2020 Exhibition Season Open Call
2020-01-16 - 2020-02-17
2020 Exhibition season Open Call for Participating artists
Deadline February 17th
(All submission except for Pink Flamingo are due February 17th)
Image from Solstice: An Exhibition of Works in Light, curated by Jon Sims. Image Description: A darkened gallery with brightly colored light emanating from sculptures on the walls and floor. A small group of people looking at the artwork.
Flux Factory is seeking artists and creators to participate in our 2020 exhibition Season. Each year Flux Factory hosts four group exhibitions, organized by emerging curators selected from the wide cohort of recent Flux Factory Artists-in-Residence.
Known for thoughtful interactivity, collaboration and playful programming, each of the 2020 exhibitions explore questions of community and interdependence through an experimental lens. Please visit our 2019 group exhibitions to view past projects: Talk Back, Wicket Leeks, Must They Also Be Gods, and RUB.
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Each exhibition has unique requirements and needs, so please read the guidelines thoroughly and apply to the exhibition that best suits your work. Every participating artist, educator, cook, musician, designer, and so on, will be paid a stipend for their participation.
Thanks in part to the DCLA Disability Forward Fund, priority will be given to artists living with a disability or artists whose work addresses issues of disability and accessibility.

2020 EXHIBITIONS
Din Din
May 1st – May 24th, 2020
Curated by Sarah Dahlinger, Cayla Lockwood and Nat Roe

Din Din is a group exhibition and experimental diner, a social space with food-centric artworks and public events. The exhibition will be segmented into 3 thematic weeks: family and tradition; death and food cycles; and kitsch and Americana. Much like the abundance of offerings on a classic diner menu, this multi-theme program celebrates the many aspects and intricacies of food in relation to community, environment, and the imagination. Proposals in the following categories are welcome: tableware and furniture; artworks; cookbooks or written works; meals and food-based events or performances.

Full exhibition details and application here

where will i be buried*
June 5th – June 28th, 2020
Curated by Muse Dodd and Catherine Feliz, concept co-created by Jasdeep Kang

where will I be buried?* is a whisper, a vigil, a torn photograph in a lovers wallet, a plea.where will I be buried?* is a group show for Queer and Trans* People of Color that honors our experiences in life and death and the spaces in-between. Through installation, performance, film screenings and community dialogue this exhibit will connect diverse diasporas around the non-permanence of memory, home, maintaining and changing cultural traditions and legacy.

where will I be buried?* invites proposals for installations, workshops, performances, gatherings, walks, spoken word, screenings, visual arts, video, sound works, panels, grassroots, poetry and more!

Full exhibition details and application here

Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux
July 17th – August 9th, 2020
Curated by Jess Dilday and Anton Lapov

Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux seeks artists to imagine and produce their ideal multimedia music space, to be installed inside Flux Factory’s gallery. Three sequential week-long environments will provide an immersive listening experience, and culminate in a final “club night” or party.
Selected artists or artist collectives will be responsible for building-out a “club” environment, providing or selecting music for the culminating party, and any accompanying performances or interactive programming to activate the space. Additionally, Pink Flamingo will host a 24/7 radio broadcast throughout the month, where music and audio connected to each installation will be broadcast.
An accompanying exhibition of archival NYC club materials will be displayed in an adjacent space. Pink Flamingo seeks to explore the ephemeral nature of these urban party spaces and highlight the importance of experiential values created during many short-lived club ventures.

Full exhibition details and application here
> Application deadline: March 17th, 2020

Nobody’s Fashion Week
September 4th – 29th, 2020
Curated by Lexy Ho-Tai, Jaime Iglehart, Dew Igworia and Johanna Schwab

Nobody’s Fashion Week is a reimagining of the fashion industry from the bottom up. The Flux Factory Gallery will be transformed into a creative hub, incorporating elements of a makerspace, educational space, exhibition space, and pop-up shop. The show aims to democratize fashion by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration, skill-sharing culture and self-expression for everyone. We are seeking alternative and emerging textile artists, clothing designers, photographers, models (experienced and first-time), historians, workshop organizers and other creators engaging with the concept of fashion. Submit proposals to activate this multi-faceted, creative space. Let’s shift the fashion industry together!

Full exhibition details and application here

Flux Thursday: Valentine Card Making
2020-02-13 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Flux Thursday
February 13th
7 – 10pm
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Join us for an evening of Valentine Card making, sappy movies, sweet treats and some karaoke ballads.
This event is free but please bring food or drink – sweet treats are on theme, but bring whatever you’d like to share.
Flux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month.
This event takes place in the Flux Factory kitchen, which is up two flights of stairs.
Check out these examples of previous Flux Thursday events. No one is the same, though all are delicious.
Upcoming Flux Thursday, 2020
March 12th
April 9th
May 14th

Flux Thursday: Monthly
2020-02-13 19:00 - 22:00
Flux Thursday
January 13th, 7 – 10pm
Flux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month.
Each month, an artist or group of artists presents work, which Fluxers and guests share food and take time to get to know each other.
This event is free but please bring food or drink to share
Check out these examples of previous Flux Thursday events. No one is the same, though all are delicious.
Check back here soon for more information about this upcoming Flux Thursday!
Upcoming Flux Thursday, 2020
March 12th
April 9th
May 14th

Heartflux Hotel
2020-02-14 21:00 - 2020-02-15 01:00
Heartflux Hotel
February 14, 9pm
Where hearts don’t break, they’re only in flux.
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Flux Factory invites you to check-in for a one night get away. Together we’ll dance out what’s been building up in our bleedin’ hearts.
We’ll have signature delectables and art installations to get you going, with sounds from Satele to whisk you away.
Heartflux Hotel is part of the two person exhibition After you, running from February 19 – 23, with video and installation works by Carlos David TC and Cameron A. Granger.

After You: Carlos David TC + Cameron A Granger
2020-02-19 08:00 - 17:00
AFTER YOU
February 19 – 23
Carlos David TC + Cameron A Granger
Special event: Heartflux Hotel
Feb 14, 9pm – 1am
Where hearts don’t break, they’re only in flux.
Feb 19, 7pm Opening
Feb 23, TBD Closing + Artist Talk
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After you is a two person exhibition of video and installation works by Carlos David TC and Cameron A. Granger.
Drawing on their personal and shared histories, the places they call home and the digital spaces they frequent, the duo looks to find a new home through the work of one another.
“After You is dedicated to the wonderful gift of being loved by the ones we love, and the life that gift can bring.” – Carlos + Cameron
Cameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland, Ohio alongside his mother, Sandra, inheriting both her love of soul music, and a habit of apologizing too much. A 2017 student of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, his work explores his place and role as a product of American history and media. His most recent projects include “Ten Toes Down” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland, and “A library, for you” a traveling community library founded in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Carlos David TC is a Miami based multidisciplinary artist who explores identity in the digital space.

Pêdra Costa Artist Talk: Decolonization is a Verb Inscribed in Bodies, Tongues, and Orifices as Portals
2020-02-26 19:30 - 22:00
Pêdra Costa Artist Talk: Decolonization is a Verb Inscribed in Bodies, Tongues, and Orifices as Portals
February 26th, 7:30pm

Join us for an evening with artist and scholar Pêdra Costa discussing their work in conversation with Nine Yamamoto-Masson (current Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence).

Pêdra Costa is a ground-breaking, formative Brazilian urban anthropologist and performer based in Berlin who utilizes intimacy to connect with collectivity. They work with their body to create fragmented epistemologies of queer communities within ongoing colonial legacies. Their work aims to decode violence and transform failure whilst tapping into the powers of resilient knowledge from a plethora of subversive ancestralities that have been integral to anti-colonial and necropolitical survival.

In this special artist conversation at Flux Factory, Pêdra will present their work in conversation with Nine Yamamoto-Masson and will discuss the role of art in the project of decolonising the body, society, and also art institutions, illustrated by examples of struggles in Brazil, Germany, and “the USA.”

www.cargocollective.com/pedra

An Evening of Quadraphonic Sounds
2020-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
February 28, 7pm
FREE
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An experimental sound performance in four channel speakers that will envelope the audience with evolving and sonorous motion. Visual artist Jonathan Sims will be providing live projections
Born in Evergreen Park, IL in 1984, Anthony Janas. Retired Magician. Boat Captain. Sound Artist with a focus on advanced modular synthesizer techniques and digitally processed field recordings. Member of multimedia group known as Urbe and seminal noise/performance group Panicsville. Contributing artist for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. Anthony Janas has presented work throughout the United States, Mexico and Western Europe. Anthony Janas work has ranged from sound installations on sailboats to playful performances such as juggling cheeseburgers. Anthony Janas’s work attempts to merge the institutional and pastoral moments of human existence.
Jenn Grossman is a sound/experiential media artist concerned with the psycho-spatial possibilities of time-based media, exploring displaced realities, staged synchronicity, cyclical time, collective memory, embodiment/disembodiment, perceptual affect, and transcendent experience. She treats sensory media as a portal into the surreal, subconscious, and otherworldly; through its displacement into everyday settings, objects, and spaces. Her work has taken the form of modular sound sculptures/installations, multichannel sound works, light/projection events, ambient music/soundscapes, video, and public interventions.
Jeff Kolar is an independent sound and media artist, composer, and curator. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work, described as “speaker-shredding” (Half Letter Press), “wonderfully strange” (John Corbett), and “characteristically curious” (Marc Weidenbaum), activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices.
Jonathan Sims is a New York City based visual artist who originally hails from Texas. His visual arts practice is characterized by brightly colored geometric abstractions and simple, minimalist symbology that evokes language and universal, ancient design.
Jonathan began his practice with painting, but has since moved into digital animation, sculpture and projection installations, print, long exposure photography and graphic design. His work is intended to elicit a sense of familiarity and artistic intent in viewers, but his compositions remain stubbornly non-objective, and his fictional “glyph” languages refuse transliteration. A consistent premise underlying his work is based on the idea that a modern human’s relationship with the very ancient past is mirrored in their relationship with the distant future.
Past exhibitions include gallery shows and large scale projection installations in San Antonio, Bushwick, Governor’s Island, and upstate New York.

Sensory Mastication: A multi-sensorial dinner experience
2020-03-01 18:00 - 21:00
Sensory Mastication
Sunday, March 1
6-9pm

Sensory Mastication is a multi-sensorial dinner experience created in collaboration by current Flux Factory residents. Inspired by the surrealist dinner parties of the past, Sensory Mastication invites guest to sit down, participate and have every sense activated and agitated. Each course during the dinner is designed to spark a specific sense. There will be no set dinner time, so arrive at any moment and enjoy your sensory meal!

Produced by Anthony Janas, with collaboration by Flux Factory Residents

This project was partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council.

Flux Thursday in Hell
2020-03-12 19:00 - 23:30
Opening night! HOLY HELL by Springboard Collective
March 12, 7pm – 12am
7pm – Potluck
8pm – Hot Wing Eating Contest
9pm – DJ PlayPlay
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Join us for the opening night of HOLY HELL: Flux Thursday in Hell hosted by Springboard Collective. Bring your hottest dish or a homemade sauce to compete in the hottest sauce tasting. Too spicy? Try to stomach a hot wing eating contest sponsored by Astoria’s own Hellgate Farm hot sauce. See who’s hot and who’s not on the dance floor with DJ Play Play. This event is free and open to the public. See you in Hell!

Flux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month. This event is free but please bring food or drink to share.
Upcoming Flux Thursday, 2020
April 9th
May 14th
June 11

Springboard Collective presents: HOLY HELL
2020-03-12 19:00 - 2020-03-20 23:30 | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
HOLY HELL
Produced by Springboard Collective
This exhibition has been cancelled in response to heightened concerns relating to the spread of COVID-19
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Dive head first into HOLY HELL, Springboard Collective’s latest interactive installation- handbaskets provided. Our hell on earth features three stages of sinful performance art, gluttony, and a divine comedy that even Dante would be proud of.
Do you have the hottest sauce? Things heat up Thursday night 3/12 with a hot wing eating competition plus hottest sauce off. Friday the 13th is your opportunity to face the horns on a mechanical bull and hell raising performance art and DJs. Party in hell all night long Saturday night 3/14 featuring stand-up comedy acts and a late night dance party. All events are free and open to the public. What the hell??

ALL EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED, please follow @flux_Faxtory on Instagram for online content
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Flux Thursday in Hell: March 12, 7pm – 12am
Hottest Sauce & Hot Wing Eating Competition w/ DJ PlayPlay

Friday: March 13, 7pm
Late night Mechanical Bull Rides Performances by Abigail Entsminger & Seth Timothy Larson, Michael O’Malley
Bull Riding w/ DJ Vinyl Richie

Saturday: March 14, 8pm
Late night Party in Hell All Night w/ DJ Sponsored Lynx
Divine Comedy Night with Rachel Joan and Dylan

Sunday – Thursday: March 15-19, midnight – 4am
Open gallery hours
Friday, March 20, 8pm – 12am
Hell Freezing Over Closing Event

Springboard Collective produces site-specific, interactive and sculptural environments. Their collaborative projects create unique experiences and engage critical dialogue in playful, socially-activated spaces. This project is co-directed by Danny Crump, Sarah Dahlinger, and Micah Snyder. This exhibition is funded in part by Flux Factory and in-kind donations from Materials for the Arts.

Call for Artists: Pink Flamingo - Clubs in Flux
2020-03-17 08:00 - 23:59
Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux
July 17th – August 9th, 2020
– Please be aware that in order to respond to the unfolding COVID19 crisis, we have had to postpone this exhibition until mid 2021. Exact dates will be determined later in 2020. If you are currently submitting or have already submitted, we are still accepting applications until April 27, and these will be added to next year’s submissions. Please reach out to the curators for further details or questions at pinkflamingo@fluxfactory.org.
Full exhibition details and application here
Deadline: April 27th, 2020
Curated by Jess Dilday and Anton Lapov

Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux seeks artists to imagine and produce their ideal multimedia music space, to be installed inside Flux Factory’s gallery. Three sequential week-long environments will provide an immersive listening experience, and culminate in a final “club night” or party.
Selected artists or artist collectives will be responsible for building-out a “club” environment, providing or selecting music for the culminating party, and any accompanying performances or interactive programming to activate the space. Additionally, Pink Flamingo will host a 24/7 radio broadcast throughout the month, where music and audio connected to each installation will be broadcast.
An accompanying exhibition of archival NYC club materials will be displayed in an adjacent space. Pink Flamingo seeks to explore the ephemeral nature of these urban party spaces and highlight the importance of experiential values created during many short-lived club ventures.
Thanks in part to the DCLA Disability Forward Fund, priority will be given to artists living with a disability or artists whose work addresses issues of disability and accessibility.
Full exhibition details and application here

人柱の物語 (hitobashira no monogatari): solo exhibition by Nine Yamamoto-Masson
2020-03-26 19:00 - 2020-03-30 22:00 | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
人柱の物語 (hitobashira no monogatari): solo exhibition by Nine Yamamoto-Masson

This exhibition has been cancelled in response to heightened concerns relating to the spread of COVID-19
In her first solo exhibition on Turtle Island, Nine Yamamoto-Masson presents new works that reflect on the private dimensions of war and US imperialism in Asia that, sidelined by hegemonic regimes of knowledge and cold bureaucratization of violence, often elude representation and public discourse – especially within the US public imaginary of Asia and of US military actions.
In this exhibition, Yamamoto-Masson chooses a reduced formal language and visual codes to unlock engagement with the history, reality, and the private and political afterlife of the Manhattan Project and the ongoing global nuclear colonialism it is but one aspect of – including its legions of ghosts around the world. In drawings, collages, installations, and sculptures, the artist negotiates the politics of what can be publicly revealed of the active legacy of gendered and racialized state-sanctioned violence – including rape as a technology of power – and what remains incommunicable and unwelcome.
The works in this exhibition are part of a lager body of intermedia, academic, and activist work in which Yamamoto-Masson maps how fascisms and rape culture operate necropolitically in the battlefields of bodies, memory, historiography, and media representation.
Nine Yamamoto-Masson is a French-Japanese artist, theorist, writer, community organizer, activist, and translator. In academic research, artistic and activist practice, her work analyses the gendered necropolitics of (neo)coloniality with regard to the legacies of European and Japanese colonialism and how they presently manifest as configurations of power and economies of knowledge that exert violence on bodies and futures. She studies the modes of organization of networked resistance, and the workings of resistant memory challenging hegemonic dominant narratives, focusing on the role of art and inter-diasporic, internationalist, inter-generational solidarities. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam; in 2018 and 2019 she was a visiting researcher-artist at Hiroshima City University.
www.nineyamamotomasson.com
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A Song For Sickness by Jonathan Sims
2020-05-08 19:30 - 2020-06-14 09:00
A Song For Sickness

By Jonathan Sims

May 8 – June 14, 2020
In the Flux Factory Gallery Windows
Safely viewed from the sidewalk
On May 8th at sunset, Flux Factory will launch A Song For Sickness, a light installation by Jonathan Sims in the windows of the Flux Factory Gallery.
This new piece will join the Center of Holographic Arts Light Windows, a public-facing exhibition of light art in spaces around New York City and the world. A global event to mark the International Day of Light on Saturday, May 16.

Statement for A Song for Sickness:

“I spent the first ten days of quarantine in New York City in self-isolation with a persistent cough, shortness of breath, and terrifying waves of anxiety. A Song for Sickness began as a desire to represent the immense emotional energy I expended in panic attacks and in desperate pleas for intercession and wellness. It is also an inheritance of the countless prayers and spells that human beings have devised over the millennia to ask the universe for healing or, in my case, strength to accept the potentially permanent changes that the virus could bring as a new norm in my life.
“The work is about the constant evolution that every individual undergoes throughout life, and the unique beauty of that growth. This durational nature of the piece is punctuated by a collage of abstracted symbols that represent our psychic reverberations to these changes.
“Though this piece came to be in an extraordinary time where the entire planet is hyper-focused on a single virus, my intent is for this invocation to gather energy to all people for whom illness is a part of their lives. I also want to acknowledge those at greatest risk now, not only because of the threat of a novel virus, but because of the failures inherent in capitalist institutions there are those whose tenuous existences are now even more precarious. These include the chronically ill, those with compromised autoimmune systems, the elderly, the caretakers, and the workers–all of whom are being asked to make sacrifices to uphold the very economies and institutions which have already been failing them. I ask viewers to not only consider this work as a potential conduit for healing, but as a meditation on the complex relationships every human being experiences with sickness.”

– Jonathan Sims

Karaoke Quotes by Jevijoe Vitug
2020-06-18 20:00 - 2020-07-09 23:00 | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
Karaoke Quotes: Projection and mobile display
by Jevijoe Vitug
June 18- July 9, 2020
8pm to 11 pm

Installed in the Flux Factory Gallery windows at 39-31 29th street, LIC

In honor of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) who are battling against systemic racism, Jevijoe Vitug has compiled screenshots of karaoke songs online that are mostly revolutionary and popularized by Black artists. Projected on a screen using a karaoke mobile unit, the lyrics of the songs without the music seem like poignant quotes. Thus the artist calls them “Karaoke Quotes”
Queens-based artist Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings, performance and community projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor, indigenous legacy and the forgotten history of people of color.
Jevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005, 2006), Singapore Art Museum (2006), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2009), Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas (2012), Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art , NY (2017, 2019), Queens Museum, NY (2018), San Diego Art Institute, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF, Japan (2004), Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2008), London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012, 2014), Flux residency at AroS Museum, Denmark (2018), Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019), UP Vargas Museum(2019). In 2019, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is member of Museum Union Art Workers, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory.
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Nobody's Fashion Week Virtual Town Hall
2020-07-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Via Zoom
Nobody’s Fashion Week Virtual Town Hall
Wednesday, July 8, 5-7pm
Via Zoom
Zoom link will be sent upon Registration

Join us for a Virtual Town Hall to kick off Nobody’s Fashion Week! 21 alternative fashion artists, designers, educators and organizers will introduce their work. Their practices span a range of themes – such as personal identity, cultural history, sustainability, craft and technology – but all share roots in critically engaging with fashion. Presentations will be followed by an opportunity to mingle, planting seeds for future connections, conversations and collaborations between like-minded fashion enthusiasts.
Nobody’s Fashion Week offers a nurturing space for emerging artists and the public using wearables and the body as a medium. In September 2020, Nobody’s Fashion Week will host a month of remote programming that is free and open to the public, including practical workshops, panel discussions and artist talks. Nobody’s Fashion Week is a reimagining of the fashion industry from the bottom up. Our aim is to democratize fashion by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration, skill-sharing culture, and self-expression for everyone.
Nobody’s Fashion Week is co-curated by Lexy Ho-Tai, Jaime Iglehart, Dew Igworia and Johanna Schwab.
Nobody’s Fashion Week is hosted by Flux Factory, with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts & Culture, the Austrian Culture Forum New York and a generous donation from Joe Castillo.
If you have any access needs or if you would like to get involved with Nobody’s Fashion Week, please email fashion@fluxfactory.org.
* Flyer created by Juliet Johnson, Lexy Ho-Tai, and Johanna Schwab. Image description in Alt Text.

Flux Factory Major Exhibition: where will I be buried*?
2020-07-16 08:00 - 2020-08-22 17:00
where will I be buried*?
July 17 – August 22
View full exhibition at wherewillibeburied.com

Curated by Muse Dodd and Catherine Feliz
Concept created in collaboration with Muse Dodd and Jasdeep Kang

Friday July 17, noon: Exhibition Tour on the Flux Factory Instagram
Friday July 17: Exhibition launch at wherewillibeburied.com
August 8, 3pm EST: Artist Talk
FULL PROGRAM BELOW
where will I be buried? is a whisper, a vigil, a torn photograph in a lovers wallet, a plea. The need to be remembered and honored in our lives and death(s).
Featuring work from over 12 Queer and/or Trans, Black and Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC), where will I be buried*? holds space for artists and audiences from marginalized communities to center ourselves in our mourning, healing and transformations. For QTBIPOC communities the question of where “will I be buried” is not easily answered. How we approach ritual, ceremony and death varies culture to culture, religion to religion and even more so depending on your gender or sexual identity. Too often Black Trans* people are misgendered in their death, a continued violence that started long before the moment of their death. Using death as an entry point the included artists bring dynamic responses to the titular question exploring pleasure, pain, longing and transcendence.

The work shapes the exhibit into a transformative space that holds conflicting truths at once, understanding that our experiences are uniquely our own. Some artists offer comforting prayers, altars, and song; others document our imagined and contested past and possible futures. This online exhibition features the incredible multimedia work of artists Felicita Felli Maynard, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Nine Yamamoto-Masson, Smita Sen, Brittany J. Camacho, Rox Campbell, Catalina Xavlena, Dillon God Gardner, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Wazina Zondon and Linda Labeija. With workshops and performances led by Vee, Electropapi, olivia ahn, and Karolina Castro.
Curating during COVID and a social uprising has been a challenge. As curators from the communities most impacted by these events we have had to be flexible, creative and patient. What the quarantine has revealed is that not everything translates online but it is our job to make our work more accessible for more people.
Press contact: buried@fluxfactory.org

FULL PROGRAM
To View the Exhibition visit wherewillibeburied.com
JULY 17, noon
Tour of the online exhibition and website on Flux Factory Instagram Live

WORKSHOP – this event has reached capacity
JULY 18, 1pm
Set the altar: queer interfaith life, spirituality + identity, presented by olivia ahn
Click here for full details and Registration Link – Zoom link sent upon registration
This is a QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color) centered space and is intended as an offering specifically for QTBIPOC people.⁣⁣
Set The Altar is a collective tending space where participants are encouraged to honor a god/godess/gxdxx, diety, divinity, saint and/or ancestor that they currently work with in their spiritual and/or religious practice that supports and protects them either in their queer identity or cultural lineage.

FILM SCREENING
JULY 18, 3:15
Muttererde by Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
There’s Just Something About Death That Makes Us Dance: The Revival by Rox Campbell
Followed by conversation with filmmaker Rox Campbell and curator Muse Dodd
Click here for full details and Registration link – Zoom link will be sent upon registration
Twitch link: www.twitch.tv/wherewillibeburied

WORKSHOP
JULY 25, 3pm
death becomes us facilitated by Karolina Castro
Register here – Zoom link upon registration
This is a QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color) centered space and is intended as an offering specifically for QTBIPOC people.⁣⁣
It’s never too early to plan for your death. This workshop will inform you on how to take control of your dying process and funeral. Want to make your chosen family or partner responsible for your medical decisions at the event that you can no longer do it yourself? Want to ensure that your correct pronouns and name are used during the funeral? Come through and learn about the legal documents that can ensure your wishes are met! Also, learn about alternative, eco-friendly, and more affordable ways of caring for and disposing of your body.

WORKSHOP
AUGUST 1, 6pm-7:30 pm
Pain and Pleasure: Healing Though Queer BDSM led by Vee Perez
This is QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color centered event, but open to all. If you are a white participant, please be conscientious of your participation as QTBIPOC centering will be prioritized.
Register here – Zoom link upon registration
Vee AKA, Electropapi (They/She Pronouns) was taught from a young age that desire can lead to death. Parental figures always taught them that sexual desire in the Christian perspective could be a path to the underworld in the after life, and the only salvation is in Jesus Christ. Vee always thought growing up- “hm.. if Jesus loves everyone, isn’t he kinda gay?” and “Isn’t God, with all these rules and sins, and the punishment there after, a dom daddy?” These questions guided Vee to a different path. In Vee’s Caribbean-based ancestral healing practices, they realized that salvation can only happen when desire is liberated. Holiness is liberated queerness. Once one embraces the fear of death and pain, desire through the exploration of kink can be a path to salvation from the white supremacist, cisheteropatriachry, colonial landscape. In this film, Vee explores the crucifixion, ascension, and sainthood of the Black and Indigenous queer trans two spirit body as a sanctuary of desire in kink and bdsm.

AUGUST 1, 3pm
PERFORMANCE
Performance by Wazina Zondon feat Terna Tilley-Gyado

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إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎ + inna lillahi/indeed we belong to Allah wa inna ilayhi raji-un/and to Allah we return
إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎/ Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji-un/Indeed we belong to Allah and to Allah we return (re)creates and preempts the burial rites queer and trans Muslims are not guaranteed but ought to be. The performance explores the in-between spaces of living within the third culture realm, recreating coveted traditions, hidden truths and reconciling death.
Indeed we belong to Allah and to Allah we return… as you intended us to be.

AUGUST 8, 3pm
ARTIST TALK

Streamed via twitch.tv/wherewillibeburied
Curator Muse Dodd will facilitate a conversation with participating artists Linda LaBeija, Dillon God Gardener, Smita Sen and community based healing practitioner Olivia ahn

AUGUST 8, 7pm
PERFORMANCE
The end is just the beginning
Performance by Dillon God Gardener
Streamed via twitch.tv/wherewillibeburied
Broadcasting live from The Very Dirty Garden, Dillon God Gardener will perform “The end is just the beginning “ a ritual performance with live musical accompaniment by Fieraferrari.

#indigenizemememoji.2020 - New Works by Jevijoe Vitug
2020-08-09 12:00 - 2020-09-09 18:00
#indigenizemememoji.2020
New Works by Jevijoe Vitug
Launching August 9, 2020
On the event of the International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples, Flux Factory is pleased to present #indigenizemememoji.2020, a solo exhibition of paintings by Philippine-born artist Jevijoe Vitug. This exhibition, initially cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, is presented here in digital form.
Description, Artist Bios and List of Works Below

Exhibition Gallery
Titles, size and medium listed below
Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020)Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020)Corona Extra! Stay Calm! (2020)Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020) – DetailCorona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020)Corona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020) – DetailClorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020)Clorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020) – DetailGoodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020)Goodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020) – DetailDisaster of War Addict #junkterrorbillPh (2017)Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020)Corona meme + The Scream (2020)Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020) – DetailThis……is Why (2020) – DetailThis……is Why (2020)Terror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020) – DetailTerror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020)Zoom Supper, Social Distancing meme (2020) – DetailFight the Power, F*ck the Police meme (2020) – DetailFight the Power, F*ck the Police meme (2020)Zoom Supper, Social Distancing meme (2020)

Programming
Indigenization and the Dreamland: Jevijoe Vitug in conversation with Museum Educator Francis Estrada
August 20th, 7pm EST
Via Zoom – REGISTER HERE

Exhibition Description

Combining satirical humor with socio-political and cultural concerns, #indigenizemememoji.2020 reimagines history painting through the lens of memes and emojis, encoded with an indigenous presence. Layering graphics referencing the COVID-19 pandemic and statewide protests against systemic racism, each painting amplifies this historic moment as translated through digital culture.
This new body of work is composed of 13 paintings, in which Vitug continues his painting technique titled “pintados,” painterly brushstrokes that have nuances of indigenous mark making. Similar to digital pixel units, these marks become codes to forming imagery invisible at a first glance. Working in oil paint, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint overlapping one another, the artist uses a diversity of painting media.
A repeated motif in the works are brands around which viral memes were made during the pandemic, such as Corona beer, Purell hand sanitizer and Clorox bleach. The painting Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020) is based on a meme by Saint Hoax in which Beyonce holds Purell bottles, while emoji hands reach out for the sanitizers. This work, part of a diptych, sits next to This is……Why (2020) which appropriates a meme posted by NBA star LeBron James showing a police officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck, next to a former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest of police brutality. Both rendered using marking details similar to the tattoos of indigenous warriors in the Philippines, depicted in the Boxer Codex manuscript (1590). Vitug combines a diversity of technique and reference to draw attention to the complex and interdependent forces impacting this social moment.
Over the prolonged period of lockdown, Vitug has continued painting in his studio as a coping strategy and to reflect on his experience living in Queens, NY, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak that has disproportionately impacted immigrants of color. He uses coded humor, layered with straightforward messages and hidden meanings to make visible his pre-colonial/ indigenous heritage, and his continuing quest for decolonization.

Artist Bios
Jevijoe Vitug
Queens-based artist Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings, performance and community projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor, indigenous legacy and the forgotten history of people of color.
Jevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005, 2006), Singapore Art Museum (2006),
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2009), Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas (2012), Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2017, 2019), Queens Museum, NY (2018), San Diego Art Institute, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF, Japan (2004), Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2008), London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012, 2014), Flux residency at AroS Museum, Denmark (2018), Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019), UP Vargas Museum (2019). In 2019, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is member of Museum Union Art Workers, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory.
Francis Estrada
Born in the Philipines and currently residing in Brooklyn, Francis Estrada is a visual artist, museum educator at the Museum of Modern Art, and freelance educator of Filipino art and culture. Francis has a fine arts degree in painting and drawing from San Jose State University, and he has taught in a variety of studio, classroom, and museum settings to diverse audiences, including programs for adults with disabilities, cultural institutions, and after-school programs. He was also an administrator and educator at the Museum for African Art, where he enjoyed teaching about the amalgamation of art and culture through objects. Francis exhibits his work nationally, including online publications. His work focuses on culture, history, and perception.

List of Works

1) Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
53 inches x 50 inches
2) Corona Extra! Stay Calm! (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
60 inches x 48 inches
3) Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
40 inches x 40 inches
4) Corona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
48 inches x 48 inches
5) Clorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
50 inches x 50 inches
6) Goodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
48 inches x 48 inches
7) Disaster of War Addict #junkterrorbillPh (2017)
Acrylic on canvas
36 inches x 48 inches
8) Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
40 inches x 40 inches
9) Corona meme + The Scream (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
48 inches x 48 inches
10) This……is Why (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
Diptych: 30 inches x 24 inches each
11) Terror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
480 inches x 36 inches

12) Fight the Power, F*ck the Police meme (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
48 inches x 48 inches
13) Zoom Supper, Social Distancing meme (2020)
Oil, acrylic, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas
36 inches x 36 inches

Nobody's Fashion Week Films and Performances Open Call
2020-08-12 13:00 - 2020-08-25 23:30
OPEN CALL
Fashion Films and Live Performances
Deadline, August 25th
www.nobodysfashionweek.com

Nobody’s Fashion Week is seeking experimental and alternative short Fashion Films and Live Performances! As part of our public programming, we are hosting a virtual evening event on Wednesday, September 30, where these films/ performances will be showcased via Zoom. Creators are strongly encouraged to attend the live event for a brief Artist Talk and Q + A following your film/ performance. Each film/ performance should be around 5-10 minutes and, given our low-budget, we encourage you to submit work that’s already been created.

Please email us your proposal, statement of interest, work samples, and a short bio to fashion@fluxfactory.org by August 25th. Artists will receive a small $20 stipend and lovingly crafted snail mail as a token of our gratitude for your labor and participation. The event will have sliding scale entry ticket fees; all money raised will be split amongst the artists sharing work.

Nobody’s Fashion Week is centered around reimagining the Fashion Industry from the bottom up. The virtual show features works and public programs by 20+ alternative artists, designers, educators and organizers using wearables, textiles and the body as a medium. Their practices span a range of themes – such as personal identity, body politics, cultural history, sustainability, craft and technology – but all share roots in critically engaging with fashion. We welcome all proposals that feel connected to Nobody’s Fashion Week! Thank you so much for your interest!

Image description: Mixed media flyer. Text reads, “Open Call for Alternative + Experimental FASHION Short Films + Performances. Deadline: August 25, Email: Fashion@fluxfactory.org.” The word FASHION is written in large, wobbly, pencil bubble letters in the center of page. The other words are light blue, handwritten inside pencily, scribbly, oblong shapes. The background is a collage of peachy, light blues, lavender and neutral fabrics and paper, with visible stitching and yellow tape holding haphazard elements together. Scribbly pencil, burgundy and olive marks are sprinkled throughout the flyer.

Flux Thursday Remote Edition
2020-08-13 19:00 - 21:30
FLUX THURSDAY: Remote Edition
Date: TBD
Flux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program, and during ordinary times, take place on the second Thursday of each month. However, as a way to have fun and support each other from afar during this era of social distancing, we’ve made remote and bi-monthly!!

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Past Remote Flux Thursdays
August 13: Karaoke Edition 2.0
Hosted by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Ok, so we can’t be in a stuffy room together singing, but we can still select the cheesiest ballads, or show off our wordsmithery and questionable range at the Remote Karaoke Flux Thursday!!

August 6th, 2020
Museum of Secret Talent, Guarded by the Abangguard (Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug)
With participating artists: Maureen Catbagan, Jevijoe Vitug, Sarah Dahlinger, Carlos David TC, Shannon Stovall, Anthony Janas, Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos, Jess Rolls, Hui-Ying Tsai, Sholeh Asgary
Julio Jose Austria + Patricia Lim and more . . . Followed by “open secret mic” participation

May 14th: Weird
Hosted by Heather Kapplow and Sholeh Asgary
With music and music video by Eva Ursprung

May 7: Drink + Draw
Hosted by Lexy Ho-Tai
Our first ever Drink + Draw saw a selection of four brilliant models, including Mimi Tohill, Cayla Lockwood, Carlos David Trujillo and Jaime Iglehart

April 30: Food Edition
Hosted by Georgia Muenster and Sarah Dahlinger
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***Guests came dressed as a food!!***⁣
***Brought a kitchen utensil and mystery food***⁣

April 23: Dance Party Edition
Hosted by Dj Ply Play
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Live Dj sets by DJ Play Play, Yo Vinyl Richie, Sponsored Lynx and Kamari Carter

April 16th: Screening Room
Hosted by Carlos David and Danny Crump
Short films by:⁣
Amia Yokoyama
Bastian Hoffmann⁣
Cait Davis⁣
Carlos David
Caitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich⁣
Cayla Lockwood⁣
Danny Crump and Sarah Dahlinger⁣
J Triangular
Martha Naranjo Sandoval⁣

April 9th: Karaoke Edition
Hosted by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy
Flux Thursday Karaoke edition included a Scone Baking Demo by Marjan Verstappen, a Karaoke breakout room led by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, an experimental sound room with Lee Tusman and Martha Skou and some “waiting room” tunes by Jess Dilday / DJ Play Play.

Open Call: Nobody's Fashion Week Reporter in Residence
2020-08-26 08:00 - 2020-09-15 17:00
Open Call: Nobody’s Fashion Week Reporter in Residence

The Reporter in Residence is responsible for documenting their experience of one or more events at Nobody’s Fashion Week. The reporting will provide content for the Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine as well as the archived classes, and our presenting artists who can then incorporate it into their own websites. Ultimately, we will be selecting content from the Reporters in Residence to be published in the Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine– an exhibition catalogue which seeks not just to document the exhibition itself, but also our thoughts, conversations and experiences with Fashion and self expression.
Reporting is entirely subjective and open to interpretation!
It could look like:

Scribbling down notes

Taking screenshots

Drawing sketches of the workshop taking place

Selfies of you and your textile “work-in-process” as you take part in a workshop

Written reflections jotted down after the workshop takes place

Quotations from the workshop leader and participants

Your own thoughts and musings on fashion, creativity, politics, etc, as sparked by the event

A journal entry of your day before, during and after the workshop

Anything you wish to create! This process is totally open to your creative input!

If you are interested in being a Reporter in Residence for Nobody’s Fashion Week, please take a look at the event calendar, and email us at fashion@fluxfactory.org, indicating which workshop you would like to report on! We will feature your work + bio on our website and send you some lovingly crafted snail mail. We’d love for you to creatively join the conversation!
See you in the field!

Major Exhibition: Nobody's Fashion Week
2020-09-01 - 2020-10-15
Nobody’s Fashion Week
September 1 – October 15
Full Exhibition Program at
NobodysFashionWeek.com
View the Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine HERE
Fashion is all around us. Fashion is body politics, representation, sustainability, systems. Fashion is a medium that everybody participates in, whether they like it or not. Fashion is Powerful. Nobody’s Fashion Week aims to democratize Fashion by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration, skill-sharing culture, and self-expression for everyone.

During Covid-19, we have witnessed the current fashion industry crumble as clothing sales go down, shows get cancelled, and more people turn to DIY. We ask, with hope: What will be rebuilt in the shell of the previous industry? Who’s Fashion Week is it? Nobody’s Fashion Week is a reimagining of the fashion industry from the bottom up.
If you have any questions about Nobody’s Fashion Week, please reach out to us. For updates, join our mailing list and follow us on instagram @nobodysfashionweek. Let’s reimagine the Fashion Industry together!

Exhibition Description

Our show was dreamed up as a response to the hegemony, wastefulness and gate-keeping of the corporate fashion industry. Nobody’s Fashion Week is a growing community of independent designers taking agency in redefining our own Fashion Week and proposing alternative systems for Fashion.
Nobody’s Fashion Week features works and public programs by 20+ alternative artists, designers, educators and organizers using wearables, textiles and the body as a medium. Their practices span a range of themes – such as personal identity, body politics, cultural history, sustainability, craft and technology – but all share roots in critically engaging with fashion. From September 1 – October 15, we will launch a six week exhibition of Nobody’s Fashion Week, consisting of an online exhibition, artist residency, participatory workshops, artist talks and other public programming. We want to engage with and empower both emerging designers and everyday people to find fertile spaces to express themselves through clothing and to share their creations. We believe people of all backgrounds, sizes and abilities should have agency over their self-expression. We invite anyone to engage in our community and conversations as we collectively redefine the future of fashion.

Our Artists-in-Residents are
Alyssa Denay Carter
Moira Williams
HAUS OF YBA by Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku
Our participating artists are
Anna Hart Turner, Elise Putnam, Eugenia Pigassiou, Gabrielle Vazquez, Giana Pilar González, Gina Goico, Gustavo Toledo, Jason Elizondo, Ji Ae Sohn, Juliet Johnson, Iris McCloughan, Isabel Tamar Hajian, Karolyn Hatton, Kristen Leonard, Magdalyn Segale, Melo Baby, Noah Pica, Patricia Torvalds, Taz the Tailor, Tumbler, Verena Meyer and Yun Ray Chung

Nobody’s Fashion Week is co-curated by Lexy Ho-Tai, Jaime Iglehart, Dew Igworia-Onwuka and Johanna Schwab.
All workshops are free, though $5-20 suggested donations are very much appreciated. All money donated will go directly to paying the artists facilitating the program (unless otherwise stated). Programs will be recorded and archived online with captions. If you have any access needs (ex. ASL, Live Captioning, etc), please email us at least one week before the workshop at fashion@fluxfactory.org. Creating a space that is accessible, safe and inclusive is very important to us!
Nobody’s Fashion Week is hosted by Flux Factory, with support from the Ministry for Arts, Culture the Civil Service and Sport of Austria, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Bildrecht – Austria`s Collective Management Organisation (CMO) für Visual Arts, and a generous donation from Joe Castillo.

Created Jobs - Exhibition by Cayla Lockwood
2020-10-23 08:00 - 2020-10-31 22:00
CREATED JOBS
A Project by Cayla Lockwood
Created Jobs is an exhibition and boutique temp agency that examines the current labor economy and questions the definition of work while employing unemployed and under-employed artists from Queens for one day.
Friday October 23rd–Saturday, October 31st
Installation visible in the Flux Factory Gallery windows at 39-31 29th street, LIC, Queens
Live Performance Monday-Friday 12-9pm

WORK DAY
Friday, October 23, 9am – 5pm
Watch us work! Join www.twitch.tv/fluxfactory
6-8 Unemployed/Under-employed Queens-based Creatives who were hired for one day of remote “work”. Each participant will be paid $25/hr.
FLUX THURSDAY: OFFICE HALLOWEEN HAPPY HOUR
Thursday, October 29, 7–9pm, Zoom Party
Join us for a festive remote office happy hour party. Share work stories, Wear your office Halloween costume, Fun Games and Prizes!
**Premier of Created Jobs Work Training Video – made in collaboration with Carlos David Trujillo, Will Owen, Danny Crump, Sarah Dahlinger, Jonathan Sims, Jevijoe Vitug and Amir Badawi**
Register here! – Zoom link sent upon Registration
This project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Artist-in-Residence 2021 Open Call
2020-11-01 08:00 - 2020-12-14 23:59
APPLY HERE
Deadline: December 14, 2020, 11:59 EST
2020 has been a complicated and challenging year for all of us, including Flux Factory. To ensure the safety of our community, we have not invited any new residents since we shut down in March. By adhering to public health guidance about how to be together safely, we are excited to be able to invite a limited number of new Artists-in-Residence to join the Flux Factory family in 2021.
The Flux Factory Residency grew organically out of a DIY artist’s collective founded in 1994 in an old spice factory in Brooklyn. Flux is now happily nestled in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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* Please note that due to COVID19, safety protocols will be in place that may change some of the below information. For more information about specific COVID19 protocols please email Maya@fluxfactory.org

Details on Residency

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Residency
Since 1994, Flux Factory has offered an informal, artist-run, and collective residency program comprised of a changing community of creative collaborators, including (but not limited to) artists, community organizers, urban agriculturalists, educators, curators, builders, game designers and musicians. As a community, we value communication, co-creation, accountability, experimentation, and safe space.
We offer short & long-term residencies, work facilities, as well as direct exhibition and programmatic opportunities. Since introducing our formal residency program in 2009, hundreds of cultural producers from all over the United States, South Africa, Myanmar, Turkey, Italy, Germany, China, France, Mexico, Denmark, Russia, Chile, Lebanon, South Korea, Taiwan, Peru, the Ukraine and more! Flux’s history as a DIY family is deep in our DNA. Residents collaborate and learn from one another to realize new works, propose and produce our public programming, and have equal input in the overall direction of the organization.
Duration
Our open call for Fluxers is posted twice a year. In 2021 we are inviting artists for residencies of 3 – 6 months.
Programming
Artists-in-Residence are the originators of Flux Factory’s programming, including most of Flux Factory exhibitions and public programs. All residents are given an allotted amount of days in the gallery to have a solo show, curate a group show, host a panel or forum or use it as extra studio space. Flux Factory provides a stipend to each Resident for their public presentation, or to research or produce new work. Each year we have four month-long exhibitions curated by Residents and other Fluxers, as well as an annual Artists-In-Residence exhibition.
Facilities
Flux Factory residents are free to use all facilities and resources, as well as access to other city programs such as Materials for the Arts (two blocks away!). The building is equipped with a wood shop, silk screen studio, co-working office, library, kitchen, large deck, expansive gallery space, and audio visual equipment.
Fluxhood
As a part of a community-run center for artists, Flux Factory residents are asked to take part in the creation and maintenance of its facilities and programming. On Monday nights, all Flux Factory residents and administrators attend a weekly meeting so that we may foster a sense of community and discuss the evolving needs of the program.
Residents are asked to put in volunteer hours toward the maintenance of the space and a weekly chore. A constantly changing physical and social environment, Flux is always a work-in-progress, and there are many opportunities to leave one’s mark.
Criteria
The Flux Factory residency is tailored to American and international cultural producers of all stripes, social activists, academics, and anyone who’s creative, adventurous, and willing to come to New York City to create new bodies of work that are informed by their experience here. We are especially keen to have artists who have a socially collaborative art practice, and have experience working collectively.
Selection
Residents are selected through our Open Call application process. Applications are reviewed by Flux Factory administrators and current residents. Prospective residents with standout applications will undergo an interview via Skype or in-person at Flux Factory, if within a reasonable travel distance.
Cost
There is currently no individual financial support for a studio, monthly fees for studios range from $725 to $1030 a month, in addition to utilities. Flux Factory will write letters of invitation for grants and other funding opportunities, and share opportunities for additional resources if available.
If you have any questions, please contact us at maya@fluxfactory.org
APPLY HERE
PARTNERSHIPS
We are pursuing relationships with funding organizations interested in sponsoring individual artists to partake in Flux Factory’s Artists in Residence program. If you are a supporting organization interested in hosting artists at Flux Factory, please contact us.
RECENT RESIDENCY PARTNERS
ARoS Public
Art Quarter Budapest
Artiste En Residence
New York Foundation for the Arts
Residency Unlimited
Taipei Cultural Center in New York
Trust for Mutual Understanding
UOB Art Academy
Ukrainian Institute

A Familiarity That WARMS: New Work by Layo Bright and Kamari Carter
2020-11-06 08:00 - 2020-11-16 17:00 | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
A Familiarity That WARMS:
New Work by Layo Bright and Kamari Carter
November 6 – 16
In person in the Flux Factory Gallery, 39-31 29th street, LIC, NY*
Opening: Friday November 6, 6 – 9pm
Friday November 6 – Monday November 16
By Appointment Only, email maya@fluxfactory.org
A Familiarity That WARMS features recent works by Flux Factory alumni Layo Bright and Kamari Carter, exploring themes of representation, visibility, and perception. With sensorial overloads of everything from mass media distractions to screen oriented communication we have been working to adapt to our new “normal”. Over the course of the year, various national and global events have caused us to pause and reflect on ourselves, societies and communities. These reflective moments have led to movements for collective action, racial equality, calls for solidarity, and a refusal to be silenced.
With the exhibition title taken from “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge; the artists use sound, prints and installations to create a space for contemplation on issues affecting Black communities in America and the diaspora. Though both artists address different types of injustices to Black bodies—they utilize lines and patterns as a way of abstracting, connecting, and questioning our perception of and proximity to police brutality and migration.
*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. 4 people will be allowed in the gallery at one time. We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment for everyone.

Transforming America In Real Time! Building Community Through A Pandemic...
2020-12-05 13:00 - 2020-12-20 18:00
Transforming America In Real Time:
Building Community Through A Pandemic
December 5 – 20
Opening Day: December 5, 1 to 6pm EST
Gallery Hours:
Friday 4 – 8pm, Saturday & Sunday 1 – 6pm EST
Artist Talk with Suga Ray and collaborators
Thursday, December 17, 7pm EST
Zoom link sent upon Registration
*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines.
Transforming America In Real Time! features photographs from events organized by Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston, of Transform America, a Queens Native and lifelong Queensbridge representative.These events ranged in their focus. Some photographs document a Social Unrest for Change Demonstration in which Marston and a group of activists and advocates held up traffic at the Queensborough Bridge for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd who was killed by a police officer. Another captures a Freedom Tour bus trip and walking tour of Washington DC with youth and adults alike. Ongoing local events include the Wellness Wednesdays Vegan Food giveaways at Queensbridge Projects.
Transforming America In Real Time! is supported by the Flux Factory Rhizome Project. The Rhizome Project is a commitment to give intentional space to Black voices, and provide a platform for Black narratives by offering the support needed to help these narratives thrive and evolve. The Rhizome Project is an evolving entity that will begin with a series of programs in 2020 and 2021.

Artist Talk with Suga Ray and collaborators
Thursday, December 17, 7pm EST
Zoom link sent upon Registration
Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston, born on March 14th, 1984, would endure a lifetime worth of pain by the time he was only 20 years of age; including losing his dad and oldest sister to cancer, being shot, going to prison, and witnessing friends killed by friends, but by a constant reflection of self and his surroundings, he found his way and since 2008 has been committed to assisting in the elevation of humanity and the liberation of all oppressed people.

Since his transformation, “Suga Ray” would go on to receive numerous honors and awards from high ranking government officials, his peers, and countless others he has worked with, on various fronts, from various parts of the World. None of that has changed him as he remains committed to the mission of healing our hurting world, and thus gives much more than he receives. “Suga Ray” is a peace activist, food activist, spiritual guide, community builder, public speaker, universal educator, program developer, writer, artist, humanitarian, podcast host, and Founder of Transform America, a community based organization operating predominantly in Queensnbridge Houses.
Dannelly Rodriguez is an Astoria Queens native, an organizer/activist with the Justice for all Coalition and the Queens DSA. He is also a 3rd year law student at the CUNY School of Law. He works to empower public housing tenants to be their best advocates with respect to ensuring dignified housing and fighting to defund the police. He has helped organize rent strikes as a tool to solicit repairs for NYCHA tenants and to demand a Green New Deal for Public Housing. Dannelly is currently working on mutual aid and political education efforts within Queensbridge, Ravenswood and Astoria Houses to support a network for the self-determination of these communities. As a lawyer he wants to be “the hoods” lawyer and plans on suing landlords and the police to build class power for his community. He fundamentally believes that people should have direct autonomy over their lives, including their homes, workplaces and schools and that policy should be shaped to support that. This work and this passion is what led him to begin working with Suga Ray.

Adrian L. Childress was born in Germany to a single mother of four serving in the Army, and he was raised in Texas. At 18 he joined the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry Rifleman. While completing two combat tours in Afghanistan he picked up his first camera. After capturing fellow Marines he decided to pursue a degree in Photography. Studying at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco he made a decision to become a photojournalist. He sees so many people/stories go unseen and wants to help bring attention to them using his camera.In 2019, the “WE UNFUCK THE WORLD” project was born. The concept came from folks talking about how they would “UNFUCK THE WORLD” or what it means to them. Since becoming a photographer, Adrian’s dream was to move to NYC. In February 2020, he did. Adrian believes everyone deserves to be seen, and everyone needs to be heard which is why he wrote the motto for the “WE UNFUCK THE WORLD” project as:

“OUR VOICES, OUR MOVEMENT
UNTIL EVERY VOICE IS HEARD
WE UNFUCK THE WORLD”
This work and this passion is what led him to begin working with Suga Ray.

Weekly Phone Banking
2020-12-09 14:00 - 15:30
Flux Factory Phone Bank
Every WEDNESDAY, 2pm EST
> Please note, the day has been changed from Fridays to Wednesdays
Register Here
-Zoom link to be sent upon registration
Hosted weekly by Sarah Dahlinger
Each Wednesday, a group of Fluxers meets on Zoom for one hour to support each other in being proactive citizens and members of our respective communities.
We will share a document with you that includes various numbers and the relevant scripts, so you will have all the tools you need to make calls.
Some of the important actions we’ve called about in the past are: the defunding of the NYPD, The repeal of the “walking while trans” act in NY state, the repeal of the Muslim ban, demanding that the police who killed Breonna Taylor be arrested and more.
All of us were new to this when we started, but every call gets easier. Come with ideas, feel free to add things to our document, and be ready to make calls!!

Purchase A Gift Card for The Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition
2020-12-17 08:00 - 2020-12-31 23:30
Purchase A Gift Card Today To Support Emerging Artists
We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with Artsy to present the 2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition, featuring affordable art by both emerging and established artists from the Flux community.

See a Sneak Peak of the Exhibition
Taking place January 12—February 14, this online exhibition is the best opportunity to support all that Flux Factory does for emerging artists AND acquire breathtaking artworks for yourself or your loved ones.
The 2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition features 30 works ranging from $30 to $1,800 by emerging and established contemporary artists. Participating artists include Mark Dion, Natalia Nakazawa, Chris Bogia, Jorge Palacios, Guido Garaycochea and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter among others.
Buy a GIFT CARD for any amount by December 31 to be redeemed at our Fundraising Exhibition or Make a One Time Tax Deductible Donation before the end of the year.

2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition
2021-01-12 08:00 - 2021-02-14 19:00
Flyer made by Cayla Lockwood using “Jeviwear” prints by Jevijoe Vitug
FLUX FACTORY FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION
January 12 – February 14

VISIT THE EXHIBITION HERE
Register for the Virtual Gala Feb 10th, 7pm EST
In place of our Annual Art Auction, which would now be in its 14th year, we are hosting a digital Fundraising Exhibition and Virtual Gala.
You can now support Flux Factory by buying one of over 40 artworks between $40 and $1900. Add some beauty to your home, and help Flux Factory continue to be a center of community and experimentation. While it may be awhile before we’re eating and dancing together in the Flux gallery, with your support, we can dance together into the future.
The Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition features stunning works by both emerging and established contemporary artists working today:
Smokie Arce | Amir Badawi | Allen Ball | Chris Bogia | Jeanne Brasile | Deric Carner | Bill Carroll | Kerry Cox | Danny Crump | Sarah Dahlinger | Mark Dion | Ayana Evans | Flux Factory Collective | Guido Garaycochea | Jesse Harrod | Kohlman Harshbarger | Wieteke Heldens | Pablo Helguera | Lexy Ho Tai | Nung-Hsin Hu | Invader | Melissa Joseph | Aya Kakeda | Vaidehi Kinkhabwala | Tina Kohlmann | Tzu-Huan Lin | Cayla Lockwood | Heather Lynn Johnson | Jemila MacEwan | Lily Moebes | Natalia Nakazawa | Kira Nam Greene | Will Owen | Jorge Palacios | Caroline Partamian | Alex Schechter | Eleanor Scholz | Tod Seelie | Ward Shelley | Alisa Sikelianos-Carter | Jonathan Sims | Swoon | Talajoon | Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos | Winnie van der Rijn | Jevijoe Vitug | Jaimie Warren | Beatrice Wolert | Amia Yokoyama | Jade Yumang

FLUX FACTORY VIRTUAL GALA
February 10, 7pm EST
Zoom link sent upon registration
The Virtual Gala will include one hour of programming, followed by 30 minutes of music by long-time Flux DJ, Vinyl Richie.
We will be honoring two people whose work epitomizes Flux Factory’s values and goals: Queens community activist Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston and Visual Artist Saya Woolfalk.
The event will also include a conversation about art and an ever changing NYC with Saya Woolfalk and Flux Factory Board Member Natalia Nakazawa, as well as featured artworks from the Fundraising Exhibition, a raffle and more.
Image Description: On black, bold sans serif font reads: Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition. 1.12 – 2.14 2021. The front of the letters are a very light lilac and fade into a colorful mottling textures of purples, blues, pinks and flashes of orange.

Thank You! With Flowers - An installation by Celeste Wilson
2021-01-14 18:00 - 2021-01-26 18:00
Thank you! With Flowers
An installation by Celeste Wilson
January 14 – 26

Opening Night: Thursday, January 14th, 6 – 8pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday and Friday, 4-8pm & Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm
*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. 4 visitors allowed in the gallery at one time.
Artist Talk, January 23, 2pm
Zoom Link Sent Upon Registration

Flux Factory is pleased to be hosting the immersive installation Thank You! With Flowers, by QCA recipient and local Queens based artist, Celeste Wilson. Thank You! With Flowers is a wall-paper-like installation on view at Flux from January 14 – 26, 2021. The installation is made from the purple floral imagery found on un-branded, generic plastic bags as a response to the urban environment and consumer culture of Queens and life in NYC. In addition, this solo project includes several constructed bags with the same imagery to allow viewers to see the material in its original form. The gallery is open to the public during viewing hours and there will be a virtual walkthrough of the space and artist’s Q&A on January 23, 2021 at 2 pm to allow any viewers who are unable to see the installation in person to experience it digitally.

Celeste Wilson received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA at Brooklyn College. Her work lies at the intersection of investigation, material, and deconstruction. Recent exhibitions include The Waste Land at Nicelle Beauchene (NY, NY), and Playground at BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), and Uncanny Melodies, at HiLo Gallery (Catskill, NY). She has received fellowships at the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts (2013) and the Vermont Studio Center (2017), UrbanGlass (2017), Mass MoCA (2019), The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Pilchuck Glass School (both forthcoming). Wilson currently lives and works in Queens, New York.
This project is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

The Gift in the Wound
2021-01-29 13:00 - 2021-02-07 18:00
Quarantine Day 121, 2020 by Megan Bent
The Gift in the Wound
January 29 – February 7
Curated by Noah Phillips
Gallery Hours*: 1-6 PM EST on Saturday, January 30 & February 6
Or by appointment, email maya@fluxfactory.org
Download the Catalog Here
Artist Talk and virtual exhibition
Friday, January 29, 7pm EST
Zoom link sent upon registration
On Friday, January 29th @ 7pm EST, join curator Noah Phillips for a live, virtual celebration of resilience with the exhibiting artists. We will discuss their creative processes, their work, and the personal journeys that led them each to face, and learn from, their individual challenges. Although our wounds may be unique, the gifts are collective. Our artists have lived to tell the tale—come listen!⁣
“Without the weight given by a wound consciously realized, [one] will lead a provisional life.” — Robert Bly

Participating Artists
Megan Bent || Aloe Corry || Betty Eastland || Valeria Haedo || Angela Rogers || Jonathon Sims || Ellen Wetmore
The Gift In The Wound highlights the work of artists who have confronted their fears, traumas, and shadows, and emerged on the other side with unexpected insights, treasures, and talents to share with and enrich their communities. The wounds explored vary from the physical to the emotional to the spiritual, and the media from paint, fabric, glass, and beyond. Each work celebrates an enduring process of transformation reflected in nature, in myth, and in our bodies.
The Gift in the Wound is Noah Phillips‘ curatorial debut. Before beginning his residency at Flux Factory, where his work has focused on the intersections of folk ritual and innovative understandings of psychological “plurality,” Noah was working as a Peer Specialist in the New York City’s public mental health system. He is also a Licensed Master of Social Work and an organizer with the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a training institute for transformative models of mental health.
*The exhibition will take place at Flux Factory’s Garage Bay Gallery. In response to COVID-19, all visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
