Flux Factory

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

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

Hosted by Nat Roe and Carlos David TC.

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

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

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

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

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

institutforx.dk/users/loftsound/

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

Schedule for Fall Arts Week September 8-12, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Duration: The workshop will last for 1.5 hours

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FAQ

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

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

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

Intro To Video Feedback Workshop by Jon Sims and Carlos David TC
2021-08-19 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Jon Sims will be leading an Intro To Video Feedback Workshop where he will go over the basic techniques to create Video Feedback. Video feedback is the process of pointing a camera at the screen displaying the camera’s output. This creates a feedback loop of images infinitely repeating onto and over themselves creating interesting patterns.
Using Video Feedback techniques, a video mixer, old cameras and a music playlist, artists Jonathan Sims and Carlos David TC will create visual projections in the space and take photo portraits in real time of those in attendance.
Artist Bios:
Jon Sims is a New York City based visual artist. Born in Austin, Texas, he began his practice with painting, but has since moved into sculpture, projection installations, print and curation. His visual arts practice is characterized by geometric abstractions and light. A consistent premise underlying his work is that a modern human’s relationship with the very ancient past is mirrored in their relationship with the distant future.
www.chromadetic.com
Carlos David TC (born Caracas, Venezuela, 1984) is a Queens based artist and experimental filmmaker. His work explores identity in the digital space, coming of age in the era of reality tv, and mobile content creation as a mean of communication.
By combining humor, alter egos, self interviews, obsolete technologies and infinite digital storage the artist attempts to blur the line between performance and reality by experimenting with the documentation of the “process behind the work” as a performance of its own. The constant need to articulate an identity through documentation produces different sets of self-portraits that are presented via moving image, screenshots, screen recording, films, memes, music videos, text based work, performance and site-specific installations.

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

Solar Sounders Workshop with Daniel Fishkin
2021-08-12 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Please RSVP on Eventbrite
In this workshop, we will build musical circuits with circuit boards, soldering irons, wires, solar panels, and wood.
A Solar Sounder is a synthesizer played by sunlight. It works opposite from just about every other circuit you might encounter. A Solar Sounder has no batteries, and no knobs; instead, its speaker output is governed by sunlight, powering an internal synthesizer that is designed to work with ever-fluctuating power source. These instruments live outdoors and their sound changes as the shadows of daylight creep along their solar panels.
By itself, a Solar Sounder by itself is a crude machine, but in a group, they come to life, twittering away merrily, their songs changing as the day passes. If one wants to change the sound—just pick it up and move it into or away from the sunlight, and see what happens. Unlike most electronic instruments, tethered to the power grid or wasting batteries, the solar sounder is self-contained. It makes music continuously and messily; sloughing sound like a cherry blossom tree sheds its petals. After we solder together, we then form a “solar band”, combining our circuits together to make a sunlit symphony.

AFK Party with Sholeh Asgary and Heather Kapplow
2021-08-11 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Inspired by a collaboration via Zoom through 2020-21 where we developed a series of audience-participatory explorations that used text prompts and immersion in sense and process within the context of Zoom–the corporate technology that has been colonizing our homes, schools, places of worship and other gatherings since Covid began–to disambiguate image from experience, and open up more space for the unresolved. AFK Party is part of our ongoing efforts, through play, to remind ourselves and each other that interfaces are not neutral, and that we don’t have to accept how they frame us.
At AFK Party, we will facilitate a variety of conversations/activities in a physical format that resembles Zoom to help people adjust to the idea of meeting in person again after so much virtual meeting in the past year or two. IRL Zooming!! At ARoS, we will discuss our projects during Covid lockdown and also have a workshop where people can make wearable analog Zoom backgrounds to use in our IRL Zoom windows.
Artist bios:
Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose practice is shaped by her early somatic experiences as a refugee. Situating the body as a site of knowledge, her immersive works, performances and audience participatory scores implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history, through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. She has exhibited and performed at various institutions including ARoS Kunstmuseum (DK) with Flux Factory (NY), Sotheby’s Institute of Art (NY), Minnesota Street Project (SF), Charlotte Street Foundation (MO), and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (SF). A 2020 California Arts Council grantee for her participatory performance series “Majles,” she is also a recipient of a 2019 Kenneth Rainin Foundation NEW Commissioning grant through Dance Elixir, and recipient of a 2014 Alternative Exposure Grant for curatorial initiatives as Curator and Director of Education and Public Programs at Incline Gallery, where she founded The Project Room. Asgary has participated in numerous residencies, current and most recently including Mass MoCA (2021), Headlands Center for the Arts (2021), Real Time & Space (2021), Wassaic Project (2020), and Kala Art Institute (2020). Currently residing in Oakland, CA, where she is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, teaching Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art, she received her MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University, and has lectured extensively on photography.
Heather Kapplow (no 3rd person pronouns preferred) is a self-trained conceptual artist based in the United States. Kapplow creates participatory experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects, alternative interpretations of existing environments, installation, performance, writing, audio and video. Kapplow’s work has received government and private grants, and has been commissioned for galleries, film and performance festivals (Ann Arbor Film Festival, ANTI-Festival, AREA Code Art Fair, Datscha Radio Festival, Flesh Crisis Performance Festival, Independent Film Festival of Boston, Illuminus Boston, ISEA International, Kulturmødet Mors Festival, Meetings Festival, MEM Experimental Art Festival, Open Engagement Conference) in the US and internationally. As a part of ensemble projects, Kapplow has performed at the ARoS Kunstmuseum (DK), Guggenheim Museum (US), Institute of Contemporary Art (US), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (US), Museo Arte Moderno (MX), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (US), and the Queens Museum (US), and within works by La Pocha Nostra, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and On Kawara. Kapplow is also an active member of two art communities that produce work collectively: Flux Factory and Mobius Artists Group, and an affiliate artist at metaLAB at Harvard University. In addition to practicing art, Kapplow writes about art for Hyperallergic and others, and recently co-authored an arts-heavy travel guide to Boston for Emons-Verlag GmbH, available Spring of 2021.

Clay workshop with Mette Skriver
2021-08-10 12:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Huggeormen, Thomas Koppels Gade 19, Aarhus
Join Flux and Huggeormen’s Mette Skriver for a workshop on creating and firing clay. Participants will be guided to make their own sculptures to take home.
The workshop will take place in two sessions on Tuesdays August 10 and 17. Participants are encouraged but not required to attend both sessions.
Huggeormen is an artist-run outdoor sculpture workshop in Aarhus. A common professional platform for networking and sharing of knowledge, Here it is possible to work with art projects in large scale – and with processes that make noise, smoke, dust, smells, squirts, etc. On the site there is e.g. the possibility of stone carving, casting in concrete and bronze as well as large outdoor ceramic firings. The workshop place consists of a 40-foot container for storage of materials and tools, a large cover over worktables, electricity, outdoor lights etc.

Creative tools for art-making, community building and publishing with Lee Tusman
2021-08-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Produced by Lee Tusman in collaboration with Code&Share[ ] Community and Cantina
Imagine if all illustrators were required to use the same brand and design of #2 pencils or if all photographers could use only one type of camera and film and pay a monthly fee for their continued use. This is the situation today for today’s largest (and best-marketed) digital artmaking suites like Adobe Creative Suite. But a whole world of other exciting, experimental and artist-friendly tools exist beyond the confines of this. This workshop on creative tools is built for artists, and small DIY communities, covering possibilities of image production, drawing, photographing, organizing and experiments.
In this workshop we will start with a brief overview of artmaking tools that are alternatives to commercial offerings and then launch into a range of many other experimental and exciting artist software tools such as zine making tools (Electric Zine Maker), digital painting software (Krita, JS Paint), painting tools that allow one to collaboratively draw with a computer (NoPaint), 3d object scanning (Meshroom), and many more. Participants will create mini projects with these tools which we will document with photos and screenshots. By the end of the session we will produce a collaborative zine about these tools and showing the work we’ve created, with the goal of making this resource available for artists everywhere.

FLUX + FOOD with Arnar Ómarsson + Will Owen and Flux Artists
2021-08-05 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
What is an international point of connection? FOOD! Flux + Food is an intentional meet and greet between Aarhus and Flux Factory through projects about food. We will also be hosting the 2nd Silver Croissant Awards. We will have conceptual snacks, artists from Aarhus and Flux Factory will discuss their work, followed by a food themed DJ set!
Flux Factory Artists include: Will Owen, Carlos David TC, Walker Tufts, Sholeh Asgary, Heather Kapplow, Jonathan Sims, and Lee Tusman.
Will Owen, originally from North Carolina, US is an artist, composer, and curator currently based in Philadelphia, PA. Will works mainly with Sound, Installation Design, and Food. He has worked internationally and domestically in the US. He has been a part of Flux Factory for 7 years.
Willowen.net
@weeowie

Doing Nothing Together & The Other Question
2021-08-04 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Join Kosmologym (Walker Tufts, Jo Bech Dalsgaard, Maria Teilgård) and Heather Kapplow for an evening of Doing Nothing Together and an experimental group version of The Other Question.
Doing Nothing Together is an opportunity to practice resistance to the compulsion of doing, and an attempt, in a collaborative way, to understand what “being” might be about, if it is not simply “doing”. I am seeking the inherent value of being, which we tend to have at birth, but seem to lose somewhere along the way.
The Other Question is a divination game about empathizing with other non-human beings, and the different time scales we exist on. We will play the first living beings to have established full inter-organism communication. We will ask an Other a burning Question, and then wait for the Answer. It may not arrive in time.
Artist Bios:
Kosmologym is an art and game design collective. Our games challenge players to encounter more-than-human others and place human bodies in physical relationships to global systems. Kosmologym has created games for Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, US; the Philadelphia Science Festival and Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia, US; Art Prospect Festival 2018 in Saint Petersburg, RF; the Kulturhavn Festival and VEGA Arts in Copenhagen, DK. We have performed our games in London and Leeds, UK; Copenhagen, Aalborg and Aarhus, DK; Philadelphia and New York City, USA.
kosmologym.com
instagram.com/kosmologym
Heather Kapplow (www.heatherkapplow.com) is an American conceptual artist specializing in participatory experiences that investigate and playfully re-interpret assumptions underlying our social contracts. Kapplow’s strategies include installation, public engagement, performance, text, audio and video. Kapplow has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, and has had work commissioned for galleries, film and performance festivals within the USA and internationally.
heatherkapplow.com
instagram.com/heather_kapplow
#doingnothingtogether2021

Din Din: Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu and Film Screening
2021-06-26 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Windmill Community Garden, 39-22 29th St, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
This program is the closing event for Din Din, a series of free, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community.
Location: 39-22 29th St, Long Island City
Program Schedule
7 – 9pm
The “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu” by Siri Lee and “Breakaway” by Heather Kapplow
9 – 10pm – Short film and video art program featuring:
Julia Hechtman “ONLY US”
Phyllis Ma “Trip the Fruit Fantastic”
Robbie Samuels “Hip Hop Cafe”
Zina Saro-Wiwa “Table Manners (Season 2): Dorcas Eats Roasted Snails and Drinks Maltina”
Rebecca Shapass “Eggless”
Dana Sherwood “Feral Cakes”
Tobias Rud “Sweetie O’s”
Forest Juziuk “Briars: I’m not good looking but my mother gave me something”
Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu
Siri Lee’s “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu” satirizes the Cultural Revolution ritual of “Recalling Bitterness and Savoring Sweetness.” Emerging shortly after a period of unprecedented famine, this hypocritical ritual was designed to contrast the “bitterness” of life before the Communist Party took power with the “sweetness” of life under its rule. In Siri Lee’s reinterpretation of this ritual, she instead designed a contemporary “Recalling Bitterness Tasting Menu,” with each “dish” serving a story of famine and food shortages under the Maoist regime.

Breakaway

Heather Kapplow creates participatory experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects, alternative interpretations of existing environments, installation, performance, writing, audio and video.
“Breakaway” consists of a varied series of audience-enacted gestures woven into multiple Din Din events. It is ritual activity that conflates the notion of theatrical breakaway props — things designed to be destroyed without hurting anyone — with the idea of freedom obtained by breaking away from dysfunctional patterns rooted in traumas from the past.
Film Program
Julia Hechtman, “ONLY US”, 5:40
In this multi-channel video installation, the artist ritualistically covers her hands with, and consumes fragments of, her mother’s ashes.
Forest Juziuk “Briars: I’m not good looking but my mother gave me something”, 12:00

“Briars” is an experimental soap opera based on the true story of a small group of men living in community apartments in 1980s Southeast Michigan. This episode, entitled “I’m Not Good Looking But My Mother Gave Me Something,” consists of a single breakfast-for-dinner scene, approximately two minutes in length, in which two newly acquainted friends discuss the meal. There is Otis, who recently moved to town from parts unknown, and Junior, the host and chef.

Phyllis Ma “Trip the Fruit Fantastic”, 3:09
Dragonfruits, watermelon and other fruits come to life in this musical stop motion video. (music by Landen Griffith).
Robbie Samuels “Hip Hop Cafe”, 4:20
Hip Hop Cafe is a film entirely made from golden age rap lyrics.

Zina Saro-Wiwa “Table Manners (Season 2): Dorcas Eats Roasted Snails and Drinks Maltina”, 6:47
Table Manners (2019) is a continuation of the ongoing video series that sees individuals in the Niger Delta giving an eating performance for Zina’s camera. The viewer is encouraged to sit down and enjoy the meal with the eaters. All the performers in the series use their hands to eat. At the end of each film the place of the filming is stated. This documentation simply serves to highlight that “an important ritual has taken place”. Saro-Wiwa states: “A powerful exchange takes place when one not only eats a meal but watches a meal being consumed. One is filled up with an unexplainable and potent metaphysical energy that we normally pay no attention to.” This work places a spotlight on and radicalizes this invisible force. The documentation of the meal and the place it was consumed forces the viewer to also ingest the names and cultural realities surrounding the oil production in the Niger Delta. Realities that are usually ignored or erased.
Rebecca Shapass “Eggless”, 10:19
Inspired by Betty Crocker’s marketing strategy (developed by Freud-devotee Edward Bernays) to have housewives “add an egg” to their cakes, “Eggless” is a meditation on fertility & worship through the lens of eggs as a commercialized symbol of rebirth, an erotic object, and an American diet staple.
Dana Sherwood “Feral Cakes”, 6:28
While residing deep within the suburban sprawl of South Florida Sherwood began setting out fruits, vegetables, meats, cakes and other confectionery concoctions for the local animal inhabitants. The menus grew from a knowledge of the natural diet of animals such as raccoons, foxes, possums and other creatures she expected to find living along the borders of human habitation. Filming over the days, weeks and months Sherwood began to get to know the preferences and predilections of their régimes, and a conversation started to emerge as she watched the videos each morning from the previous nights banquet and adjusted, tweaked and tested them.
Tobias Rud “Sweetie O’s”, 4:00
A lonely middle-aged man becomes obsessed with a brand of children’s cereal, that takes him back to his carefree childhood in his mother’s warm embrace.Animated traditionally with pencil and paper.
Artist/Filmmaker Bios
Julia Hechtman is a multi-disciplinary artist, who makes works about place, absence, identification/identity and mortality.
Forest Juziuk is an American artist and writer. Taking inspiration from soap operas, YA novels, and TV sketch comedy, he works with devices familiar and suggestive to explore memory sensation. His work has appeared in the magazine The Minus Times (Drag City), and the books The Minus Times Collected (Featherproof) and J&L Illustrated #2 (J&L). He also co-authored the chapter “The ‘Why’ of Arts Organizations in the DIY Era” in the book 20under40: Re-inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century.

Siri Lee is an NYC-based interdisciplinary visual storyteller. A potluck of research, mixed media, and speculative fiction, Lee’s work deploys image and wordplay to visualize analogies between material culture and ideology. A recent graduate from the University of Chicago, Lee has been selected for inclusion in Project Anywhere’s Global Exhibition Program, 2020; been an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited in New York, 2020; and received the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Microgrant, 2019. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
Phyllis Ma is a New York-based artist working in photography and animation. She studied visual arts at Columbia College, Columbia University, as well as printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art and fashion design at FIT. Her recent works include Special Nothing, a book of travel still lifes, and Mushrooms & Friends, a photography series featuring foraged and cultivated mushrooms. Phyllis’s work has been profiled in The New York Times, It’s Nice That and Sight Unseen. Select commercial clients include Netflix, Vice, Lazy Oaf, SSENSE and A24.
Robbie Samuels is a Black-British multi-award-winning advertising-creative, writer and director. Hip Hop Cafe was a passion project, and his love letter to the golden age of Hip Hop.
Zina Saro-Wiwa is an artist working primarily with video but also photography, sculpture, sound and food. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York as well as running a practice in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where she founded the contemporary art gallery Boys’ Quarters Project Space for which she regularly curates. Saro-Wiwa is one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2016recognized for her work in the Niger Delta. She was Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 2016-2017 and in April 2017 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.
Rebecca Shapass is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist from New York City. She works to create bio-mythographic, audio-visual worlds where the fissures between personal and collective memory are mined to reveal fragile systems of perception and remembering. Her work has been screened and exhibited with institutions and festivals including Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), Open Signal (Portland, OR), amongst others. She has participated in residencies including Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Signal Culture (Owego, NY), and Crosstown Arts (Memphis, TN). Currently, she is pursuing her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dana Sherwood has exhibited throughout The Americas, Europe and Australia including solo exhibitions at the Florence Griswold Museum, Nagle-Draxler Reiseburogalerie (Cologne), Denny Dimin Gallery (New York) and Kepler Art-Conseil (Paris). Her work has also been shown at Storm King (New York), The Jack Shainman School, The Fellbach Sculpture Triennial (Germany), Pink Summer Gallery (Italy), Kunsthal Aarhus, The Palais des Beaux Arts Paris, Marian Boesky Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, Flux Factory, The Biennial of Western New York, Prospect 2: New Orleans, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche (Toronto), dOCUMENTA 13, and many other venues worldwide.
Tobias Rud is director and animator born 1991 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Has a background in cinematography, but has moved away from cameras and their limitations to start drawing his own films instead.

¡Bienvenidxs! A Week-long Open Embroidery Workshop
2021-06-23 13:00 - 2021-06-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
Workshop dates
June 23rd – June 30th,
from 1 – 5pm
In the Flux Factory Gallery*

Drop-in attendance!

*Masks are required to be worn inside the gallery.

Backstrap Weaving Workshop
Friday, June 25
5 – 6:30pm
Located at the Windmill Community Garden
Join for a special backstrap weaving workshop with Cynthia Alberto, a special guest artist from the Weaving Hand. Backstrap weaving is an Indigenous weaving technique using a simple loom that relies on tension from the weaver’s body. All materials will be provided.
RSVP Here

Program Description

¡Bienvenidxs!, will be an installation of an embroidery workshop open to the public hosted by Maria Lulu Varona. Learning how to embroider while collaborating on a table cloth. Materials will be provided, no need to have previous experience. Come to learn, relax, chat and have fun. This project is possible thanks to the Queens Council for the Arts.

Artist Bio

Maria Lulu Varona (b. 1993, San Juan, Puerto Rico) lives and works between Puerto Rico and New York City. Varona learned her embroidery techniques from her grandmother growing up applying it to make works addressing contemporary conditions. She has exhibited at Bronx Art Space, New York (2017) Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017), Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY (2019), MACO Feria de arte, Mexico City (2020), Embajada, San Juan Puerto Rico (2020), amongst other group shows at independent galleries spaces. Also have participated in art-residencies such as International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NYC (2018), Flux Factory in Queens, NYC (2019), Program for Independent studies at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Puerto Rico (2020), and at Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions in rural southwest Wisconsin (2021).

Din Din: Missing Luncheon
2021-06-20 13:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Windmill Community Garden, 39-22 29th St, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
Missing Luncheon is facilitated by Karen Krolak with food by Bianca Boragi, featuring “Breakaway” by Heather Kapplow.
This event is part of the exhibition Din Din, a series of free, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community.
Reservations
Served in Two SeatingsFor the 1pm Seating, Please Make a Reservation hereFor the 4pm Seating, Please Make a Reservation hereRSVP Mandatory
Location: 39-22 29th St, Long Island City
Program Description
Who or what did you lose in this last year? Normally, we gather together with loved ones over food after funerals, break ups, and job endings but the pandemic halted that system of support. If you have been longing for one of these meals, Karen Krolak, creator of the Dictionary of Negative Space, invites you to gather in the garden where laughter, tears, and awkward pauses are welcome to flow. We will dine on a French feast designed by Bianca Boragi and experience a poetic pop up by Heather Kapplow. Feel free to bring memories of what you’ve lost as we share stories, moments of silence, and moving metaphors to help us digest our grief.
Artist Bios
Karen Krolak is a free range collaborator based in Boston, MA She is the co-founder/co-Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse, an award winning nonprofit that connects communities with choreography. Her ongoing project, the Dictionary of Negative Space (DoNS), is an interdisciplinary lament for the words that the English language lacks for grief, trauma, and repair. Much like grief itself, this unusual dictionary manifests in a variety of unexpected iterations. DoNS offers refuge for mourners grappling with complicated grief and was inspired by her experiences after a car crash killed her mother, father & brother.
Heather Kapplow creates participatory experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects, alternative interpretations of existing environments, installation, performance, writing, audio and video. “Breakaway” consists of a varied series of audience-enacted gestures woven into multiple Din Din events. It is ritual activity that conflates the notion of theatrical breakaway props — things designed to be destroyed without hurting anyone — with the idea of freedom obtained by breaking away from dysfunctional patterns rooted in traumas from the past.
Bianca Abdi-Boragi works across media using sculpture, video, installation, and painting to enact representations of self and others, often using found materials and landscapes as receptacles to address different states of being, with a specific focus on alienation and territory. Tending towards the absurd though with care and respect, her works respond to the contemporary political and social environment in the United States, France, and Algeria, engaging with themes of gender, subsistence, and migration while linking this moment to the historical repercussions of post-colonialism. Abdi-Boragi is a French-Algerian/ American interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA from Yale School of Art, Sculpture, in 2017, and obtained her BFA from ENSAPC. Her shows have been featured on Artnet, Artspiel, Taggverk Magazine amidst others. Solo shows include the Border Project Space Gallery and CADAF Art Fair, she has exhibited with the Immigrant Artist Biennial, NARS Foundation, The Border Project Space, VCU Arts, NURTUREart Gallery, Chashama Gallery, Field Project Gallery, Galerie Protégé, The Clemente Soto Velez Center NY, throughout the United States and internationally and has screened art films at Anthology Film Archive, UnionDocs, Video Revival, NY, the Whitney Humanity Center, and Loria Center, New Haven, CT. Abdi-Boragi was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was recently in residency at NARS Foundation and previously at MASS MoCA’s studios, the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zullverein, Essen, Germany, Cal’Arts, Los Angeles. Abdi-Boragi is also an independent writer/ curator and founder of Gallery Perchée.

Haa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced): Dual Exhibition by Hana Mire and Samia Osman
2021-06-11 17:00 - 2021-06-20 18:00 (America/New_York) | Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY
Gallery dates*

Friday, June 11, 5 – 8pmSaturday & Sunday, June 12 & 13, 1 – 6pm

Thursday & Friday, June 17 & 18, 3 – 8pm

Saturday & Sunday, June 19 & 20, 1 – 6pm
*Masks are required inside the gallery.

Opening Reception

Friday, June 11, 5 – 8pm

In the Windmill Community GardenRSVP Here Join Hana and Samia in the garden and enjoy some tastes of Somalia by Safari Restaurant. They will be serving Shaax, Sambusa, Bur Mandazi, Buskud. With traditional music by Somali-American harpist Iliana Hagenah.

Artist Talk with Hana & Samia
Thursday, June 17, 6pm ETRSVP HereHana and Samia will show their work and discuss their collaborative practice.

Haa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced)
Hana Mire in collaboration with Samia Osman will premiere an experimental short film and showcase selected documentary photography work made in Mogadishu, Somalia ( locally known as Xamar). Some of these images were previously displayed in Mogadishu during the Somali Arts Foundation (SAF) contemporary photography exhibit titled Still Life ( Oct. 2020).
Centered on video and photography, Haa Guumoben Waaliga is an exhibition that explores the passage of time through the everyday contemporary life of Mogadishu residents before and after the civil war.
As artists of the Somali diaspora raised in the United Arab Emirates, we’ve understood our culture through oral stories from our parents, theater, literature, music, poetry and folktales. Longing to experience the motherland ourselves, we traveled to witness firsthand the magical memories and complicated history our parents kept stored in their hearts. Included in our showcase are still and moving images captured by us throughout the years woven with archival sourced from friends and family.
Haa Guumoben Waaliga aims to offer a time portal to familiar landscapes and sounds in hopes to contribute towards intergenerational conversations about Somali identity at home and in the diaspora today. The sequence of images is a love letter to the people of Mogadishu that are so often stripped of their humanity in Western images. Our exhibition honors their resilience, dignity, and beauty.
We are not less human— despite the instability, we remain steadfast in faith and joy.
– Hana and Samia

Artist Bios
Somali independent filmmaker Hana Mire studied at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi. Her short documentary SILENT ART was awarded a prize at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and she has worked with Abu Dhabi National TV and twofour54 Abu Dhabi Free zone Media. She is a fellow of the Chicken and Egg Diversity Initiative & Accelerator Lab and has been selected to attend the Greenhouse Development Lab. Hana was an Artist in residency at Flux Factory she is currently directing and producing her first feature-length documentary, which has already received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures, Bertha Foundation, Sundance Documentary Institute, HotDocs Pitching form, Durban FilmMart, and The Harnisch Foundation. She’s currently an artist resident in Jacob Burns film center.

Samia Osman is a Somali Filmmaker who studied Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her short film JUST ANOTHER ACCENT premiered in Cannes Film Festival short film corner, and Internationally screened across Europe and the Middle East. She was mentored by the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr at the International Filmmaking Academy in Bologna, Italy. Samia is currently developing her feature documentary film in Dhagaxbuur in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. And In the production phase directing a documentary Series about The Afro Arab Experience in the Middle East.

Opening Reception Musician

Iliana Hagenah is a Somali-American harpist based in New York City. For over 20 years, she has played recitals and events. She was a member of The George Washington University orchestra, where she played concert halls. She attended the Longy School of Music where she was trained with principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Morse. Off season, she experiments with scales and cultural sounds to bring a richer and varied understanding of the harp to her audiences.
