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SUMMARY:Wicket Leeks
DESCRIPTION:Wicket Leeks \nCurated by Abdul Dube\, Illesha Khandelwal and Will Owen\nAssistant Curator Fiona Mccormac \nJune 22 – July 13 \nExhibition Hours:\nThursday – Sunday 1 – 6 pm\n \nUsing the lenses of food and sports\, Wicket Leeks showcases cooks\, athletes\, researchers\, artists\, coaches\, and makers to help investigate the unsavory histories of nationalist\, religious\, and corporate colonialism in a palatable way\, while not sugar-coating its effects\, in order to help us better digest our present and cook up a healthier future. \nThe title Wicket Leeks refers to the wicket– a part of the equipment for the sport of Cricket spread by the British Empire\, and Leeks– one of the most common and ancient edible plants in the onion family. It is also in reference to WikiLeaks– the international investigative journalism non-profit. \n\nEVENTS\n\nOpening Reception\nJune 22nd\, 6 – 10pm \nA View From Above: The Pre-Game Meal by Nathaniel Sullivan\nTuesday June 25th\, 7:30pm\nEvent is free\, but requires RSVP! \nWicket Leeks / আড্ডা Adda Featuring A Collaborative Beer Brewing Workshop\nThursday June 27th\, 6-11pm \nA conversation and food-based hang out with artists Jess Rolls and Zaid Islam around their 2+ year collaboration around shared histories. \nSpecially Processed American Me: SPAM\, War\, and Cuisine Workshop\nSaturday June 29th\, 1 – 3pm \nOver a communal meal\, artist and playwright Jaime Sunwoo will discuss the history of SPAM\, the canned meat\, in the Asia-Pacific and its connection to war\, class\, imperialism\, and nostalgia. \nWrestling as Ancient and Contemporary Decentralized Sport History\nSaturday June 29th\, 3-4:30pm\nA participatory\, body positive lecture and demonstration.\nParticipation is optional and requires no former knowledge of wrestling. \n– CLOSED July 4th weekend –\n \nFlux Thursday\nJuly 11th\, 7:30 – 10 pm\nPotluck + Wicket Leeks Artist Talks \nDrinking Beer at the End of the World: A Booze Cruise in the Anthroposcene Shane Farrell\nJuly 12th\, 3:00pm-5:30pm \nMeet at the Smith – 9th Street G Station. Look for Death. \n\nFeatured Artists \nEpicurean Endocrinology (Liz Flyntz & Byron Rich)\nFay Sanders\nHande Sever\nJanine Georgette (Hamilton)\nJaime Sunwoo\nJevijoe Vitug\nJordany Geao\nDr. Joshua D. Phillips\nJess Rolls\nJulian Louis Phillips\nKacie Lyn Martinez\nLexy Ho-Tai \nMiss Expanding Universe (Ashley Yang-Thompson)  & Zehra Khan\nNathaniel Sullivan\nNick Whittock\nShane Farrell\nSneha Mehta & Mallika Chandra\nZaid Islam
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SUMMARY:Artists & Creatives Money Skills
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Mark Wagner currency collage (Photo via thisiscolossal.com). Image Description: Three George Washington figures\, just like on the dollar bill\, are sitting in a small boat\, surrounded by waves made up of dollars. Behind them is a digital texture. The whole image is the black and green colors of the dollar.\nArtists & Creatives Money Skills \n\nLearn financial practices that support artists and creatives to make smart decisions about money in your practice and personal life.  \nTuesday July 9\n7pm – 9pm \nRSVP Required\, please buy tickets in advance\nFee: Sliding scale $20 – $40\nClick RSVP link above to reserve a space \n\nThis two-hour class (with handouts + practical exercises + Q&A!) is created to give you a basic\, crucial grounding in the financial aspects of being “in business” as a creative\, artist\, and cultural worker. \nThis workshop will take place in the Flux Factory office which is up a flight of stairs. If you cannot go up stairs\, email maya@fluxfactory.org and we can move the event into the gallery. \n\nThe workshop will cover: \n 1) What is a small business – as an artist\, am I one? \n2) Making the Money: reality of getting paid for gigs \n3) debrief / exercise \n4) Four steps to legitimize and track the money in and out \n5) Make it easier by managing the pieces: contracts\, automation\, planning \nBio:\n Hadassah Damien is a Brooklyn-based award-winning queer artist\, technologist\, and educator at Ride Free Fearless Money\, the iconoclastic blog and finance classes she founded in 2015. Her mission with Ride Free is to stabilize progressive communities by empowering folks’ relationship to their money\, to help people hack capitalism\, and to give people time and energy back! \nLearn more: www.ridefreefearlessmoney.com
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday: Wicket Leeks Potluck & Artist Salon
DESCRIPTION:Flux Thursday\nJuly 11\n7:30 pm Potluck\n8:30 – 9:30 pm Salon Style Presentations in the Flux Factory Gallery\nPlease let us know you’re coming on Facebook \nThis event is part of the Exhibition Wicket Leeks\, in the Flux Gallery from June 22nd to July 13th \nFlux Thursday is a monthly potluck and artists salon for people to present their work and gather together for food and socializing. The event is free\, but please do bring food or drink to share!\n \n\nMiss Expanding Universe – “Jane Fonda’s Original Workout” \nA simple daily Jane Fonda Workout for Flux residents and beyond. With costumes\, improvisation\, memoir\, poetry and self-help collaged into the workout experience. Why appropriate Eastern Religions when you could do Jane Fonda’s Original Workout? The workout is easy to fit into a busy schedule and appropriate for all levels of fitness. Jane Fonda’s Original Work began as a subtle\, yet orgasmic revolution; it was created at a time when gyms were primarily for men. It subverts capitalism because it is free\, can be done from the convenience of one’s home\, and requires only a towel. Miss Expanding Universe has been on tour with Jane Fonda’s Original Workout for two years and has introduced a healthy\, moderate\, convenient and fun exercise discipline into the lives of people all over the world (however\, she can’t take any credit; she is but a humble vessel for the gospel of Jane). Slogans include: “If Jane can do it\, you can do it!”\, “WORK DEEP!” \, “What would Jane Fonda Do?” and “Cosmic Destiny is Real.” Universe began her personal journey with Jane Fonda in the midst of a debilitating and unmanageable eating disorder (Jane Fonda is also in recovery for an eating disorder)\, and it has been an indispensable part of her path towards a balanced life. She has been doing the workout nearly every day for three years and it has revealed itself to be a complete metaphor for her life. Jane Fonda’s Original Workout is more than just a workout\, it is a spiritual journey. \nJevijoe Vitug – “Kaldereta” \nAs a continuation of his “HOT DOG DAYS” work as part of Wicket Leeks\, Jevijoe Vitug will prepare a vegan Kaldereta and give a presentation on his research and work.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday-wicket-leeks/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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SUMMARY:Drinking Beer at the End of the World: A Booze Cruise in the Anthroposcene
DESCRIPTION:Drinking Beer at the End of the World: A Booze Cruise in the Anthroposcene\nWith Shane Farrell\nJuly 12th\, 3:00pm-5:30pm\nPlease RSVP on Facebook \nMeet at Smith & 9th street Brooklyn G stop. Look for Death\, our guide. \nThis event is part of the Exhibition Wicket Leeks\, in the Flux Gallery from June 22nd to July 13th \n\nIn “The Bloody Latte” Ian Svenonius figures our beverage consumption as a type of colonialist bloodsucking. Vodka comes to represent the United States’ victory over Russia in the cold war\, and\, even further\, the totalizing power of capitalism. Coffee represents colonial dominion over Africa. In this manner we drink the blood of our “enemies.” My project “Drinking Beer at the End of the World” is somewhere between a Situationist derive (Debord\, an infamous drunk who oft bemoaned the homogenizing effect of capital on local styles of drink\, once remarked “I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink”)\, a Speed Levitch tour (or “cruise”) of NYC\, and the recently popular “beer run” events in which health conscious imbibers sprint from bar to bar to guzzle pints. But wait\, you’re saying\, beer isn’t food! Wrong! Just ask the monks of Paulner\, who developed the doppelbock in the 1600s as a “liquid bread” on which they sustained themselves for the 40 days of lent. Or perhaps ask your average English field laborer circa 1400 or so\, for whom a glass of ale was a critical source of calories at both breakfast and lunch (until coffee\, with cream and sugar for calories\, became widely available\, radically transforming the productive capacity of the workforce). Ok\, but what does beer have to do with sports? Well I’m sorry but if you really have to ask that question you must be quite dense. Beer and sports of course go hand in hand. Many a television screen has been destroyed by a half empty Labatt Blue can haphazardly chucked by a intoxicated and long suffering Buffalo Bills fan. Americans even go so far as to make drinking a competitive sport unto itself\, the grand prize being a case of cirrhosis (a tendency that has been particularly amplified by social media\, see accounts such as: @officialusadrinkingteam on instagram). Ok ok\, but WHAT is this piece exactly? Well its simply a kind of marathon performance lecture and beer tour through New York City\, hosted by Death (played by yours truly). Participants will start out jogging to their first destination and are encouraged to dress in athletic wear. We will bounce from brewery to bar\, sampling local styles and probably slowing to a stroll as the day wears on\, discussing topics from the role of craft beer in gentrifying neighborhoods and re-invigorating disused industrial spaces to how climate change threatens to destroy the art of lambic brewing. Along the way we might find ourselves playing surreal versions of classic pub games\, or seeing who can kick a proper field goal after a pint or two. I’m hoping to rope in friends from the beer and art worlds to help me along the way (and give me a chance to catch my breath). The event will\, of course\, be designed to discourage intemperance and be safe and fun for anyone of drinking age. Teetotalers are begrudgingly welcome. \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/drinking-beer-at-the-end-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Smith and 9th Street G Train\, Smith - 9th Street G Train Station 9th St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: Cross-Stitch with María Lulú Varona
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP: Cross-Stitch with María Lulú Varona\nSunday\, July 14th\n1pm – 4pm \nMaterials and instructional manual included\nSuggested donation\, $20\nNo one turned away for lack of funds.\n\nThis location will be in the Flux Factory office and is not wheelchair accessible \nPlease tell us that you’ll be coming on Facebook \nParticipants will learn the basics of cross-stitch and other basic embroidery techniques\, such as how to follow a chart and translate a pre-designed image to fabric. This workshop offers an opportunity to practice your skills with guidance from visual art María Lulú Varona.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/workshop-cross-stitch-with-maria-lulu-varona/
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SUMMARY:Everyday Practice – Dual Solo Exhibition by Sai-lok Chan and Tzu-an Ko
DESCRIPTION:Everyday Practice – Dual Solo Exhibition by Sai-lok Chan and Tzu-an Ko \nJuly 19 – 29\nThursday to Sunday 1-6pm\nOpening Reception and Performance on July 19 at 6pm \nOr by appointment at annhikali@gmail.com\n \nTwo Asian artists meet at Flux Factory at the height of this summer. \nTzu-an Ko\, a Taiwan based artist\, searches for employment as her alter-ego Super Perfect Working Robot\, which intervenes with the alienated nature of existence under Capitalism. While Hong Kong based artist and art critic Sai-lok Chan continues his reflections on the relationship between painting and text\, and explores issues surrounding cultural identity. \n*The Exhibition by Sai-lok Chan is presented by United Overseas Bank (UOB). \n\nARTIST TALK AND WORKSHOP: Have a Bit of Culture\, and Write Your Own Queerness\n27 July\n2:30pm – 4:30pm \nThis event combines an experiential Artist Talk and Workshop\, and is divided into two parts. \nThe first part will include learning how to make delicious marinated eggs\, using tea leaves\, red dye and a potpourri of spices. Tzu-an Ko will take you on a journey of cultural metamorphosis. \nIn the second part of the event\, participants will create their own written character or calligraphic symbol. How would you create a script for a queer word that is difficult to define? If typography is more than to please the eye\, then writing can be a process of introspection into ones own identity. \n\nExhibition Statement: Sai-lok Chan \nFor Chan\, winner of the 2017 UOB Art in Ink Awards\, taking time to be an Artist-in-Residence at Flux Factory allows for a mid-career moment of introspection\, and an opportunity to clarify his conceptual framework and plan his future trajectory. \nIn Chan’s recent body of work\, he returns to the roots of his artistic journey holding a dialogue with Chinese ink painting. The works ask questions about the nature of narrative in painting\, and the use of material in service of meaning. On top of its delicate materiality\, (painting on) silk has also become a cultural symbol in an Asian context. While text is a familiar motif in Contemporary Art\, how are Chinese characters interpreted in the context of the New York art scene? \nNew York City is extraordinarily culturally diverse\, and Chan roots his practice in adapting to such diversity and connecting with people. His work\, which includes writing on exercise books and painting on canvas frames\, are both physical exercises but also a process of discovery\, clarification and an acceptance of values. The work produces a meandering journey\, emotional and full of self-doubt. \n  \nExhibition Statement Tzu-an Ko \nRepeat the same thing every day: put on the pale robot makeup\, move stiffly\, interact with human society\, and observe the outcome. The chameleon senses its environment and changes color in 5 seconds. Super Perfect Working Robot needs to do the same thing every day to learn how to adapt to its environment. Part of that process has been changing genders. \nKo has been doing Super Perfect Working Robot since 2013. Dressed as a robot she goes to different countries looking for work to explore the existential experience of capitalist employment. She wants to know the feelings and stories of immigrants when they are working. \nFor this exhibition\, Super Perfect Working Robot exhibits more of its cyborg side\, with installed mannequin arms and legs representing Robot’s days spent walking around New York City handing out flyers. The installation will also include photographs and excerpts of Robot’s diary. Each individual piece is like a pixel in an image or scene from a film; when viewed altogether they show the experience of Super Perfect Working Robot’s life.\n \n\nArtist Bios Tzu-an Ko \nAs an artist and writer\, Chan Sai-lok glides across the fields of art and literary practice\, education\, art criticism and gender studies. He has always taken text and literature as points of departure in his artistic endeavor\, through which he contemplates the intimate relationship between painting and literariness. There is a certain queerness in his paintings\, as his aesthetics and use of material often convey a sense of ambiguity\, while the positioning in form between Asian or European styles rejects simple categorization. Chan is a freelance artist\, part-time lecturer in universities\, and co-founder of an art critic group Art Appraisal Club. He has published exhibition catalogues One Way Ticket\, Future\, at Variance with Memories\, Writing Painting\, and The Countenance of Text. \nIn 2017\, Chan Sai-lok won the UOB Ink Art of the Year Award and was entitled to a residency program at Flux Factory in NYC in autumn 2018 as part of the prize sponsored by Regal Hotels. With the support of UOB\, Chan organized a solo exhibition titled Land of Longing and Exile in February in 2019 summarizing his response to the New York experience. As the Lead Partner of Art Central\, UOB exhibited Chan’s award-winning artwork titled Sealed at the 2018 and 2019 Art Central in Hong Kong. \nTzu-an Ko is concerned with popular culture and the conflict between personal identities and social values. Since 2013\, Super Perfect Work Robot – Rich Ann program series has been developed and shown in various cities such as New York\, Paris\, Tokyo\, Singapore\, and Cambodia. Through the program series\, she invites audiences to contemplate new and different perspectives\, to think about the relationships between people and the robots of existential labor. \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/everyday-practice/
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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL: Must They Also Be Gods
DESCRIPTION:Major Exhibition Open Call: Must They Also Be Gods \nDeadline: August 12th\, 11:59pm \nCo-curated by Kalon Hayward and Brie Free \nApply Here \nMust They Also Be Gods will be presented at Flux Factory from October 11th to November 3rd\, 2019. All invited artists will receive a stipend. \nMust They Also Be Gods will highlight the power of black community and movement\, as a celebration of divinity\, love\, and ascension. The selection of works will present an inter-sectional way of looking at possible futures and alternate realities through a black cultural lens. \nThe curators are looking for artists that use their black imagination to consider mysticism\, metaphysics\, identity and liberation; artists that offer a way to see black beauty in the future\, the past and the present. \nMust They Also Be Gods is a safe place for non-linear artists to use their imagination and spirituality to uplift the beauty of Blackness. This exhibition will feature artists from the African Diaspora that work in all forms of art\, and will showcase artists with a cosmic point of view centered around journeys of self-discovery.  \nOver the course of one month Must They Also Be Gods will house installations and visual arts in the Flux Factory Gallery\, and host magikal dance parties\, performances\, healing workshops\, and a marketplace. \nPlease email gods@fluxfactory.org with any questions \nApply Here
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/open-call-must-they-also-be-gods/
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