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SUMMARY:A Divergent from the Magnetism of Whiteness: Dealing with the Hungry Ghost
DESCRIPTION:Pop-Up Exhibition – April 29 – May 2\nCurated by Denae Howard\n\nGarden Reception –> April 30\, 6 – 8PM EST \nRSVP FOR GARDEN RECEPTION \nOpen Hours\nFriday April 30\, 6 – 8pm\nSaturday & Sunday\, May 1 & 2\, 1 – 6pm EST \nDivergent – moving or extending in a different direction from each other. \nInvestigating divergent evolution and the collective subconscious of black artists. Tying strands of humanistic theory while contending with an imagined post capitalistic society. \n“Only within the open space created by dialogue whether conducted with our neighbours\, with history with nature or the cosmos\, can  human wholeness be sustained. We are not born human in any but biological sense\, we can only learn to know ourselves and others and thus be trained in the ways of being human. We do this by immersion in the ocean of language and dialogue fed by the springs of cultural tradition” – Buddhism Day by Day: Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda. \nMoving away from the norms of traditional communication and responding to the follies of society at large as we manifest new & erase old and now foreign traditions. (Ie: wearing covid masks and adopting body cams – while arguing over Kim K’s choice to wear cornrows and her and white magazines identify them as boxer braids) <Understanding the use of pedagogy and pedigree – while identifying who is actually protected under diplomacy> \nThis show is a conversation between black artists establishing self identity in the crux of the absolutisms associated with Blackness while defying the devices nature of the white gaze. \nParticipating Artists\nARTSCHOOLSCAMMER | Marq Bentley | Mikey Burns | INEZ THE Sun – Nija Inez |  Kesiena Onosigho | Wokie Masaquoi | Ajani Russell \nA Divergent from the Magnetism of Whiteness: Dealing with the Hungry Ghost is supported by the Flux Factory Rhizome Project. The Rhizome Project is a commitment to give intentional space to Black voices\, and provide a platform for Black narratives by offering the support needed to help these narratives thrive and evolve.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-hungry-ghost/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:THREADS
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Viewing @ 1-5 pm\nPoetry Program @ 5-7 pm\nVideos screened @ 7 pm\n\nTo join us for the Poetry Program at the Windmill Community Garden (Across the street from Flux Factory)\n\n\nPLEASE RSVP HERE \n\n\nFlux Factory is happy to be hosting THREADS\, an exhibition curated by an international collective of arts organizations from Bogotá\, NYC\, Manila and Chicago: Bliss on Bliss Arts Projects\, Maleza Proyectos\, Nodo 51 Area Cultural\, Poets of Queens and Yara Arts Group. \nThe THREADS Project and its expanding global network helps artists and audiences establish a dialogue between images and poetry to find greater connections and understanding in these difficult times. This exhibition at Flux Factory\, is an introduction to a THREADS future and an opportunity to stand in solidarity against the violence being enacted upon our Asian family members and communities. \n\nTHREADS is curated by Virlana Tkacz\, founding director of Yara Arts Group\, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York since 1990. Olena Jennings\, the curator and founder of Poets of Queens\, acts as poetry\ncurator. \nThreads clothe us\, threads expose us\, threads bring us together. \nParticipating Artists\nCatalina Bolivar\, Juliana Canal\, Waldemart Klyuzko\, Cayla Lockwood\, Isabella Lopez\, Ged Merino\, Nadenka Art Group\, Aze Ong\, and Jevijoe Vitug. \nParticipating Poets \n\nPichchenda Bao\, Rosebud Ben-Oni\, Olena Jennnings\, and Wanda Phipps. \n\n\nOne of the homes for THREADS is Bliss on Bliss Art Projects founded by Ged Merino. Bliss on Bliss Art Projects has been bringing arts and culture to the Sunnyside neighborhood in Queens since 2011. It provides a venue for new and established artists. The shows at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects have consistently led to cross cultural collaboration. \n\nOther core participants of THREADS include Nadenka Art Group made up of members from Omsk\, Novosibirsk\, Moscow\, and St. Petersburg. They were formed in 2014 in Omsk. The group includes Anastasia Makarenko\, Masha Alexandrova\, Maria Rybka\, Nadezhda Valetskaya\, and Alena Isakhanyan. Videos of their textile book projects will be shown at Flux Factory. The poets will address awareness of anti-Asian sentiment and acts. Artists Cayla Lockwood and Jevijoe Vitug will unveil a banner to encourage action against Asian hate.\n\nFinally\, videos by Waldemart Klyuzko\, Aze Ong\, and Nadenka Art Group will be shown\, bringing another aspect of the textile art to life. In his video\, Waldemart Klyuzko weaves the words of Serhiy Zhadan’s poem “Home” in tape. Aze Ong performs to Wanda Phipps reading an excerpt from her poem “Womb Dreams.” Nadenka presents textile books that allow us to experience the pages along with them.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/threads/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:OnlyPods: New Works by Remi Dalton & Jevijoe Vitug
DESCRIPTION:Open Gallery Hours\nApril 14 – 27\nFriday – Sunday 1 – 6pm EST\nWeekday hours by appointment\nemail maya@fluxfactory.org \nOpening Reception\nApril 15\, 5 – 9pm EST\nREGISTER HERE\nWindmill Community Garden \n  \n\nApril 1 – April 14\n7:30 – 9:30pm EST\n\nView Remi’s Studio Live Stream EVERY NIGHT  \nView Jevi’s Studio Live Stream EVERY NIGHT \n\nLive Streams Projected in the Flux Factory Windows\n39-31 29th street\, LIC\, Queens \n\n\nFollow Remi Dalton and Jevijoe Vitug at OnlyPods. Like and subscribe to new channels of work that employ the translational essence of the meme. Watch as these artists labor on live-streaming platforms. We can all be heroes just for one stream. Username: ArtHistoryPrisoner and username: ArtHistoryguard empower streamers through a collaborative process of framing. Paintings are created that combine private\, public and aspirational space in novel ways. Lags in wifi provide frames for social bonding from the hilarious to the devastating. \nOnlyPods\, a collaborative exhibition by Remi Dalton and Jevijoe Vitug is on view from April 14th – April 28th. This exhibition features a selection of paintings by each artist\, video projections\, and a large-scale collaborative painting. Dalton and Vitug examine what live-stream culture means to our conception of private spaces. The exhibition’s title refers to the popular internet subscription service OnlyFans. “Fans” is replaced with the word “Pods” which refers to the artist’s studio in which they live and work. Like OnlyFan’s creators\, artists must delicately balance spectacle and sincerity to protect their vulnerable economic position. Both Dalton and Vitug explore this balance\, as well as the blurring of the boundaries of aesthetics and ethics caused by social media and live-streaming platforms. \nThe medium of oil paint historically imparts heroism on its subjects. Both Dalton and Vitug use this aspect of their medium along with the translational essence of the meme to depict worlds in which the promise of going viral induces greatness and madness. Dalton’s Dream Room paintings depict the cluttered refuge of a contemporary romantic hero who isolates themselves halfway between the digital and physical realms. Vitug’s #indigenizemememoji.2020 encodes pandemic memes based on the socio-political cult of personality with a presence of indigeneity. \nIn 2021\, both artists lived and worked together in New York. During this time Dalton and Vitug created a series of portraits\, live-streamed with studio spaces\, and collaborated on the largest painting in the exhibition entitled Sleepofreasonxxx (after Francisco Goya\, after Manuel Ocampo.) Dalton’s portraits\, the Twitch Glitch paintings\, depict female Twitch streamers adorned in a\nmanner that is equally informed by early renaissance painting and fangirl culture. Femme performance and fetishization on Twitch is the subject of Dalton’s work\, which celebrates the bravery of female streamers in showing vulnerability and angst on a male-dominated platform. #zoompintados\, a series of portraits by Vitug\, honors the tattooed indigenous ancestors known as Pintados from his country of birth and the people who are in his current circle of friends and neighbors in New York City. Portrait references are screenshots from Zoom which are digitalized and printed on canvas. Subsequently\, Vitug paints on them in an indigenous mark-making manner using fluorescent pigments and invisible ink to create a three-dimensional effect to reference the supernatural. By tying two groups separated by time and space in which Vitug found support and community\, he venerates them both. \nBoth Dalton’s and Vitug’s painting vocabulary are combined in Sleepofreasonxxx (after Francisco Goya\, after Manuel Ocampo.) This large-scale painting depicts a streamer haunted by demons while resting during a live stream. Vitug’s work as a guard at the Met Museum brought him in close contact with the original print by Goya\, which both artists were able to see in person. The artist’s reimagining of this print\, which also takes from Ocampo’s 2017 version of the classic\, depicts the isolation\, heroism\, and vulnerability of live streamers during a global pandemic. The fraught nature of live-streaming has been personally experienced by both Dalton and Vitug. Before this exhibition\, both artists publicly streamed their studios for two weeks every night. This performance\, which was meant to open the artists’ studio to a more collaborative working atmosphere during a time of physical distancing\, challenged both artists immensely. Over just the short span of this live-streaming project\, the artists were forced to address acts of sexism\, racism\, and humiliation. \nOnlyPods also features video projections of recorded footage from Dalton’s and Vitug’s live streams. These videos are projected publicly from 7:30 pm EST to 9:30 pm EST from April 1st – 28th at Flux Factory. These videos document traditional places of seclusion being transformed into portals of connection in real-time. This transformation is accompanied by uncomfortable blends of authenticity and performance. Taken together\, Dalton’s and Vitug’s works along with their extensive research present insight\ninto what the artist’s evolving role in a digital society might entail. Lags in wifi frame the hilarious and the devastating. Painting and performance become muddled into digital apparitions which take on new lives without their authors. \n \nRemi Dalton and Jevijoe Vitug\, Sleepofreasonxxx (after Francisco Goya\, after Manuel Ocampo\, 2021\, Oil on Scenic Backdrop\, 84″ x 84″ \nRemi Dalton (b. 1991) is a San Diego-based artist. Her work investigates how internet culture has blurred the boundaries between art and life\, aesthetics and ethics. Her practice is centered around painting\, but also includes video\, mixed media\, and installation. Remi received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from San Diego State University in 2019\, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Visual Arts and Chemistry from the University of San Diego in 2014. The artist has received awards and residencies including the Windgate Fellowship\, the Art Produce Residency in San Diego\, CA\, and the NTC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Residency\, which provided free studio space for 18 months in Liberty Station’s Arts District in San Diego. Remi has taught studio classes at the University of San Diego\, San Diego State University\, and Lux Art Institute. She has shown in multiple exhibitions in San Diego and Los Angeles\, CA. \nJevijoe Vitug is a Queens-based artist that creates paintings\, performance\, and community projects as an avant-garde strategy to make labor visible\, indigenous legacy\, and the forgotten history of people of color. Jevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005\, 2006)\, Singapore Art Museum (2006)\, Diego Rivera Gallery\, San Francisco\, CA (2009)\, Contemporary Arts Center\, Las Vegas (2012)\, Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY (2017\, 2019)\, Queens Museum\, NY (2018)\, San Diego Art Institute\, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF\, Japan (2004)\, Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA\, San Francisco\, CA (2008)\, London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012\, 2014)\, Flux residency at AroS Museum\, Denmark (2018)\, Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019)\, UP Vargas Museum (2019). In 2019\, Vitug is a recipient of the Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is a member of Museum Union Art Workers\, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/onlypods-by-remi-dalton-jevijoe-vitug/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:There Is Something Here: Solo Exhibition by Carlos David TC
DESCRIPTION:Open Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm EST\nOr by appointment\, email maya@fluxfactory.org \nMarch 25\, 6 – 7pm EST\nJoin Carlos and other Queens based Artists for Creative Conversations organized by QCA\nRegister Here\nThere is Something in the Windows\nVideo in the Flux Windows @ 7-10 PM EST\,\nViewable from the sidewalk*All visitors are required to wear a face mask. Four visitors are allowed in the gallery at one time.* \nMarch 27th @ 3-7 PM EST\,\nThere Is Something Here Closing Reception\nRegister here \n\nThere Is Something Here looks at the components of filmmaking through the lens of the artist’s process\, and the challenges of mastering artistic craft while wrestling with self doubt\, lack of experience and fear of failure. Originally titled: Nothing to See Here\, Carlos David TC leaves behind the self-deprecation that many artists experience to instead focus on celebrating the process of growth and exploration. \nAfter a year of lockdowns\, quarantines\, and unfinished projects There Is Something Here examines the gap between a creative idea and its full realization\, reveling in the uncomfortable but generative midpoint of the filmmaking process. From initial sketches\, to editing\, color grading\, sound mixing and everything in between\, there is something here and Carlos wants you to see it with him.Carlos David TC’s solo exhibition features installations of unfinished\, deconstructed\, incomplete\, raw\, finished and mastered video work\, conceived in collaboration as an Artist-in-Residence at Flux Factory during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The works will be presented via text\, color waveforms\, sound and traditional moving image. Some of the works include: My Quarantine Shoes\, The Self* Tapes\, Pass The Hours\, Spencer’s Gift and the premiere of the trailer for his newest short film: Jevi from 9 to 11.Accompanying the exhibition will be a video series There Is Something In The Window\, a series of short films on display from 7pm to 10pm in the main window in the Flux Factory building. (No appointment required)\nJevi from 9 to 11 is a fictionalized documentary about a painter who works at a museum during the pandemic and is set to be released in October 2021. The short film is part of a series called Artist* from 9 to 5 which follows immigrant artists from “9 to 5” the traditional American business hours.\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlos 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 means of communication.\nBy 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.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/there-is-something-here/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:The Universe is Expanding: Emergent Performance by Nova Scott-James
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nA Digital Performance via Zoom \nFilmmaker\, medium\, artist\, and innovation doula Nova Scott-James will share media and process documentation from three performance pieces\, A Eulogy For The Lenox Lounge\, The Imposter\, and Freeing The Caged Bird. Each of these performances involve an invocation of death as it relates to the transmutation of memories. \n1. Eulogy For The Lenox Lounge (2017) \nA soulful melody played on a fire escape above the demolition site of the Lenox Lounge\, a historic Jazz club in Harlem\,NYC stealthily demolished in 2017 in a massive wave of gentrification.  Featuring Tivon Pennicott on Saxophone. Directed and Curated by Nova Scott- James. \nA cultural thank you and acknowledgement of The historical Lennox Lounge Jazz club in Harlem\, which was demolished in 2017. \nA special thank you to Erica Johnson. \n2. The Imposter (2018)\nThe artist transmutes the trauma of her past by performing in white-face as the male teacher that sexually abused her as a child. \nPerformed by Nova Scott-James; Featured in the short film Nova: A New Spelling of My Name\, 2020 \nCamera by Jaime Inglehart\, Sholeh Asgary\, Catalina Alvarez\, Natalie Tsui; Makeup by Kyle Kreuger; Special Thank You to Timmie Larode \n3. Freeing The Caged Bird (2020)\nAn exploration of the work required to honor and translate collective memory through intuitive movement and talking to plants. Performed by Nova Scott-James. \nCamera by Tanya Jackson\, Nova Scott-James; Performance at the corn field at Sweet Freedom Farm\, Hudson Valley\, NY; Bird mask made by mask: Lexy Ho-Tai @Lexymakesthings; Special thank you to Sweet Freedom Farm and Charlotte Azad \n\nThe Universe is Expanding was made through New Work Grant from Queens Council on The Arts (2020 grant recipient). \n \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-universe-is-expanding/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Rhizome Voice: Speakers Series for Black History Month
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Movement Not a Moment: Black Liberation Movements Through Time\nFebruary 12\, 7pm EST\n \nThe first of a three part series of the Rhizome Project’s speaker series for Black History Month\, Rhizome Voice is curated by Queens based artist and activist Trasonia Abbott. \nThe current uprising has given way to a multitude of new local liberation organizations started by young activists. To those young activists we pose some questions: How was this mobilization possible in such a short time? How were the current organizers influenced by previous movements? \nHow does this experience compare to movements of the past – we invite experienced (our elder) activists to join the conversation. What similarities to your own activist beginnings\, in spirit and drive and urgency\, do you feel from the latest iteration of the movement? \nJoin us for an honest conversation with organizers Nathylin Flowers Adesegun and Fayola Fair as they talk about their experiences\, influences and future goals. They will bridge the gap between the decades of the Black Liberation Movements within the United States\, connecting past movements to the current one with the hopes of rekindling victories and sharing tactics to keep the current movement alive. \nSPEAKERS \n\nNathylin Flowers Adesegun has been an activist\, an artist\, and a community leader for her entire life. She started organizing with the Scranton Youth Chapter of the NAACP\, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King on Washington DC in 1963. Back then they were fighting for jobs\, justice\, and housing\, and she’s still fighting for jobs justice and housing. For the last 3 years\, Ms. Flowers has been a leader with VOCAL-NY fighting for a home for every New Yorker.  Although she is most famous for confronting the Mayor at the gym last year\, her role at VOCAL-NY goes much deeper. Flowers also helps organize and run meetings and actions\, as well as lobbies elected officials on at a local\, state and federal level. A brooklyn resident of over 35 years she is an active performer in the New York City theater\, tv\, and film scene. \n\nFayola Fair (she/they) is an educator\, curator\, activist and organizer from Jamaica\, Queens who works to center and uplift Blackness in all iterations. Fayola is an active member of the Queens community fridge network\, volunteering and organizing with the Jamaica Community Fridge. Fayola is also the creator and curator of the Reading for Black Lives Project and a part of South Queens Women’s March. Fayola hopes to follow in the footsteps of radical Black activists who dared to envision a new world. \n\n\nThe State of Black Art in and out of The Institution\nFebruary 19th 2021 7-8:30pm\n \nAt this moment we\, as Black artists find ourselves at a crossroads\, with the choice of deciding for ourselves where the center of gravity for Black Art is to be. High Art Society has its allure but it comes with implicit bias and it’s own deeply entrenched investments in the world wide oppression of BIPOC\, In this discussion\, we ponder our options: keep working within institutions that have the resources we require as artists but force us to play by the rules of our oppressors or forge a new path outside of it. \nJoin us for a conversation between two artists who will discuss working within Institutions and outside of them\, ruminating on the pros and cons of the two worlds and the freedoms that may lie within each. \nSPEAKERS \nJonell Joshua is an illustrator based in Brooklyn\, NY specializing in editorial illustration and animation. Jonell graduated from Pratt Institute in 2018 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications design majoring in Illustration. Soon after graduating\, Jonell started her career in package design while also working on freelance illustration projects. After leaving the package design industry Jonell transitioned to Higher Education\, working as the Assistant to the Chair in the Art and Design Education Department at Pratt Institute. There\, she works with\nstudents pursuing careers as Art Educators while continuing to freelance. Jonell’s work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration: International Motion Art Awards and has worked with clients such as The New York Times\, NPR\, Civilrights.org\, and The Washington Post. Her work can be found on www.jonelljoshua.com \n\n2020-2022 Threewalls RaDLOW fellow Felicia Holman is a native Chicagoan\, independent cultural producer/facilitator\, and a co-founder of Afrodiasporic feminist creative collective Honey Pot Performance. She is also a 2020-2021 Buddy Research and Performance resident artist and a member of the Co-Prosperity Programming Committee (CoPro ProCo). \nFelicia’s creative/ professional and social practices are firmly grounded in critical thought\, intersectionality\, community building and embodied storytelling. Her recent projects include commissioned performances for Illinois Humanities and the 5th annual Instigation Festival\, as well as written contributions at See Chicago Dance\, Performance Response Journal\, 6018North\, and The Quarantine Times (published by the Public Media Institute).  \nFelicia relishes her artrepreneurial life and sums it up in 3 words—“Creator\, Connector\, Conduit”. \n  \n\nCelebration of Black Life Cypher\nFebruary 26th 2021\, 7 – 9PM EST\n \nA night of rejoicing in Black resilience and artistry\, Flux Factory will be providing a platform for artists to come together to celebrate through art\, music and spoken word\, in an open mic / cypher hosted by Nonbinary Artist / Poet / Organizer\, Trasonia Abbott. \nThis cypher is open to Black artists of all creative backgrounds\, once signed up the artist will be given up to 5 minutes to show off the art of their choosing.   \n\nAll events are curated by Queens based artist and activist\, Trasonia Abbott.\nTrasonia is a Nonbinary Visual Artist / Poet / Community Organizer from Richmond\, Virginia. They graduated from Pratt Institute in 2020 with a BFA in Creative Writing and a minor in Film and soon after became one of the cofounders of Queens Liberation Project\, a mutual aid organization in West Queens.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/rhizome-voice-2021/
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SUMMARY:2021 Flux Factory Virtual Gala
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nZoom link is sent upon registration.\nFree to attend! \nFlux Factory invites you to join us on February 10th @ 7pm EST\, to celebrate our amazing community and to mark the completion of our Fundraising Exhibition. \nWe are thrilled to announce this year’s Honorees – Saya Woolfalk and Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston. Suga Ray and Saya will join us for the Gala and Saya will speak to Flux Factory Board Member and visual artist Natalia Nakazawa about their time as emerging artists in a changing New York. \nThe event will run one hour with the participation of Fluxers all around the world and includes hot news about the future of Flux Factory\, a raffle and more. It will be followed by 30 minutes of music by longtime Flux DJ Vinyl Richie. \n\n2021 Honorees\n \n\nSaya Woolfalk is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.  She has exhibited at museums\, galleries\, and alternative spaces throughout Asia\, Europe and the United States including numerous solo exhibitions and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY; the Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, PA.\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, among many others. \nWorks by the artist are in the collections of major institutions including\, among others\, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Mead Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Woolfalk is the recipient of numerous honors\, awards\, and commissions. She has delivered numerous public lectures at museums and universities throughout the United States. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects\, New York and teaches in MFA program at Yale School of Art as well as in the BFA and MFA programs at Parsons: The New School for Design. \n\n\n\nLashawn “Suga Ray” Marston\, born on March 14th\, 1984\, would endure a lifetime worth of pain by the time he was only 20 years of age; including losing his dad and oldest sister to cancer\, getting shot\, going to prison\, and witnessing friends killed by friends. Through a constant reflection of self and his surroundings\, he found his way since 2008 has been committed to assisting in the elevation of humanity and the liberation of all oppressed people. \nSince his transformation\, “Suga Ray” would go on to receive numerous honors and awards from high ranking government officials\, his peers\, and countless others he has worked with\, on various fronts\, from various parts of the World. None of that has changed him as he remains committed to the mission of healing our hurting world\, and thus gives much more than he receives. “Suga Ray” is a peace activist\, food activist\, spiritual guide\, community builder\, public speaker\, universal educator\, program developer\, writer\, artist\, humanitarian\, podcast host\, and Founder of Transform America\, a community based organization operating predominantly in Queensnbridge Houses.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2021-flux-factory-virtual-gala/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Gift in the Wound
DESCRIPTION:Quarantine Day 121\, 2020 by Megan Bent\nThe Gift in the Wound \nJanuary 29 – February 7\nCurated by Noah Phillips \nGallery Hours*: 1-6 PM EST on Saturday\, January 30 & February 6\nOr by appointment\, email maya@fluxfactory.org \nDownload the Catalog Here \nArtist Talk and virtual exhibition\nFriday\, January 29\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon registration\nOn Friday\, January 29th @ 7pm EST\, join curator Noah Phillips for a live\, virtual celebration of resilience with the exhibiting artists. We will discuss their creative processes\, their work\, and the personal journeys that led them each to face\, and learn from\, their individual challenges. Although our wounds may be unique\, the gifts are collective. Our artists have lived to tell the tale—come listen!⁣ \n“Without the weight given by a wound consciously realized\, [one] will lead a provisional life.” — Robert Bly \n\nParticipating Artists \nMegan Bent || Aloe Corry || Betty Eastland || Valeria Haedo || Angela Rogers || Jonathon Sims || Ellen Wetmore \nThe Gift In The Wound highlights the work of artists who have confronted their fears\, traumas\, and shadows\, and emerged on the other side with unexpected insights\, treasures\, and talents to share with and enrich their communities. The wounds explored vary from the physical to the emotional to the spiritual\, and the media from paint\, fabric\, glass\, and beyond. Each work celebrates an enduring process of transformation reflected in nature\, in myth\, and in our bodies. \nThe Gift in the Wound is Noah Phillips‘ curatorial debut. Before beginning his residency at Flux Factory\, where his work has focused on the intersections of folk ritual and innovative understandings of psychological “plurality\,” Noah was working as a Peer Specialist in the New York City’s public mental health system. He is also a Licensed Master of Social Work and an organizer with the Institute for the Development of Human Arts\, a training institute for transformative models of mental health. \n*The exhibition will take place at Flux Factory’s Garage Bay Gallery. In response to COVID-19\, all visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-gift-in-the-wound/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Thank You! With Flowers - An installation by Celeste Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Thank you! With Flowers\nAn installation by Celeste Wilson\nJanuary 14 – 26\n\nOpening Night: Thursday\, January 14th\, 6 – 8pm\nGallery Hours: Thursday and Friday\, 4-8pm & Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm\n*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. 4 visitors allowed in the gallery at one time. \nArtist Talk\, January 23\, 2pm\nZoom Link Sent Upon Registration \n\n\nFlux Factory is pleased to be hosting the immersive installation Thank You! With Flowers\, by QCA recipient and local Queens based artist\, Celeste Wilson. Thank You! With Flowers is a wall-paper-like installation on view at Flux from January 14 – 26\, 2021. The installation is made from the purple floral imagery found on un-branded\, generic plastic bags as a response to the urban environment and consumer culture of Queens and life in NYC. In addition\, this solo project includes several constructed bags with the same imagery to allow viewers to see the material in its original form. The gallery is open to the public during viewing hours and there will be a virtual walkthrough of the space and artist’s Q&A on January 23\, 2021 at 2 pm to allow any viewers who are unable to see the installation in person to experience it digitally.\n\n \nCeleste Wilson received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA at Brooklyn College. Her work lies at the intersection of investigation\, material\, and deconstruction. Recent exhibitions include The Waste Land at Nicelle Beauchene (NY\, NY)\, and Playground at BRIC (Brooklyn\, NY)\, and Uncanny Melodies\, at HiLo Gallery (Catskill\, NY). She has received fellowships at the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts (2013) and the Vermont Studio Center (2017)\, UrbanGlass (2017)\, Mass MoCA (2019)\, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and Pilchuck Glass School (both forthcoming). Wilson currently lives and works in Queens\, New York. \nThis project is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/thank-you-with-flowers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210112T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T190000
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SUMMARY:2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Flyer made by Cayla Lockwood using “Jeviwear” prints by Jevijoe Vitug\nFLUX FACTORY FUNDRAISING EXHIBITION\nJanuary 12 – February 14\n \nVISIT THE EXHIBITION HERE \nRegister for the Virtual Gala Feb 10th\, 7pm EST \nIn place of our Annual Art Auction\, which would now be in its 14th year\, we are hosting a digital Fundraising Exhibition and Virtual Gala.  \nYou can now support Flux Factory by buying one of over 40 artworks between $40 and $1900. Add some beauty to your home\, and help Flux Factory continue to be a center of community and experimentation. While it may be awhile before we’re eating and dancing together in the Flux gallery\, with your support\, we can dance together into the future.  \nThe Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition features stunning works by both emerging and established contemporary artists working today: \nSmokie Arce | Amir Badawi | Allen Ball | Chris Bogia | Jeanne Brasile | Deric Carner | Bill Carroll | Kerry Cox | Danny Crump | Sarah Dahlinger | Mark Dion | Ayana Evans | Flux Factory Collective | Guido Garaycochea | Jesse Harrod | Kohlman Harshbarger | Wieteke Heldens | Pablo Helguera | Lexy Ho Tai | Nung-Hsin Hu | Invader | Melissa Joseph | Aya Kakeda | Vaidehi Kinkhabwala | Tina Kohlmann |  Tzu-Huan Lin | Cayla Lockwood | Heather Lynn Johnson | Jemila MacEwan | Lily Moebes | Natalia Nakazawa | Kira Nam Greene | Will Owen | Jorge Palacios | Caroline Partamian | Alex Schechter | Eleanor Scholz | Tod Seelie | Ward Shelley | Alisa Sikelianos-Carter | Jonathan Sims | Swoon | Talajoon | Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos | Winnie van der Rijn | Jevijoe Vitug | Jaimie Warren | Beatrice Wolert | Amia Yokoyama | Jade Yumang \n\nFLUX FACTORY VIRTUAL GALA\nFebruary 10\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon registration \nThe Virtual Gala will include one hour of programming\, followed by 30 minutes of music by long-time Flux DJ\, Vinyl Richie. \nWe will be honoring two people whose work epitomizes Flux Factory’s values and goals: Queens community activist Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston and Visual Artist Saya Woolfalk. \nThe event will also include a conversation about art and an ever changing NYC with Saya Woolfalk and Flux Factory Board Member Natalia Nakazawa\, as well as featured artworks from the Fundraising Exhibition\, a raffle and more. \nImage Description: On black\, bold sans serif font reads: Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition. 1.12 – 2.14 2021. The front of the letters are a very light lilac and fade into a colorful mottling textures of purples\, blues\, pinks and flashes of orange. 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/fundraising_exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Purchase A Gift Card for The Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Purchase A Gift Card Today To Support Emerging Artists\nWe are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with Artsy to present the 2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition\, featuring affordable art by both emerging and established artists from the Flux community.\n \nSee a Sneak Peak of the Exhibition\nTaking place January 12—February 14\, this online exhibition is the best opportunity to support all that Flux Factory does for emerging artists AND acquire breathtaking artworks for yourself or your loved ones. \nThe 2021 Flux Factory Fundraising Exhibition features 30 works ranging from $30 to $1\,800 by emerging and established contemporary artists. Participating artists include Mark Dion\, Natalia Nakazawa\, Chris Bogia\, Jorge Palacios\, Guido Garaycochea and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter among others. \nBuy a GIFT CARD for any amount by December 31 to be redeemed at our Fundraising Exhibition or Make a One Time Tax Deductible Donation before the end of the year.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2020_giftcard/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201209T153000
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SUMMARY:Weekly Phone Banking
DESCRIPTION:Flux Factory Phone Bank\nEvery WEDNESDAY\, 2pm EST\n> Please note\, the day has been changed from Fridays to Wednesdays \nRegister Here\n-Zoom link to be sent upon registration \nHosted weekly by Sarah Dahlinger \nEach Wednesday\, a group of Fluxers meets on Zoom for one hour to support each other in being proactive citizens and members of our respective communities. \nWe will share a document with you that includes various numbers and the relevant scripts\, so you will have all the tools you need to make calls. \nSome of the important actions we’ve called about in the past are: the defunding of the NYPD\, The repeal of the “walking while trans” act in NY state\, the repeal of the Muslim ban\, demanding that the police who killed Breonna Taylor be arrested and more. \nAll of us were new to this when we started\, but every call gets easier. Come with ideas\, feel free to add things to our document\, and be ready to make calls!!
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/weekly-phone-banking/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201205T130000
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SUMMARY:Transforming America In Real Time! Building Community Through A Pandemic...
DESCRIPTION:Transforming America In Real Time:\nBuilding Community Through A Pandemic\nDecember 5 – 20 \nOpening Day: December 5\, 1 to 6pm EST\nGallery Hours:\nFriday 4 – 8pm\, Saturday & Sunday 1 – 6pm EST \nArtist Talk with Suga Ray and collaborators\nThursday\, December 17\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon Registration \n*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines.  \nTransforming America In Real Time! features photographs from events organized by Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston\, of Transform America\, a Queens Native and lifelong Queensbridge representative.These events ranged in their focus. Some photographs document a Social Unrest for Change Demonstration in which Marston and a group of activists and advocates held up traffic at the Queensborough Bridge for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd who was killed by a police officer. Another captures a Freedom Tour bus trip and walking tour of Washington DC with youth and adults alike. Ongoing local events include the Wellness Wednesdays Vegan Food giveaways at Queensbridge Projects. \nTransforming America In Real Time! is supported by the Flux Factory Rhizome Project. The Rhizome Project is a commitment to give intentional space to Black voices\, and provide a platform for Black narratives by offering the support needed to help these narratives thrive and evolve. The Rhizome Project is an evolving entity that will begin with a series of programs in 2020 and 2021. \n\nArtist Talk with Suga Ray and collaborators\nThursday\, December 17\, 7pm EST\nZoom link sent upon Registration \nLashawn “Suga Ray” Marston\, born on March 14th\, 1984\, would endure a lifetime worth of pain by the time he was only 20 years of age; including losing his dad and oldest sister to cancer\, being shot\, going to prison\, and witnessing friends killed by friends\, but by a constant reflection of self and his surroundings\, he found his way and since 2008 has been committed to assisting in the elevation of humanity and the liberation of all oppressed people. \n\nSince his transformation\, “Suga Ray” would go on to receive numerous honors and awards from high ranking government officials\, his peers\, and countless others he has worked with\, on various fronts\, from various parts of the World. None of that has changed him as he remains committed to the mission of healing our hurting world\, and thus gives much more than he receives. “Suga Ray” is a peace activist\, food activist\, spiritual guide\, community builder\, public speaker\, universal educator\, program developer\, writer\, artist\, humanitarian\, podcast host\, and Founder of Transform America\, a community based organization operating predominantly in Queensnbridge Houses. \nDannelly Rodriguez is an Astoria Queens native\, an organizer/activist with the Justice for all Coalition and the Queens DSA. He is also a 3rd year law student at the CUNY School of Law. He works to empower public housing tenants to be their best advocates with respect to ensuring dignified housing and fighting to defund the police. He has helped organize rent strikes as a tool to solicit repairs for NYCHA tenants and to demand a Green New Deal for Public Housing. Dannelly is currently working on mutual aid and political education efforts within Queensbridge\, Ravenswood and Astoria Houses to support a network for the self-determination of these communities. As a lawyer he wants to be “the hoods” lawyer and plans on suing landlords and the police to build class power for his community. He fundamentally believes that people should have direct autonomy over their lives\, including their homes\, workplaces and schools and that policy should be shaped to support that. This work and this passion is what led him to begin working with Suga Ray. \n\nAdrian L. Childress was born in Germany to a single mother of four serving in the Army\, and he was raised in Texas. At 18 he joined the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry Rifleman. While completing two combat tours in Afghanistan he picked up his first camera. After capturing fellow Marines he decided to pursue a degree in Photography. Studying at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco he made a decision to become a photojournalist. He sees so many people/stories go unseen and wants to help bring attention to them using his camera.In 2019\, the “WE UNFUCK THE WORLD” project was born. The concept came from folks talking about how they would “UNFUCK THE WORLD” or what it means to them. Since becoming a photographer\, Adrian’s dream was to move to NYC. In February 2020\, he did. Adrian believes everyone deserves to be seen\, and everyone needs to be heard which is why he wrote the motto for the “WE UNFUCK THE WORLD” project as: \n\n“OUR VOICES\, OUR MOVEMENT\nUNTIL EVERY VOICE IS HEARD\nWE UNFUCK THE WORLD”\nThis work and this passion is what led him to begin working with Suga Ray.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/transforming-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201106T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T170000
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SUMMARY:A Familiarity That WARMS: New Work by Layo Bright and Kamari Carter
DESCRIPTION:A Familiarity That WARMS:\nNew Work by Layo Bright and Kamari Carter\nNovember 6 – 16\nIn person in the Flux Factory Gallery\, 39-31 29th street\, LIC\, NY* \nOpening: Friday November 6\, 6 – 9pm \nFriday November 6 – Monday November 16\nBy Appointment Only\, email maya@fluxfactory.org \nA Familiarity That WARMS features recent works by Flux Factory alumni Layo Bright and Kamari Carter\, exploring themes of representation\, visibility\, and perception. With sensorial overloads of everything from mass media distractions to screen oriented communication we have been working to adapt to our new “normal”. Over the course of the year\, various national and global events have caused us to pause and reflect on ourselves\, societies and communities. These reflective moments have led to movements for collective action\, racial equality\, calls for solidarity\, and a refusal to be silenced. \nWith the exhibition title taken from “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge; the artists use sound\, prints and installations to create a space for contemplation on issues affecting Black communities in America and the diaspora. Though both artists address different types of injustices to Black bodies—they utilize lines and patterns as a way of abstracting\, connecting\, and questioning our perception of and proximity to police brutality and migration. \n*All visitors are required to wear a face mask and follow social distancing guidelines. 4 people will be allowed in the gallery at one time.  We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy environment for everyone.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/a-familiarity-that-warms/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201101T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201214T235900
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SUMMARY:Artist-in-Residence 2021 Open Call
DESCRIPTION:APPLY HERE\nDeadline: December 14\, 2020\, 11:59 EST \n2020 has been a complicated and challenging year for all of us\, including Flux Factory. To ensure the safety of our community\, we have not invited any new residents since we shut down in March. By adhering to public health guidance about how to be together safely\, we are excited to be able to invite a limited number of new Artists-in-Residence to join the Flux Factory family in 2021. \nThe Flux Factory Residency grew organically out of a DIY artist’s collective founded in 1994 in an old spice factory in Brooklyn. Flux is now happily nestled in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens\, New York. \nJoin our mailing list or follow us on Instagram to ensure you don’t miss a beat! \nScroll down to learn more details about Flux Factory’s Residency…\n* Please note that due to COVID19\, safety protocols will be in place that may change some of the below information. For more information about specific COVID19 protocols please email Maya@fluxfactory.org \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails on Residency\n\n\nClick here to read the info page in French or Spanish \n\n\nResidency \nSince 1994\, Flux Factory has offered an informal\, artist-run\, and collective residency program comprised of a changing community of creative collaborators\, including (but not limited to) artists\, community organizers\, urban agriculturalists\, educators\, curators\, builders\, game designers and musicians. As a community\, we value communication\, co-creation\, accountability\, experimentation\, and safe space. \nWe offer short & long-term residencies\, work facilities\, as well as direct exhibition and programmatic opportunities. Since introducing our formal residency program in 2009\, hundreds of cultural producers from all over the United States\, South Africa\, Myanmar\, Turkey\, Italy\, Germany\, China\, France\, Mexico\, Denmark\, Russia\, Chile\, Lebanon\, South Korea\, Taiwan\, Peru\, the Ukraine and more! Flux’s history as a DIY family is deep in our DNA. Residents collaborate and learn from one another to realize new works\, propose and produce our public programming\, and have equal input in the overall direction of the organization. \nDuration \nOur open call for Fluxers is posted twice a year. In 2021 we are inviting artists for residencies of 3 – 6 months. \nProgramming \nArtists-in-Residence are the originators of Flux Factory’s programming\, including most of Flux Factory exhibitions and public programs. All residents are given an allotted amount of days in the gallery to have a solo show\, curate a group show\, host a panel or forum or use it as extra studio space. Flux Factory provides a stipend to each Resident for their public presentation\, or to research or produce new work. Each year we have four month-long exhibitions curated by Residents and other Fluxers\, as well as an annual Artists-In-Residence exhibition. \nFacilities \nFlux Factory residents are free to use all facilities and resources\, as well as access to other city programs such as Materials for the Arts (two blocks away!). The building is equipped with a wood shop\, silk screen studio\, co-working office\, library\, kitchen\, large deck\, expansive gallery space\, and audio visual equipment. \nFluxhood \nAs a part of a community-run center for artists\, Flux Factory residents are asked to take part in the creation and maintenance of its facilities and programming. On Monday nights\, all Flux Factory residents and administrators attend a weekly meeting so that we may foster a sense of community and discuss the evolving needs of the program. \nResidents are asked to put in volunteer hours toward the maintenance of the space and a weekly chore. A constantly changing physical and social environment\, Flux is always a work-in-progress\, and there are many opportunities to leave one’s mark. \nCriteria \nThe Flux Factory residency is tailored to American and international cultural producers of all stripes\, social activists\, academics\, and anyone who’s creative\, adventurous\, and willing to come to New York City to create new bodies of work that are informed by their experience here. We are especially keen to have artists who have a socially collaborative art practice\, and have experience working collectively. \nSelection \nResidents are selected through our Open Call application process. Applications are reviewed by Flux Factory administrators and current residents. Prospective residents with standout applications will undergo an interview via Skype or in-person at Flux Factory\, if within a reasonable travel distance. \nCost \nThere is currently no individual financial support for a studio\, monthly fees for studios range from $725 to $1030 a month\, in addition to utilities. Flux Factory will write letters of invitation for grants and other funding opportunities\, and share opportunities for additional resources if available. \nIf you have any questions\, please contact us at maya@fluxfactory.org \nAPPLY HERE \nPARTNERSHIPS \nWe are pursuing relationships with funding organizations interested in sponsoring individual artists to partake in Flux Factory’s Artists in Residence program.  If you are a supporting organization interested in hosting artists at Flux Factory\, please contact us. \nRECENT RESIDENCY PARTNERS\nARoS Public\nArt Quarter Budapest\nArtiste En Residence\nNew York Foundation for the Arts\nResidency Unlimited\nTaipei Cultural Center in New York\nTrust for Mutual Understanding\nUOB Art Academy\nUkrainian Institute
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/aritist-in-residence-2021-open-call/
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SUMMARY:Created Jobs - Exhibition by Cayla Lockwood
DESCRIPTION:CREATED JOBS\nA Project by Cayla Lockwood \nCreated Jobs is an exhibition and boutique temp agency that examines the current labor economy and questions the definition of work while employing unemployed and under-employed artists from Queens for one day. \nFriday October 23rd–Saturday\, October 31st\nInstallation visible in the Flux Factory Gallery windows at 39-31 29th street\, LIC\, Queens\nLive Performance Monday-Friday 12-9pm \n\nWORK DAY\nFriday\, October 23\, 9am – 5pm\nWatch us work! Join www.twitch.tv/fluxfactory\n6-8 Unemployed/Under-employed Queens-based Creatives who were hired for one day of remote “work”. Each participant will be paid $25/hr. \nFLUX THURSDAY: OFFICE HALLOWEEN HAPPY HOUR\nThursday\, October 29\, 7–9pm\, Zoom Party \nJoin us for a festive remote office happy hour party. Share work stories\, Wear your office Halloween costume\, Fun Games and Prizes!\n**Premier of Created Jobs Work Training Video – made in collaboration with Carlos David Trujillo\, Will Owen\, Danny Crump\, Sarah Dahlinger\, Jonathan Sims\, Jevijoe Vitug and Amir Badawi**\nRegister here! – Zoom link sent upon Registration \nThis project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/created-jobs/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Major Exhibition: Nobody's Fashion Week
DESCRIPTION:Nobody’s Fashion Week\nSeptember 1 – October 15 \nFull Exhibition Program at\nNobodysFashionWeek.com\nView the Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine HERE \nFashion is all around us. Fashion is body politics\, representation\, sustainability\, systems. Fashion is a medium that everybody participates in\, whether they like it or not. Fashion is Powerful.  Nobody’s Fashion Week aims to democratize Fashion by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration\, skill-sharing culture\, and self-expression for everyone. \n \nDuring Covid-19\, we have witnessed the current fashion industry crumble as clothing sales go down\, shows get cancelled\, and more people turn to DIY. We ask\, with hope: What will be rebuilt in the shell of the previous industry? Who’s Fashion Week is it? Nobody’s Fashion Week is a reimagining of the fashion industry from the bottom up.   \nIf you have any questions about Nobody’s Fashion Week\, please reach out to us. For updates\, join our mailing list and follow us on instagram @nobodysfashionweek. Let’s reimagine the Fashion Industry together!\n \n\nExhibition Description \n\nOur show was dreamed up as a response to the hegemony\, wastefulness and gate-keeping of the corporate fashion industry. Nobody’s Fashion Week is a growing community of  independent designers taking agency in redefining our own Fashion Week and proposing alternative systems for Fashion. \nNobody’s Fashion Week features works and public programs by 20+ alternative artists\, designers\, educators and organizers using wearables\, textiles and the body as a medium. Their practices span a range of themes –  such as personal identity\, body politics\, cultural history\, sustainability\, craft and technology – but all share roots in critically engaging with fashion. From September 1 – October 15\, we will launch a six week exhibition of Nobody’s Fashion Week\, consisting of an online exhibition\, artist residency\, participatory workshops\, artist talks and other public programming. We want to engage with and empower both emerging designers and everyday people to find fertile spaces to express themselves through clothing and to share their creations.  We believe people of all backgrounds\, sizes and abilities should have agency over their self-expression. We invite anyone to engage in our community and conversations as we collectively redefine the future of fashion.\n \nOur Artists-in-Residents are\nAlyssa Denay Carter\nMoira Williams\nHAUS OF YBA by Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku \nOur participating artists are   \nAnna Hart Turner\, Elise Putnam\, Eugenia Pigassiou\, Gabrielle Vazquez\, Giana Pilar González\, Gina Goico\, Gustavo Toledo\, Jason Elizondo\, Ji Ae Sohn\, Juliet Johnson\, Iris McCloughan\, Isabel Tamar Hajian\, Karolyn Hatton\, Kristen Leonard\, Magdalyn Segale\, Melo Baby\, Noah Pica\, Patricia Torvalds\, Taz the Tailor\, Tumbler\, Verena Meyer and Yun Ray Chung \n\nNobody’s Fashion Week is co-curated by Lexy Ho-Tai\, Jaime Iglehart\, Dew Igworia-Onwuka and Johanna Schwab. \nAll workshops are free\, though $5-20 suggested donations are very much appreciated. All money donated will go directly to paying the artists facilitating the program (unless otherwise stated). Programs will be recorded and archived online with captions. If you have any access needs (ex. ASL\, Live Captioning\, etc)\, please email us at least one week before the workshop at fashion@fluxfactory.org. Creating a space that is accessible\, safe and inclusive is very important to us!  \nNobody’s Fashion Week is hosted by Flux Factory\, with support from the Ministry for Arts\, Culture the Civil Service and Sport of Austria\, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York\, Bildrecht – Austria`s Collective Management Organisation (CMO) für Visual Arts\, and a generous donation from Joe Castillo.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-factory-major-exhibition-nobodys-fashion-week/
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SUMMARY:Open Call: Nobody's Fashion Week Reporter in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Open Call: Nobody’s Fashion Week Reporter in Residence\n\n\nThe Reporter in Residence is responsible for documenting their experience of one or more events at Nobody’s Fashion Week. The reporting will provide content for the Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine as well as the archived classes\, and our presenting artists who can then incorporate it into their own websites. Ultimately\, we will be selecting content from the Reporters in Residence to be published in the Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine– an exhibition catalogue which seeks not just to document the exhibition itself\, but also our thoughts\, conversations and experiences with Fashion and self expression. \nReporting is entirely subjective and open to interpretation! \nIt could look like: \n\n\nScribbling down notes \n\n\nTaking screenshots \n\n\nDrawing sketches of the workshop taking place \n\n\nSelfies of you and your textile “work-in-process” as you take part in a workshop \n\n\nWritten reflections jotted down after the workshop takes place \n\n\nQuotations from the workshop leader and participants \n\n\nYour own thoughts and musings on fashion\, creativity\, politics\, etc\, as sparked by the event \n\n\nA journal entry of your day before\, during and after the workshop \n\n\nAnything you wish to create! This process is totally open to your creative input! \n\n\nIf you are interested in being a Reporter in Residence for Nobody’s Fashion Week\, please take a look at the event calendar\, and email us at fashion@fluxfactory.org\, indicating which workshop you would like to report on! We will feature your work + bio on our website and send you some lovingly crafted snail mail. We’d love for you to creatively join the conversation! \nSee you in the field!
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/open-call-nobodys-fashion-week-reporter-in-residence/
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday Remote Edition
DESCRIPTION:FLUX THURSDAY: Remote Edition\nDate: TBD \nFlux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program\, and during ordinary times\, take place on the second Thursday of each month. However\, as a way to have fun and support each other from afar during this era of social distancing\, we’ve made remote and bi-monthly!! \n\nFollow us on Instagram for all updates\, or sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of the page. \n\n\nPast Remote Flux Thursdays \nAugust 13: Karaoke Edition 2.0\nHosted by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy \nOk\, so we can’t be in a stuffy room together singing\, but we can still select the cheesiest ballads\, or show off our wordsmithery and questionable range at the Remote Karaoke Flux Thursday!! \n\n \nAugust 6th\, 2020\nMuseum of Secret Talent\, Guarded by the Abangguard (Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug) \nWith participating artists: Maureen Catbagan\, Jevijoe Vitug\, Sarah Dahlinger\, Carlos  David TC\, Shannon Stovall\, Anthony Janas\, Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos\, Jess Rolls\, Hui-Ying Tsai\, Sholeh Asgary\nJulio Jose Austria + Patricia Lim and more . . . Followed by “open secret mic” participation \n  \n  \n  \n\nMay 14th: Weird\nHosted by Heather Kapplow and Sholeh Asgary\nWith music and music video by Eva Ursprung \n\nMay 7: Drink + Draw\nHosted by Lexy Ho-Tai \nOur first ever Drink + Draw saw a selection of four brilliant models\, including Mimi Tohill\, Cayla Lockwood\, Carlos David Trujillo and Jaime Iglehart \n\nApril 30: Food Edition \nHosted by Georgia Muenster and Sarah Dahlinger\n⁣\n***Guests came dressed as a food!!***⁣\n***Brought a kitchen utensil and mystery food***⁣ \n  \n\nApril 23: Dance Party Edition\nHosted by Dj Ply Play\n⁣\nLive Dj sets by DJ Play Play\, Yo Vinyl Richie\, Sponsored Lynx and Kamari Carter \n  \n  \n\nApril 16th: Screening Room\nHosted by Carlos David and Danny Crump\nShort films by:⁣\nAmia Yokoyama\nBastian Hoffmann⁣\nCait Davis⁣\nCarlos David\nCaitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich⁣\nCayla Lockwood⁣\nDanny Crump and Sarah Dahlinger⁣\nJ Triangular\nMartha Naranjo Sandoval⁣ \n\n \nApril 9th: Karaoke Edition\nHosted by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy \nFlux Thursday Karaoke edition included a Scone Baking Demo by Marjan Verstappen\, a Karaoke breakout room led by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy\, an experimental sound room with Lee Tusman and Martha Skou and some “waiting room” tunes by Jess Dilday / DJ Play Play. \n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-factory-remote-edition/
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SUMMARY:Nobody's Fashion Week Films and Performances Open Call
DESCRIPTION:OPEN CALL\nFashion Films and Live Performances\nDeadline\, August 25th\nwww.nobodysfashionweek.com\n \nNobody’s Fashion Week is seeking experimental and alternative short Fashion Films and Live Performances! As part of our public programming\, we are hosting a virtual evening event on Wednesday\, September 30\, where these films/ performances will be showcased via Zoom. Creators are strongly encouraged to attend the live event for a brief Artist Talk and Q + A following your film/ performance. Each film/ performance should be around 5-10 minutes and\, given our low-budget\, we encourage you to submit work that’s already been created.\n\nPlease email us your proposal\, statement of interest\, work samples\, and a short bio to fashion@fluxfactory.org by August 25th. Artists will receive a small $20 stipend and lovingly crafted snail mail as a token of our gratitude for your labor and participation. The event will have sliding scale entry ticket fees; all money raised will be split amongst the artists sharing work.\n\nNobody’s Fashion Week is centered around reimagining the Fashion Industry from the bottom up. The virtual show features works and public programs by 20+ alternative artists\, designers\, educators and organizers using wearables\, textiles and the body as a medium. Their practices span a range of themes –  such as personal identity\, body politics\, cultural history\, sustainability\, craft and technology – but all share roots in critically engaging with fashion. We welcome all proposals that feel connected to Nobody’s Fashion Week! Thank you so much for your interest! \n\n\nImage description: Mixed media flyer. Text reads\, “Open Call for Alternative + Experimental FASHION Short Films + Performances. Deadline: August 25\, Email: Fashion@fluxfactory.org.” The word FASHION is written in large\, wobbly\, pencil bubble letters in the center of page. The other words are light blue\, handwritten inside pencily\, scribbly\, oblong shapes. The background is a collage of peachy\, light blues\, lavender and neutral fabrics and paper\, with visible stitching and yellow tape holding haphazard elements together. Scribbly pencil\, burgundy and olive marks are sprinkled throughout the flyer.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/nobodys-fashion-week-films-and-performances-open-call/
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SUMMARY:#indigenizemememoji.2020 - New Works by Jevijoe Vitug
DESCRIPTION:#indigenizemememoji.2020\nNew Works by Jevijoe Vitug \nLaunching August 9\, 2020 \nOn the event of the International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples\, Flux Factory is pleased to present #indigenizemememoji.2020\, a solo exhibition of paintings by Philippine-born artist Jevijoe Vitug. This exhibition\, initially cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic\, is presented here in digital form. \nDescription\, Artist Bios and List of Works Below\n \n\nExhibition Gallery\nTitles\, size and medium listed below \nPurell meme + Health Worker! (2020)Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020)Corona Extra! Stay Calm! (2020)Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020) – DetailCorona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020)Corona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020) – DetailClorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020)Clorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020) – DetailGoodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020)Goodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020) – DetailDisaster of War Addict #junkterrorbillPh (2017)Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020)Corona meme + The Scream (2020)Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020) – DetailThis……is Why (2020) – DetailThis……is Why (2020)Terror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020) – DetailTerror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020)Zoom Supper\, Social Distancing meme  (2020) – DetailFight the Power\, F*ck the Police meme  (2020) – DetailFight the Power\, F*ck the Police meme  (2020)Zoom Supper\, Social Distancing meme  (2020)\n\n\n\nProgramming \nIndigenization and the Dreamland: Jevijoe Vitug in conversation with Museum Educator Francis Estrada\nAugust 20th\, 7pm EST\nVia Zoom – REGISTER HERE \n\nExhibition Description\n\nCombining satirical humor with socio-political and cultural concerns\, #indigenizemememoji.2020 reimagines history painting through the lens of memes and emojis\, encoded with an indigenous presence. Layering graphics referencing the COVID-19 pandemic and statewide protests against systemic racism\, each painting amplifies this historic moment as translated through digital culture. \nThis new body of work is composed of 13 paintings\, in which Vitug continues his painting technique titled “pintados\,” painterly brushstrokes that have nuances of indigenous mark making. Similar to digital pixel units\, these marks become codes to forming imagery invisible at a first glance. Working in oil paint\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint overlapping one another\, the artist uses a diversity of painting media. \nA repeated motif in the works are brands around which viral memes were made during the pandemic\, such as Corona beer\, Purell hand sanitizer and Clorox bleach. The painting Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020) is based on a meme by Saint Hoax in which Beyonce holds Purell bottles\, while emoji hands reach out for the sanitizers. This work\, part of a diptych\, sits next to This is……Why (2020) which appropriates a meme posted by NBA star LeBron James showing a police officer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck\, next to a former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest of police brutality. Both rendered using marking details similar to the tattoos of indigenous warriors in the Philippines\, depicted in the Boxer Codex manuscript (1590). Vitug combines a diversity of technique and reference to draw attention to the complex and interdependent forces impacting this social moment. \nOver the prolonged period of lockdown\, Vitug has continued painting in his studio as a coping strategy and to reflect on his experience living in Queens\, NY\, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak that has disproportionately impacted immigrants of color. He uses coded humor\, layered with straightforward messages and hidden meanings to make visible his pre-colonial/ indigenous heritage\, and his continuing quest for decolonization. \n\nArtist Bios \nJevijoe Vitug \nQueens-based artist Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings\, performance and community projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor\, indigenous legacy and the forgotten history of people of color. \nJevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005\, 2006)\, Singapore Art Museum (2006)\,\nDiego Rivera Gallery\, San Francisco\, CA (2009)\, Contemporary Arts Center\, Las Vegas (2012)\, Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, NY (2017\, 2019)\, Queens Museum\, NY (2018)\, San Diego Art Institute\, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF\, Japan (2004)\, Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA\, San Francisco\, CA (2008)\, London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012\, 2014)\, Flux residency at AroS Museum\, Denmark (2018)\, Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019)\, UP Vargas Museum (2019). In 2019\, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is member of Museum Union Art Workers\, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory. \nFrancis Estrada \nBorn in the Philipines and currently residing in Brooklyn\, Francis Estrada is a visual artist\, museum educator at the Museum of Modern Art\, and freelance educator of Filipino art and culture. Francis has a fine arts degree in painting and drawing from San Jose State University\, and he has taught in a variety of studio\, classroom\, and museum settings to diverse audiences\, including programs for adults with disabilities\, cultural institutions\, and after-school programs. He was also an administrator and educator at the Museum for African Art\, where he enjoyed teaching about the amalgamation of art and culture through objects. Francis exhibits his work nationally\, including online publications. His work focuses on culture\, history\, and perception. \n\nList of Works \n\n1) Queen Bey’s Purell Meme (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n53 inches x 50 inches \n2) Corona Extra! Stay Calm! (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n60 inches x 48 inches \n3) Purell meme + Health Worker! (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n40 inches x 40 inches \n4) Corona meme + Handshake is Death! (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n5) Clorox Chewables! Prescription by Trump (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n50 inches x 50 inches \n6) Goodluck Millennials + Party is Over (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n7) Disaster of War Addict #junkterrorbillPh (2017)\nAcrylic on canvas\n36 inches x 48 inches \n8) Purell meme + F*ck profit and Death (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n40 inches x 40 inches \n9) Corona meme + The Scream (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n10) This……is Why (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\nDiptych: 30 inches x 24 inches each \n11) Terror Bill meme #junkterrorbillPh (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n480 inches x 36 inches \n\n12) Fight the Power\, F*ck the Police meme (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n48 inches x 48 inches \n13) Zoom Supper\, Social Distancing meme (2020)\nOil\, acrylic\, airbrush and water based UV-fluorescent paint on canvas\n36 inches x 36 inches
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/indigenize/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Flux Factory Major Exhibition: where will I be buried*?
DESCRIPTION:where will I be buried*?\nJuly 17 – August 22\nView full exhibition at wherewillibeburied.com\n\nCurated by Muse Dodd and Catherine Feliz\nConcept created in collaboration with Muse Dodd and Jasdeep Kang\n\nFriday July 17\, noon: Exhibition Tour on the Flux Factory Instagram\nFriday July 17: Exhibition launch at wherewillibeburied.com \nAugust 8\, 3pm EST: Artist Talk \nFULL PROGRAM BELOW \nwhere will I be buried? is a whisper\, a vigil\, a torn photograph in a lovers wallet\, a plea. The need to be remembered and honored in our lives and death(s). \nFeaturing work from over 12 Queer and/or Trans\, Black and Indigenous\, People of Color (QTBIPOC)\, where will I be buried*? holds space for artists and audiences from marginalized communities to center ourselves in our mourning\, healing and transformations. For QTBIPOC communities the question of where “will I be buried” is not easily answered. How we approach ritual\, ceremony and death varies culture to culture\, religion to religion and even more so depending on your gender or sexual identity. Too often Black Trans* people are misgendered in their death\, a continued violence that started long before the moment of their death. Using death as an entry point the included artists bring dynamic responses to the titular question exploring pleasure\, pain\, longing and transcendence.  \n\nThe work shapes the exhibit into a transformative space that holds conflicting truths at once\, understanding that our experiences are uniquely our own. Some artists offer comforting prayers\, altars\, and song; others document our imagined and contested past and possible futures. This online exhibition features the incredible multimedia work of artists Felicita Felli Maynard\, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor\, Nine Yamamoto-Masson\, Smita Sen\, Brittany J. Camacho\, Rox Campbell\, Catalina Xavlena\, Dillon God Gardner\, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju\, Wazina Zondon and Linda Labeija. With workshops and performances led by Vee\, Electropapi\, olivia ahn\, and Karolina Castro. \nCurating during COVID and a social uprising has been a challenge. As curators from the communities most impacted by these events we have had to be flexible\, creative and patient. What the quarantine has revealed is that not everything translates online but it is our job to make our work more accessible for more people. \nPress contact: buried@fluxfactory.org \n\nFULL PROGRAM \nTo View the Exhibition visit wherewillibeburied.com \nJULY 17\, noon\nTour of the online exhibition and website on Flux Factory Instagram Live \n\nWORKSHOP – this event has reached capacity\nJULY 18\, 1pm \nSet the altar: queer interfaith life\, spirituality + identity\, presented by olivia ahn\nClick here for full details and Registration Link – Zoom link sent upon registration \nThis is a QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black\, Indigenous\, and/or People of Color) centered space and is intended as an offering specifically for QTBIPOC people.⁣⁣ \nSet The Altar is a collective tending space where participants are encouraged to honor a god/godess/gxdxx\, diety\, divinity\, saint and/or ancestor that they currently work with in their spiritual and/or religious practice that supports and protects them either in their queer identity or cultural lineage. \n\nFILM SCREENING \nJULY 18\, 3:15\nMuttererde by Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor\nThere’s Just Something About Death That Makes Us Dance: The Revival by Rox Campbell \nFollowed by conversation with filmmaker Rox Campbell and curator Muse Dodd \nClick here for full details and Registration link – Zoom link will be sent upon registration\nTwitch link: www.twitch.tv/wherewillibeburied \n\nWORKSHOP\nJULY 25\, 3pm\ndeath becomes us  facilitated by Karolina Castro \nRegister here – Zoom link upon registration \nThis is a QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black\, Indigenous\, and/or People of Color) centered space and is intended as an offering specifically for QTBIPOC people.⁣⁣ \nIt’s never too early to plan for your death. This workshop will inform you on how to take control of your dying process and funeral. Want to make your chosen family or partner responsible for your medical decisions at the event that you can no longer do it yourself? Want to ensure that your correct pronouns and name are used during the funeral? Come through and learn about the legal documents that can ensure your wishes are met! Also\, learn about alternative\, eco-friendly\, and more affordable ways of caring for and disposing of your body. \n\nWORKSHOP\nAUGUST 1\, 6pm-7:30 pm\nPain and Pleasure: Healing Though Queer BDSM led by Vee Perez \nThis is QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black\, Indigenous\, and/or People of Color centered event\, but open to all. If you are a white participant\, please be conscientious of your participation as QTBIPOC centering will be prioritized. \nRegister here – Zoom link upon registration \nVee AKA\, Electropapi (They/She Pronouns) was taught from a young age that desire can lead to death. Parental figures always taught them that sexual desire in the Christian perspective could be a path to the underworld in the after life\, and the only salvation is in Jesus Christ. Vee always thought growing up- “hm.. if Jesus loves everyone\, isn’t he kinda gay?” and “Isn’t God\, with all these rules and sins\, and the punishment there after\, a dom daddy?” These questions guided Vee to a different path. In Vee’s Caribbean-based ancestral healing practices\, they realized that salvation can only happen when desire is liberated.  Holiness is liberated queerness. Once one embraces the fear of death and pain\, desire through the exploration of kink can be a path to salvation from the white supremacist\, cisheteropatriachry\, colonial landscape.  In this film\, Vee explores the crucifixion\, ascension\, and sainthood of the Black and Indigenous queer trans two spirit body as a sanctuary of desire in kink and bdsm.  \n\nAUGUST 1\, 3pm\nPERFORMANCE\nPerformance by Wazina Zondon feat Terna Tilley-Gyado\n \nRegister Here – Zoom link upon registration \n إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎ + inna lillahi/indeed we belong to Allah wa inna ilayhi raji-un/and to Allah we return \nإِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎/ Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji-un/Indeed we belong to Allah and to Allah we return (re)creates and preempts the burial rites queer and trans Muslims are not guaranteed but ought to be. The performance explores the in-between spaces of living within the third culture realm\, recreating coveted traditions\, hidden truths and reconciling death. \nIndeed we belong to Allah and to Allah we return… as you intended us to be. \n\nAUGUST 8\, 3pm\nARTIST TALK\n\nStreamed via twitch.tv/wherewillibeburied \nCurator Muse Dodd will facilitate a conversation with participating artists Linda LaBeija\, Dillon God Gardener\, Smita Sen and community based healing practitioner Olivia ahn \n\nAUGUST 8\, 7pm\nPERFORMANCE\nThe end is just the beginning\nPerformance by Dillon God Gardener \nStreamed via twitch.tv/wherewillibeburied \nBroadcasting live from The Very Dirty Garden\, Dillon God Gardener will perform “The end is just the beginning “ a ritual performance  with live musical accompaniment by Fieraferrari.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/where-will-i-be-buried/
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SUMMARY:Nobody's Fashion Week Virtual Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nobody’s Fashion Week Virtual Town Hall\nWednesday\, July 8\, 5-7pm\nVia Zoom \nZoom link will be sent upon Registration\n\nJoin us for a Virtual Town Hall to kick off Nobody’s Fashion Week! 21 alternative fashion artists\, designers\, educators and organizers will introduce their work.  Their practices span a range of themes –  such as personal identity\, cultural history\, sustainability\, craft and technology – but all share roots in critically engaging with fashion. Presentations will be followed by an opportunity to mingle\, planting seeds for future connections\, conversations and collaborations between like-minded fashion enthusiasts. \nNobody’s Fashion Week offers a nurturing space for emerging artists and the public using wearables and the body as a medium. In September 2020\, Nobody’s Fashion Week will host a month of remote programming that is free and open to the public\, including practical workshops\, panel discussions and artist talks. Nobody’s Fashion Week is a reimagining of the fashion industry from the bottom up. Our aim is to democratize fashion by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration\, skill-sharing culture\, and self-expression for everyone. \nNobody’s Fashion Week is co-curated by Lexy Ho-Tai\, Jaime Iglehart\, Dew Igworia and Johanna Schwab. \nNobody’s Fashion Week is hosted by Flux Factory\, with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts & Culture\, the Austrian Culture Forum New York and a generous donation from Joe Castillo. \nIf you have any access needs or if you would like to get involved with Nobody’s Fashion Week\, please email fashion@fluxfactory.org. \n* Flyer created by Juliet Johnson\, Lexy Ho-Tai\, and Johanna Schwab. Image description in Alt Text.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/virtual-town-hall/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200618T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200709T230000
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
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SUMMARY:Karaoke Quotes by Jevijoe Vitug
DESCRIPTION:Karaoke Quotes: Projection and mobile display \nby Jevijoe Vitug\nJune 18- July 9\, 2020\n8pm to 11 pm\n\nInstalled in the Flux Factory Gallery windows at 39-31 29th street\, LIC \n\nIn honor of BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color) who are battling against systemic racism\,  Jevijoe Vitug has compiled screenshots of karaoke songs online that are mostly revolutionary and popularized by Black artists. Projected on a screen using a karaoke mobile unit\, the lyrics of the songs without the music seem like poignant quotes. Thus the artist calls them “Karaoke Quotes” \nQueens-based artist Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings\, performance and community projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor\, indigenous legacy and the forgotten history of people of color. \nJevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005\, 2006)\, Singapore Art Museum (2006)\, Diego Rivera Gallery\, San Francisco\, CA (2009)\, Contemporary Arts Center\, Las Vegas (2012)\, Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art \, NY (2017\, 2019)\, Queens Museum\, NY (2018)\, San Diego Art Institute\, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF\, Japan (2004)\, Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA\, San Francisco\, CA (2008)\, London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012\, 2014)\, Flux residency at AroS Museum\, Denmark (2018)\, Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019)\, UP Vargas Museum(2019). In 2019\, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is member of Museum Union Art Workers\, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory. \n@jevijoe
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/karaoke-quotes-by-jevijoe-vitug/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200508T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200614T090000
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
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SUMMARY:A Song For Sickness by Jonathan Sims
DESCRIPTION:A Song For Sickness\n\nBy Jonathan Sims \n\nMay 8 – June 14\, 2020\nIn the Flux Factory Gallery Windows\nSafely viewed from the sidewalk \nOn May 8th at sunset\, Flux Factory will launch A Song For Sickness\, a light installation by Jonathan Sims in the windows of the Flux Factory Gallery. \nThis new piece will join the Center of Holographic Arts Light Windows\, a public-facing exhibition of light art in spaces around New York City and the world. A global event to mark the International Day of Light on Saturday\, May 16. \n\nStatement for A Song for Sickness:\n \n\n“I spent the first ten days of quarantine in New York City in self-isolation with a persistent cough\, shortness of breath\, and terrifying waves of anxiety. A Song for Sickness began as a desire to represent the immense emotional energy I expended in panic attacks and in desperate pleas for intercession and wellness. It is also an inheritance of the countless prayers and spells that human beings have devised over the millennia to ask the universe for healing or\, in my case\, strength to accept the potentially permanent changes that the virus could bring as a new norm in my life. \n“The work is about the constant evolution that every individual undergoes throughout life\, and the unique beauty of that growth. This durational nature of the piece is punctuated by a collage of abstracted symbols that represent our psychic reverberations to these changes. \n“Though this piece came to be in an extraordinary time where the entire planet is hyper-focused on a single virus\, my intent is for this invocation to gather energy to all people for whom illness is a part of their lives. I also want to acknowledge those at greatest risk now\, not only because of the threat of a novel virus\, but because of the failures inherent in capitalist institutions there are those whose tenuous existences are now even more precarious. These include the chronically ill\, those with compromised autoimmune systems\, the elderly\, the caretakers\, and the workers–all of whom are being asked to make sacrifices to uphold the very economies and institutions which have already been failing them. I ask viewers to not only consider this work as a potential conduit for healing\, but as a meditation on the complex relationships every human being experiences with sickness.” \n\n– Jonathan Sims
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/a-song-against-sickness-by-jonathan-sims/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200330T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
CREATED:20200306T203721Z
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SUMMARY:人柱の物語 (hitobashira no monogatari): solo exhibition by Nine Yamamoto-Masson
DESCRIPTION:人柱の物語 (hitobashira no monogatari): solo exhibition by Nine Yamamoto-Masson\n\nThis exhibition has been cancelled in response to heightened concerns relating to the spread of COVID-19 \nIn her first solo exhibition on Turtle Island\, Nine Yamamoto-Masson presents new works that reflect on the private dimensions of war and US imperialism in Asia that\, sidelined by hegemonic regimes of knowledge and cold bureaucratization of violence\, often elude representation and public discourse – especially within the US public imaginary of Asia and of US military actions. \nIn this exhibition\, Yamamoto-Masson chooses a reduced formal language and visual codes to unlock engagement with the history\, reality\, and the private and political afterlife of the Manhattan Project and the ongoing global nuclear colonialism it is but one aspect of – including its legions of ghosts around the world. In drawings\, collages\, installations\, and sculptures\, the artist negotiates the politics of what can be publicly revealed of the active legacy of gendered and racialized state-sanctioned violence – including rape as a technology of power – and what remains incommunicable and unwelcome. \nThe works in this exhibition are part of a lager body of intermedia\, academic\, and activist work in which Yamamoto-Masson maps how fascisms and rape culture operate necropolitically in the battlefields of bodies\, memory\, historiography\, and media representation. \nNine Yamamoto-Masson is a French-Japanese artist\, theorist\, writer\, community organizer\, activist\, and translator. In academic research\, artistic and activist practice\, her work analyses the gendered necropolitics of (neo)coloniality with regard to the legacies of European and Japanese colonialism and how they presently manifest as configurations of power and economies of knowledge that exert violence on bodies and futures. She studies the modes of organization of networked resistance\, and the workings of resistant memory challenging hegemonic dominant narratives\, focusing on the role of art and inter-diasporic\, internationalist\, inter-generational solidarities. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam; in 2018 and 2019 she was a visiting researcher-artist at Hiroshima City University. \nwww.nineyamamotomasson.com\nPlease share on Facebook
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/%e4%ba%ba%e6%9f%b1%e3%81%ae%e7%89%a9%e8%aa%9e-hitobashira-no-monogatari/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200317T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200317T235900
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
CREATED:20200101T214729Z
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SUMMARY:Call for Artists: Pink Flamingo - Clubs in Flux
DESCRIPTION:Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux\nJuly 17th – August 9th\, 2020 \n– Please be aware that in order to respond to the unfolding COVID19 crisis\, we have had to postpone this exhibition until mid 2021. Exact dates will be determined later in 2020. If you are currently submitting or have already submitted\, we are still accepting applications until April 27\, and these will be added to next year’s submissions. Please reach out to the curators for further details or questions at pinkflamingo@fluxfactory.org. \nFull exhibition details and application here\n Deadline: April 27th\, 2020 \nCurated by Jess Dilday and Anton Lapov \n\nPink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux seeks artists to imagine and produce their ideal multimedia music space\, to be installed inside Flux Factory’s gallery. Three sequential week-long environments will provide an immersive listening experience\, and culminate in a final “club night” or party.  \nSelected artists or artist collectives will be responsible for building-out a “club” environment\, providing or selecting music for the culminating party\, and any accompanying performances or interactive programming to activate the space. Additionally\, Pink Flamingo will host a 24/7 radio broadcast throughout the month\, where music and audio connected to each installation will be broadcast.   \nAn accompanying exhibition of archival NYC club materials will be displayed in an adjacent space. Pink Flamingo seeks to explore the ephemeral nature of these urban party spaces and highlight the importance of experiential values created during many short-lived club ventures. \nThanks in part to the DCLA Disability Forward Fund\, priority will be given to artists living with a disability or artists whose work addresses issues of disability and accessibility. \nFull exhibition details and application here
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/call-for-artists-musicians-dancers-pink-flamingo-clubs-in-flux/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200320T233000
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
CREATED:20200218T203327Z
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SUMMARY:Springboard Collective presents: HOLY HELL
DESCRIPTION:HOLY HELL\nProduced by Springboard Collective \nThis exhibition has been cancelled in response to heightened concerns relating to the spread of COVID-19 \nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \nDive head first into HOLY HELL\, Springboard Collective’s latest interactive installation- handbaskets provided. Our hell on earth features three stages of sinful performance art\, gluttony\, and a divine comedy that even Dante would be proud of. \nDo you have the hottest sauce? Things heat up Thursday night 3/12 with a hot wing eating competition plus hottest sauce off. Friday the 13th is your opportunity to face the horns on a mechanical bull and hell raising performance art and DJs. Party in hell all night long Saturday night 3/14 featuring stand-up comedy acts and a late night dance party. All events are free and open to the public. What the hell?? \n\nALL EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED\, please follow @flux_Faxtory on Instagram for online content \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFlux Thursday in Hell: March 12\,  7pm – 12am\nHottest Sauce & Hot Wing Eating Competition w/ DJ PlayPlay \n\nFriday: March 13\, 7pm\nLate night Mechanical Bull Rides Performances by Abigail Entsminger & Seth Timothy Larson\, Michael O’Malley\nBull Riding w/ DJ Vinyl Richie \n\nSaturday: March 14\, 8pm\nLate night Party in Hell All Night w/ DJ Sponsored Lynx\nDivine Comedy Night with Rachel Joan and Dylan \n\n\nSunday – Thursday: March 15-19\, midnight – 4am\nOpen gallery hours \nFriday\, March 20\, 8pm – 12am\nHell Freezing Over Closing Event \n\n\nSpringboard Collective produces site-specific\, interactive and sculptural environments. Their collaborative projects create unique experiences and engage critical dialogue in playful\, socially-activated spaces. This project is co-directed by Danny Crump\, Sarah Dahlinger\, and Micah Snyder. This exhibition is funded in part by Flux Factory and in-kind donations from Materials for the Arts.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/holy-hell/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T233000
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
CREATED:20200302T201832Z
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday in Hell
DESCRIPTION:Opening night! HOLY HELL by Springboard Collective\nMarch 12\, 7pm – 12am \n7pm – Potluck\n8pm – Hot Wing Eating Contest\n9pm – DJ PlayPlay \nInvite your daring friends on Facebook!! \nJoin us for the opening night of HOLY HELL: Flux Thursday in Hell hosted by Springboard Collective. Bring your hottest dish or a homemade sauce to compete in the hottest sauce tasting. Too spicy? Try to stomach a hot wing eating contest sponsored by Astoria’s own Hellgate Farm hot sauce. See who’s hot and who’s not on the dance floor with DJ Play Play. This event is free and open to the public. See you in Hell!\n \nFlux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program\, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month. This event is free but please bring food or drink to share. \nUpcoming Flux Thursday\, 2020\nApril 9th\nMay 14th\nJune 11
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday-in-hell/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T132932
CREATED:20200217T194238Z
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SUMMARY:Sensory Mastication: A multi-sensorial dinner experience
DESCRIPTION:Sensory Mastication\nSunday\, March 1\n6-9pm\n\n\n \nSensory Mastication is a multi-sensorial dinner experience created in collaboration by current Flux Factory residents. Inspired by the surrealist dinner parties of the past\, Sensory Mastication invites guest to sit down\, participate and have every sense activated and agitated. Each course during the dinner is designed to spark a specific sense. There will be no set dinner time\, so arrive at any moment and enjoy your sensory meal! \n\nProduced by Anthony Janas\, with collaboration by Flux Factory Residents \n\n \n \n \n  \n\n\nThis project was partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/sensory-mastication-a-multi-sensorial-dinner-experience/
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