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SUMMARY:One Spa on a Time produced by Springboard Collective
DESCRIPTION:June 22\, 12:00 pm – June 24\, 11:59 pm\, 2018\nPlease RSVP on Facebook\n \nOnce upon on a time\, in a land far\, far away\, a fairy godmother granted spa therapy to all. \nFlux Factory is pleased to present an immersive 60-hour spa resort produced by Springboard Collective. Plan your getaway beginning at noon Friday\, June 22nd because this spa will turn into a pumpkin at stroke of midnight on Sunday\, June 24th.  \nThe installation features a sauna\, tanning bed\, indoor/outdoor shower\, cafeteria and fantasy lounge. Guests can relax and enjoy the 24-hour amenities\, healthy snacks and specialty spa treatments. Robes\, loungewear\, or swimsuits must be worn at all times while in the sauna or during live performances. The rest is up to you. All events and are free and open to the public. Visit One Spa on a Time\, and live happily ever after.\n \nSpringboard Collective produces site-specific\, interactive\, and sculptural environments. This project is co-directed by Danny Crump\, Micah Snyder and Sarah Dahlinger in collaboration with Kyung jin Kim and Will Owen. This exhibition is funded in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation and in-kind donations from Materials for the Arts \nSchedule of Events \n\n\n\nWarm up Friday 6/22 \n12pm – Opening\n7pm – Yoga with Michael O’Malley \n\nWorkout Saturday 6/23 \n12am-6am – Durational Audio work by Man Bartlett \n6am – Bootcamp Dance-aoke\n12pm – Splish Splash Time ft. Fire Hydrant\n9pm – Live Performances by Seth Timothy Larson\, Michael O’Malley\, and Jaimie Warren\n10pm-??am – Dry-Ice Dance Party ft. DJ Sponsored Lynx \n\n Cool Down Sunday 6/24 \n12pm – SPA Brunch\n4pm – Yoga with Emily Melander \n6pm-11:59pm Reflection Time\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP on Facebook
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/onespa/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Wilder LIC: Artist Talks & Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 17th \n6pm-8pm \nJoin us for the closing ceremony Wilder LIC\, the very first group exhibition at the Windmill Community Garden. We’ll enjoy three artist talks while sharing a complimentary supper. \nThe Windmill Community Garden is located at 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 \nMoira Williams\, Fluxer extraordinaire who works at the intersection of ecology and visual art\, will give a talk on Turkey Tail mushrooms\, with a demonstration on mushroom inoculation. “The Fungi family has over 36\,000 sexes and includes mushrooms\, molds\, smuts\, rust plus yeast! Most fungi lack chlorophyll\, causing their nutrients to come from materials other than the sun. Some fungi\, particularly mushrooms\, find nutrients in and digest petroleum\, plastic\, pharmaceutical and industrial waste. These same mushrooms are highly recognized for their medicinal properties and abilities to decrease the cycle of endocrine disrupters –plastic in waterways and land. Plus they live with us in NYC!” \nEthan Crenson\, of the New York Mycological Society\, will talk about fungi native to New York City that are small or otherwise overlooked.  He’ll bring along about 10 specimens for participants to examine (he’ll have magnifying loupes to share with participants).  The emphasis will be on ascomycete fungi.\n \nNat Roe\, Flux’s Executive Director and Wilder LIC co-curator\, will send closing remarks and musings on the exhibition’s themes including public space and sustainability. \nKatya Khan\, whose pretty/ugly was installed at Windmill for the Wilder LIC exhibition\, will speak about her artwork and landscape architecture. \nSupper from Flux Iron Chefs will be served\, including plants grown at Windmill so far! \nFull Wilder LIC Exhibition details: fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-group-exhibition
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/closing-reception/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:June Flux Thursday: “ ”(quote\, unquote) with Wieteke Heldens
DESCRIPTION:Artist presentations from: Jonathan Sims\, Tracy May Fuad\, Rich Ann/Super Perfect Working Robot and Wieteke Heldens  \n \nThis Flux Thursday is in tandem with ” “quote\, unquote with Wieteke Heldens \nJonathan Sims is an abstract visual artist working with many different media. He plans to share his recent work with analog projectors inspired by ancient star charts and constellations\, and will be sharing details about his newest light sculptures.  \nTracy May Fuad is an artist and poet and will be presenting a project exploring algorithm-human relations using Google Translate.  \nRich Ann would like to introduce her robot story and will perform her new collaborative music “I rap: therefore\, I exist” by the Super Perfect Working Robot- Rich Ann. . \nWieteke Heldens will talk about her research for subconscious art and more specifically about graffiti removals. She will explain the similarities between these graffiti removals and her own work.  \nRSVP here
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/june-flux-thursday_quote/
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SUMMARY:“ ”(quote\, unquote) with Wieteke Heldens
DESCRIPTION:June 13th – 17th \nWieteke Heldens will use the gallery of Flux Factory to do work on her current project : “ ” (quote\, unquote). The gallery will open to the public who wants to collaborate in her artistic research for subconscious art and graffiti removal. Visitors are invited to put graffiti on the gallery walls\, this will be erased by painting over it. \n\n“Quote\, to repeat the words that someone else has said or written.” Cambridge Dictionary \n“Collaborate\, 1: Work jointly on an activity or project\, 2: Cooperate traitorously with an enemy.”(Oxford\nDictionaries) \n“Artistic research\, also seen as ‘practice-based research’\, can take form when creative works are\nconsidered both the research and the object of research itself. It is the debatable body of thought\nwhich offers an alternative to purely scientific methods in research in its search for knowledge and\ntruth.” (Wikipedia) \n“Subconscious art- a product of artistic merit that was created without conscious artistic\nintentions” (The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal\, USA\, 2001\, 16 min\,) \n“Graffiti removal- the act of erasing graffiti by painting over it” (The Subconscious Art of Graffiti\nRemoval\, USA\, 2001\, 16 min) \n“Graffiti (plural of graffito: “a graffito”\, but “these graffiti”) are writing or drawings that have been\nscribbled\, scratched\, or painted\, typically illicitly\, on a wall or other surface\, often within public view.\nGraffiti range from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings\, and they have existed since\nancient times\, with examples dating back to Ancient Egypt\, Ancient Greece\, and the Roman\nEmpire.” (Wikipedia)\n \nThis project is realized thanks to the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/quote-unquote-open-studios-with-wieteke-heldens/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:FLUX-A-THON 2018
DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS HERE \nParade leaves Flux Factory at 4pm \n29-31 29th street\, LIC\, 11101 \nAfter party starting 5pm at the Plaxall Gallery \n5-25 46th Ave\, Long Island City\, NY 11101 \nOur 3rd annual Flux-a-Thon is part parade\, part dinner/dance party\, part participatory art showdown\, part walkathon\, but 100% Fluxy. \nFor full team info\, and more information go to www.flux-a-thon.com \n  \nPlease join our us as we march through LIC\, Queens from our home base\, Flux Factory to the Plaxall Gallery\, home of the Long Island City Artists\, the longest running artist-run organization in LIC. \nAfter our celebrity panel awards the teams with prizes\, we’ll celebrate with food catered by the Tracy May Fuad\, delicious drinks\, DJs and more! \nProceeds from the Flux-a-Thon support Flux Factory’s free public art exhibitions and help keep costs low for our Artists-in-Residence. Thanks to our Friends of Flux members for making this all possible\, and to our event sponsors\, which include: Long Island City Artists & Plaxall Gallery\, Arrowood Farms\, Endeavor Printing\, The Vine Collective\, Fairway\, Food Bazaar\, Artist & Craftsman and the Materials for the Arts \nBUY TICKETS HERE
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-a-thon-2018/
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SUMMARY:Richard Garet and Andrea Haenggi performances
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Wilder LIC Exhibition\, Flux will host two performance and potluck afternoons at the Windmill Community Garden. \nJune 3\, at the Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City \nDoors: 4 pm\n4:30 pm – Andrea Haenggi’s “DON’T TOUCH ME: A Participatory Fieldwork Performance”\n5:30 pm – Richard Garet\, quadraphonic sound performance \n++ food provided throughout by Flux Iron Chefs! \nOnly 15 may participate in Andrea’s piece\, RSVP is a must at this link. This event is FREE (!!) to the public with no RSVP needed – the RSVP is only necessary to be a participant in Andrea’s performance. \nMore about the artists \nRichard Garet\nRichard Garet works with sound and visual arts; New Yorkers may remember Richard’s work from the 2013 MoMA Exhibition “Soundings”. His materials emerge from ontological investigations of background noise and the decadence-and-decay of technological utilities. Garet seeks to invert the normative function of background noise from unconscious status to active presence. The images and objects in his work stem from processes and experimentations applied to both outmoded and current technological media that emulate situations that translate material source into abstractions. \nArtist website: www.richardgaret.com \nAndrea Haenggi\nAndrea Haenggi’s choreographic practice explores the various social\, ecological and political mediations of spontaneous urban plants we often call “weeds” through embodied movement based practice. The weeds “have a question for me” and “have to tell me/us something”\, they become my choreographic directives and as well my performers. \nweedychoreography.com \nThe attentive physical fieldwork “There was a sign saying DON’T TOUCH ME” invites participants to collectively create a performance work within the mosaic of spontaneous ecosystems of urban plants (aka weeds) surrounding the Windmill Community Garden in Long Island City. Within this context\, the urban plants are additional audience members as well as dance partners. Guided by Haenggi’s “urban weeds movement alphabet language” participants will experience possibilities of assembling with and caring for their own bodies as well as those of the urban plants. \n“There was a sign saying Don’t touch me” explores the limits of individual and collective willingness to be there for one another\, moving beyond humans\, and cultivates radical practices of intimacy. Ritual\, bioscience\, foraging\, dance\, voice and somatic practices underpin this participatory attentive physical fieldwork. These biodynamic encounters bring us deeper into the social connections of an urban block\, and uncover questions of how interspecies “wilderness” and companionship can feel in this\, the 6th mass extinction. \nAll are welcome\, no training needed\, just a willingness to be physical with the land and to be in proximity with humans and non-humans. We will sit and lie on the sidewalk\, wear comfortable clothes that can handle a little dirt and dust. The tour is limited to 15 participants and tickets are required with a suggested $5 – $10 donation.  RSVP is a MUST to participate.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/richard-garet-solo-and-andrea-haenggis-dont-touch-me-a-participatory-fieldwork-performance-with-supper-from-flux-iron-chefs/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Impulse: Solo Exhibition by Amir Badawi
DESCRIPTION:June 1-5\, 2018\nOpening Reception:  Friday\, June 1st\, 7-10 pm\nGallery Hours: 12-4 pm \nRSVP on Facebook \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFor his inaugural solo exhibition in New York\, Amir Badawi fills the gallery with colorful metal wire installations\, stone sculptures\, ink drawings\, useless lists\, and pulsing beacons of light.  These works are the result of intuitive improvisation and Badawi’s latent obsession with iterative processes and repetitive patterns.  Focusing on the natural form of kinetic curves and methodical nonsense this show engages viewers in a playful yet suspicious way.  Will this wire come loose and poke my eye out?  Is it really ok to touch this?  Does anything in the universe have meaning?  Maybe!  Either way there will be beer.  
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/impulse-solo-exhibition-by-amir-badawi/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Amirtha Kidambi and Jessica Pavone (solo and duo sets)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Wilder LIC Exhibition\, Flux Factory will host two performance and potluck afternoons at the Windmill Community Garden. \nMay 27th\, at the Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\nThis event is free!\nDoors: 4 pm\n4:30 pm – Jessica Pavone (solo set)\n5:00 pm – Jessica Pavone / Amirtha Kidambi Duo\n5:30 pm – Amirtha Kidambi (solo set)\n++ food provided throughout by Flux Iron Chefs! \nMore information on the artists… \nJessica Pavone\nJessica Pavone (composer\, viola\, violin\, el.bass) has performed in countless improvisation\, avant jazz\, experimental\, folk\, soul\, and chamber ensembles since moving to NYC in 2000. She currently plays with Normal Love\, in a duo with guitarist Mary Halvorson\, with Anthony Braxton’s ensembles and as a solo violist. As a composer\, The Wire magazine praised her “ability to transform a naked tonal gesture into something special\,” and The New York Times described her music as “distinct and beguiling…its core is steely\, and its execution clear.” \n  \nAmirtha Kidambi\nAmirtha Kidambi “takes a holistic approach to singing\, which can mean treating every element as unfixed: Words can be opened up\, rendered nonspecific. Melody can be repeated and frozen and stuck in place. Markings of rhythm can become utterly abstract\, freed from cadence.” (New York Times)
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/amirtha-kidambi-and-jessica-pavone-solo-and-duo-sets-with-supper-from-flux-iron-chefs/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Weedy Nomad: A Walking Tour of LIC’s Forgotten Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Weedy Nomad: A Walking Tour of LIC’s Forgotten Landscapes\nMay 27\, 2 – 3pm\nPart of the Wilder LIC Group Exhibition\nTour commences at the Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th Street in Long Island City \nJoin artists Thomas Choinacky and Christopher Kennedy for a walking tour of Long Island City’s overlooked green spaces and marginal ecologies. Starting at the Windmill Community Garden\, we’ll begin to observe\, engage with\, and map nearby vacant lots\, tree pits\, sidewalk cracks and highway medians. Together we’ll learn how to identify a range of spontaneous urban plants (aka weeds) and experiment with forms of movement and dance to engage with each weedy space and territory. Along the way we’ll also consider how the language we use to classify these organisms as “exotic” and “alien” has troubling parallels to policies and practices used to marginalize immigrant communities. Despite their status as invasive or dangerous\, these plants have immense value and can teach us about climate change adaptation and how to survive NYC’s harsh urban conditions. By the end of the workshop we hope to develop ideas for how to map multispecies life in LIC\, and a new understanding of what constitutes a so-called green space or landscape in NYC. \nThe workshop is open to all\, no prior knowledge needed! We encourage you to wear clothing you can move in\, and don’t mind getting a little dirty. \nPlease RSVP at this link if you like\, a suggested donation is appreciated but not required.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/weedy-nomad-a-walking-tour-of-lics-forgotten-landscapes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T140000
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SUMMARY:Weedy Nomad: A Performative Field Study
DESCRIPTION:Weedy Nomad: A Performative Field Study\n May 26\, 2 – 3pm\n Part of the Wilder LIC Group Exhibition\, May 5 – June 6\n Tour Commences at the Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th Street\, Long Island City \nJoin artists Thomas Choinacky and Christopher Kennedy for an interactive workshop and ecological field study of the Windmill Community Garden. Help us archive and engage with the garden’s multispecies life. Learn strategies for bioremediation\, wild plant mapping\, soil quality testing\, and assessing the health of urban landscapes. We’ll pay particular attention to the unwanted plants and organisms we consider weeds\, noting the edges and borders of the garden as spaces for interspecies collaboration and indicators of climate change adaptation. As we observe together\, we’ll also experiment with forms of movement and dance to communicate with plants and other nonhumans – imagining the body as a site for scientific inquiry. At the end of the workshop we hope you’ll feel inspired to conduct similar field studies in your own neighborhood\, and add to our collective research on NYC’s changing ecology. \nThe workshop is open to all\, no prior knowledge needed! We encourage you to wear clothing you can move in\, and don’t mind getting a little dirty. \nPlease RSVP at this link\, a $5-$10 suggested donation is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/weedy-nomad-a-performative-field-study/
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SUMMARY:Flux on the Floor
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 25th\n 9pm – 1am \nOn Friday the 25th from 9pm-1am\, Flux Factory will host a long-overdue dance party benefitting their upcoming group residency at ARoS Public (Denmark). Expanding on artist-in-resident PlayPlay’s installation\, Resilience: A Sonic Tribute to the Queer History of Club Music\, Flux Factory DJs Vinyl Richie\, Sponsored Lynx\, PlayPlay\, and a possible guest will provide a continuous mix of electronic club music\, from early disco to house to current underground hits. Expect an authentic nightclub atmosphere\, complete with laser lighting\, fog\, subwoofers\, and a disco ball (or chicken). Come ready to free yourself and break a sweat! \n \n\n About the DJs:\n Jess Dilday/ PlayPlay (HEAVY\, Knightwerk) combines their penchant for percussion and bass with nostalgic hip-hop and rave samples in both their DJ sets & original music production. Using a combination of samples and hardware synthesizers to create everything from unearthly basslines to high-octane acid/industrial sounds\, PlayPlay makes energetic music that is both familiar and hard to pin down. In January\, they debuted their EP release “It’s Only 3am” on Knightwerk Records\, and have several more releases forthcoming in 2018. PlayPlay is also a music scholar and activist interested in local music scenes\, dance floor dynamics\, queer theory\, and media studies. PlayPlay is currently an artist-in-residence at Flux Factory\, where they will be debuting a soundscape installation that focuses on the queer history of club music from May 24-27. \nBronx native Richard (DJ Vinyl Richie/ Yovinyl) got his taste for music at a young age listening to records in the house and around the parties in his neighborhood. Richard’s main DJ influences were local New York radio DJs and DMC VHS tapes. Richie’s DJ technique involves using creative mixing and turntablism while performing. When he is not controlling a crowd he is creating and curating sound projects with his new group DotCrawL. \nwill owen/Sponsored Lynx Originally from North Carolina\, US is an artist\, composer\, and curator currently based in Queens\, NY and Philadelphia\, PA. He is an artist in residence at Flux Factory (NYC) and a curator at Little Berlin Gallery (Philadelphia\, PA). Will works mainly with Sound\, Installation Design\, and Food. He has exhibited internationally in Denmark\, Iceland\, Freetown Christiania\, Wales\, and Russia. Additionally he has shown work extensively nationally at such institutions as The Museum of the Moving Image (NYC)\, Philadelphia Water Works Museum\, Black Mountain College Museum\, and Flux Factory (NYC).
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-factory-dance-party/
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SUMMARY:Resilience: A Sonic Tribute to the Queer History of Club Music
DESCRIPTION:RESILIENCE: A Sonic Tribute to the Queer History of Club Music\nThursday\, May 24th – Sunday\, May 27th  \nOpening\, 7pm\, May 24th\nFlux on the Floor\, 9pm May 25th\nOpen Studio\, 2pm – 8pm\, May 26th\nArtist Talk\, 2pm May 27th\nRSVP here  \n \n  \n  \nJess Dilday\, Flux Factory artist-in-residence also known as their DJ/producer persona PlayPlay\, will debut their ongoing soundscape project exploring the queer history of electronic club music\, starting from early disco and ending at the underground club scenes of today. In this early reveal of a much bigger project\, PlayPlay is hoping to gain feedback\, find potential collaborators\, and compile conversations and stories from people who have been a part of the NYC nightclub scene for years. \nNightclubs\, since even before the days of early disco\, were created to provide safe(r) spaces for escape\, freedom\, & debauchery – particularly for Black & Latinx LGBTQ clubgoers who constantly face dangerous situations outside of the nightclub. Over the years\, white cis heterosexual men have taken electronic music and capitalized on it\, eventually bringing it into the mainstream under the hyperbrand “EDM.”  Nevertheless\, queer underground music scenes have consistently persisted and continue to thrive\, creatively pushing music in ways that are years ahead of the mainstream (much like the queer impact on visual arts & fashion). The installation attempts to address this resilience sonically\, weaving together club music from past to present\, sound bytes from clubgoers\, & subliminal sonic textures to juxtapose the fantasy & danger ever-present throughout the history of club music.  \nThis installation opens at 7pm on Thursday evening\, May 24th\, with an artist talk by PlayPlay\, as well as an open call for public discussion on the role club spaces have played in people’s lives\, audience memories of attending clubs over the years in NYC (and beyond)\, and how nightclubs can serve as sacred spaces for attendees\, particularly for queer and trans people of color. PlayPlay will also be compiling a giant “best of” playlist where people can write their favorite nightclub tracks\, the ones where you completely lose yourself in the moment. \nOn Friday the 25th\, Flux Factory will host a giant dance party from 9pm-1am benefitting their upcoming group residency at ARoS Public (Denmark). Flux Factory resident DJs Vinyl Richie and Sponsored Lynx will join PlayPlay in providing a continuous mix of club music\, from early disco to current underground club music staples. This party will serve as a live expansion on the installation theme in which everyone can get free on the dancefloor. \nOn Saturday the 26th\, PlayPlay will fine-tune their soundscape in an open studio format\, inviting feedback\, commentary\, and spontaneous dancing throughout the day. \nFinally\, on Sunday the 27th\, the installation will close out with an afternoon artist talk and reflection at 2pm\, inviting final feedback and discussion about potential next steps for this project. And then\, you guessed it\, a dance party 🙂 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/resilience-a-sonic-tribute-to-the-queer-history-of-club-music/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180303T214104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T075149Z
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SUMMARY:An Obscure Silhouette: Solo Exhibition by Po-Yen Wang
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception\n Friday\, May 18\, 7pm – 10pm \nGallery Open Hours\n  May 19 – 20\, noon – 4 pm or by appointment \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAn Obscure Silhouette is a solo exhibition by Po-Yen Wang. It brings together a body of work exploring the multi-layered identity within a person\, incorporating video\, installation and sculpture. ‘Six Excerpts from a Journal’ juxtaposes outer space imagery and a monologue addressing the relationship between Taiwan and the US weaved with personal narratives. ‘Crossing’ utilizes the interior of rooms as a metaphor to illustrate an immigrant’s mindset in two different time zones. ‘A Fabricated Personal Archive’ manipulates childhood imagery found on the Internet to question the relationship between human memory and digital archive. ‘Construction of Intimacy’ seeks to expose the fragility of a digital portrait yet consolidate it with the physical self. \nPo-Yen Wang is a visual artist living and working between New York and Taiwan. His art practice primarily takes the form of video and installation\, creating an immersive environment to evoke the viewers’ emotions and imaginations. His work usually derives from a personal experience and then evolves into a broad research of the people or place he is associated with\, in order to explore the collective history and memory. Using digital media especially moving images and 3D animation as primary medium\, he is concerned about how complex and intricate our identities are under the influence of digital culture and globalization; how we perceive outside world and our own existence in an age when our bodies are extended by advancing technology and our perceptions of reality are deeply intertwined with the cinematic. \nWebsite: www.poyenwang.com \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/an-obscure-silhouette-solo-exhibition-by-po-yen-wang/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180514T000000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180302T205801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T165237Z
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SUMMARY:Open Engagement turn up with Party Noire\, Xhoir and DJ Latham
DESCRIPTION:May 13\, 2018\n \n7:00  –  Midnight\n Free with Open Engagement Conference Pass.\n General Admission begins at 9pm and is $5 at the door \nhttps://www.fluxfactory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FluxFactory_OE2018-3.mp4\n\n\n\nLatham Zearfoss\nParty Noire\n\n\nJoin us for a tender turn up\, as Party Noire will carry’s us into the future with vibes galore. As a closing event for the Social Justice conference Open Engagement (OE)\, artists and activists from around the city\, country and world will sing and dance their farewells – we can all help them. OE staff will be performing (Jade\, Xhoir)\, DJing (Latham) and working the bar (Rimona and Kyra).  \nHosted dinner from 7-9 from Kati Roll Shack for Open Engagement presenters and attendees! \nIn partnership with Flux Factory’s Major Exhibition\, Wilder LIC. Visit the exhibition page for a full schedule. \n\n\n \n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/party-noire/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180512T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180512T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180301T211929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T165322Z
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SUMMARY:Wilder LIC: Good Vibrations Acoustic Cartography Tours
DESCRIPTION:Wilder LIC: Good Vibrations Acoustic Cartography Tours\n  \nTour takes place at 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City \n As part of the Wilder LIC Group Exhibition at the Windmill Community Garden\, please join us for Good Vibration Acoustic Cartography Tours!  RSVP IS A MUST \nUsing his custom Mobile Listening Kits\, Wilder LIC artist Johann Diedrick will be leading three Tours on Saturday May 12th\, each lasting 1 hour. \nThe tours encourage participants to shift the way they relate to our environment through sound. With the Mobile Listening Kits\, participants can tap into the least audible sounds of the Windmill Community Garden including soil movements\, worms\, water\, and the air around us. \nWith the use of the Mobile Listening Kits\, participants can tune in to subtle acoustic vibrations in the environment and explore the site’s cracks and surfaces. A field guide for urban listening directs aural explorers to acoustic ‘points of interest.’ \nTour spots are VERY limited to 6 participants per tour and tickets are required with a suggested $5 – $10 donation. \nAll tours occur Saturday\, May 12: \nRSVP for 1pm-2pm tour \nRSVP for 2:30-3:30pm tour \nRSVP for 4pm-5pm tour
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-good-vibrations-acoustic-cartography-tours/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180510T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180301T205159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152506Z
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SUMMARY:May Flux Thursday: Eat the Weeds
DESCRIPTION:May 10th\n7pm Dinner\n8pm Artist Talks \nPlease join us for Eat the Weeds\, a very special edition of Flux Thursdays\, hosted in conjunction with Wilder LIC\, a group exhibition in the Windmill Garden. We’ll literally eat weeds\, and then hear artist talks by… \nEllie Irons\nThomas Choinacky & Christopher Kennedy\nKristyna & Marek Milde\nJohann Diedrick \nFlux will serve the main dish\, but feel free to bring your favorite vegetarian dish\, especially if it features edible weeds. \nWilder LIC is on view from May 5 – June 16\, with performances\, talks and more throughout! \nFind all Wilder LIC details at: www.fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-group-exhibition \nWilder LIC Participating artists and performers include Amirtha Kidambi\, Andrea Haenggi\, Alex Nathanson\, Christopher Kennedy & Thomas Choinacky\,Next Epoch Seed Library (Ellie Irons & Anne Percoco)\, Jessica Pavone\, Johann Diedrick\, Katya Khan\, Kristyna & Marek Milde\, Richard Garet\, Valeria Haedo…and Flux Iron Chefs!!!
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/may-flux-thursday-eat-the-weeds/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180412T194600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152503Z
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SUMMARY:Wilder LIC Group Exhibition Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday\, May 5th for a celebration of untamed New York with Wilder LIC\, the very first group exhibition at the Windmill Community Garden. This outdoor exhibition features thirteen artists whose work seeks to make visible the wildness that lies just below the city’s concrete. Food and refreshments provided by Juquila Kitchen. Engaging conversation provided by you. \nFull Exhibition details: fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-group-exhibition \nWilder LIC will run May 5 – June 17\, with performances\, workshops\, and special events throughout! \nMore about the art: \nJohann Dedrick’s Listening Stations allow visitors to hear what is going on in the garden’s soil\, water supply\, and air currents using custom-made technology. Kristyna and Marek Milde’s Planetarium Tea Garden hosts wild\, edible herbs and flowers that can also easily be found growing within the cityscape. Katya Khan’s Pretty / Ugly explores the often ignored aesthetics of worms and fungi. Alex Nathanson’s Solar Panel harnesses the power of the sun for artistic purposes. The glass and metal sculptures of Valeria Haedo transforms the astonishing invisibility of this light into its perceptible component parts. The Next Epoch Seed Library is creating a time capsule of weedy species’ seeds to be dug up and germinated every 20 years. \nWilder LIC will also feature numerous performances designed to enable participants to interact with the city’s wildness. Andrea Haenggi’s participatory fieldwork There was a sign saying “Don’t touch me” invites the audience to collectively co-create a performance work with wild urban plants (aka weeds). Thomas Choinacky and Christopher Kennedy explore LIC’s forgotten landscapes and dive into the unique ecology of the Windmill Community Garden. And so much more! Full details at: fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-group-exhibition \nInspired by George Monboit’s book Feral\, Wilder LIC seeks to alleviate the ecological boredom experienced by urban denizens resulting from homogeneous landscapes by channeling what is wild through familiar media and technologies. The goal of this exhibition is to create an accessible platform for new ideas about ecological and cultural diversity. \nCurated by Lorissa Rinehart & Nat Roe.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-group-exhibition-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180618
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180301T052542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190411T153834Z
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SUMMARY:Wilder LIC Group Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Wilder LIC Group Exhibition \nFlux Factory is opening the very first group exhibition across the street at the Windmill Community Garden\, which Flux co-founded with neighborhood partners in 2016 \nNew artworks will be on view May 5 – June 17 dawn to dusk every day\, with special performances throughout the month.  \nIt all takes place at 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City! \nSchedule of Events\nMay 5th\, 3p-7p – Opening reception\, catered by Juquila Kitchen\nMay 10\, 7p – Flux Thursday potluck and artist talks\nMay 12\, 1p-5p – “Good Vibrations Acoustic Cartography Tour”\nMay 13\, 6p – “Party Noire”\, part of Open Engagement conference\nMay 26\, 2p-3p – “Weedy Nomad: A Performative Field Study”\nMay 27\, 2p-3p – “Weedy Nomad: A Walking Tour of LIC’s Forgotten Landscapes”\nMay 27\, 4p-7p – Amirtha Kidambi and Jessica Pavone (solo and duo sets) with supper from Flux Iron Chefs\nJune 3\, 4p-7p – Richard Garet (solo) and Andrea Haenggi’s “DON’T TOUCH ME: A Participatory Fieldwork Performance”\, with supper from Flux Iron Chefs\nJune 17\, 6p – Closing Reception with Artist Talks \n Participating artists and performers include Amirtha Kidambi\, Andrea Haenggi\, Alex Nathanson\, Christopher Kennedy & Thomas Choinacky\, Next Epoch Seed Library (Ellie Irons & Anne Percoco)\, Jessica Pavone\, Johann Diedrick\, Katya Khan\, Kristyna & Marek Milde\, Moira Williams\, Richard Garet\, Valeria Haedo…and Flux Iron Chefs!!! \nWilder LIC is curated by Lorissa Rinehart and Nat Roe. \nPreview works on view throughout Exhibition \n[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”3″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”100″ thumbnail_height=”75″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]\nPreview performers throughout Wilder LIC \n[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”4″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”100″ thumbnail_height=”75″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”1″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show as slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]\nCuratorial Prompt \nIn his recent book Feral\, George Monboit discusses his theory of ecological boredom that posits much of the existential ennui experienced by urban denizens is a result of our self-distancing from the wild in favor of more homogeneous landscapes. To advance this idea further\, one might postulate that our evolutionary biology seeks and yearns for biodiversity\, recognizing this as the keystone of a sustainable environment. Simultaneously\, our contrary desire is to find safety in the controlled and understood leads us to create places where the other is wholly absent. \nThus we find ourselves increasingly migrating to megacities devoid of any contact with what one might call nature as even city parks are highly regulated spaces where an errant leaf is cause for a gas powered blower. Outside the city is hardly better as agribusiness monoculture creates unbroken seas of Roundup-ready cash crops. By banishing any hope of the aleatory\, these barren spaces inhibit imagination and creativity. \nThis exhibition seeks to channel what is wild through familiar media and technologies in order to create an accessible platform for new ideas about ecological and cultural diversity. It suggests the wild can be understood as a complicated system necessary for the perpetuation of life as we know it\, rather than chaos that should be simplified and abolished. Finally\, this exhibition encourages artists\, scientists\, programmers\, and designers to work together and borrow from each other to create new lenses through which we might see and experience our wilder nature. \nAbout the Windmill Community Garden\nLocated across the street from Flux Factory\, the Windmill Community Garden was founded in 2016 and is a permanent GreenThumb NYC Park.  The Garden is led by three neighborhood nonprofits including Flux Factory\, The Growing Up Green Charter School\, and the Dutch Kills Civic Association\, in addition to local community members.  To keep up with Windmill\, follow us on Facebook or become a Windmill member by emailing nat@fluxfactory.org \nSupport for Wilder LIC is provided by Friends of Flux\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo\, the New York State Legislature; and generous support is provided by the Partnership for Parks Capacity Fund Grant.  Do consider donating to make more free public programs like this possible!
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/wilder-lic-group-exhibition/
LOCATION:Windmill Community Garden\, 39-22 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180502
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180404T023623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191224T011929Z
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SUMMARY:WFLX: Flux Factory Radio
DESCRIPTION:LISTEN HERE \nWFLX is an ongoing Flux Factory project\, organized by DJ Vinyl Richie with love. WFLX broadcasts interviews with artists\, play lists by Fluxers\, and hype for Flux projects from our humble home in Long Island City. With a revolving and ever-expanding list of artists\, writers\, filmmakers\, curators\, performers\, and musicians rolling through the halls of Flux\, you never know what you’ll hear on WFLX. \n\n\nFLUX FACTORY RADIO: WFLX EP. #13\nPLAYING TRACKS B\nThe Supremes\, Ramp\, Arisen My Senses Kelly Lee Owens Remix\, Brass Construction\, Jill Scott and more. \n\nArtwork by Jaime Idea\n\nARCHIVE \n\n \nEpisode #12 LISTEN HERE\nartwork by: MUSE\n \n \n \n \n \n\nEpisode #11 – LISTEN HERE\nThis episode of WFLX is dedicated to the Flux-community list\, who contributed songs for your mind\, body and soul. Mix by Dj Vinyl Richie.\n \n \n \n\nEpisode #10 – LISTEN HERE\nartwork by J Triangular\n \n \n \n \n\nEpisode #9\, Valentine’s edition – LISTEN HERE\nartwork by Maya Suess and Ashley Yang Tompson\n \n \n \n \nEpisode #8 – LISTEN HERE\nartwork by Seth Timothy Larson\n \n \n \n \n \n\nEpisode #7 – LISTEN HERE\nartwork by Sarah Dahlinger\n \n \n \n \nEpisode #6 – LISTEN HERE
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/wflx-flux-factory-radio/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180421T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180228T010303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152341Z
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SUMMARY:Anything! | Group exhibition by Flux Factory
DESCRIPTION:Opening night April 20 6-10pm\nPerformances by Kaylon Hayward\, Christina Freeman\, Miss Expanding Universe and Will Owen\nGallery hours April 21st-28th 11-5pm\nFlux Factory 39-31\, 29th Street\, Long Island City\nRSVP here!! \nTrivial Pursuits Dinner Party\nApril 27\, 7-10pm\n$6 6-course meal\, RSVP required\nPlease RSVP to sarahjdahlinger@gmail.com \nAnything can be a thing.\nThe annual group show at Flux Factory presents sculptural installations\, photography\, text and video by current and former fluxers. This years theme is born from an underlying theory of Flux\, that here one can be\, make\, think\, feel\, become anything and where each work carries its own definition and concept of the celebrated flux philosophy. \n \nArtists include: Christina Freeman\, Poyen Wang\, Wieteke Heldens\, Cayla Lockwood\, Jon Sims\, Muse Dodd\, Will Owen\, Martha Naranjo Sandoval\, Nat Roe\, Zeelie Brown\, Kaylon Hayward\, Sarah Dahlinger\, J Triangular\, Chen An-An\, Elisabeth Weiser\, Jack Hogan\, Sarah Dahlinger\, Jevijoe Vitug\, Julie Bitsch\, Illesha Khandelwal\, Amir Badawi\, Richard Nathaniel\, Danny Crump\, Miss Expanding Universe \n\nAnything! is curated by artists Amir Badawi\, Cayla Lockwood & Jonathan Sims \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/anything-group-exhibition-by-flux-factory/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180414T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180321T130333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T075212Z
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SUMMARY:KOOKERVILLE: Solo exhibition by Lexy Ho-Tai
DESCRIPTION:Gallery time: \nSaturday\, April 14\, 1pm-10pm*\n  Opening event\, 7pm – 10pm\nSunday\, April 15\, 1pm-6pm\n Scroll down for full schedule\n\n \nWelcome to KOOKERVILLE! The world where your inner child goes to when it’s been lost…\n RSVP on Facebook\n  \n\n\nThis world is manifested in the form of creatures\, called KOOKERS\, that playfully roam around New York City (and beyond)\, unaware of the social constructs we have created. Their large scale\, bright colours\, and outlandish demeanour create spontaneous moments of joy\, human connection\, and social disruption through play and absurdity\, breaking people from their daily routines. Recent additions to this world are wearable landscapes and playful puppets. Laboriously and lovingly crafted from found and recycled materials\, this body of work explores the intersection between craft and play\, art and accessibility.  \nCreator\, Lexy Ho-Tai\, invites you to not only enter this evolving world\, but to create and contribute to it. Tap into your inner child! There will be materials available and workshops throughout the weekend. Explore with your hands! Kreate a Kooker! Paint on the wall! Play and express! (Even if you’re “not an artist”.) This is an evolving space. Everyone that enters the world will add to it. \n \n\nThis is a family-friendly weekend. Feel free to bring recycled materials to repurpose and contribute to the space. If you have ideas for a workshop you would like to share\, please email Lexy at lexyhotai@gmail.com.\n \nKOOKERVILLE serves as a temporary escape – a world of healing through joy\, colour\, imagination and expression\, made with immense care and love. Alternative worlds provide opportunities to re-evaluate the world around us\, and imagine new possibilities\, albeit absurd or kooky. \n\nLet’s build KOOKERVILLE — together!\n \n\nSaturday: \n1-3pm:  Finding Sanctuary: Collaborative Zine Making and Dimensional Collage with Duneska Michel and Johanna Castillo\n3-6pm: Learn to Macrame with Margo Isadora\n5-7pm: Sense Motion: Moving Meditation with Ana Lopez P\nAll Day: Picalø: Unconventional Weaving Sculptures with Johanna Castillo\n \nSunday: \n1-4pm: Pom Pom Party with Karyn Lao\n2:30-4pm: Pop N Play (Popping: a Robotic Dance) with Sunwoo Park\n4 – 6pm: Mark-Making and Material Exploration with Stephanie Hazlewood and Lexy Ho-Tai\n\nAll Day: Picalø: Unconventional Weaving Sculptures with Johanna Castillo\n\n \n*Find out more information about each workshop on the Facebook event page or follow @lexymakesthings on Instagram\n*All workshops are free and materials are included! \n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/kookerville-solo-exhibition-by-lexy-ho-tai/
LOCATION:kickstarter\, 58 Kent Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180320T201503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152355Z
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SUMMARY:April Flux Thursday: Roots
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 12th\nDinner at 7 pm. Presentations begin at 8 pm.\nThe event is free\, but please do bring something to share!\nLocation: The Flux Factory Kitchen (ring the “office” doorbell)\nLet us know you’re coming!! \nThe April Flux Thursday will be called “Roots”. Looking back at the longest standing tradition at Flux (flux thursday!)\, we will go back to our roots and bring back the traditional format of Flux Thursday\, with a potluck dinner and 3-4 artist presentations lasting about 20 mins each\, in the kitchen. \nFor the potluck dinner\, people are invited to bring –\n 1) Root vegetable dishes\n 2) Dishes that harken back to your roots! {cultural\, familial\, geographical} \nFeaturing presentations by:\nMiss Expanding Universe / Ashley Yang-Thompson\nGil Lopez\nillesha Khandelwal\n \nThe artist presenters will be looking back at their own roots as well. Flux artists\nwill about their work through the lens of their roots. This could mean cultural\ntraditions from their country\, childhood memories\, teenage crushes\, the first\npiece of art you remember feeling very excited about. This could span back as\nfar as 40 years or even 5 years\, to any point from which they feel they have\nlearnt\, grown towards or grown away from\, a point of anger\, a time of love. It\ncould lead to the present\, and describe how they now find themselves where they\nare\, or the ideas could remain lingering murkily in the past.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/april-flux-thursday-roots/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Flux Factory":MAILTO:nat@fluxfactory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T210000
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SUMMARY:The Art of DJ'ing w PlayPlay and Vinyl Richie
DESCRIPTION:The Art of DJ’ing w PlayPlay and Vinyl Richie\nApril 11th\n7pm – 9pm \nIn this introduction to DJ’ing\, Jess Dilday (PlayPlay) & Richie Nathanial (Vinyl Richie) will go over various techniques DJs use both to create a seamless musical journey and to provide a fresh performance\, such as blending\, scratching\, and beat juggling. The second part of the workshop will involve PlayPlay & Vinyl Richie performing a short DJ set on turntables and a controller\, and then inviting attendees to try it out for themselves.   \n\nMore about PlayPlay\n\nPlayPlay is a NYC-based DJ\, producer\, party organizer\, professor\, and all around music ne\nrd. As both a DJ and producer\, PlayPlay combines brand new percussion-forward club sounds with nostalgic classics. Their music is inspired by what they grew up listening to: acid house\, industrial\, jungle\, breakbeat hardcore\, Baltimore club\, jock jams\, 90s club anthems and 80s new wave. In their hardware sets\, PlayPlay uses Moog synthesizers to create everything from unearthly drones to high-energy acid/industrial sounds. \nPlayPlay has been teaching DJ’ing and music production through the music department at UNC-Chapel Hill. They are especially invested in mentoring women and gender non-conforming DJs & producers\, and have hosted multiple workshops with this aim – most recently at Moogfest. They have recently moved to NYC to join a 6 month artist-residency at Flux Factory. Here\, they will be creating an interactive soundscape installation using synthesizers\, recorded samples\, and other sonic tools. \n\nContact: djplayplay.com // booking@djplayplay.com\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJPlayPlay/ // Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dj-playplay // Bandcamp: https://playplay.bandcamp.com/ // Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playplayyy // Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJPlayPlay\n\n \n \nMore about\nVinyl Richie\n \nBronx native Richard (DJ Vinyl Ri\n\nchie/ Yovinyl) got his taste for music at a young age listening to records in the house and around the parties in his neighborhood. Richard’s main DJ influences were local New York radio DJs and DMC VHS tapes. Richie’s DJ technique involves using creative mixing and turntablism while performing. When he is not controlling a crowd he is creating and curating sound projects with his new group DotCrawL. \n\n\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yovinylrichie/ // Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yovinyl\nContact:  yovinyl@gmail.com
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-art-of-djing-w-playplay-and-vinyl-richie/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
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SUMMARY:Beauty Beer Spa
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 7th\n4-7pm\nFREE\nRSVP on Facebook \nFlux Factory Kitchen | 39-31 29th Street \nJoin Flux Factory for a brew day & beauty spa event. Gil Lopez will teach you the art of beer brewing\, while Cayla Lockwood treats us to boozy beauty treatments and aromatherapy.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/beauty-beer-spa/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180306T200002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T075242Z
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SUMMARY:Otherworldly™: Solo exhibition by Cayla Lockwood
DESCRIPTION:Grand Opening Reception: Friday\, April 6th\, 7-9pm \n8pm: Collective Skincare Ritual \nGallery Hours: Saturday\, April 7th\, 2-6pm + Sunday\, April 6th\, 2-6pm 
or by appointment \nBeauty Beer Spa w/ Gil Lopez : Saturday\, April 7th\, 4-7pm \nLearn the art of beer brewing while receiving boozy beauty treatments. \nRSVP on Facebook \nAt Otherworldly™\, we believe you can transcend space and time through our unique and luxurious product line. Existential problems? We have you covered with the latest in alien technology and psychological marketing. Whether it’s removing deeply embedded insecurities or modifying the human genome\, we have a solution for you. Step into the cosmetic cosmos—April 6th at Flux Factory—for our company launch and reception. \nOtherworldly is a multimedia exhibition by Cayla Lockwood in collaboration with Jordy Brazo\, Danny Crump\, Kristen Leonard\, Will Owen + Chris Trigaux. Featuring store displays\, video\, objects\, sound\, performance and themed snacks.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/otherworldly-solo-exhibition-by-cayla-lockwood/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
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SUMMARY:Jazz at Flux
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 25th\, 7-9:30pm\nJoin us for a night of music presented to you by soulful musicians \nLee Fish \nEdward Perez\nJulian Shore\nMax Light\nMichael Thomas\n\nVanisha Gould\nDan Pappalardo\nTommy Holladay\nLudovica Burtone\n\nThe music will be performed within the exhibition “avoid romanticizing the landscape” by illesha Khandelwal ~ bring your loves with you\, or perhaps find love\, on this romantic night. Anything can happen at Flux Factory! {suggested donation $10}
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/jazz-at-flux/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175327
CREATED:20180311T010417Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Diversity work | notes on body politics & space invaders
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable: Diversity work | notes on body politics & space invaders\nMarch 25 | 2-4 pm \nParticipants: Maya Suess\, Ayana Evans\, Chloë Bass\, Macon Reed\, Dina El Kaisy\nFriemuth from Feminist Collective with No Name & Laura Morrison\nOrganized by art historian Claudine Zia & Flux Factory \n“Diversity work” is a round table discussion that responds to current\nperspectives in feminist art. Moderated by artist Laura Morrison\, topics under\ndiscussion will include intersectional feminism\, body culture in public spheres and\ninstitutional frames.\nAbout:\nMaya Suess is an artist and arts administrator. She works as the Managing Director of Flux\nFactory\, where she oversees an Artists-in- Residency program hosting over 40 artists annually\,\nmanages extensive programming in the public exhibition space\, and wears many other\ninstitutional hats. She also makes drawings\, installations\, videos and other mischievous\nentities. Maya is a 2017 SHIFT Resident at the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts; In 2016 she\nhad a solo show at the Leslie Lohman Gay and Lesbian Museum Prince Street Project (NYC)\,\nand a work included in the Museum’s 50 years of Collecting Exhibition in 2017. Maya has\nalso shown work at the Film Anthology Archives (NYC); The European Cultural Capital\,\nUmeå2014 (Umeå\, Sweden); The Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver\, Canada) among many\nothers. She holds a BFA in Media Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, and an\nMFA in contemporary performance from Simon Fraser University. \nAyana Evans is a NYC based artist. Evans received her MFA in painting from the Tyler\nSchool of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. She\nhas attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Vermont Studio Center.\nIn 2015 she received the Jerome Foundation’s Theater and Travel & Study Grant for artistic\nresearch abroad. During Summer 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency\,\n“Back in Five Minutes” at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. Evans’s on-going\nperformances/public interventions include: “Operation Catsuit”and “I Just Came Here to Find\na Husband.” She has curated and co-curated performance art shows throughout the U.S and\nworked in arts education for a decade. \nChloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance\, situation\, conversation\,\npublication\, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address\nscales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work\nwith a focus on the individual (The Bureau of Self-Recognition\, 2011 – 2013)\, has recently\nconcluded a study of pairs (The Book of Everyday Instruction\, 2015 – 2017)\, and will continue\nto scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. Chloë has held\nnumerous fellowships and residencies; 2017’s included Triangle Art Association\, the Center\nfor Book Arts\, and Antenna’s Spillways Fellowship. Her projects have appeared nationally\nand internationally\, including recent exhibits at the Kitchen\, the Brooklyn Museum\, CUE Art\nFoundation\, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space\, The Southeastern Center for \nContemporary Art\, the James Gallery\, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming book will be\npublished by the Operating System in May 2018. Writing has also appeared on Hyperallergic\,\nArts.Black\, and the Walker Reader among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at\nQueens College\, CUNY. \nMacon Reed is an artist working in sculpture\, installation\, video\, radio documentary\, painting\,\nand participatory projects. Her work has shown at venues including PULSE NYC Special\nProjects\, BRIC Media Arts\, ABC No Rio\, The Kitchen\, Art F City FAGallery\, Chicago\nCultural Center\, Mana Contemporary\, Roots & Culture\, Museum of Contemporary Art\nChicago\, ICA Baltimore\, and Athens Museum of Queer Arts in Greece. Reed completed her\nMFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a University Fellow in 2013 and received her\nBFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. Additionally she studied Radio\nDocumentary at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Physical Theater at the Dah\nInternational School in Belgrade. Most recently Reed was an artist in residence at the\nSkowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a Research Fellow at Eyebeam Center for\nArt+Technology \nDina El Kaisy Friemuth from Feminist Collective with No Name\nFCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name\, or in Danish FKUN – Feministisk Kollektiv Uden\nNavn) is an art collective with artists Dina El Kaisy Friemuth\, Anita Beikpour\, Annika\nAschberg and Lil B. Wachmann. They are based in Denmark\, Germany and Sweden and are\nfighting for intersectional feminism in arts. This is being done through performative gestures\nsuch as texts\, lectures\, readers\, workshops\, videos\, performances\, interviews\, call outs and\nfilms. \nLaura Morrison is an artist from London. Her work inspects and unpacks seemingly minor\nepisodes of emotion and sensation where grief or anger were too quietly called for – turning\nthem over to spectacular theatrical subjects through writing\, performance\, painting for\nremembrance and scrutiny as expanded literary experiences.  Her work has appeared at\nvenues including the ICA Theater in London\, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn\, Socrates Sculpture\nPark in New York and been supported via residencies including Hospitalfield\, Arbroath\,\nScotland (2017)\, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Maine\, USA (2017)\, Pioneer\nWorks\, Studio Residency\, New York (2016-17) and the Open Sessions Program at The\nDrawing Center\, New York (2014-16). Morrison has an MFA from Goldsmiths and BA\nPainting from Chelsea\, both in London
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/roundtable-diversity-work-notes-on-body-politics-space-invaders/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180325T180000
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SUMMARY:avoid romanticizing the landscape
DESCRIPTION:avoid romanticizing the landscape:\nan immersive installation by illesha Khandelwal\nopening reception: friday\, march 23rd \, 7-9pm\nopen gallery hours: saturday & sunday\, 24th – 25th march noon-6pm \nRSVP on Facebook \nillesha Khandelwal (b. 1995\, Mumbai\, India) lives and works between Queens\, NY and Mumbai\, India. Her work suggests a kind of psychology of geography – an unfixed landscape that you alter by your very presence. Is experiencing someone’s memory of a place the same as physically being there? Which is more real? She is interested in the way the absence of a place becomes a presence\, and suggesting what this may look like in the multiverse. At a time of global uncertainty\, a flood of heartache: she fabricates a phenomenological world\, constantly in flux. The work urges you to surrender your senses to the unknowable\, build an intimacy with distant places\, and develop a tangible relationship with the photograph. \nthere is a certain consciousness\, a momentous and fragmented state of being\, which the landscape rouses. this awareness is concentrated in intensely sensuous junctures. it allows an unprecedented\, and highly personal engagement with the individual life-world. at times it seeps so far into our fissures that we fracture. this breakage uncovers naïve strata below\, and so the process continues. \nFabric\, paper\, clay and text take on the appearance of floating in an installation of threads. This is a world of fictional objects and memories\, entangled with the factual\, blurring the separations between what is experienced and what is imagined. The objects are built like thoughts in their fluidity and fickleness. The materials breathe\, they move\, and your very presence changes them. \nYou will be pulled into a murky remembrance; perhaps some dusty flashback of a lover long gone\, or a lingering dream of your bare feet sunk in sand. You have entered a world where rock is soft\, and vulnerability is strength. The land is abraded\, it reforms. So do I. The slow fragmentation\, the heartbreak\, it is the same. We fall apart\, we come together. \n@illesha\nwww.illesha.com\n#illeshakstudio #illeshakinflux
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/avoid-romanticizing-the-landscape/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T210000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to programming for people who don’t necessarily like computers
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to programming for people who don’t necessarily like computers\nCoding workshop with Stephen McLeod\nMarch 20th\, 7pm\nFREE\nRSVP on Facebook \nComputer programs touch every aspect of our world\, but how do they work?  More importantly\, how can we take back a bit of control in our lives and make programs of our own!  This workshop will introduce participants to fundamentals of programming as well as provide resources for further study.  Potential topics include web design\, visualization\, simple game making and more.  The class is open to all ages and will be responsive to the interests of the participants.\nIf you have a laptop bring it with you\, however there will be a few computers available for those who don’t.  If you would like to use one of them please RSVP as they are in limited supply.\n \nStephen McLeod is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Toronto and Newboro Ontario. His work is collaborative\, socially engaged and presented in shifting forms of code\, interactive installation\, performance and video. In 2009 he completed his B.A. in Studio Art at the University of Guelph – as well as a good 2/3rds of a computer science minor. Often cloaking his work in humor and absurdity McLeod explores topics such as computational poetry\, sound sculpture\, repetition and labour\, embodied consciousness\, and learning through failure.\n\nMcLeod has exhibited in Canada and internationally\, both as a founding member of the collective VSVSVS and individually. He has taught seminars on interaction design at Sheridan College\, and has presented workshops on topics such as machine learning\, and creative coding. In 2016 he shared the honour of being awarded the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize as a member of VSVSVS and has received funding from the Toronto Arts Council\, and the Ontario Arts Council for his project Vexations Vexations. At Flux Factory\, he is developing new work while continuing to perform his multi year video interpretation of Erik Satie’s composition Vexations. His residency is funded through the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/introduction-to-programming/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180317T235900
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SUMMARY:City #4
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 17\, 2018\n10AM – 8PM on view\nArt Trash City by Six City Trash Collective \nBuilt from repurposed materials\, Art Trash City will be a tongue and cheek representation of art world structures and economies while also providing space for underrepresented artists to embed works within the structure itself. \n8PM – 10PM  On View \nJonathan Sims The Sanitization\, Categorization\, and Monetization of Artistic Endeavor \nThis flashy destruction event will conclude our show by molding the event into a “real gallery opening.” Jonathan will break apart the previous city into art-sized chunks\, hang them on the wall and attempt to sell them to the viewers. A monograph will be produced\, aesthetic details will be streamlined\, profits will be made\, and an impromptu art talk given during his event: “The Sanitization\, Categorization\, and Monetization of Artistic Endeavor.” \n10PM – 12AM Music by The Company Soundsystem\nGroovy and marvelous\, The Company Soundsystem will send us off back into reality feeling great. \n Full Schedule\nCity 1- Saturday\, February 24\, 2018\n10AM – 9PM FORT CITY\n9PM-12AM Immigrant Ball \nCity 2- Saturday\, March 3\, 2018\n10AM -9PM The Central Nervous City\n9PM-12AM The Destruction of Civilization \nCITY 3- Saturday\, March 10\, 2018\n10AM – 8PM City with a Diamond Heart\n8PM – 10PM Experimental performances and music \nCITY 4 –  Saturday\, March 17\, 2018\n10AM – 8PM Art Trash City\n8PM – 10PM The Sanitization \n10PM – 12AM Music by The Company Soundsystem \nAbout Flux City 6\nFlux City 6 is an homage to the temporary communities of Flux Factory and an exploration of cities as created and idealized by individuals and small groups. During each week an artist will create a city\, or their interpretation of city-ness in the Flux Factory gallery creating a broad and all encompassing installation work which culminates in a public opening for that city  and a destruction event meant to bring about its end – organized by a separate artist or group. Each week the City builders will repurpose the materials left behind by those who came before as we collectively meditate upon cycles of politics\, ownership\, creation and destruction. \nFlux City 6 is a four week cycle of city creation and destruction and rebirth and cataclysm and phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes and Godzilla-traipsing-in-from-the-sea-in-a-breath-of-fire-and-chaos. Flux City 6 is curated by Seth Timothy Larson and Abigail Entsminger.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/city-4-2/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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