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SUMMARY:Dark Matters Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“I plot dark sousveillance as an imaginative place from which to mobilize a critique of racializing surveillance\, a critique that takes form in antisurveillance\, countersurveillance\, and other freedom practices.”  \n\n\n\n– Simone Brown\, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness  \n\n\n\nFlux Factory is pleased to present the Dark Matters Symposium at Flux IV\, featuring the work of Sherese Francis and Tom Tsai. Francis and Tsai were selected from a pool of over 50 applicants responding to the themes of surveillance\, anti-surveillance\, countersurveillance\, and the lived or inherited experience of “being watched.” Francis’s Oracle of Opacity (A Kwantum Performance) is a ritual sonic poetry performance and experimental reading inspired by Edouard Glissant’s concept of opacity (Poetics of Relation) and Octavia Butler’s practice of primitive hypertext. Tsai’s contemporary dance work\, A Fantasy of Having Home\, informed by hip hop battle sensibilities\, was created a decade ago to honor Taiwanese resilience in the face of unceasing threats of war. To meet the moment in 2026\, Tsai revives this performance and reframes it around Taiwan’s martial law period\, a time of political persecution enforced through extrajudicial arrests and killings\, secret police surveillance\, and imprisonment. \n\n\n\nIn Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness\, Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced\, narrated\, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery\, such as branding\, runaway slave notices\, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife\, Browne draws from black feminist theory\, sociology\, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as the methods of surveilling blackness she discusses. \n\n\n\nSymposium Program6:30 PM: Doors open – light refreshments served7:00 PM: Sherese Francis performs7:30 PM: Tom Tsai performs8:00 PM: 10-minute break8:10 PM: Talkback with artists\, moderated by Kamari Carter (Artist/Organizer) and Kennedy Hollins Jones (Curator/Writer)8:45 PM: Audience Q&A9:00 PM: End of event  \n\n\n\nAbout the ArtistsSherese Francis (she/they) describes themselves as an AlKyMist of the I-Magination\, finding expression through poetry\, interdisciplinary arts (collage\, book and paper arts\, sound and performance art)\, workshop facilitation\, editing\, and literary curation. Her(e) work takes inspiration from her(e) Afro-Caribbean heritage (Barbados and Dominica)\, and studies in Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts\, mythology and etymology. Sherese has published in a variety of publications\, including Obsidian\, Furious Flower and Women’s Studies Quarterly\, has published four chapbooks\, and edited a poetry anthology/guided journal\, Baby Suggs and a Purple Butterfly. Besides publications\, Sherese has had her(e) work featured in various exhibitions and showcases\, including from NY Live Arts\, York College Arts Gallery\, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning\, Flux Factory\, Mercy Gallery\, LMCC Gallery on Governors Island and Ely Center for Contemporary Art. \n\n\n\nTom Tsai’s dance work spans stage\, filmmaking\, education\, and activism\, rooted in his Hip Hop\, contemporary dance\, and Taiwanese identities. Tom has performed his contemporary and B-boy solo works throughout the USA\, and internationally in London\, Mexico\, the Netherlands\, Portugal\, Sweden\, and Singapore. He has received support from the City of Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission\, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant\, Ghost Light Residency\, and Dance Resource Center’s Homegrown Residency @ The Music Center. He is a 2-time winner at REVERBDance Festival (NYC)\, and a 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow. Tom has been adjunct dance faculty at Pomona College\, Cal State Long Beach\, Cal State Fullerton\, Chapman University\, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. \n\n\n\nAbout the OrganizersKamari Carter is a New York-based artist working primarily with sound\, video\, installation\, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space\, systems of identity\, oppression\, control\, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception\, Carter’s work seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness and found objects. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)\, New York; Perez Art Museum Miami\, Miami\, FL; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum\, Providence\, RI; Mana Contemporary\, Jersey City\, NJ; Flux Factory\, Long Island City\, NY; Wave Hill\, New York; Fridman Gallery\, New York; and Automata Arts\, Los Angeles\, among others\, and has been featured in publications including Artnet\, Flash Art\, Hyperallergic\, and Whitewall\, among others. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MFA from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City. \n\n\n\nKennedy Hollins Jones is a curator\, researcher\, and writer based in Brooklyn\, NY\, whose practice is rooted in the Black radical tradition\, performance studies\, and literary theory.  Their work is drawn to explorations of the asymptotic\, or that which exceeds or meets infrastructural\, hegemonic\, and ‘normative’ limits\, and the elegiac\, or that which defiantly attempts to decry and bear witness in and to sites of ending. Kennedy is the curatorial assistant at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and a member of the Archive Ensemble\, a group of arts workers\, scholars\, and cultural practitioners dedicated to fostering physical\, epistemological\, and political forms of gathering rooted in subaltern and errant modes of being. As the Whitney Independent Study Program Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow\, they served as one of the curators for the 2025 capstone exhibition\, a grammar of attention.  Kennedy was also one of the co-curators of Archive’s presentation for the 2024 Dakar Biennale\, a flood is a remembering. They received their master’s in Public Humanities from Brown University and have supported the research\, curation\, and production of exhibitions and programs at SAVVY Contemporary\, NMAAHC at the Smithsonian\, Brown Arts Institute\, the Miami MoCAAD\, and MoMA.  \n\n\n\nClara Wiest is a Swiss multidisciplinary artist based in New York\, working across fabric\, sound\, installation\, and performance. Her practice includes stage direction\, movement direction\, and intimacy coordination. Her last solo exhibition explored heartbreak\, grief\, and care\, inviting participants to contribute their own creations and become co-authors of the evolving installation. Wiest’s work is rooted in a curiosity about the body\, spirit\, and the emotional dynamics within interpersonal relationships. Clara’s work has been shown at MASSMocA\, Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, The Brick Theater\, Denver Fringe\, BRIC Arts Media\, MITU580\, The Bushwick Starr\, IATI Theater. \n\n\n\nDark Matters Symposium is presented as part Kamari Carter’s 2026 NYSCA Fellowship.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/dark-matters-symposium/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Flux Saturday: Hard to Be a God
DESCRIPTION:Image: Hard to Be a God\, 2013. Film still. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOur serial public program and potluck is back! Flux Saturdays are organized by different artists and take many forms\, including pop-up exhibitions\, performances\, screenings\, artist presentations and more. We are requesting RSVPs to determine a head count for refreshments but will not turn away guests.Performance with Amelia Marzec3:00 – 4:00 pmPlease join us for a performance from Amelia Marzec’s Itinerant Signal Institute\, where visitors will learn to create and distribute a special herbal remedy.  \n\n\n\nItinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) is a fictional institute and installation\, grounded in techno-ecological art. The story of the Institute is told through sculpture\, digital images\, internet art\, microcontrollers\, and scientific displays. In it\, creatures have emerged from the melting permafrost to join the Institute and return to modern-day cities to examine their climates. The creatures wear headdresses of bones and fossils\, inspired by Eastern European carnival costumes that denote the changing of seasons. They acknowledge the effect of human activity on the Arctic Circle\, and anticipate increasing climate migration due to military fuel consumption. The Institute tests for environmental toxins to identify places of relative safety\, through small hand-built quasi-scientific devices that test the air and soil. The work also addresses queer migration\, and re-defining the idea of home in the current political climate. It incorporates plant knowledge to influence the endocrine system\, reducing human desire for late-stage capitalism and war at a biological level. Sites tested by the Institute include former military bases\, including WWII sites in Europe\, and Newtown Creek\, the location of one of the United State’s largest oil spills\, where my family lived when they emigrated to New York City. The work evolves as the Institute installs servers in partner organizations as the project moves from place to place.Screening: Hard to Be a God with 502 Bad Gateway4:30-7:30 pm \n\n\n\nFor one night only\, artist duo 502 Bad Gateway will screen Hard to Be a God (dir. Aleksei German\, 2013). In the film\, a group of scientists travel to a planet of humans stuck in the middle ages. They struggle not to intervene and begin trying to help the society progress. The film is adapted from the book Roadside Picnic\, a primary inspiration in 502 Bad Gateway’s recent works.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Artists \n\n\n\nAmelia Marzec is a New York 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 New Museum’s Rhizome ArtBase. She has been a resident at Eyebeam\, Ox-Bow\, Harvestworks\, and ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin. She was a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA\, A.I.R. Gallery\, a Tow Fellow at Columbia University\, a visiting artist at the Center for Integrated Media at Calarts\, a grantee of the Research Foundation of CUNY\, and a nominee for the World Technology Awards for Art. Her work has been featured in Wired\, Make\, Hyperallergic\, Neural Magazine\, Metropolis Magazine\, Creators\, Time Out New York\, and the front page of Reddit. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design\, and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. \n\n\n\n502 Bad Gateway is the artist duo of Alexander Baumann and Robert Ruth\, whose collaborative artistic disciplines include motion capture performance\, oil painting\, 3D game development\, sculpture\, vintage tech restoration\, building audio synthesizers\, animation\, and filmmaking. Their practice focuses on integrating their artistic methods with deprecated technologies from many different eras\, drawing on the history of usage to underline the intent of the work. Their work has been displayed in solo exhibitions at T293 gallery in Rome\, Sof:Art gallery in Bologna\, Flux Factory in New York\, and as part of a group show at AROS art museum in Aarhus\, Denmark. They have performed on stages at the New Museum’s DEMO Showcase in Manhattan\, ZeroSpace in Brooklyn\, Standard Vision Studios in Los Angeles\, and many underground New York venues. Their performance practice includes solo audiovisual narrative productions as well as collaborations with Club Cringe\, Von\, Uffie\, Kevin Peter He\, Kink Out\, and Team Rolfes. With a foot in the world of experimental film and live performance\, and the other in fine art and installation\, 502 Bad Gateway desires to break the traditionally static\, immutable nature of gallery work\, by incorporating the real-time responsiveness of interactive live performance \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in conjunction with Flux IV‘s current exhibitions\, Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) and 502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-saturday-hard-to-be-a-god/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Flux Saturday: In The End\, And In Minutes
DESCRIPTION:Image: 502 Bad Gateway\, In The End\, And In Minutes\, 2026. Courtesy of the artists. \n\n\n\nOur serial public program and potluck is back! Flux Saturdays are organized by different artists and take many forms\, including pop-up exhibitions\, performances\, screenings\, artist presentations and more. \n\n\n\nCostume-Making Workshop: Underground and Underwater with Piper Amphora1:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nCome make something strange and otherworldly fitting of the city’s underwater universe with Piper Amphora\, the artist duo behind Flux IV’s upcoming theatrical performance\, Underground and Underwater. Drawing on techniques from puppetry\, costume\, and theater fabrication\, participants will transform everyday\, found materials into fantastical wearables inspired by New York City’s buried waterways. Costumes created in this workshop will become part of Underground and Underwater‘s spectacular last act: a 100+ person Orphic night parade along the Hunter’s Point waterfront. Underground and Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV (public announcement forthcoming). \n\n\n\nClosing Party: Error is Shadow with 502 Bad Gateway5:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nJoin us for the closing of the exhibition Error is Shadow with an arcade game tournament hosted by 502 Bad Gateway. Play In The End\, And In Minutes\, the artists’ roguelike deckbuilder\, and compete to become the best sector administrator. Prizes will be awarded to the top players. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in conjunction with Flux IV‘s current exhibitions\, Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) and 502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-saturday-in-the-end-and-in-minutes/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
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SUMMARY:Flux Sunday: Closing the Autonomous Zone
DESCRIPTION:Image: Amelia Marzec\, Anima\, 2026.  \n\n\n\nOur serial public program and potluck is back! Flux Saturdays and Sundays are organized by different artists and take many forms\, including pop-up exhibitions\, performances\, screenings\, artist presentations and more.Closing Party: Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring)12:00 – 6:00 pm \n\n\n\nLast day of the exhibition Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) and closing of the Autonomous Zone at Flux IV. \n\n\n\nCostume-Making Workshop: Underground and Underwater with Piper Amphora1:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nJoin us for a second day of costume-making with Piper Amphora for Underground and Underwater\, an upcoming theatrical performance at Flux IV\, inspired by the New York City’s buried waterways! Costumes created in this workshop will become part of Underground and Underwater‘s spectacular last act: a 100+ person Orphic night parade along the Hunter’s Point waterfront. Underground and Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV (public announcement to come). \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in conjunction with Flux IV‘s current exhibitions\, Itinerant Signal Institute (Rite of Spring) and 502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-sunday-closing-the-autonomous-zone/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
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