagonist, in Icelandic (voiced by an eight-year-old girl) and offers counsel. The wisdom tooth’s sense of time and memory seem confused, but their capacity for compassion is boundless.
The film screening will be followed by a creative writing workshop. In this workshop MacEwan invites participants to imagine what a personal treaty with the planet might look like. Treaties are written as law binding agreements between two parties or more for the purpose of sharing resources, mutual recognition, and peaceful co-existence. Many of the treaties that exist around the world today that involve colonial entities are routinely breached for corporate and political interest, and the individuals for whom these treaties represent have little power to protest these violations.
In this workshop MacEwan will work with participants to imagine what a personal treaty with the land on which they reside and with our planet might look like. A personal treaty returns agency back to the individual to form their own guidelines for acting in mutual interest with the more-than-human world and honor their own agreements.
Jemila MacEwan is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. MacEwan is known for their intimately interwoven earthworks, sculptures, films and performances that build a contemporary mythology of meteorites, volcanoes, prehistoric super-fungi and melting glaciers. These stories engage with the emotional complexity of humanity’s destructive impact, to the planet and to itself, as a way to understand what it means to be human within the Holocene Extinction.
Nova: A New Spelling of My Name
After “The Wake” we will screen the new short film “Nova: A New Spelling of My Name” to be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director and star of the film Nova Scott-James. A young artist, born Nicole but renamed Nova, sets out on a healing journey on an indigenous Taino sanctuary in upstate New York. Directed by Nova Scott-James; produced by Flor Tejada, Todd Carter, Abou Farman; Cinematography by Flor Tejada.

A Train to Utopia with Tzu-Huan Lin
2021-09-23 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
In this ARoS special edition of A Train To Utopia, participants will be required to play roles and games that generate vocabulary that becomes a guide instruction for individuals to navigate in the ARoS Museum.
Tzu-Huan Lin’s (b. Taipei, 1986) work centers around personal experience as an immigrant, adapting to connect different subjects or stories to address the phenomena. He received an MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Lin’s work has been included in international group exhibitions such as ”The 15th Digital Art Festival Taipei (2020)” “The 6th International Video Art Exhibition (2018)”, “ADAF 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival (2018)” and solo exhibitions at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (2020) and Taipei Fine Art Museum (2017).

September Flux Saturday on Governors Island
2021-09-25 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux on the last Saturday of each month during our Fall residency for a picnic potluck, open studios, pop-up exhibitions and art happenings!
11am-5pm: Open studios with Flux Factory artists
2-4pm: Mini Painting Workshop with Teng Teng
2-4pm: Pillow Life Lounge – A Showcase/Spectacle of Softness
The event will take place both indoor and outdoors in our studios at Colonels Row House 404A and our front lawn area. Masks are required indoors and all trash must be disposed of properly (pack it in, pack it out).
To find general information about all our activities on Governors Island, visit the Welcome to Flux Island webpage.

The Making of The Museum of Natural Non-History with Kaktus
2021-09-25 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
We invite you to blur the lines between the micro and macro cosmos. Let’s be giants among germs and at the same time germs among giants.
Bodies break down and decay, providing support for other bodies. In this workshop, we want to continue the process of body breaking and making using our natural tools of the imagination to do the same to our own creations.
Let yourself pass from one being to another. Let the imagination feed on dead plants, animal and human remains as it deconstructs intricate life forms into their simplest components.
Time table: 25th of September 2021
13.00. We meet at The Botanical Garden (Main entrance: Møllevejen 10A, 8000 Aarhus).
13.30. Discovery walk: Gathering of materials.
14.30. We walk to ARoS Museum.
15.00 – 17.00. The making of The Museum of Natural Non-History.
*The workshop is open to all age groups, but children and teens under 15 years old should be accompanied by an adult.
Workshop Leaders:
Þórir and Brák from KAKTUS
Brák Jónsdóttir (b. 1996) is a visual artist and Þórir Hermann (b. 1994) is a composer, gardener and a multimedia artist. Their collaborative works mainly take the form of video works, books, sculptures and performances, but recently their subjects have revolved around humanity’s relationship with nature. Brák and Þórir explore life forms and organisms. Their approach is often oriented towards the blushing tension between pain and pleasure, natural and man-made materials. “We strive to look for a way to be at one with the world and sometimes find it in the gap between the imaginary and the real, by intertwining the portals of reality and fantasy.” In their most recent work they have addressed the power of vulnerability while recognizing and embracing the interdependence and connection humans have with the earth. Let’s expand and play!
Social Media:
www.thorirhermann.wixsite.com
www.instagram.com/argintaeta/

Mini Painting Workshop with Teng Teng at Flux Saturday
2021-09-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Please RSVP via WithFriends.
You’ll have a unique chance to create a miniature painting on a gold-plated frame to bring home with you to wear as jewelry or display as art. After you arrive, Teng Teng will give you hands-on instruction on how to paint using the tiniest paint brush you’ve ever seen. This event is totally free.
Teng Teng will provide picture books and reference pictures to give you inspiration. All materials will be provided and no previous painting experience is required. You don’t need to bring anything since all the workshop supplies are provided!
Location: Outdoors at Colonels Row House 404A on Governors Island
About the Facilitator:
Teng Teng is an artist who was born in China. Teng Teng’s diverse practice (painting, installation, performance art, art education etc.) focuses on the integration of art and ordinary people’s daily life and healing others. She has been recording stories in small frames of my own design. These can be hung on a wall or worn on the body, creating a close relationship to the person who wears it. She has sewn the paintings into her clothes and strolled around the city, hoping that the color brings a bit more warmth to the world. Over the past few years she has hosted over 100 workshops around the world to teach people how to draw tiny paintings.
Access Notes:
Information about Accessibility on Governors Island can be found here. There is a paved path around the island. To go to Flux Factory’s Colonels Row House 404A, there is one curb that leads to a slightly bumpy path for about 20 yards. To enter the building, there are six steps. All indoor programming takes place on the first floor. Chairs with backs are available in the space.

Pillow Life Lounge: A Showcase/Spectacle of Softness
2021-09-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
This event is part of Flux Saturday on Governors Island.
Over a year + of chaos, change, and mighty life disruptions Aliya has been making pillows. Nonsensical pillows, uncomfortable pillows, extreme pillows. These pillows do not fix what is going wrong with the world, but they are nice for lounging.
Join us in relaxing in a field of softness, resting in the face of pressure to do more. This interactive exhibition invites you to pause, take your shoes off, touch, hold tight, loosen your grip, lay down, breathe deep — and see what shows up from there.
Aliya Bonar makes garments and experiences that connect mundane daily tasks with dreams, aspirations, failures, and accomplishments. Her body of work PowerSuits turn experiences and personal stories into costumes and performances. Her work has been exhibited internationally: the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark; chashama gallery during New York Fashion Week; The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY; Fed Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI; and at every Sandwich Club Summit to date. She has been part of the Flux Factory collective since 2012. @aliyabarbeque / @pillow._.life

Short Films Screening by Patrick Topitschnig
2021-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Join us in the ARoS Museum Theater for a screening of selected short films by Patrick Topitschnig.
A kind of black humor pervades Patrick Topitschnig’s videos. Like in the horror-movie genre he works with audiovisual situations which affect the bodies of the spectators provoking an uncertainty, sometimes a slight restlessness.
Precisely composed images expose their own constructedness and testify to the artist’s interest in cinematic duration. Occasionally, this duration becomes a metaphor for the literal “lifetime” of pro-tagonists, objects, and buildings. All aspects of cinematic sound – a composed score, music, spoken language – are used to reflect the connections between image and narration creating a very specific atmosphere, whereas the “real“ backstory of a work is often revealed much later, be it the history of an abandoned salt mine in Romania or a portrait of a high-tech funeral home in Australia.

Pizza Party Picnic at Huggeormen
2021-09-28 17:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Huggeormen, Thomas Koppels Gade 19, Aarhus
Huggeormen is hosting a celebration with Flux Factory, Aarhuspanti, Aarhus Billedkunstcenter and BKF Midt. We’ll bake pizza in an outdoor kiln, light the bonfire up proper, consume copious cool beverages, and host karaoke, Murga Porteña, performances and more!
Please RSVP on Facebook.
Find us at Huggeormen, P. Hiort-Lorenzens Vej 19 A-D
Crip’d Karaoke with Moira Williams and Megan Bent at 7pm (DK time): – accessible online via Zoom – email nat@fluxfactory.org for the Zoom link

Murga Porteña presentation by Aarhuspanti: Murga Porteña is an Argentinian form of popular musical theater resembling a carnival parade with percussionists and dancers. It’s a celebration of freedom and liberation. The choreographies recall the condition of slavery and the sound of chains around the ankles but at the same time it parodies the (often drunk) masters and denounces the oppression they practice. The rhythms and colorful costumes express joy and enthusiasm, leading in the end to the ideal break of physical and/or psychological change.

2021 Fluxataros Gala
2021-09-30 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
In Flux’s last week at ARoS Public, we’re throwing a gala to rival the Met. Joining performances by Flux artists in Residence will be a pop-up exhibition of paintings from Aarhus locals “Being Queer in Straight Time”. Dew Onwuka will present new garments for our gala, the theme of which will be “Not Neutral”. Moira Williams will present a vocal performance on the hill surrounding the atelier. And the duo of IV Castellanos and Maureen Catbagan will give a performance.
For complimentary museum access, email nat@fluxfactory.org
Schedule:
18-18:30: Object II Body Performance (IV Castellanos and Maureen Catbagan)
18:30-19:00: Eros of Contact performance (Moira Williams)
19:00-19:30: 2021 ARoS Gala fashion show (Dew Onwuka)
19:30-21:00: Being Queer in Straight Time (exhibition opening reception)
Follow the artists:
IV Castellanos @iv_castellanos
Mauren Catbagan @moofro
Dew Onwuka @supressingingyays
Moira Williams @moira670
Image: Painting by Miriam Rehr, 100x120cm, acrylic on canvas, 2021
