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SUMMARY:OPEN CALL: RUB
DESCRIPTION:Major Exhibition Open Call: RUB\nDeadline: Friday\, September 27th\, 11:59pm EST\nExhibition Dates: November 20th – December 15th\nCurated by: An-An Chen\, Cayla Lockwood\, Lulu Meng\, J Triangular\, and  Terrill Warrenburg \n*APPLY HERE* \nHow can artists communicate the necessary points of view and ideas in today’s world as a marginalized person? How can art change an oppressive society? \nRUB is\nan independent publication\nan exhibition at Flux Factory\nan invitation to collaborate\, learn and build community \n*APPLY HERE* \nOur curatorial team invites artists to submit works and proposals for RUB\, an upcoming Exhibition at Flux Factory in Queens\, NY. This one-month show will feature works of art that include\, but are not limited to: Drawings\, Collages\, Paintings\, Photography\, Poems\, Quotes\, Lists\, Printed materials\, Queer stories\, Performances and Video\, Sounds and New Media. \nRUB is centered around two major themes:\n1. NOW-WAVE: an evolution of the avant-garde\, NOW-WAVE is an expansion of cross-cultural\ncounterculture that has evolved to further break boundaries. DIY cultural productions of an\nalternative nature. Being an artist of the NOW WAVE implies being a catalyst to transform society. \n2. GRAPHIC ACTIVISM: (activism grafico): Artists with a special sensitivity for printed matter art and\npublishing as practice in order to communicate necessary points of view in today’s age to resist\nstructures of oppression in today’s society. Artists that use language in the processes of resistance. \nWorks of art will be mounted throughout the 1300 square foot gallery space in a playful fashion echoing\nRUB\, the publication and the inspiration for the show. Additionally\, there will be a constructed “reading\nroom” featuring zines from around the world as well as a number of programming events\, educational\nworkshops and more. \n*Please note this exhibition will have a strong focus on NYC-based artists. Queer\, POC\, and other marginalized artists/ groups/collectives are encouraged to apply. Artists will receive a stipend for participation. \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES\n● By clicking on the “Apply” link\, you will be asked to send us examples of your work\n○ Visual artists: 4 images of your work\n○ Poets and Writers: 3 samples of their pieces\n○ Video Artists (2 videos – 5 minutes max\, each)\n○ or a Proposal / Idea / Collaboration\n● Additionally\, you will be asked to submit an artist statement (maximum 250 words)\, and answer how your art relates to one or both of the themes (listed above).\n● You will not be asked to upload a CV\, but feel free to add a link to your website\, if applicable. \n*APPLY HERE* \nFlux Factory is able to provide media\, audio\, and other materials. Please let us know if you have special needs. All artists will be expected to install and de-install their own work unless they have contacted us in advance. \nIf you have any questions\, please email RUB@fluxfactory.org \nFlux Factory\, This location is wheelchair accessible. Attendees are expected to adhere to our safer space policy\, which is posted throughout the space.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/open-call-rub/
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SUMMARY:Rebuilding Work: Open Studio and Artist Talk with Hunter Creel
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 8th\n Open Studios\, noon – 8pm\nArtist Talk\, 6pm \nPlease visit Hunter Creel on Sunday\, August 8th in the Flux Factory Gallery\, while he rebuilds a coffin as part of his ongoing work\, Gate to the Multi-Verse. At 6pm join him for an artist talk and discussion about the project. \nThe work explores the life and death of an individual in correlation to a coffin he exhumed from a parallel world\, and his attempt to re-gain access to the multi-verse. Creel builds fictional narratives around his sculptural works\, below is an excerpt from Gate to the Multi-Verse. \n\n“I have come back from the dimensional travel with my own coffin. I found my gravestone\, dug it up\, and found it empty. I can’t explain this yet\, but I can say that the realization was not a surprise to me. I felt as though the Hunter Creel of this dimension\, or another one\, was guiding my hand in the excavation. One of us has been here before. \nIn transporting my coffin through the portal\, it was changed. I can only assume then that I was changed as well\, though not so visibly. The coffin is in parts unfinished wood\, as I would expect a carpenter’s coffin to be\, and other parts it is stripped yellow and orange. It is striped like the ambulance on the way to the hospital. It is stripped like the scar that runs though my chest and\, at time\, itches like a low flow of electricity through my body.” \n Bio\nHunter Creel is an artist whose practice revolves around his unique access to the multi-verse in\nattempt to discover\, collect\, observe new forms of technology\, information\, energy\, and\nresources. His work produced is a combination of the materials of our world in combination with\nones in parallel. Hunter is building new machines and narratives in an attempt to improve our\nrelationship with each other and our environment. He is also consumed by observing himself in\nanother context as a form of parallel reflection. Problems do occur and mistakes and setbacks\nhave been made\, but he is hopeful through the research of new forms of energy\, we as a species\ncan learn to coexist with our environment and each other.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/rebuilding-work-open-studio-and-artist-talk-with-hunter-creel/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:At the Twelfth Hour: Confessions of a Hongkonger by Tse Fei
DESCRIPTION:At the Twelfth Hour: Confessions of a Hongkonger \nby Tse Fei \nSeptember 12th\, 7pm – 10pm\nSeptember 13th – 15th\, 10am – 6pm \nOpening Reception: Flux Thursday\, September 12th\, 7-10 pm  \nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook\n \n\nIf the idiom “the eleventh hour” refers to the final moment\, then “the twelfth hour” means that it is too late. For the artist Tse Fei\, the twelfth hour references a feeling of guilt that he may be missing out. \nMessage from Tse Fei\nHong Kong has been in political chaos since June 2019. As the anti-extradition bill movement continues to intensify\, the local government has stayed brutally blind to the demands of the public. As untimely a career move as it was\, I chose to leave my hometown for New York City to become an Artist-in-Residence at Flux Factory. \nDespite more than a month’s stay in NYC\, I failed to adapt to my daily life – I could not refrain from binge-watching live videos of the demonstrations in Hong Kong. The exhibition At the Twelfth Hour uses the 12-hour time difference between Hong Kong and NYC to highlight my desperation and homesickness while wrestling with both the physical distance and a virtual network. \n\nI hope that when I return to Hong Kong\, I do not regret that I was away from my city during this historic moment. \nBiography\nTse Fei is a conceptual artist and a secondary school Visual Arts teacher. Tse Fei was a janitor\, was a security guard\, was a designer; was a worker in a construction site; was an architecture student. As Shakespeare said\, “We know what we are\, but know not what we may be.” He believes that the possibility of a man and his art should be unlimited. \n(Hong Kong viewers who are unable to visit the site can go to www.facebook.com/fei.tse.3/videos_by during the exhibition to watch the live broadcast of one of my works.) \n\n\n《第十二小時：一個香港人的告白》\n謝斐 個展如果俚語「第十一小時」的意思是最後的一刻，那麼「第十二小時」所表達的，就是錯過之後的內疚。香港自2019年6月起陷入政治亂局，一方面反對修訂逃犯條例的示威越趨激烈，另一方面政府一直對市民的訴求無動於衷。而我卻在此時，要無奈離開故鄉，前來紐約，作駐留藝術家。\n由於總是無法自控地觀看示威直播，我在這一個多月來一直未能適應紐約的生活。是次展覽借助香港和紐約的十二小時時差，向觀眾訴說我在異地的無力感與鄉愁，並探討物理距離與虛擬網絡之間的角力。但願我回港之時，並無錯過太多，未致後悔莫及。（未能現場參觀的香港觀眾可於展覽期間前往 https://www.facebook.com/fei.tse.3/videos_by 觀看其中一件作品的直播。)鳴謝：\nFlux Factory\n英華書院
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/at-the-twelfth-hour-confessions-of-a-hongkonger-by-tse-fei/
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday: At the Twelfth Hour\, Confessions of a Hong Konger
DESCRIPTION:Flux Thursday: At the Twelfth Hour: Confessions of a Hongkonger by Tse Fei\nSeptember 12th\n7 – 10pm\n \n  \nFlux Thursdays are Flux Factory’s longest-running program\, and takes place on the second Thursday of each month. \nFlux Thursday started in 1994 and is a monthly potluck and artists salon where artists present their work and gather for food and socializing. \nThis event is free but please bring food or drink to share! \nSeptember’s Flux Thursday will be in tandem with Tse Fei’s Residency Exhibition. Tse will address the current protests in Hong Kong in response to the 2019 extradition bill. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the idiom “the eleventh hour” refers to the final moment\, then “the twelfth hour” means that it is too late. For the artist Tse Fei\,the twelfth hour references a feeling of guilt that he may be missing out. \n\nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \nMost Flux Thursday events take place in the ground floor Gallery\, which is ADA accessible. The event information will specify if the event takes place in the kitchen on the 2nd floor. \nUpcoming Flux Thursday 2019 \nOctober 11th\, 2019\nNovember 14th\, 2019\nDecember 12th\, 2019
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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SUMMARY:Party Dress Party by Dew Igworia
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 20th \nOpen Studios\, 2 – 7pm\nParty Dress Party 9pm – 12am\nOpen mic at 10pm \nWear your best party dress for a dance party and celebration starting at 9pm. All are invited to bring a poem\, song\, question\, list\, story or other performance to the open mic at 10pm. \nLet us know you’ll be coming on Facebook \n\nRecent Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence\, poet and designer Dew Igworia\, has been working on a series of party dresses that celebrate and honor cherished garments that she collected over years\, which helped form her identity. These dresses connected her to a realm of fantasy and an expansiveness of self\, but were lost in the removal of a storage unit due to financial insecurity. Recreating these garments summons not only a multiplicity of Igworia’s selves\, but meaningful friendships and life trajectories that\, even if never realized\, still hold weight in memory and fondness. \nParty Dress Party and Dew Igworia’s practice seeks to understand the feminine body. Through textiles and garments\, she investigates the material process of moving from a girl to a woman\, as well as the slippage between these two states. How is personal style used to define these categories\, and how does celebration itself shift for feminine people both individually and collectively? Party Dress Party is also a tribute to a joyous masculinity that was embodied by Igworia’s father and brother; The two central men in her rearing\, who opened space for her to choose how she exists within femininity.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/party-dress-party/
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SUMMARY:Amir Badawi and Maria Lulu Varona: Works in Thread
DESCRIPTION:Amir Badawi and Maria Lulu Varona: Works in Thread\nSeptember 27th to October 6th\nFree and Open to the Public \nOpen Hours:\nThursday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm\nOpening Reception\nSeptember 27th\, 7 – 10pm \nThank you to our beer sponsor Big aLICe Brewing!! \nFlux Factory presents an exhibition of works by two current Artists-in-Residence\, Amir Badawi and María Lulu Varona. Each uses colorful embroidery thread to arrive at radically different ends. A quiet medium\, both in its delicacy and in the time it takes to produce an object from tiny strands\, it is a material that encourages deep looking. \nPuerto Rican artist\, María Lulu Varona works with a cross-stitch technique to produce short narratives\, done in an 8-bit style referencing classic video games and comic strips. Made of cotton thread and Aida cloth\, each work is made up of between three and 23 frames and is presented as a scroll\, table cloth or on clothes. \nVarona employs a sensitive curiosity to address themes of becoming\, transformation and human relations with our environment. She sees space and color as her main instruments for story telling; color as character and essence. These are works of love\, and in the meditative silent process of making them\, she finds comfort to think\, feel and envision possible futures. \nAmir Badawi‘s work on the other hand uses the language of abstraction to elicit contemplation and play; referencing the aesthetic lineage of Lee Bontecou\, Ernesto Neto\, Senga Nengudi\, and Roberto Matta. Made of thin metal wire and rods\, meticulously wrapped with cotton thread\, Badawi’s compositions are slight and airy\, and often seem to float against a white background. Playing with negative space\, and by using directed lights\, the sculptures make shadows that extend and double the compositions\, which shift and change as the viewer moves through the gallery. \nBadawi takes inspiration from nature\, mathematics\, and the background noise of every day life.  His artistic process is driven by improvisation and non-verbal thinking\, allowing an exploration of material to weave together with trains-of-thought to produce otherworldly skeletons\, plants\, micro-organisms and other tendrils of imagination.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/works-in-thread/
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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