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

Schedule for Fall Arts Week September 8-12, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

institutforx.dk/users/loftsound/

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

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

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

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

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

Hosted by Nat Roe and Carlos David TC.

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

Sydhavnen X Flux Factory mixer
2021-09-21 17:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Sydhavnen, Aarhus
Join Sarah Jarsbo, Flux Factory and artists from Sydhavnen for a tour of the harbor’s art spaces and an open bar and supper mixer.
Flux Factory is a NYC Artist Residency, Exhibition space and collective which is currently in its third year at ARoS Public – view full information about this program at this webpage.
Please RSVP by emailing nat@fluxfactory.org so that we can prepare enough food & drinks.
Meet at Frontløberne i jægergårdsgade 154, 1. Tv. Email nat@fluxfactory.org or call +1-347-379-5821 if you can’t find us 😉
Tuesday, September 21 5pm-late
5pm – Tour of current exhibitions and studios
6pm – Drinks and dinner served
8pm – Ghost tour of Sydhavnen at the witching hour

Screening: "The Wake" and "Nova: A New Spelling of My Name" with Jemila MacEwan and Nova Scott-James
2021-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Join us in the ARoS Public theater for a screening of two new films by Flux Artists-in-Residence.
The Wake
In this program MacEwan will walk audiences through strategies for responding to ecological grief and overwhelm. We will be guided through an empathetic eco-morphic approach to making sense of humanity’s role and responsibilities within the larger network of indwellers with whom we share this planet. The program will begin with a screening of MacEwan’s film ‘The Wake’.
‘The Wake’ (2019) is a performance-art film about environmental grief. In the film, Europe’s largest glacier Vatnajökull is melting and its wisdom teeth have become unrooted. The protagonist attempts to restore the teeth but eventually succumbs to the irreparability of the situation. After all hope is lost, one of the teeth speaks to the protagonist, in Icelandic (voiced by an eight-year-old girl) and offers counsel. The wisdom tooth’s sense of time and memory seem confused, but their capacity for compassion is boundless.
The film screening will be followed by a creative writing workshop. In this workshop MacEwan invites participants to imagine what a personal treaty with the planet might look like. Treaties are written as law binding agreements between two parties or more for the purpose of sharing resources, mutual recognition, and peaceful co-existence. Many of the treaties that exist around the world today that involve colonial entities are routinely breached for corporate and political interest, and the individuals for whom these treaties represent have little power to protest these violations.
In this workshop MacEwan will work with participants to imagine what a personal treaty with the land on which they reside and with our planet might look like. A personal treaty returns agency back to the individual to form their own guidelines for acting in mutual interest with the more-than-human world and honor their own agreements.
Jemila MacEwan is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. MacEwan is known for their intimately interwoven earthworks, sculptures, films and performances that build a contemporary mythology of meteorites, volcanoes, prehistoric super-fungi and melting glaciers. These stories engage with the emotional complexity of humanity’s destructive impact, to the planet and to itself, as a way to understand what it means to be human within the Holocene Extinction.
Nova: A New Spelling of My Name
After “The Wake” we will screen the new short film “Nova: A New Spelling of My Name” to be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director and star of the film Nova Scott-James. A young artist, born Nicole but renamed Nova, sets out on a healing journey on an indigenous Taino sanctuary in upstate New York. Directed by Nova Scott-James; produced by Flor Tejada, Todd Carter, Abou Farman; Cinematography by Flor Tejada.

A Train to Utopia with Tzu-Huan Lin
2021-09-23 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
In this ARoS special edition of A Train To Utopia, participants will be required to play roles and games that generate vocabulary that becomes a guide instruction for individuals to navigate in the ARoS Museum.
Tzu-Huan Lin’s (b. Taipei, 1986) work centers around personal experience as an immigrant, adapting to connect different subjects or stories to address the phenomena. He received an MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Lin’s work has been included in international group exhibitions such as ”The 15th Digital Art Festival Taipei (2020)” “The 6th International Video Art Exhibition (2018)”, “ADAF 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival (2018)” and solo exhibitions at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (2020) and Taipei Fine Art Museum (2017).

September Flux Saturday on Governors Island
2021-09-25 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux on the last Saturday of each month during our Fall residency for a picnic potluck, open studios, pop-up exhibitions and art happenings!
11am-5pm: Open studios with Flux Factory artists
2-4pm: Mini Painting Workshop with Teng Teng
2-4pm: Pillow Life Lounge – A Showcase/Spectacle of Softness
The event will take place both indoor and outdoors in our studios at Colonels Row House 404A and our front lawn area. Masks are required indoors and all trash must be disposed of properly (pack it in, pack it out).
To find general information about all our activities on Governors Island, visit the Welcome to Flux Island webpage.

The Making of The Museum of Natural Non-History with Kaktus
2021-09-25 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
We invite you to blur the lines between the micro and macro cosmos. Let’s be giants among germs and at the same time germs among giants.
Bodies break down and decay, providing support for other bodies. In this workshop, we want to continue the process of body breaking and making using our natural tools of the imagination to do the same to our own creations.
Let yourself pass from one being to another. Let the imagination feed on dead plants, animal and human remains as it deconstructs intricate life forms into their simplest components.
Time table: 25th of September 2021
13.00. We meet at The Botanical Garden (Main entrance: Møllevejen 10A, 8000 Aarhus).
13.30. Discovery walk: Gathering of materials.
14.30. We walk to ARoS Museum.
15.00 – 17.00. The making of The Museum of Natural Non-History.
*The workshop is open to all age groups, but children and teens under 15 years old should be accompanied by an adult.
Workshop Leaders:
Þórir and Brák from KAKTUS
Brák Jónsdóttir (b. 1996) is a visual artist and Þórir Hermann (b. 1994) is a composer, gardener and a multimedia artist. Their collaborative works mainly take the form of video works, books, sculptures and performances, but recently their subjects have revolved around humanity’s relationship with nature. Brák and Þórir explore life forms and organisms. Their approach is often oriented towards the blushing tension between pain and pleasure, natural and man-made materials. “We strive to look for a way to be at one with the world and sometimes find it in the gap between the imaginary and the real, by intertwining the portals of reality and fantasy.” In their most recent work they have addressed the power of vulnerability while recognizing and embracing the interdependence and connection humans have with the earth. Let’s expand and play!
Social Media:
www.thorirhermann.wixsite.com
www.instagram.com/argintaeta/

Mini Painting Workshop with Teng Teng at Flux Saturday
2021-09-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Please RSVP via WithFriends.
You’ll have a unique chance to create a miniature painting on a gold-plated frame to bring home with you to wear as jewelry or display as art. After you arrive, Teng Teng will give you hands-on instruction on how to paint using the tiniest paint brush you’ve ever seen. This event is totally free.
Teng Teng will provide picture books and reference pictures to give you inspiration. All materials will be provided and no previous painting experience is required. You don’t need to bring anything since all the workshop supplies are provided!
Location: Outdoors at Colonels Row House 404A on Governors Island
About the Facilitator:
Teng Teng is an artist who was born in China. Teng Teng’s diverse practice (painting, installation, performance art, art education etc.) focuses on the integration of art and ordinary people’s daily life and healing others. She has been recording stories in small frames of my own design. These can be hung on a wall or worn on the body, creating a close relationship to the person who wears it. She has sewn the paintings into her clothes and strolled around the city, hoping that the color brings a bit more warmth to the world. Over the past few years she has hosted over 100 workshops around the world to teach people how to draw tiny paintings.
Access Notes:
Information about Accessibility on Governors Island can be found here. There is a paved path around the island. To go to Flux Factory’s Colonels Row House 404A, there is one curb that leads to a slightly bumpy path for about 20 yards. To enter the building, there are six steps. All indoor programming takes place on the first floor. Chairs with backs are available in the space.

Pillow Life Lounge: A Showcase/Spectacle of Softness
2021-09-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
This event is part of Flux Saturday on Governors Island.
Over a year + of chaos, change, and mighty life disruptions Aliya has been making pillows. Nonsensical pillows, uncomfortable pillows, extreme pillows. These pillows do not fix what is going wrong with the world, but they are nice for lounging.
Join us in relaxing in a field of softness, resting in the face of pressure to do more. This interactive exhibition invites you to pause, take your shoes off, touch, hold tight, loosen your grip, lay down, breathe deep — and see what shows up from there.
Aliya Bonar makes garments and experiences that connect mundane daily tasks with dreams, aspirations, failures, and accomplishments. Her body of work PowerSuits turn experiences and personal stories into costumes and performances. Her work has been exhibited internationally: the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark; chashama gallery during New York Fashion Week; The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY; Fed Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI; and at every Sandwich Club Summit to date. She has been part of the Flux Factory collective since 2012. @aliyabarbeque / @pillow._.life

Short Films Screening by Patrick Topitschnig
2021-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Join us in the ARoS Museum Theater for a screening of selected short films by Patrick Topitschnig.
A kind of black humor pervades Patrick Topitschnig’s videos. Like in the horror-movie genre he works with audiovisual situations which affect the bodies of the spectators provoking an uncertainty, sometimes a slight restlessness.
Precisely composed images expose their own constructedness and testify to the artist’s interest in cinematic duration. Occasionally, this duration becomes a metaphor for the literal “lifetime” of pro-tagonists, objects, and buildings. All aspects of cinematic sound – a composed score, music, spoken language – are used to reflect the connections between image and narration creating a very specific atmosphere, whereas the “real“ backstory of a work is often revealed much later, be it the history of an abandoned salt mine in Romania or a portrait of a high-tech funeral home in Australia.

Pizza Party Picnic at Huggeormen
2021-09-28 17:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Huggeormen, Thomas Koppels Gade 19, Aarhus
Huggeormen is hosting a celebration with Flux Factory, Aarhuspanti, Aarhus Billedkunstcenter and BKF Midt. We’ll bake pizza in an outdoor kiln, light the bonfire up proper, consume copious cool beverages, and host karaoke, Murga Porteña, performances and more!
Please RSVP on Facebook.
Find us at Huggeormen, P. Hiort-Lorenzens Vej 19 A-D
Crip’d Karaoke with Moira Williams and Megan Bent at 7pm (DK time): – accessible online via Zoom – email nat@fluxfactory.org for the Zoom link

Murga Porteña presentation by Aarhuspanti: Murga Porteña is an Argentinian form of popular musical theater resembling a carnival parade with percussionists and dancers. It’s a celebration of freedom and liberation. The choreographies recall the condition of slavery and the sound of chains around the ankles but at the same time it parodies the (often drunk) masters and denounces the oppression they practice. The rhythms and colorful costumes express joy and enthusiasm, leading in the end to the ideal break of physical and/or psychological change.

2021 Fluxataros Gala
2021-09-30 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
In Flux’s last week at ARoS Public, we’re throwing a gala to rival the Met. Joining performances by Flux artists in Residence will be a pop-up exhibition of paintings from Aarhus locals “Being Queer in Straight Time”. Dew Onwuka will present new garments for our gala, the theme of which will be “Not Neutral”. Moira Williams will present a vocal performance on the hill surrounding the atelier. And the duo of IV Castellanos and Maureen Catbagan will give a performance.
For complimentary museum access, email nat@fluxfactory.org
Schedule:
18-18:30: Object II Body Performance (IV Castellanos and Maureen Catbagan)
18:30-19:00: Eros of Contact performance (Moira Williams)
19:00-19:30: 2021 ARoS Gala fashion show (Dew Onwuka)
19:30-21:00: Being Queer in Straight Time (exhibition opening reception)
Follow the artists:
IV Castellanos @iv_castellanos
Mauren Catbagan @moofro
Dew Onwuka @supressingingyays
Moira Williams @moira670
Image: Painting by Miriam Rehr, 100x120cm, acrylic on canvas, 2021

Amphora’s Amorpha with Sally Beauty Twin
2021-10-02 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Amphora’s Amorpha (Dance, Music, Puppetry, Theater, Art) will be a multi-media festival Oct 2, Oct 9 and Oct 16 featuring more than 16 artists on Governors Island at Flux Factory’s residency in building 404A.
October 2nd will feature outdoor performances with visual art backdrops, showcasing music by Alice Cohen and Breakaway with a dance performance choreographed by Jessica Cook and Shizu Homma.
October 9th will have indoor (with vaccination cards checked at the door) music performances by IDKMYBFFJILL, a multimedia music show by Gui.dance, and the tiny, precisely mechanical puppetry of Deadguy Puppetry.
October 16 will have indoor (with vaccination cards checked at the door) musical performances by Agua Viva from Argentina, a theater review by Saints of an Unnamed Country, a poetry reading with fim and modular synth by Chihiro Ito and Lee Tusman, and an acoustic music performance by Apollo Flower Child.
Visual art will focus on how representations of differences of scale imitate our relationship to nature, with art installations by Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Jevijoe, Zev Gustafson, Sally Beauty Twin, Rebecca Bird and more.
Aspects of this project will be funded through two City Artist Corps grants that participants received.
Artist bio
Sally Beauty Twin is a New York curator, writer and painter. Her hundreds of productions as Amphora New York present the city’s most talented artists and performers in the most unusual locations (churches, shipping containers, ephemeral artist-run community centers). They exist at the intersection of maximum diversity and quality – focusing on inclusion with the most talented and most under-represented artists of New York. Her jewel-toned detailed paintings come from a generous desire to induce euphoric feelings in viewers.
Most Recent Art Show: https://www.tomatomouse.org/Welcome/Beauty.html
Curatorial Website: http://www.amphoranewyork.com
Participating Artists’ Links
Josi Arias (Agua Viva) – from Argentina, dramatic music with poetic Spanish lyrics
Rebecca Bird – hyperrealist painter, gallerist and curator
Breakaway – political activist and musician leaning to falsetto witchhouse
Alice Cohen – animator and musician, notably for the new wave band, The Vels
Camilla Padgitt-Coles – visual/ sonic artist; founder: Pineapple Reality, Perfect Wave
Jessica Cook – Brooklyn based dancer and choreographer (Roulette, The Kitchen)
Deadguy Puppetry – delicate and mechanical puppetry with euphoric soundscapes
Gui.dance – choreographer, musician, gallerist, printmaker, ink painter
Zev Gustafson – sculptor, printmaker, ink painter
Shizu Homma – Philadelphia based butoh dance master, choreographer, performer
IDKMYBFFJILL – thrilling, careening singalongs from Milo (FKA Crazy Jaunji Milf)
Chihiro Ito – Japanese painter, poet, musician, examining individuals’ nation creation
Jevijoe – painter, community based performer, radical ideologue, curator
Saints of an Unnamed Country – theater by Cameron Stuart, co-founder of The Glove
Sally Beauty Twin – curator, founder of BKLN community art spaces, painter, performer
Lee Tusman – inventor, musician, programmer, organizer at Babycastles

Opening Reception for Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See Group Exhibition
2021-10-08 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Chocolate Factory, 3833 24th St, Queens, New York, 11101
This Exhibition occurs at the Chocolate Factory Theater. See full exhibition information and visiting protocol.
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Taking place throughout October, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See is a group exhibition curated by Cameron Granger, Makeba Rainey and Haiba Hamilton. It is part of the Rhizome Project.
Let’s think about the shared history of Black Folks in the same way poet Hanif Abdurraqib describes the Soul Train Line: A narrow writhing seemingly endless tunnel of Black Folks smiling and clapping. Where, in the center, partners are brought together – sometimes by intention, many times by fate. And together, using what knowledge they have of themselves and their bodies, they must make their way out – to the other side – urged on by the blooming claps around them.
These shared stories become less visible as we move through the present and into the future. Our histories are often confined to the margins (a tunnel of its own) and redacted to a distorted past tense. In their place, a violent vernacular has been built, creating an imaging that finds Black Folks – to quote sociologist and scholar Ruha Benjamin: “trapped between regimes of invisibility and hypervisibility”
Image above:
Ricky Weaver
Amazing Grace

Archival Pigment Print, Acrylic
48 in. x 85 in.
2019

Curator talk with Dario Mohr & Cameron Granger: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
2021-10-09 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Chocolate Factory, 3833 24th St, Queens, New York, 11101
Join us for a curators’ talk with Cameron Granger as he and Dario Mohr discuss the artists and the work in Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.
This exhibition is at the Chocolate Factory Theater. See full exhibition information and visiting protocol.
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Dario Mohr is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist who creates interactive sanctuary experiences. Born in 1988, Mohr received a BFA from Buffalo State College, and an MFA from The City College of New York, as well as an Advanced Certificate from Queens College. In addition to work created in painting, sculpture or made digitally, he often includes assembled objects to build immersive “sacred spaces”. These often exist in unexpected places, using mundane objects. Because objects are endowed with the significance that the viewer blesses it with, his work can provide a lot of space for divergent perspectives and interpretations. The recycling of old work is also fundamental to Mohr’s practice. You will see previously created paintings and sculptures as well as the reuse of objects, textiles, cushions and other elements in future works. Sometimes a previously used item provides the perfect juxtaposition to enhance or add depth to new explorations. In addition to his individual art practice, he is also the Founder and Director of AnkhLave Arts Alliance, Inc. which is a non-profit for the recognition and representation of BIPOC artists in contemporary art.
Cameron Granger came up in Cleveland, Ohio alongside his mother, Sandra, inheriting both her love of soul music, and habit of apologizing too much. A video artist, he uses his work as both a site for memory making, and as means to strategize new ways of remembrance in our age of mass media.
His recent projects include “The Get Free Telethon” a 24 hour livestream community fundraiser sponsored by Red Bull Arts, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland, and “A library, for you” a traveling community library most recently housed at ikattha project space in Bombay, India. He’s a 2017 alumni of the Skowhegan School for Paint & Sculpture.

Black Femme Brunch presents The Dream Salon: Destroy this World with Desire: A Black Femme World-Wielding Salon
2021-10-16 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Via Zoom
This event is part of the Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See group exhibition. This Exhibition occurs at Chocolate Factory. See full exhibition information.
This is an online event on Zoom. RSVP on WithFriends for access information.
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“For us to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call America, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson– that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings. And neither were most of you here today, Black or not.” – Audre Lorde
In this workshop, Black Femme Brunch will guide participants in leaving behind the present and pursue the possibility of a future world: a world in which Black, fat, dark-skinned, poor, disabled, neurodivergent, queer and trans femmes and women (henceforth: The Center) do not exist in the clutches of the dragon, but instead glide through life free of its menace. All participants will then collaboratively facilitate a dreaming salon that imagines sustainable futures for The Center.
We will craft a world in which the needs and desires of The Center are the standard of care, access, and community. To guide our visioning, we will discuss how power and access to humanity is withheld from The Center and then framed as individual moralistic failing. This is done in order to maintain the illusion that we deserve less. When we stand in the resonance that there is no need to repress The Center, we can imagine all that we do desire.
Working together in small, self-selected break-out affinity groups, we will actively vision a future that sustains the needs and desires of The Center. Our dreaming will garner a safe place for kikis, connection, care, learning, family, gender expression, sexual expansion, sustainable living, and interdependence.
Fatphobia, ableism, patriarchy, transmisogynoir, and whiteness require the fuel of anti-blackness to sustain trauma, pain, and the disintegration of our wholeness. Our goal is to manifest a world that opens us to our fullness. May our brave dreams generate enclaves of care, safety, pleasure, play, rest, and ease that will allow us to pierce the dragon.
Black Femme Brunch builds community by being a radical, irreverent, and unapologetic celebration of trans and queer black femmes of all genders. Founded in 2014 in Washington, DC by Tuere Khanyisa and Shaan Wade, Black Femme Brunch began with a simple idea: to create an oasis for black femmes in the desert of white queer events, black straight spaces and cisheteronormative LGBT events. Under the stewardship of current creative co-directors, Tuere Khanyisa and Janae Williams (juh weems), since 2015, Black Femme Brunch has curated an Annual DC Black Pride Concert, hosted kink and sexual health events, hosted artbuilds, film screenings, parties and picnics amongst other rich offerings. Black Femme Brunch has been featured on the Black Joy Mixtape (an award-winning black feminist podcast), collaborated with Blk in Space, Halcyon Arts Lab, BYP100DC, BLMDC, Woolly Mammoth Theatre and has presented at International Mx. Leather & Bootblack Conference, Common Field Annual Convening and at the Black Sex Workers Conference. Black Femme Brunch will continue until the entire world is Black Femme Euphoria!
Tuere Khanyisa (Zaddi) is an afrofuturist writer, editor, visual artist and curator of black trans and queer spaces. She is a Dominant genderqueer Black femme who is also fat, kinky, poly and playfully describes herself as “gender suspicious.” Her messianic imperative is to invigorate and unite the black queer and trans community with the radical notion that pursuing pleasure is affirming, powerful, and a long denied and reclaimed right of black people’s humanity. She works to demystify understandings of kink, leather, and sex positivity by offering people safe containers to explore and encounter them without judgement. Zaddi loves writing black speculative fiction and imagining new worlds where black people in the future not only survive, but thrive. Zaddi is the creator and creative co-director of Black Femme Brunch, Road Captain of the Mid-Atlantic Onyx Pearls, an intern of the Carter Johnson Leather Library, and the POC Liaison of IMsL/BB.
Janae Williams (juh weems//fatblackclit) is an interdependent-disciplinary artist whose practice takes cues from: the black baptist church pews she was raised on, the many generations of shapeshifting fat black femmes, dykes and gender-suspicious beings before (and after) her and her love of Seeing black folks. Since 2015, JANAE has organized Black Femme Brunch, an irreverent celebration of black queer and trans femmes based in Washington, DC. She stewards each enclave of her artistic and curatorial practice as an invitation to black folks into witnessing themselves in their wholeness, envisioning (and practicing) liberation for themselves and maximizing play and pleasure as hallowed tools of black bodily and spatial sovereignty. Supported by the Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship, JANAE composed “hand-i-work”, a suite of arrangements (recompositions) of hymns and spirituals recovered from her childhood memories and piloted Black Intimacy Practice (BIP), a container for black folks (specifically those who are fat trans and queer femmes) to explore and expand their relationships to touch and movement through play. Currently, juh is constructing a world (futureniggaheaven) where black folks are free. futureniggaheaven is protected by nearly 900 peculiar beings called ALLUS (a portmanteau of “all of us”) who are angels protecting black folks’ imaginative capacity for visioning liberation, sovereignty and expansive modes of care and being.

Closing & Zine Release: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
2021-10-22 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Chocolate Factory, 3833 24th St, Queens, New York, 11101
Join us for a closing reception and celebration for a zine launch for Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.
This Exhibition occurs at Chocolate Factory. See full exhibition information and visiting protocol.
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The release of the Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See zine created by Danielle and Kevin McCoy of Work/Play includes conversations between Curator Cameron Grainger and the artists in addition to images of the work from the show.
The zine is an archive of the thought processes behind the work, and curation of that work, inside of the exhibition. With the show having such a limited run, this is an attempt at finding some sort of permanence for everything we put into the project. It’s a way of saying we were here, we did this, and this is why we wanted to do it. It’s something that we can carry forward with us as we move forward with our work.
WORK/PLAY is an interdisciplinary design duo based in St. Louis, MO. Kevin received a BFA in Graphic Communication from the University of Missouri St. Louis and recently graduated from Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis earning his MFA. Danielle is a conceptual artist, writer, and educator. Together, they combine illustration, minimal contemporary design along with experimental printmaking techniques into their art practice. With their use of design and printmaking, the collaborative duo has expanded their practice to textile arts, site-specific installation, publications and bookmaking to deliver an acerbic dose of revelation to inspire audiences and trigger experiences. They continuously experiment with new techniques, seeking to push beyond the perceived boundaries of art, design and printmaking.

Solar Balloon Workshop with Anika Todd
2021-10-23 - 2021-10-24 | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
This weekend @anikatodd will be leading a workshop at flux factory on Governors Island.

We will be learning to make balloons that heat up at Sun.

They can be sculptures or Lyft sculptures.

We will fly them together the following weekend on Halloween. Come by this Saturday or Sunday anytime from 10 AM to 10 PM.

Whispering Archipelago Outdoor Experimental Concert
2021-10-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Whispering Archipelago is a music performance with a focus on not just presenting music outdoors but rather integrating the soundscapes of the island as a performance element. The purpose of Whispering Archipelago is to be a gentle and reserved musical performance that will complement, harmonize, and enhance the sonic landscape of Governors’ Island.
Artist Bios:
Anthony Janas
Retired Magician. Boat Captain. Sound Artist with a focus on advanced modular synthesizer techniques and digitally processed field recordings. Member of multimedia group known as Urbe and seminal noise/performance group Panicsville. Contributing artist for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. Anthony Janas has presented work throughout the United States, Mexico and Western Europe. Anthony Janas work has ranged from sound installations on sailboats to playful performances such as juggling cheeseburgers. Anthony Janas’s work attempts to merge the institutional and pastoral moments of human existence.
Amanda Gutiérrez
Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater. Gutiérrez uses sound and performance art to investigate how these aural conditions affect everyday life. She is actively advocating listening practices while being one of the board of directors of the World Listening Project and currently as the scientific comitée of the Red Ecología Acústica México. She is a Ph.D. student at Concordia University in the HUMA department and a research assistant at lab PULSE, the Acts of Listening Lab, and an active member at the Feminist Media Studio at Concordia University.
Jenn Grossman
A sound/audiovisual artist and sound designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is concerned with the psycho-spatial and experiential potentials of sensory media, exploring displaced realities, staged synchronicity, cyclical time, memory, disorientation, embodiment, and perceptual affect. She’s presented/performed at festivals, museums and conferences nationally and internationally such as Black Mountain College & Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image and the New York Transit Museum, along with unconventional public locations like the Central Park tunnels for Make Music New York and in a cell at Fort Jay for the Governor’s Island Art Fair.
Brendan Landis
A composer and performer based in Queens, NY. His work explores themes of animal folklore and symbolism, music as spiritual practice, and contrasting extremes presented as necessary opposites. In addition to recording and performing music, Brendan gives workshops on listening, singing, improvisation, and intuition. He also writes songs as Anura and Receive, and sometimes plays in Tethers, Big Hiatus, and Esther Chlorine.

October Flux Saturday & Halloween Sunday on Governors Island
2021-10-30 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Join Flux for our last hurrah weekend on Governors Island. This truck only drives one speed…full speed! Below is our schedule of events for the weekend.
Flux Saturday, October 30

“Day Job” exhibition opening
2-3pm, “Sympoietica: A Grounding and Automatic Drawing Experience“, performance by Maureen Catbagan and soundscape

Halloween Sunday, October 31
11-5pm, “Jevi From 9 to 11” preview screening, film by Carlos David TC
10-6pm, Flying Solar Balloons with Anika Todd
“Day Job”, Worst Case Scenario Costume Karaoke

To find general information about all our activities on Governors Island, visit the Welcome to Flux Island webpage.

Day Job Pop-up Group Exhibition
2021-10-30 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
A group exhibition on Governors Island featuring day job related pieces by 17 artists who daylight as teachers, security guards, construction and retail workers, market researchers and more.
Open to the public Saturday and Sunday October 30 and 31 11-5pm
on Governors Island, Nolan Park, house #404A

Special “Day Job”, Worst Case Scenario Costume Karaoke closing party on Sunday October 30 from 1pm-5pm

How many of us entered (or even left) art school with the dream of making a living from one’s art? Maybe one would be ‘discovered’ and get a dealer, or a curator who liked you and would put you into shows with stipends, maybe you would work for a while, apply for the odd grant, and build one’s reputation until one could quit the job. Maybe you’re happy to never quit the day job and keep making whatever you want, apart from any market or art world expectations. Maybe you’ve figured it all out, in which case, congratulations!
Featuring work ranging from painting, photography, video, sculpture and performance from artist who daylight as teachers, security guards, construction and retail workers, market researchers and more. Join us at 1pm on Sunday afternoon for “Day Job”, Worst Case Scenario Costume Karaoke!
Featuring work by: Angeliki Chaido Tsoli, Catie Rutledge, Cayla Lockwood, Chris Corrente, Cody Umans, Daniel Vasquez, Daphne Simons, Genie Hong, Isabella Dampney, Jevijoe Vitug, Joseph Wilcox, Li-Ming Hu, Maureen Catbagan, Sarah Dahlinger, Theo MacDonald, Trasonia Abbott, Zachary Sun

Sympoietica: A Grounding and Automatic Drawing Experience
2021-10-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Sympoietica, by Maureen Catbagan and Sholeh Asgary, is a participatory performance that creates a space of solace, recuperation, and creative expression through our relationship to the earth and its multi-species inhabitants. The audience is invited to participate in a guided soundscape, movement, and reflection exercise that connects Governors Island biodiversity and history while expressing their associations through automatic drawing. The performance combines the connective practice of earthing, the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing, and feminist theorist Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis or “making- with.” The January 2012 Journal of Environmental Public Health states “reconnection with the Earth’s electrons has been found to promote intriguing physiological changes and subjective reports of well-being. Earthing (or grounding) refers to the discovery of benefits—including better sleep and reduced pain—from walking barefoot outside or sitting…transferring the Earth’s electrons from the ground into the body. Sympoiesis or “making-with” is the concept that things do not create themselves but develop through dynamic interrelations. Through sound, movement, and reflection, the performance generates a collaboration between bodies, place, and other living things that center systems of care, embodied knowledge, and collective well-being.

Sympoietica is made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts’ #CityArtistCorps Grants. Special thanks to @nyfacurrent, @NYCulture, @madein_ny, and @queenstheatre.

Maureen Catbagan is a Filipinx American, multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity, examines relations between identity and experience, and explores new forms of empowerment. Collaborative projects include Object II Body (with artist IV Castellanos), Abang-guard Duo (with artist Jevijoe Vitug), Flux Factory, and HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?. They have also written critical essays with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser. Catbagan has exhibited in venues such as ARoS Museum in Denmark, Witte de Withe Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu.

Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist who creates immersive works, performances and audience participatory scores with interest in liminal spaces experienced by the viewer-participant. Asgary’s current and recent residencies as of 2020 include Real Time & Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Mass MoCA, ARoS Art Museum, Wassaic Project, and Arab.AMP. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Minnesota Street Project, Gray Area Center for the Arts, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation, Soundwave Biennial, Wassaic Project, and Krowswork, amongst others. She has also performed as a solo artist, collaborated, or created compositions for many of these institutions, including CounterPulse, Center for Cultural Studies at University of Santa Cruz, Kulturmødet Mors, Mødet Mors, Aggregate Space Gallery, and SOMArts. Asgary is a 2020/21 California Arts Council grantee for her workshop series “Majles” created in partnership with with Arab.AMP, a 2019 Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Project Grant recipient through Dance Elixir, and recipient of a 2014 Alternative Exposure Grant for curatorial initiatives as Curator and Director of Education and Public Programs at Incline Gallery, where she founded The Project Room. Asgary received her MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University, and is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.

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Jevi From 9 to 11 Preview Screening
2021-10-31 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
A fictionalized short documentary about an artist who works at a museum during the pandemic. Starring Flux Factory artist Jevijoe Vitug and featuring music by Ben Seretan. The short was directed by Carlos David TC in 2021 and its production was made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Carlos David TC is a Venezuelan born artist based in NY. His work explores identity in the digital space by experimenting with film, performance, video, site specific installations and self-documentation. He has participated in residencies in Denmark (ARoS Arts Museum) Hungary (Art Quarter Budapest) and New York (Flux Factory). This year, Carlos David TC is a recipient of the Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and New York Foundation for the Arts’ City Artist Corps Grants.

www.carlosdavidtc.com

Instagram: @carlosdavidtc

Opening Reception for Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety
2021-11-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Ave, Queens, NY, 11101
Join us for the opening reception for the group exhibition Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety hosted by Culture Lab LIC at Plaxall Gallery. View full exhibition information at this website. RSVP on Facebook.

The exhibition “Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety” takes as its premise the state of ultra-anxiety our culture is functioning within due to the pandemic and worldwide social and economic upheaval. It questions whether our endlessly competitive society, which rewards selfish behavior over altruism, has given us the tools needed to survive or whether artists are needed to lead us away from the brink of extinction.

Participating Artists:

Amy Fung-yi Lee, Birgit Rathmann, Case Jernigan, Claire Chambless, Daniel Mantilla, Demarco Mosby, Dongjun Kim, Esteban Agosin, J. Triangular, Jee Park, Jess Blaustein, Joseph Morris, Keun-Young Park, Kimberly Lyle, Kim Sandra Lazaro Juan & Jordon Schranz, Mark Rice, Matthew Garrison, Nicki Cherry, Noa Yekutieli, Pauline Galiana, Sana Musasama, Silliam Bims, SiSi Chen, Stacy Bogdonoff, Travis Childers, Wieteke Heldens, Will Kaplan

Curated by Jeju Island Artist Collective: Eunsun Choi / Kyung-jin Kim / Yeon jin Kim

Spatial Politics of Control workshop with Claire Chambless
2021-11-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Ave, Queens, NY, 11101
This workshop by Claire Chambless is part of the Group Exhibition Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety held at Culture Lab LIC at Plaxall Gallery. Share on Facebook.
How do the spatial politics of urban environments and institutional spaces within and outside art contexts reinforce systems of oppression? Do the spaces we inhabit influence our sense of self? Can architecture and object placement impact how comfortable we feel? This workshop will use communal movement-based practices to explore the way bodies can work together to shift power relations in public spaces. We will begin with a guided meditation and group consciousness exercise to share diverse perceptions of architectural devices and crowd control objects. We will then move into a movement practice where we collectively use our bodies to explore strategies of anti-authoritarian space making. This workshop is a continuation of work begun in 2019 where the artist borrowed then reconfigured, NYPD crowd control barriers in Brooklyn.
Claire Chambless (b.1989, Houston, TX) is a sculptor whose practice encompasses object-making, photography, video and installation. She received her MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2020 and completed her undergraduate studies in 2012 at Davidson College, Davidson, NC. Her work has been shown in museums, galleries and public spaces, including the the MAK Center Mackey Apartments; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; Serious Projects, Los Angeles; TZ Projects, Los Angeles; La MaMa Gallery, New York, NY; Michael David & Co., New York; UCLA’s New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles; among others. She was a 2017-2018 Walthall Fellow, and is the founder of commons, a Los Angeles-based space and knowledge sharing project that organizes exhibitions, performances, screenings and reading groups. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
