Flux Factory

Flux Factory 2023 Benefit Gala
2023-03-29 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Clemente Center’s Flamboyán Theater, 107 Suffolk St, Manhattan
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Dress code: festive attire

Join Flux Factory’s community for our first gala since 2019! Proceeds from the big night will support our free public exhibitions and affordable artist-in-residency and Flux Factory reopens its recently purchased building in an exciting new era of sustainability in our thirty year history.

DJ set by Vinyl RichieLight installation by ChromadeticLive Performance by Poncili CreaciónOpen bar courtesy of Braven Brewing Company, Grapevine Distributors, Keg & Lantern, M. Wells, Radiant Pig Beer, Sanzo, Uni Brand Group, and Urban Market of LICCatering courtesy of Little Chef Little CafeOnline Raffle from numerous LIC small businesses, with a prize pool worth $4000

Guests of Honor

Poncili Creación is an art collective, composed of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro from Santurce, Puerto Rico. Known for their creative and improvisational approach to puppetry, the brothers use their works as a form of protest and a call to action.

David Picket, CEO of Gotham Org, has served for many years on the Brooklyn Academy of Music Board of Trustees and is actively involved with the Cornell English Department Creative Writing Program. Flux Factory will soon partner with Gotham Org to launch its new venue, Flux IV, at Gotham Point on the Hunters Point South waterfront.

This event would not be possible without our Gala Sponsors

Barre3, Bad Habits Astoria, Bartleby & Sage, Big Reuse, Blend Astoria, Blend LIC, Blend on the Water, Book Culture, Braven Brewing Company, Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center, Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge, Brooklyn Grange, Citrico Cafe & Agaveria, Dive Bar LIC, Enoteca, Grapevine Distributors, John Brown BBQ, Keg & Lantern , Lion Physical Therapy, Little Chef Little Cafe, M. Wells, Orangetheory, Pita Pan, Quintessential Therapy / The Spiritual Bodega, Radiant Pig Beer, The Rabbit Hole, sLICe & sLICe Astoria, Strength City, Sweet Leaf, Uni Brand Group, Urban Market of LIC, and Woodbines

Thank you for our Gala Committee and Supporters

Carla Nicdao Greco (Gala Coordinator), Aliya Bonar, Amber Musser, B Entsminger, Carina Kaufman-Gutiérrez, Frank Wu, Haiba Hamilton, Hannah Huston, Hannah Schutzengel, Liz Dunn, Maria Varona, Maxwell Neely-Cohen, Melanie Cohn, Mike Lawrence, Morgan Meis, Natalia Nakazawa, Natsuko Komatsu, Janis Suess, Jake Pratt, Jason Brown, Jean Barberis, Jennie Lamensdorf, Robert Roe, Rodrigo Sanchez, Roy Dahlinger, Sarah Frazier, Sallie Sanders, Sarah Weitlauf, Scott Hirst, Sean McIntyre, Thomas Iglehart, Will Owen

This event would not be possible without our Gala Sponsors

Feralpy OPEN CALL
2023-05-25 00:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Feralpy is a radical and untamed exploration of experimental forms of therapy by artists curated by Jemila MacEwan and Amelia Heintzelmann for Flux Factories summer programming. Taking place on Governors Island over consecutive weekends over the summer this wild and free-range exhibition is open to performances, meditations, classes, installations, video work, and one-on-one experiences offered by artists.

These events will take place over a series of weekends grouped as following

– Workshops/participatory/experiential projects

– Films/video works for in person screening

– Live performances – music, dance, multimedia etc.

In addition to this, we will have an exhibition that is an archive of processes. We are accepting works appropriate for exhibition with a focus on process, documentation of previous events, instructive writing etc.

Traditional forms of talk therapy can often be problematic, unsuitable or inaccessible for many reasons. As a matter of personal and creative survival, many artists have developed their own unique therapeutic practices that utilize aspects of their creative processes. These experimental forms of therapy are often born out of a need for distinct creative methods for working through the specific needs of coping with neuro-divergency, trauma, queerness, high sensitivity, and alienation which are common experiences for artists. In Feralpy we get curious about these free-range healing practices and invite artists to share them with a wider audience in an accessible, stigma-free, and donation-based format.

Through its open call for artists, Feralpy invites those who have discovered therapeutic value in their art to offer their skills and expertise to others. We also welcome work that has been created through critical examination of existing therapies, or would be meaningfully illuminated when viewed through the context of therapeutic practice. Each artist will be free to design and facilitate their own approach to the topic, creating a diverse and multifaceted experience for attendees. We hope that through sharing this often invisible and deeply considered aspect of artists’ work attendees will be empowered to explore and experiment with creating their own personally tailored therapeutic practices.

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May Flux Saturday
2023-05-27 12:00 - 21:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
indoors and front lawn area

Governors Island

Join us for our first Flux Saturday and celebrate a new season as an Organization-in-Residence on Governors Island!

Welcome to Flux Island picnic 12 pm – 3 pm

Karaoke 3 pm – 9 pm

Flux Factory will host Flux Saturdays on the last Saturday each month from May through October. Organized by different artists each month, the program will take many forms including pop-up exhibitions, performances, workshops, screenings, artist presentations and more.

June Flux Saturday: Tangled Vines
2023-06-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
For June Flux Saturday Governors Island Abby Cheney and Hanna Washburn invite you to join them in creating Tangled Vines, a temporary installation made of reused and recycled materials happening at 404A Colonels Row.

The installation will be an exquisite corpse of materials from our own studios, MFTA, found objects, and items brought by collaborators or passersby. We will work across media, primarily using fabric and string to stitch and tie everything together. The artwork will expand throughout the course of the day, reaching through different rooms and out into the front lawn.

We invite anyone to bring any materials they wish to add to the installation to the island on Saturday, June 24. We will also have materials on hand for anyone to use.

The work will be constructed on Saturday and will be on view through 5pm on Sunday, June 25.

Abby Cheney, abbycheney.com

Hanna Washburn, hannawashburn.com

Feralpy Workshops and Performances
2023-07-22 11:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite.

Workshops:11am-4pm: Watching Sheep Workshop with Hannah Lutz WinklerIn Watching Sheep, I will lead one-on-one sessions in which I shepherd the participant towards a state of heightened attention, focusing deeply on the five sheep that spend the summer on Governor’s Island. Techniques employed in this feralpeutic process may include interactive rituals, mugwort tea, sculptural objects, flexible instructions, and/or touching wool.12pm-1:30pm: Touch Study Workshop with Leah FournierIn this workshop/experiential practice, we apply basic empathy to develop intuitive touch. Following a simple, guided body work score, this workshop asks first for participants to therapize themselves to understand tone, quality, structure, and time. What does it feel like with my thumb here, and how much pressure in this spot is not enough, too much, just right? With that information, we can move into partnered bodywork (IF DESIRED) and practice honest and frequent feedback to offer//receive one another’s touch.12pm-6pm: Transformation Masks with Tyler Kline and Megan BridgeTransformation MasksRainbow Iridescent Glitter SkinTo excite the blood withinFluid Movement is the Taskto empower this sly and expressive Talisman’s Mask

Performances:1pm-6pm: Performances with Feralpy Artists

Set by Jemila MacEwan & Jack Helfrich

Soul Cymatics by Jennifer Pyron“Soul Cymatics promotes deep listening awareness through breathing and humming exercises. Benefits include positive circulation throughout your nervous system to calm your responses to stimuli.”

Bind by Riven Ratanavanh“Bind/unbind” is a meditation on the body’s entanglements to place, history, and time.

Ceremony by Rebecca KellyG“Ceremony” is an interactive sound experience for identifying and releasing our conditioned beliefs for our personal and collective liberation facilitated by Rebecca KellyG. This session includes live vocal soundscapes, guided meditation, and intuitive movement. Please wear comfortable clothes and something to write/draw with if that supports your process of integrating information.

we were never meant to survive by Ülkü ÇağlayanThis is a participatory performance exploring themes of eroticism, death, and the radical togetherness with a particular focus on the role of desire in revolt. Using the Erotic as Power, as a psychological and philosophical weapon, a remedy to restore our senses, the process will focus on mental & emotional preparation for death and dying together. By incorporating narrative construction and participatory nature of the body, we will imagine humanity on a battlefield; in the state of being on the edge; a state of about-to-die. This work is influenced by teachings of queer performance artist, Keith Hennessy and gives references to Audre Lorde, Bataille and Byung Chul Han’s concepts of dissolution into the Other.

Feralpy Workshops and Performances
2023-07-23 14:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite.

Workshop:2pm-6pm: Group-as-a-whole Workshop with Julia GladstoneGroup-as-a-whole theory posits that when individuals form a group, the resulting union becomes an entity in its own right with a sum greater than its parts. We will apply both experiential and meta-analysis of our “groupness” together through embodied investigations, scores, and LARPing. We will focus on the “here and now“ as a lens through which to uncover underlying themes and dynamics of power, care, ambivalence, desire, etc. — acknowledging that the content of the greater systems that we are embedded within can be traced through what is happening between us in the present. During the second half of the workshop we will generate scenic reenactments of earlier moments as gestures towards reinterpretation and integration. Some practices may resemble something akin to group therapy, and while I am trained as a psychotherapist, this is not therapy. The intent is towards thickening community, intimacy, and experimentation.

Feralpy Workshops and Performances
2023-07-29 12:00 - 18:00 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for an afternoon of workshops and performances in conjunction with the Feralpy Group Exhibition. View more event details and RSVP for workshops and performances at Eventbrite.

Workshops:12pm-6pm: Feel Like an Island Today? Freeform Drawing and Collage Workshop with Cayla Lockwoodyour feelings and assembling your thoughts alone/together with Flux Factory. This lightly guided workshop will provide prompts and materials for therapeutic drawing and collage-making. Our efforts from the day will be compiled into a group ocean or choose to work on your own private island. Take it easy, come and go as you please. All ages welcome and no skills required.1pm-2pm, 3pm-4pm & 5pm-6pm: How to Hold on While Letting Go Workshop with Jemma Rose BrownTo fly a kite, stand with your back to the wind. Start with a short, tight line. As the kite catches air, you’ll feel a small tug. Only let the line out very slowly. Let go too quickly, and the kite will swirl, loose and crumpled, to the ground.

For this guided workshop, we will be making and flying kites with the names of emotions that we need to grasp before we can fully release. Collectively, we’ll hold on, and then we’ll let the wind and the slack of the line and one another help us to let them go.2pm-4pm: The School for Anything Workshop with Jonathan Matthews-GuzmánThe School for Anything : Positively Thoughtful, Self-Performatively Studied Stim Circle / or, “casting a w i d e net” / or, Constructing a “minimal trash h e a p ” .

Lifted from their work with elementary school ages as well as their sensibly paradoxical existence in this lifetime as an multi-disciplinary artist who also identifies in this lifetime as a multi-racial, genderfree(fluid), and neuroplastic(divergent) person, Jonathan Matthews-Guzm​​án , or Schrōdinger, will facilitate a time-space in which all are welcome to share and receive the results of “both/and” thinking.

We begin with a grounding and trust building welcome circle, punctuated by a musical talisman (instrument), that may be employed for sonic purposes, or held onto for grounding and presence.

We ask ourselves and our community what we need, and manifest an actionable artistic happenstance to serve as the macrocosm for our microcosm, accepting its mere impermanence on this sphere we call home for only so long and so forth.

The result could be anything, but we are headed towards an anarchist dismantling of opera as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total art form” , towards a facsimile of life itself in which there are expressive tools to cope with life’s left turns – essentially, a fully improvised opera, or “life” itself, however, in tender loving community (lovingly referred to as a “minimal trash heap”).

Anything goes, as long as your intentions are prepared and pure, a process we will come to know as we embark on this journey together.

Performances:12pm-6pm: Open House with Laurel AtwellDuring these two days, we shall open the house to whatever may come. We will gather, establish our rules of engagement, assess the group mood, and embark on an experience together. Anything can shift at any time: we can go from sharing our dreams to crafting to performing a play to learning a dance to taking a silent walk. The time is ours, we will begin with the unknown, and invite what wishes to appear. As facilitator, I will have options to pull from my bag of tricks, but I encourage everyone to show up open to stepping in and out of roles within the group. If you feel inspired, bring something to share (could be anything: food, a book, an image, an oracle, a song), wear comfortable clothes, and feel free to come and go throughout the time. Looking forward to being with you. Inspired by the work and study of Process as Guide with Melanie Maar.12pm-6pm: Doing Nothing Together with Hey There KapplowDoing Nothing Together is an accountability container for practicing pause and presence, collectively, in resistance to perfectionist culture. It helps people build their capacity to reject the pressure and debilitating effects of unnecessary urgency. Four 30-minute sample sessions will occur throughout the course of the day at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. The experience is offered at no cost, but because the facilitator has traveled from Boston, unpaid, to host this experience, donations are gratefully accepted. If you find the experience satisfying, you are also welcome to join regular, weekly, telephonic Doing Nothing Together gatherings. Learn more at https://doingnothingtogether.com/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commissioning Editor: Rethinking Residencies

Editors: Kari Conte and Susan Hapgood

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

Graphic Design: Esen Karol

Size: 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches

Page Count: 128

Publication Date: August 13, 2023

Edition Number: 1st edition

ISBN: 978-1-7320876-3-7

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

Hard copies can be purchased here.

Digital publication: rethinkingresidencies.org

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

For additional information: ameliamarzec.com

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

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

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

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

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

@ameliapractice

#allthatisseenandunseen

www.ameliamarzec.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-Drawing Jam—Draw to live music!

-Drawing Parlor Games and more!

Organized by DJ Yo Vinyl Richie and Cayla Lockwood

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

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

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

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

@louis_artopus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

// ALREADY SELECTED SPECIES //

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday October 21st, 202312-5pm

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

Sliding Scale Tickets for the performances to support artists:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For additional information:Nothing IslandPratt Digital ArtsPratt Digital Arts Instagram

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

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

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

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

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

Catarina Real@_periclitante_

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

Gonçalo Duarte@goncalo_duarte

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

Edições da Ruína@edicoesdaruina
