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SUMMARY:Underground Underwater Costume Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come 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 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. No RSVP required! Free and open to all skill levels. No materials needed but attendees are welcome to bring their own. \n\n\n\nUnderground Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/underground-underwater-costume-workshop/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
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SUMMARY:Underground Underwater Costume Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come 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. No RSVP required! Free and open to all skill levels. No materials needed but attendees are welcome to bring their own. \n\n\n\nUnderground and Underwater will take place on September 12 and 13\, 2026 at Flux IV.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/underground-underwater-costume-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
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SUMMARY:Out of Sight: Social & Architectural Camouflage
DESCRIPTION:Curated in collaboration with Eva Slabá\, the evening brings together four artists: Lukáš Šmejkal\, Anna Černíková\, Norbert Kuki and Salma Jamal Moushum. All four are united by an interest in the tension between visible surface and hidden interior\, the theme of social and architectural camouflage\, and the uncovering of systems that remain hidden from ordinary view. \n\n\n\nŠmejkal’s and Moushum’s artist talks\, Černíková’s sound performance\, and a screening of Kuki’s latest film will lead into an informal gathering in Czech Center New York. This themed evening puts into dialogue four artistic approaches exploring what happens beneath the surface – whether that’s building façades\, the façades of social norms\, or institutional prejudice. While Šmejkal deconstructs the technical infrastructure hidden behind the walls of residential buildings\, Moushum illuminates how community art and indigenous ecological knowledge subvert institutional prejudice\, Černíková seeks an inner space of freedom through daydreaming in a hyper-capitalist city\, and Kuki uncovers authentic\, non-fetishized stories of Roma identity from within the community. \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n6:30–7:30 PM | Artist Talks: Lukáš Šmejkal and Salma Jamal Moushum \n\n\n\nPainter Lukáš Šmejkal will present his research focusing on urban infrastructure and architectural camouflage in New York. He will discuss the tension between the city’s aesthetic surface and its hidden technological core. He will also present the results of his field research\, which focused on specific architectural phenomena such as 58 Joralemon Street (the facade of a residential building)\, Bruckner Boulevard (a mock-up for electrical substations) and the Strecker Laboratory (the use of a historic monument to house a metro transformer). \n\n\n\nSalma Jamal Moushum will introduce the practice of Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts\, a community-based arts organization working in the village of Balia in northern Bangladesh since 2001. Through a talk accompanied by short film excerpts\, she will talk about Gidree Bawlee’s long-term\, collaborative approach to artmaking with local communities\, bringing contemporary artistic processes into conversation with ecological knowledge\, oral traditions\, craft\, performance\, and everyday rural life. She will also discuss her recent project Shak Pitari (Wild Leaves)\, created with women and young people in Balia around the disappearing knowledge of uncultivated edible plants. \n\n\n\n7:30–8:05 PM | Film Screening: Štefi\, Ten Days of FreedomNorbert Kuki / 2025 / 33 min. \n\n\n\nNorbert Kuki will present his latest audiovisual documentary work Štefi\, Ten Days of Freedom. The documentary tells the story of a prisoner who stood out for his musical talent. As the documentary unfolds\, Stefi gradually opens up and shares his personal story\, revealing how he became a victim of a dysfunctional system and exploring the lasting scars it has left on him. \n\n\n\n8:30 PM | Sound Performance by Anna Černíková & Gathering \n\n\n\nBohemian National Hall will become a space for two distinct but thematically connected explorations of inner worlds and hidden identity.Anna Černíková (performing under the pseudonym A/C) will present a sound performance based on her New York project Daydream Nation. Sound collage and lo-fi aesthetics offer a moment of pause from constant digital stimulation\, opening a space for daydreaming. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Czech Center New York\, the Academy of Arts\, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM)\, Flux Factory\, and Residency Unlimited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Černíková\n\n\n\nCzech artist and graduate from Visual Arts III at UMPRUM in Prague in 2025. Her work combines moving image\, music\, performance\, and installation. She deals with the fluidity of identity\, corporeality\, and cultural memory. Her works move between dream and reality\, documentary and fiction\, often using lo-fi aesthetics and glitch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNorbert Kuki\n\n\n\nSlovak Roma artist and graduate of the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava. In 2026 he became one of the laureates of the Oskár Čepan Award. His work moves between social sculpture\, activism\, and rap. His art redefines contemporary Roma identity through a deep\, non-fetishizing relationship with the community\, built on long-term exchange. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalma Jamal Moushum\n\n\n\nBangladesh-based artistic researcher whose practice explores ecology\, memory\, gender and collective knowledge. She co-runs Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts\, shaping long-term artistic processes rooted in rural communities in northern Bangladesh. Her recent project\, Shak Pitari (Wild Leaves)\, engages with women elders’ knowledge of uncultivated edible plants. She is currently an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLukáš Šmejkal\n\n\n\nCzech artist and graduate of Studio of Fine Arts II at UMPRUM in Prague. In his painting\, he has long explored the relationship between landscape\, the human body\, and technology. He transforms the geometric elements of energy infrastructure into organic\, biomorphic structures in which technical precision merges with intuitive lines. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Czech Center New York\, the Academy of Arts\, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM)\, Flux Factory\, and Residency Unlimited.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/out-of-sight-social-architectural-camouflage/
LOCATION:Czech Center New York\, 321 E 73rd Street\, New York\, New York\, 10021
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SUMMARY:Source Material
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nJoin us September 18–20\, 2026 for Source Material\, a group BioArt exhibition at Flux IV\, & a weekend\, research\, panel discussions\, and workshops. \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nFriday\, September 18 \n\n\n\n• Opening Reception | 5–10 PM \n\n\n\nJoin us for the opening reception of Source Material\, featuring a group exhibition of BioArt works exploring the intersections of art\, biology\, materials\, and living systems. \n\n\n\nFood and drinks available \n\n\n\nSaturday\, September 19 \n\n\n\n• Open Gallery Time | 12- 4PM \n\n\n\nVisit Source Materials throughout the day with a gallery ticket. \n\n\n\nSunday\, September 20 \n\n\n\n• Art & Research: Presentations & Panel | 10 AM–1PM \n\n\n\nPresentations followed by a panel discussion bringing together researchers and artists to explore the intersection of Biomaterials and Art. \n\n\n\n• Workshop | 2:30 PM–5 PM \n\n\n\nWe’ll close out the weekend with a community workshop where we’ll come together to create a collective bioplastic piece. \n\n\n\n• Open Gallery | 1–5 PM \n\n\n\n_________________________________________________________________________________ \n\n\n\nSource Material traces matter back to its origin. The works begin as something ordinary: a shell\, a spill\, a scrap\, a smear of soil\, a living culture. \n\n\n\nBiomaterial researchers are constantly sourcing materials\, whether foraging\, nurturing\, or extracting. The act of sourcing becomes the act of making. \n\n\n\nEach artist’s inquiry draws on cultural lineage\, personal experience\, and individual relationships. The works search beyond questions of usability and production; they tell stories. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition captures the moment an artist encounters a material and becomes inexplicably infatuated. It glimpses under the veil of biology into a complex network of living cultures\, waste streams\, memory\, and tools that alter perception. \n\n\n\nSource Materials exhibits 14 artists\, presenting biomaterial sculptures\, woven pieces\, household objects\, film\, and transformed waste. While each work may propose a use or a new material\, they ultimately offer new perspectives on our relationship to overlooked materials. \n\n\n\nArtists: \n\n\n\n\nBecca Rodriguez\n\n\n\nCaroline Chou\n\n\n\nFlavia Bertorello\n\n\n\nGrace McCarty\n\n\n\nJingyi Yang\n\n\n\nKaitlyn Gillums\n\n\n\nLily Xiao\n\n\n\nLorraine Cruz\n\n\n\nNaomi Hamlin-Navias\n\n\n\nMORAKANA\n\n\n\nSally Kong\n\n\n\nSree Krishna Pillarisetti\n\n\n\nWalker Tufts\n\n\n\nWilliam Takao Eliot\n\n\n\n\nCurated by Genspace Biomaterials Incubator Leads – Brian Houstle\, Lily Xiao\, Lorraine Cruz \n\n\n\nAbout Genspace Biomaterials Studio (GBS): \n\n\n\nThe Biomaterials Studio is a community-driven biomaterial research group at Genspace. We explore\, create\, and innovate at the intersection between materials\, biology\, and design. \n\n\n\nThe Genspace Biomaterials Studio BioArtist Incubator supports artists who believe the materials we live with are worth reimagining. Each year\, select Studio members and invited guests engage in extended lab access and mentorship to deepen their research into biological and regenerative materials. The Incubator culminates in an annual exhibition during NYC Climate Week\, where artists share their work and invite broader conversations. \n\n\n\nAbout Genspace: \n\n\n\nGenspace is the world’s first community biology lab — a place where people of all backgrounds and identities can learn\, create\, and grow with the life sciences. \n\n\n\nSince 2009\, we have served the greater New York area by providing hands-on STEAM education programs for youth and adults\, cultural and outreach events for the public\, and a membership program to support New York’s community of creatives\, researchers\, and entrepreneurs. Our programs demystify scientific processes\, provide a platform for innovation\, and cultivate the next generation of life sciences leaders in emerging global technologies\, such as biotechnology\, neuroscience\, epidemiology\, genomics\, and many more. \n\n\n\n—————————————————————————————– \n\n\n\nThis program is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Genspace Biomaterials Studio Bioart Exhibition is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n@genspacenyc \n\n\n\nwww.genspace.org
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SUMMARY:Urban Water Awareness Day
DESCRIPTION:Taking the NYC Ferry at dusk\, as glimmering sunrays soak into the East River rippling beneath the fractured reflection of the Manhattan skyline\, one is reminded that New York is a city profoundly shaped by water. Beneath its rivers\, estuaries\, canals\, and harbors accumulate submerged layered histories of industry\, public life and ecological transformation. What remains beneath the surface? \n\n\n\nUrban Water Awareness Day is a public program consisting of an urban waterfront walk\, panel discussion\, workshop\, and film screening presented in conjunction with New York Climate Week. The program brings together artists\, architects\, urbanists\, environmental advocates\, and community organizations\, to examine water as a civic\, social\, and cultural framework\, not merely a technical system. Through public dialogue\, site-based learning\, architectural design\, and artistic practice\, it reflects on municipal water as space for environmental justice\, climate resilience\, urban policy\, and public health alongside models for ecological restoration and climate-adaptive design. This program reveals how water continues to shape everyday life and how some of the city’s most pressing environmental\, social\, and political challenges converge in the municipal waters of a warming New York City. It is a joint initiative of Shared Grounds and ECO Solidarity\, a collaborative project represented by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York\, Flux Factory\, and the Polish Cultural Institute New York. \n\n\n\nOften hidden beneath streets and woven into the built environment\, water infrastructure remains largely invisible despite its profound influence on public health\, urban development\, and climate adaptation. These systems\, ranging from reservoirs and waterways to public pools\, waterfronts\, and estuaries\, have shaped the growth\, memory\, and daily life of New York City for generations. As rising temperatures\, extreme weather events\, and aging infrastructure put increasing pressure on urban environments\, questions of stewardship and resilience become ever more urgent. Urban Water Awareness Day proves that cultural programs play an important role in this context by making invisible systems visible\, fostering public awareness\, and encouraging new ways of imagining climate resilience in the city. \n\n\n\nIn Public Pools research project\, Karolina Częczek reimagines New York City’s municipal pools as essential civic and ecological infrastructure beyond their seasonal use. The research explores the history\, form\, and social and cultural aspects of the swimming pool as an architectural type. The pool serves as a device to engage specific aspects of public space and architectural invention while revealing the undercurrents of urban policy. \n\n\n\nThe project is illustrated by a catalog of New York City public pools\, photographs and writings. Through the NYC Water Map\, the project reveals the city’s interconnected watershed\, from upstate reservoirs to neighborhood pools\, demonstrating how it influences public health\, heat mitigation\, and everyday urban life.  The project also proposes practical\, climate-adaptive solutions built upon the city’s existing water systems. These speculative proposals applied to five distinct typologies of New York City pools\, ranging from programmatic extensions to architectural interventions\, foster use of public amenities and promote climate resiliency.  \n\n\n\nExpanding this perspective from citywide water infrastructure to neighborhood landscapes\, Interval Projects explores how architecture can reconnect cities with ecological systems. The New York–based practice\, founded by Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette\, works at the intersection of architecture\, urban ecology\, and public space\, transforming overlooked sites into resilient civic landscapes. Their work on the Dutch Kills Loop in Long Island City proves how ecological restoration\, adaptive design\, and public access can reimagine post-industrial waterfronts in response to climate change.   \n\n\n\nTogether\, Karolina Częczek‘s Public Pools and Interval Projects’ vision for the Dutch Kills Loop reframe urban water as shared civic infrastructure. Through architecture\, ecological restoration\, and cultural programming\, Urban Water Awareness Day explores how design can strengthen public health\, expand access to the waterfront\, and foster more resilient relationships between cities\, freight rail\, hidden waterways and community-led reclamation. \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek: case study of environmental justice in Long Island City and Greenpoint \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek\, a 3.8-mile tidal estuary bordering Long Island City and Greenpoint\, has evolved from a vital wetland into one of New York City’s most polluted waterways and a federally designated Superfund site. Decades of industrial contamination\, combined sewer overflows\, and aging water infrastructure have made the creek increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events. In response\, the Newtown Creek Alliance has led community-driven efforts to restore habitats\, expand waterfront access\, and advance green infrastructure—exemplifying how ecological restoration\, civic stewardship\, and public engagement can contribute to a more resilient urban future. \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nSaturday\, September 19\, 2026\, 3:30–8:00 PM \n\n\n\nUrban Waterfront Walk3:30–5:30 PM \n\n\n\nLed by Hart Mankin\, the Newtown Creek Alliance Environmental Educator\, the educational waterfront walk explores Newtown Creek and Dutch Kills as living case studies of waterfront contamination\, climate vulnerability\,  and environmental justice\, tracing one of New York City’s most historically industrialized waterways as it undergoes ecological restoration. Starting at Hunters Point Avenue\, the route passes the Dutch Kills Loop beneath the Long Island Expressway\, continues along the Montauk Cut-Off rail corridor and the Borden Avenue waterfront\, before concluding at Flux IV. Together\, these sites reveal the layered relationship between freight rail\, hidden waterways and community-led reclamation. Experiencing the creek firsthand transforms an often-invisible infrastructure into a living landscape where environmental history\, urban planning\, and public space converge. \n\n\n\nPanel Discussion & Q&A5:30–6:30 PM \n\n\n\nA public conversation examining water as civic infrastructure and a catalyst for environmental resilience\, public health\, and community well-being. Participants include architect Karolina Częczek (Public Pools)\, architects Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette of Interval Projects in conversation moderated by Paula Vilaplana de Miguel\, Assistant Curator at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA). \n\n\n\nAn exhibition featuring selections from Public Pools by Karolina Częczek and Anna Morgowicz will be on view at Flux IV from September 18-20\, 2026. \n\n\n\nFilm Screening6:30–8:00 PM \n\n\n\nScreening of (2026) from Remedies by Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko. Through moving image\, the work reflects on ecology\, healing\, memory\, and the complex relationships between humans and the environments they inhabit. \n\n\n\nWorkshop6:30–8:00 PM  \n\n\n\nWater Portraits of Queens: A Community Ecology Archive by Adelle Yingxi Lin\, is an interactive installation and performance that weaves together community narratives\, multilingual calligraphy\, and Newtown Creek’s changing ecology into a collective portrait of Queens through gestures of collective healing\, and environmental care.  \n\n\n\nReception6:30–8:00 PM \n\n\n\nAn informal gathering that brings together artists\, architects\, designers\, environmental advocates\, researchers\, and community members for continued conversation and the exchange of ideas. \n\n\n\nExhibition\n\n\n\nSeptember 18–20 2026Source Materials presented by GBS Bioart\, featuring Public Pools\, with drawings by Karolina Częczek & Only If and photographs by Anna Morgowicz. \n\n\n\nThe Genspace Biomaterials Studio (GBS) presents the GBS Bioart Exhibition\, featuring artists who work with biomaterials such as mycelium\, SCOBY\, biocement\, natural dyes\, and food waste. At the intersection of art\, science\, and sustainability\, the exhibition showcases emerging material practices that address ecological challenges and envision new relationships between design\, the environment\, and the living world. \n\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nPanel Speakers \n\n\n\nKarolina Częczek\, Only If Architecture\, Public Pools \n\n\n\nKarolina Częczek is an architect and Principal at Only If\, a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism. Only If’s projects span a range of different types and scales\, from single- and multiple-family housing to larger-scale urban planning\, research\, and speculation. In 2023 Only If’s People’s Pool project was part of the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art\, “Architecture Now: New York\, New Publics\,” featuring projects that envision a more accessible\, sustainable\, and equitable New York. Karolina is also a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture and previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Hong Kong. \n\n\n\nOnly If Architecture is a New York based architecture and design practice founded by architect Karolina Częczek. Working across architecture\, urbanism\, research\, and public space\, the studio explores how design can address contemporary environmental and social challenges. Through projects that connect civic infrastructure\, ecology\, and public life\, Only If develops innovative approaches to climate adaptation and urban resilience. \n\n\n\nThe Public Pools research explores the history\, form\, and social and cultural aspects of the swimming pool as an architectural type. The pool serves as a device to engage specific aspects of public space and architectural invention while revealing the undercurrents of urban policy. The research is organized as a catalog of New York City public pools\, and is illustrated by photographs and writings highlighting broader issues related to urban waters. It is accompanied by speculative proposals\, ranging from architectural interventions to programmatic extensions\, applied to five distinct typologies of New York City pools. This project aims to spark a broader public conversation around the importance of free and accessible spaces for public recreation\, as well as issues related to climate resiliency and city planning. \n\n\n\nInterval Projects\, Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette \n\n\n\nInterval Projects is a New York-based architecture and urbanism practice founded by Marlisa Wise and Benedict Clouette. Working at the intersection of design\, public space\, and environmental justice\, the practice collaborates with municipalities\, advocacy organizations\, and local communities to develop projects that connect architecture with civic engagement\, ecological restoration\, and public access to urban landscapes. \n\n\n\nTheir work spans adaptive reuse\, community-led planning\, environmental remediation\, and waterfront design. Notable projects include the Dutch Kills Loop in Long Island City—a vision for transforming an overlooked industrial corridor into publicly accessible open space—as well as environmental restoration initiatives for the Silver Bow Creek Superfund Site in Montana. Through research\, design\, and public collaboration\, Interval Projects explores how architecture can support more equitable and resilient urban futures. \n\n\n\nModerator: Paula Vilaplana de Miguel Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA)\, Department of Architecture and Design \n\n\n\nPaula Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator\, cultural strategist\, and creative director working across architecture and design\, technology\, and contemporary art. Paula currently serves as Assistant Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA)\, where she has developed projects including Peggy Weil: Core Memory; The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower; Down to Earth\, and Body Constructs. She has developed projects for institutions such as the Shanghai Art Biennial\, The Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Venice Architecture Biennial\, and Triennale Milano\, and Ca2M\, among others and her work has been published internationally. \n\n\n\nWorkshop: Adelle Yingxi Lin – Water Portraits of Queens: A Community Ecology Archive \n\n\n\nAdelle Yingxi Lin is a Malaysian artist and technologist whose work bridges performance\,   language\, and participatory systems. Through installation\, embodied research\, and public ritual\, she explores how cultural memory\, technology\, and collective experience shape meaning. Her practice develops forms that foreground care\, ritual\, and relation. \n\n\n\nWater Portraits of Queens: A Community Ecology Archive is a participatory installation and performance project in which Queens residents create calligraphic textiles shaped by community stories and Newtown Creek’s shifting water chemistry. The work explores how place\, language\, and environmental conditions co-author a shared cultural archive. For this workshop\, Adelle invites participants to write gestures of healing in their own languages and place them into water\, where they are transformed into a collective portrait of the borough shaped by memory\, ecology\, and care. \n\n\n\nFilm: Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko – Sanctuary\, Mist (2026) from Remedies \n\n\n\nSasha Huber (b. 1975) is a Helsinki-based internationally recognised visual artist-researcher of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Huber‘s work is concerned with the politics of memory\, care and belonging in relation to colonial residues left in the environment. Connecting history and the present\, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based reparative interventions\, video\, photography\, and collaborations. Huber also usurps the staple gun\, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon\, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics and the possibility of repair\, symbolically stitching wounds together (pain-things). Known for her artistic research contribution to the “Demounting Louis Agassiz” campaign\, she is aiming at reassessing the glaciologist’s contentious racist heritage. She holds an MA in visual culture from Aalto University in Helsinki and is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD in artistic research at Zurich University of the Arts.  \n\n\n\nPetri Saarikko (b. 1973) is Helsinki-based artist and designer. In his site-specific installations\, Saarikko combines social commentary with his work as a designer and his background in new media. His work is highly performative in nature. Saarikko does not shy away from provocation. He often challenges ideas of national identity\, artistic authorship or official political discourses by changing their context and thus showing the true\, artificial nature of these phenomena. His work seeks to expose power relations\, to make room for individual narratives\, and takes a stand on behalf of equality.  \n\n\n\nSasha Huber and Petri Saarikko collaborate regularly in a creative partnership under the name Remedies. Together they have initiated the long-term project Remedies Universe (since 2011) which explores aural family-knowledge in different geographical and cultural contexts and been invited to artist residencies around the world. In 2018\, Huber was the recipient of a State Art Award from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. In 2021–2024 her work is touring under the title “You Name It”\, produced by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and Autograph in London. A comprehensive book with the same title was published by Mousse Publishing in November 2022. Sasha Huber’s work is continued to be supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland through a long-term grant. At Urban Water Awareness Day\, Remedies will be showing  (2026)\, a one channel video. Sanctuary\, Mist was commissioned by the 2nd Helsinki Biennale in 2023 and this is the documentation of the generative art installation filmed by Petri Saarikko. The new video work was commissioned for their exhibition in Germany\, entitled Shelter on view September 18-November 8\, 2026 at the Galerie für Gegenwartskunst\, Freiburg\, Germany. It focuses on colonial power structures and their lasting impact. Through their work\, the two artists explore artistic and Indigenous practices that open up new narratives of solidarity. \n\n\n\nUrban Waterfront Walk \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring\, revealing\, and revitalizing Newtown Creek. We work to restore community health\, water quality\, habitat\, access\, and vibrant commerce along Newtown Creek. Since 2002\, the Alliance has served as a catalyst for effective community action. \n\n\n\nExhibition: About GBS at Genspace Bioart \n\n\n\nGBS Bioart is a community-driven biomaterials research group at Genspace Bioart exploring the intersection of biology\, design\, and material innovation. Through collaborative research\, experimentation\, and its annual six-month Bioart Incubator\, GBS brings together artists\, designers\, scientists\, and community biolabs to develop sustainable biomaterials and imagine future ecological approaches to making. Founded in 2009\, Genspace Bioart is the world’s first community biology laboratory. Based in New York City\, it provides hands-on STEAM education\, public programs\, and collaborative research opportunities that make the life sciences accessible to artists\, researchers\, educators\, entrepreneurs\, and the broader public while fostering innovation across biotechnology\, neuroscience\, genomics\, and environmental science. \n\n\n\nPartners\n\n\n\nShared Grounds is a recurring experimental exhibition initiated by curators Elina Suoyrjö (formerly at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York) and Meghana Karnik (Flux Factory). Informed by eco-feminist thought\, the project speculates on placemaking through interspecies alliances and shared knowledge\, and imagines a public realm shaped by humans and nonhumans alike. Each edition gathers a new group of Finnish and New York–based artists\, who begin their research independently but share a conviction to live interdependently and to build ways of sharing space and understanding one another. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition grew out of an interest in the complexity of public space in a city like New York. It asks who has access to the public realm\, how we are allowed to use it\, and how space is shared. The artists are politically conscious and critical of the present\, but approach these questions through harmonious\, humorous\, empathetic\, or devotional means rather than irony or cynicism. Shared Grounds is a collaboration between the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Flux Factory artist collective. \n\n\n\nECO Solidarity is an award-winning international platform of the Polish Cultural Institute New York\, founded in 2020 in partnership with WantedDesign\, Studio Rygalik\, and the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). Exploring the role of design\, architecture\, and contemporary culture in addressing climate resilience\, public health\, and environmental sustainability\, the initiative brings together leading architects\, designers\, artists\, and researchers through exhibitions\, talks\, workshops\, and public programs.  \n\n\n\nSupported by two consecutive EUNIC Cluster Fund Awards\, ECO Solidarity received the ICFF Editors’ Award for Best Booth and was recognized by Dezeen as one of the “12 Things to See and Do” during NYCxDESIGN and by SixtySix Magazine in its “Best of NYCxDesign” selection (2023). The initiative’s name draws inspiration from Poland’s historic Solidarność movement\, reflecting a belief that collective action and cross-disciplinary collaboration can help shape more resilient\, equitable\, and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nFinnish Cultural Institute in New York works across the fields of contemporary art\, design and architecture\, creating dialogue between Finnish and American professionals and audiences. Founded in 1990\, the Institute has grown from a residency program to an organization commissioning large-scale projects and events that foster critical dialogue and work to build support for professionals in architecture\, design and contemporary art.  \n\n\n\nFlux Factory’s mis­sion is to sup­port emerg­ing artists through res­i­den­cies\, exhi­bi­tions\, edu­ca­tion\, and col­lab­o­ra­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties. Flux is an artist-led space that builds sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties and retains cre­ative vital­i­ty in NYC. Since 1994 Flux has host­ed over 300 Artists-in-Res­i­dence\, both local and inter­na­tion­al\, as well as staged over 700 exhi­bi­tions across all dis­ci­plines. Flux’s home in Long Island City is a cre­ative hive that incu­bates exper­i­men­ta­tion with col­lab­o­ra­tive process­es. Flux hosts over 75 annu­al mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary events; all are free to the pub­lic while all par­tic­i­pat­ing artists are com­pen­sat­ed. Each year Flux selects 40 Artists-in-Res­i­dence to devel­op their cre­ative prac­tices by offer­ing afford­able stu­dios\, shared work­spaces (such as a print shop\, wood shop\, and tech­ni­cal office)\, a solo exhi­bi­tion\, as well as pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment opportunities. \n\n\n\nPolish Cultural Institute New York (established 2000) is a diplomatic mission of the Republic of Poland to the United States operating under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The PCINY’s mission is to share Polish heritage\, history\, and art with American audiences and to promote Poland’s contributions to world culture. The Institute initiates\, supports\, and promotes collaboration between Poland and the United States in various fields\, including visual art\, design\, film\, theater\, dance\, literature\, and music\, as well as other areas of intellectual and social life. \n\n\n\nNewtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring\, revealing\, and revitalizing Newtown Creek\, a 3.8-mile tidal estuary and federally designated Superfund site bordering Brooklyn and Queens. Since 2002\, the Alliance has served as a catalyst for effective community action\, working to restore water quality\, habitat\, public access\, and commerce along the creek. Our programs combine hands-on ecological restoration with environmental education\, including school field trips\, guided walking tours\, and public stewardship events. Through advocacy\, monitoring\, and community partnerships\, NCA works to ensure Newtown Creek’s recovery reflects the needs and voices of the neighborhoods it runs through. \n\n\n\nThe Hunters Point Parks Conservancy enhances\, activates\, and advocates for the parks and waterfront of Long Island City\, bringing communities together\, protecting vital outdoor spaces\, and ensuring lasting access for all. Hunters Point Parks Conservancy was formed in 1998 by a group of  dedicated Long Island City residents determined to improve the quality of life at the waterfront in Hunter’s Point\, Long Island City. We run over 200 free programs a year for the community\, including yoga and fitness sessions\, kids programs\, movie nights\, and art classes\, and bring volunteers to the parks to help support the local ecosystem. We also run environmental education\, public paddle\, and advocacy programs from the Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center.  \n\n\n\nWantedDesign\, founded in 2011\, has evolved into a membership program. It is a dynamic connector and amplifier for global design\, fostering creative synergy and serving as a pivotal crossroad for the international design community.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/urban-water-awareness-day/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Saree: Memory\, Politics\, & Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:Sunaina Bhalla\, 2026. \n\n\n\nArtist Talk + Textile Lab with Sunaina Bhalla \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n**CANCELLED DUE TO COASTAL FLOODING**Guests who have RSVP’d will be contacted for a new date. Please join our mailing list for updates.…As the fall festival season approaches in Queens\, artist Sunaina Bhalla invites participants to gather around the saree as a site of memory\, politics\, and inheritance. The event makes space to consider how textiles carry memory across generations of diasporic communities. What happens when we come together to reflect on the political and familial legacy behind such adornments? \n\n\n\nIn The Saree Project\, Bhalla examines the saree not only as an emblem of beauty and tradition\, but as a cultural text shaped by histories of gender\, power\, restriction\, and control. Drawing from a personal archive of sarees inherited from her mother and mother-in-law\, Bhalla considers how sartorial codes\, ideas of modesty and ownership\, colonial encounters\, and changing forms of surface design and tailoring have shaped the garment and bodies that wear it.The Artist Talk + Textile Lab combines a brief presentation with collective textile sharing and hands-on making. Participants will work with the saree\, adding their mark to an evolving component of The Saree Project; and experiment with block printing\, with fabrics provided by Bhalla. Participants are also invited to bring an ancestral textile\, memory\, or story associated with the politics of garments.Please note: Participants are invited to bring textiles to work with for block printing. Block printing technique works best on natural\, absorbent fabrics such as cotton and linen. Fabrics for the printing activity will also be provided by Bhalla.Schedule2:00–2:30 PM — Slow start & refreshments2:30–3:00 PM — Artist talk: The Saree Project3:00 – 3:30 PM — Discussion & collective textile sharing3:30 – 4:50 PM — Working with saree & block printing4:50–5:00 PM — Closing \n\n\n\nAbout the ArtistSunaina Bhalla is a contemporary artist of Indian origin based in Singapore. Trained as a textile designer in India\, she later studied the traditional Japanese art of Nihonga under Suiko Ohta-sensei in Tokyo\, before completing her MFA at Goldsmiths\, University of London and LASALLE College of the Arts. \n\n\n\nHer practice explores ritual\, repetition\, and the body’s relationship to pain and healing—often using industrial materials\, textiles\, and embroidery to reflect fragility and transformation over time. Currently\, she is researching traditional healing practices in Southeast Asia and their use in chronic conditions like diabetes and breast cancer. \n\n\n\nShe has exhibited internationally in Japan\, India\, Singapore\, Europe\, and the Middle East. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the ESSL Museum in Vienna\, Mumbai Airports Authority\, and private collectors worldwide.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/saree-memory-politics-inheritance/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: A Thousand Answers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of A Thousand Answers: Rhizome Fellowship Artists 2025/26\, featuring works by dre jácome and Zella\, on Thursday\, October 1 from 6 – 9 PM\, with remarks at 7 PM. Please note\, timed masking will be in effect from 6 – 7:30 PM to accommodate immunocompromised guests of the artists (details below). \n\n\n\nA Thousand Answers cites an interview in which Octavia Butler was partially misquoted. When asked about the disasters of the future\, Butler explained that there wasn’t a silver bullet but “thousands of answers\,” at least. Inspired by this call to the pluriversal\, A Thousand Answers brings together dré jacome and Zella’s work engaging collective intelligence. \n\n\n\njácome presents Earthseed (2022–present)\, a site-specific storytelling installation that houses and encodes oral history interviews onto seed sculptures. In collaboration with Ayni Herb Farm’s founder Amara Ullauri\, this iteration turns toward those whose hands tend the land\, and speculates on housing living archives off screen and in relationship. Zella’s intermedia installation and library is situated within Experimental School for Black Imagination\, a collective they helped initiate. A new volume of Experimental’s publication series\, We Be Coming Free\, titled “Noticing\,” considers how collective practices of attention can become forms of creative sovereignty. \n\n\n\nVisit A Thousand Answers: Rhizome Fellowship Artists 2025/26 for details and a full schedule of events. \n\n\n\nTimed MaskingTo support immunocompromised guests of the artists\, masking will be required inside Flux IV from 6:00–7:30 pm. If you arrive during this period: \n\n\n\n\nPlease wear a mask when entering the space. If you do not have one\, we will provide one for you.\n\n\n\nRefreshments will be available on the patio during this time\, but food and drinks are not permitted inside Flux IV while timed masking is in effect.\n\n\n\nIf you prefer not to wear a mask\, you are very welcome to return between 7:30–9:00 pm\, when timed masking will no longer be in effect.\n\n\n\n\nThank you for helping us make the event welcoming and accessible to guests with different health needs!About the Artists \n\n\n\ndre r. jácome is an andean-american transdisciplinary artist\, storyteller\, and strategist inspired by magical realism and the survival arts of everyday living. Drawing from her studies in history\, herbalism\, and interactive technology\, she weaves across digital and land-based technologies to honor and defend BIPOC knowledge systems held in story\, nature\, and recovering cosmologies. Her practice is grounded in relational methodologies—archival research\, oral history\, critical ethnobotany\, and long-term partnership with organizations and chosen family—and indebted to years of working alongside solidarity economy\, abolition\, and popular education movements across Philly\, NYC\, and Bogotá. Currently\, she serves as the communications director at the After Violence Project.Zella is an artist\, cultural organizer\, and designer whose work spans painting\, performance\, zines\, and portal-making; and a founding organizer with the Experimental School for Black Imagination\, a collective offering led by artists tending to the ways we come together to create\, feel\, and grow. Zella’s work aims to ask new questions about what it means to be free\, while being a mirror for Black queer folks; visualizing our beauty\, divinity\, and boundless new worlds that have always been ours to take up spiritual residence in. Zella earned an MFA in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts; and they split their time between New York City and Côte d’Ivoire. They are also a board member and design lead with the Black Veterans Project. They live in Brooklyn with their turtle\, MJ.AccessibilityFlux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-a-thousand-answers/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T210000
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SUMMARY:J. Pavone String Ensemble premieres Stalling Tumble || Levi Lu & Lesley Mok duo || Bongsu Park
DESCRIPTION:J. Pavone String Ensemble premieres Stalling Tumble || Qiujiang Levi Lu & Lesley Mok duo || Bongsu ParkSunday\, October 4 at Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City$15 suggested donations at the door\, 100% of funds go to musicians. Set Times6:00 pm J. Pavone String Ensemble7:00 pm Qiujiang Levi Lu & Lesley Mok duo8:00 pm Bongsu Park’s site-responsive audiovisual installation with scent \n\n\n\nDon’t miss Bongsu Park’s workshop at Swale House on 9/26. \n\n\n\nAbout J. Pavone String EnsembleViolist and composer Jessica Pavone premieres a new work for string trio\, joined by violinists Charlotte Munn-Wood and Mazz Swift. Formed in 2017\, the ensemble performs music that moves fluidly between traditional notation\, improvisational instruction\, metered passages\, and time-based scores. \n\n\n\nPavone is based in Queens and has built an international reputation for expanding the expressive possibilities of the viola. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen\, Pioneer Works\, Roulette\, the Noguchi Museum\, ISSUE Project Room\, and Socrates Sculpture Park\, with recordings on Tzadik\, Thirsty Ear\, Relative Pitch\, and Astral Spirits. She was featured in NPR’s The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40\, and her work has received support from Chamber Music America\, New Music USA\, the Jerome Foundation\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, NYSCA\, NYFA\, and the Queens Arts Fund. JazzTimes has called her “a free-thinker who can’t be pigeonholed.” \n\n\n\nThis premiere is supported by the NYFA Queens Arts Fund and Chamber Music America. \n\n\n\nQiujiang Levi Lu & Lesley Mok duoLesley Mok is a New York City-based percussionist and sound artist. Their work is guided by a continual search for the connection between the mundane and the divine\, the experience and manipulation of time\, and a desire to capture emotional dissonance and complexity. Their debut album The Living Collection (American Dreams Records\, 2023) was named International Debut Album of the Year at the 2024 Deutscher Jazz Preis; their solo LP transient followed in July 2026. \n\n\n\nQiujiang Levi Lu is an experimental musician\, composer\, and creative technologist. Described by I Care If You Listen as “brutally cohesive\,” Lu works across live performance\, electroacoustic instrument design\, installation\, composition\, film scoring\, and multimedia collaboration\, bringing tenderness and violence into the same sonic space. Lu builds self-made electroacoustic instruments\, including intraoral microphone-speaker feedback systems\, amplified laptop interfaces\, and motion-sensing electronics that extend the body as a site of sound-making. \n\n\n\nBongsu ParkLondon-based Korean artist Bongsu Park is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist. Her work explores the intangible domains of dreams and memory\, examining how personal experiences intersect with cultural identity and collective histories. Her recent work explores plants as carriers of memory and cultural knowledge\, transforming botanical materials\, sensory experiences\, and personal stories into collective forms. \n\n\n\nPark presents a site-responsive audiovisual installation with scent. Naturally dyed and eco-printed textiles made in a workshop in with participants hang as projection surfaces for video of Queens plant life and urban environments\, accompanied by original music by haihm and a live scent element passed among the audience.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/jessica-pavone-string-ensemble/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Soil and Sand: A Sonic Journey with Kino Benally\, Tati Benally\, and dre jácome
DESCRIPTION:dre jácome\, Earthseed (detail)\, 2026. Photo: Cal Hsiao \n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, October 13 for a live sound performance with Kino Benally\, Tati Benally\, and Rhizome Fellow dre jácome. Audio collage\, hypnotic percussion\, and field recordings become the ground for world building\, as the artists move between the recorded and the improvised to hold land and memory across space and time. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n7:00 pm — Doors / refreshments provided7:30  pm — Tati Benally & dre jácome8:00 pm — Kino Benally \n\n\n\nThis event is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition\, A Thousand Answers: Rhizome Fellowship Artists 2025/26. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nKino Benally is a Diné composer\, producer\, and sound artist from Shiprock\, New Mexico. His debut album was released on Hush Hush Records; his score for Reimagining Native earned awards at SXSW 2025. He has composed for PBS\, and CBC Radio. He regularly teaches sound composition workshops across the Southwest and had his music featured on KEXP\, Lot Radio\, and KSUT. \n\n\n\nTati Benally is an interdisciplinary diné artist from diné bikeyah that is interested in movement and connection. \n\n\n\ndre r. jácome is an andean-american transdisciplinary artist\, storyteller\, and strategist inspired by magical realism and the survival arts of everyday living. Drawing from her studies in history\, herbalism\, and interactive technology\, she weaves across digital and land-based technologies to honor and defend BIPOC knowledge systems held in story\, nature\, and recovering cosmologies. Her practice is grounded in relational methodologies—archival research\, oral history\, critical ethnobotany\, and long-term partnership with organizations and chosen family—and indebted to years of working alongside solidarity economy\, abolition\, and popular education movements across Philly\, NYC\, and Bogotá. Currently\, she serves as the communications director at the After Violence Project.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/soil-and-sand-a-sonic-journey-with-kino-benally-tati-benally-and-dre-jacome/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:People Movers
DESCRIPTION:Image: New York Public Library Picture Collection\, 2026. \n\n\n\nPEOPLE MOVERS is  \n\n\n\na screening of Teleférico T.1 by Catalina Jordan Alvarez in a program of mobile movies ******a performance by composers Daniel Fishkin and Femi Shonuga-Fleming******  moving machines by Fordham art students****** and a ferry ride  \n\n\n\nOpen to all ages. Families with children welcome.Presented by Flux Factory and co-presented by Fordham University. \n\n\n\nan installation of moving machines by Fordham art students  \n\n\n\nMosa Adiba\, Angelina Bland\, Anne Cresson\, Lily Mazullo\, Maddy McAuliffe\, Analiz Quezada\, & Rachel Richardson present tiny trains \n\n\n\n***** \n\n\n\na performance by composers Daniel Fishkin and Femi Shonuga-Fleming \n\n\n\ndaxophone and electronics  \n\n\n\n****** \n\n\n\na screening of Teleférico T.1 by Catalina Jordan Alvarez in a program of mobile movies \n\n\n\nTeleférico T.1\, broods over New York City’s mobile infrastructure. Starring Lucky Benson and the Roosevelt Island Tram.  \n\n\n\nProduction of Teleferico T.1 was supported by a Queens Art Fund New Work grant and a Fordham-NYU Research Fellow and Intern Program award. \n\n\n\nWith short mobile-network films:  And when I die let me be buried in a Hemlock coffin\, so I’ll go through hell snapping by Sarah Ema Friedland and Caring for Stonewall in Noisy Times: Scream or Hide? Modes of Travel in the Sonic Landscape by Tuong Bui. \n\n\n\n****** \n\n\n\nand a ferry ride  \n\n\n\nA ride on the most pleasurable mode of transport\, from the terminal near Flux IV at Hunters Point South to 34th Street. We’ll leave from the terminal around 5 p.m. The crossing between these two stops is very brief—7 minutes. Go home from there\, or come back five minutes later! \n\n\n\nFree tickets for Fordham students\, sponsored by the Fordham CCEL. \n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\n3:00 p.m. moving machines  \n\n\n\n3:30 p.m. concert \n\n\n\n4:00 p.m. screening \n\n\n\n4:30 p.m. walk along the beautiful paths to the ferry terminal  \n\n\n\n5:00 p.m. ferry ride to 34th Street—and back\, if you like! \n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nCatalina Jordan Alvarez makes choreographed films and experimental musicals. Her feature-length documentary “Sound Spring” is distributed by Grasshopper Film and her bilingual collection of short “screen plays” titled\, “Vagaries” is published by Edições da Ruína (Lisbon). She has held fellowships and residencies at the Flaherty Seminar\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Rooftop Films\, Flux Factory\, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Her films have screened at festivals including Slamdance\, Fantastic Fest\, New Orleans\, and Palm Springs\, and at venues such as ICA Philadelphia\, the San Diego Art Institute\, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Raised in a bilingual Spanish-English household\, she grew up with a father who ran the Roosevelt Island Tram. Catalina is currently an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts program at Fordham University.  \n\n\n\nLucky Benson is an actor and filmmaker whose performance work is informed by their training as a visual artist\, journalist\, and hypnotist. Past roles have included the ghost of cellist Charlotte Moorman\, a nonbinary version of Conan the Barbarian\, an evil pickup artist\, and a filmmaker who successfully infiltrates the JPEG codec. They star in the forthcoming feature film “C.A.R.E.” directed by Brock Enright. Their work has appeared in places like the CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival\, on the BBC\, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival\, in The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art\, on the screen at Anthology Film Archives\, in The Brooklyn Museum\, on the BBC\, in The New York Times\, and on the walls of Nicolai Wallner Gallery. They are manifesting that their next role involves fire\, fencing\, or gymnastics. https://www.lucky-benson.com/ \n\n\n\nDaniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Daniel is the only luthier that studied directly with the daxophone’s inventor\, Hans Reichel. Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world\, including Canada\, Norway\, Germany\, France\, Japan\, Kazakhstan\, and Australia. He is the first USA-based artist to receive the P.I.G. Prize (2021) from acclaimed fashion designer Henrik Vibskov. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University\, and earned his PhD in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia. He teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey\, where he is Assistant Professor of Music Production. His current favorite wood is prunus serotina\, or black cherry. \n\n\n\nFemi Shonuga-Fleming is a New York based sound artist whose compositions explore the intersections of acousmatics and cultural anthropology. His work employs site specific rituals that investigate environments and create new forms of discourse in conversation with the resulting research. Through performance\, multichannel installation and sculpture\, he examines the dynamic relationships between human gesture and sound technology. Femi works with handmade electro-acoustic instruments and generative systems as cybernetic mediums\, extending embodied experience into spatial interventions. The focus of his work is to amplify the world of the surreal by designing new immersive environments. He is particularly interested in sonic acts as ritual and the poetics of sound technology. His work has been presented at the Sonic Acts Biennial in Amsterdam (2026)\, Waterworks Festival in Massachusetts (2024)\, and Ende Tymes in New York (2022)\, among other venues and festivals. \n\n\n\nSarah Ema Friedland is a NYC-based media artist and educator. Her work has been screened and exhibited at institutions including Lincoln Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, The DCTV Firehouse Cinema\, PBS\, Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner Pitch\, the Tang Teaching Museum\, The Chelsea Museum\, The Queens Museum\, and the MIT List Center. Her works have been supported by grants and fellowships including Jerome\, Paul Newman\, Ford\, NYSCA\, the Palestine American Research Center\, the LABA House of Study\, and the MacDowell Colony. She was named one of the “Top 10 Independent Filmmakers to Watch” by the Independent Magazine\, is a recipient of the Paul Robeson award from the Newark Museum\, and was nominated for a New York Emmy. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU\, Liberal Studies where she also directs the Liberal Studies Global Media Lab. \n\n\n\nFivel Rothberg is a sound recordist\, producer\, and filmmaker who is currently attending Adelphi University for a masters in social work. A long-time media activist\, Fivel loves using storytelling to empower movements for social justice. Additionally\, he has years of experience in development for nonprofits. Fivel co-founded the democratically-run independent news site Indymedia.org\, which empowered thousands of citizen journalists in chapters worldwide.  Credits as a producer on feature-length documentary work include: The People’s Bubbie (in-progress)\, Lyd\, Island Soldier\, and My Brooklyn. \n\n\n\nBen Still is a filmmaker and musician. His documentary work has won awards at film festivals\, has been featured in the New York Times and as a imeo Staff Pick\, and has received support from The Sundance Institute\, The International Documentary Association\, Wave Farm\, and New York State Council on the Arts. His music videos have been featured in Rolling Stone and NPR’s All Songs Considered. He holds a PhD in Social Psychology from New York University. \n\n\n\nTito Joao is an Ecuadorian actor and storyteller. Born and raised in Portoviejo\, Ecuador\, Tito found in movies and imagination his earliest forms of artistic expression. After studying medicine\, he followed his passion for the arts and moved to New York City to study acting at the New York Film Academy. His work is drawn to psychological depth\, silence\, isolation\, and the emotions that exist beneath what we reveal.  \n\n\n\nPaige Finley is a performer and choreographer. She is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program and a member of Ballet Hispánico’s BH2. Additional training includes Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet\, ABT\, BalletX\, ArchCore40\, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She has performed works by Barak Marshall\, Christopher Huggins\, Clifford Williams\, Caili Quan\, and Annie Rigney as well as worked with and performed a solo by Gregory Dawson. Paige has had the opportunity to perform as an apprentice with Chicago Repertory Ballet\, as a trainee with Zeitgeist Dance Theatre in Santa Fe\, NM and is a current company member with Pangea Dance Collective and DoubleTake Dance. In addition to dance\, Paige has trained in voice and acting\, debuted choreographic works in New York\, Chicago and Santa Fe\, and works as a Barre instructor.  \n\n\n\nTuong Bui always feels out of place. A Fordham urban studies program graduate student (and a singer-songwriter in waiting)\, she has no credentials or accolades to speak of in the filmmaking business. She is interested in understanding the “constitutive outside” of this world and how its inhabitants navigate the vicissitudes of urban space and time. Experimenting with the medium in ways that showcase her lack of knowledge of its “rules”\, she hopes to bring the medium itself into an immanent critique of how technologies of representation fail the embodied histories of the most vulnerable – past and present. \n\n\n\nTeleférico T.1 credits: \n\n\n\nCast: Lucky Benson\, Tito Joao\, Lou Heiskus\, Paige Finley\, Berisha Fareau\, Ale Ng-Guzman\, Quin Berfield Brewer\, Naveah Diaz\, Kimberly Lazzara\, Breanna Shifrin & Daniel Fishkin  \n\n\n\nInterviews: Gregg Paravati and Darren McCarthy \n\n\n\nCinematographer of 16mm film: Khanh Tran \n\n\n\nSound Recordist: Fivel Rothberg \n\n\n\nScoopic Operator and Production Assistant: Alejandro Ng-Guzman \n\n\n\nAssistant Camera and Production Assistant: Brittney Cates \n\n\n\nCinematographer of digital documentary film: Max Losson \n\n\n\nEditor: Ben Still \n\n\n\nComposer: Daniel Fishkin \n\n\n\nWriter\, Director\, Producer: Catalina Jordan Alvarez \n\n\n\nFilm within film by Tuong Bui: Caring for Stonewall in Noisy Times: Scream or Hide? Modes of Travel in the Sonic Landscape \n\n\n\nFilm within film by Joint Transit Association: Why Queens Still has a Subway Problem \n\n\n\nFilm within film by Transportation Alternatives: Spatial Equity NYC Intro/Launch \n\n\n\nProduction of Teleferico T.1 was supported by a Queens Art Fund New Work grant and a Fordham-NYU Research Fellow and Intern Program award.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/people-movers-2/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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SUMMARY:Noticing Zine Activation
DESCRIPTION:Image: Experimental School for Black Imagination\, 2026. \n\n\n\nNoticing Zine Activation is a co-created ceremony of paying attention\, solo and together\, hosted by Experimental School for Black Imagination. We’ll practice noticing what repeats\, what we’ve inherited\, and what’s still becoming\, in the room and\, weather permitting\, out along the waterfront. Expect to play\, be asked questions\, and try out ways of looking at each other. Wear comfortable clothing. No prep needed\, and reading the zine beforehand is optional though encouraged. \n\n\n\nThis event is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition\, A Thousand Answers: Rhizome Fellowship Artists 2025/26. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artist \n\n\n\nZella is an artist\, cultural organizer\, and designer whose work spans painting\, performance\, zines\, and portal-making; and a founding organizer with the Experimental School for Black Imagination\, a collective offering led by artists tending to the ways we come together to create\, feel\, and grow. Zella’s work aims to ask new questions about what it means to be free\, while being a mirror for Black queer folks; visualizing our beauty\, divinity\, and boundless new worlds that have always been ours to take up spiritual residence in. Zella earned an MFA in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts; and they split their time between New York City and Côte d’Ivoire. They are also a board member and design lead with the Black Veterans Project. They live in Brooklyn with their turtle\, MJ.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/noticing-zine-activation/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T183000
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SUMMARY:Annual Art Auction & Gala
DESCRIPTION:Honoring artist sTo Len and Materials for the Arts Executive Director Tara Sansone\, Flux Factory’s annual Art Auction & Gala takes place November 7\, with online bids opening November 1. Featuring works by Melissa Joseph\, Saya Woolfalk\, Mary Mattingly\, Ivan Argote\, and Flux alumni\, the evening includes a guest DJ\, catered open bar\, and a “Halloween Hangover” dress code: one last LARP in your costume or one of ours. Celebrating 20 years of Flux auctions\, the event raises critical support for Flux Factory’s Artist Residency and Exhibition programs at our newly renovated gallery\, Flux IV. \n\n\n\nYour involvement to make the gala a success is sincerely appreciated. To join the gala committee or sponsor the event\, please contact Gala Coordinator Walker Tufts at walker@fluxfactory.org \n\n\n\n🎟 Get tickets now  \n\n\n\nYour involvement to make the gala a success is sincerely appreciated. To join the gala committee or sponsor the event\, please contact Gala Coordinator Walker Tufts at walker@fluxfactory.org \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Early Bird Tickets Now!
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2026-gala/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City
CATEGORIES:Homepage Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T200000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception · By Way Of
DESCRIPTION:The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery presents By Way Of\, a group exhibition of new work by the inaugural cohort of the Regional Artist Mobility Program (RAMP)\, a residency exchange between Flux Factory and CIA in Northeast Ohio. \n\n\n\nBy Way Of takes its title from the common preposition for an indirect route—a nod to the oft absurd\, circuitous path taken by makers for their art. Leaning into processes of working backwards\, taking the side quest\, wandering off or rerouting\, each of the artists in By Way Of channels a practice through something that already exists: by way of a melting shoe\, by way of reenactment\, by way of material resistance or by way of Saturday morning cartoons. \n\n\n\nThe inaugural RAMP cohort includes two Cleveland Institute of Art faculty members: interdisciplinary artist and designer Rachel Ferber and painter Mike Meier. It also includes two Flux Factory community artists: textile artist and designer Itala Aguilera and interdisciplinary artist and former actor Li-Ming Hu. \n\n\n\nBy Way Of will open to the public with a reception from 6:00 – 8:00 pm on Friday\, November 13 at CIA’s Reinberger Gallery. Remarks will begin at 6:00 pm and will be followed by a live one-night-only performance by Aguilera at 6:15 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday\, February 7\, 2027. \n\n\n\nThe Regional Artist Mobility Program is made possible with the support of The Kettering Family Foundation. Reinberger Gallery programming is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County\, through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture\, and generously supported by CIA’s Community Partners. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Itala Aguilera\, Ice Shoes\, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-%c2%b7-by-way-of/
CATEGORIES:Homepage Events,Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception · Cherry Blossom Girl
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of Wallace dos Santos: Cherry Blossom Girl on Tuesday\, November 17 from 6 – 9 PM\, with remarks at 7 PM. The exhibition features a series of sculpturally framed paintings incorporating paper pulp made from recycled\, everyday waste. Reflecting on the nostalgia and sweetness of the artist’s childhood in New York City\, the exhibition explores how a place becomes imbricated with the people\, memories\, architectural details\, and recurrent encounters that shape our lives.About the Artist \n\n\n\nWallace dos Santos (b.2000) is a Brazilian-American artist born and raised in Brooklyn\, NY. They work in painting\, papermaking\, and sculpture to explore architectural and psychedelic realms. They received their BFA from The Cooper Union\, and currently work in Queens\, NY. Wallace has been a resident at the Ox-Bow Longform Residency\, haul gallery Raised in Brooklyn Residency\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Wallace is a 2026 NYFA Queens Art Fund recipient.AccessibilityFlux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-%c2%b7-cherry-blossom-girl/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T210000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception · For Those Without A Tribe
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception of Ethan Shoshan: For Those Without A Tribe on Tuesday\, November 17 from 6 – 9 PM\, with remarks at 7 PM. The exhibition centers on a series of large-scale hooked rugs depicting the rooms and objects of the historic Lower Manhattan building on Greenwich Street where Shoshan lived alongside the artist Geoffrey Hendricks and archivist Sur Rodney (Sur) for almost two decades. A social experiment for intergenerational living\, the Greenwich Street home became a place where art\, friendship\, history\, and everyday life were deeply intertwined.About the Artist \n\n\n\nEthan Shoshan is an artist\, activist\, curator\, writer\, and social ecologist based in New York City. Living independently from an early age taught him care\, resilience\, and the importance of community. These values continue to shape his art. Working across media\, his practice bridges creativity and social engagement\, shedding light on inequity and belonging. Behind the scenes\, he supports activist and cultural communities as a technical consultant\, seeing no separation between sustaining art and sustaining people. Shoshan has exhibited widely and led programs for queer and unhoused communities. His work transforms personal and collective histories into acts of connection and possibility.AccessibilityFlux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-%c2%b7-for-those-without-a-tribe/
CATEGORIES:Flux IV,Homepage Events
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