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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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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday: A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Flux Thursday: Nova Scott-James presents\, A Spell to Ward Off The Darkness\nOctober 10\, 7 – 10pm \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! \n\nJoin Flux Factory artists for a very special screening of A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness by Ben Russel & Ben Rivers\, presented by Filmmaker and current Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence\, Nova Scott-James. \nThis unique\, experimental documentary made in 2013\, stars Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (best known for his intense live performances under the name LICHENS)\, as an unnamed character wandering through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation\, we join him in the midst of a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness\, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort\, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction – it is at once a document of experience and an experience itself. A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness won the New Vision Award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival in 2015. \nNova Scott-James will introduce A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness and screen a trailer for her upcoming film Wild Darlings Sing the Blues. A doc/narrative hybrid series\, Wild Darlings Sing the Blues follows a group of queer Black women and gender non-conforming artists on a spiritual journey that begins on a wooded indigenous sanctuary and culminates in a group pilgrimage to a plantation in the American South. \nA Spell To Ward Off The Darkness\, 98 mins\nDirected by: Ben Russel & Ben Rivers\n \nThis event takes place in the kitchen\, which is up one flight of stairs. \nUpcoming Flux Thursday\nNovember 14th\, 2019\nDecember 12th\, 2019\nJanuary 9th\, 2020
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday-a-spell-to-ward-off-the-darkness/
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SUMMARY:Must They Also Be Gods: Flux Factory Major Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:  \nImage by Ishmil Waterman\, flyer design by Cayla Lockwood\nMust They Also Be Gods\nOctober 11 – November 3\n\nCurated by Kalon Hayward\nAssistant Curator Bri Frei\nCuratorial Advisor Haiba Hamilton\n \nOpen Hours:\nThursday – Sunday\, 1 – 6pm\nOpening Reception\, October 11\, from 7 – 11pm\n \nPlease share our event on Facebook \nFull Schedule below\n \n\n\nMust They Also Be Gods is a group show that features the work of over 15 emerging and mid-career Black artists that highlights the creative process of African diasporic peoples in connection with an insistent and inherent focus on beauty and spirituality. \nThrough a diverse range of mediums\, participating artists use their process as a form of enchantment\, linking them to a creativity used to sustain Black culture(s) throughout time – past\, future and present. \nOver the course of one month Must They Also Be Gods will house visual\, performance\, musical arts and workshops in the Flux Factory Gallery\, as an invitation and conduit for all visitors to engage their own creativity. \nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS \nAlbert Garcia\, Ariella Tai\, Dareece Walker\,  Caffetti\, Cameron Granger\, Denae Howard\, Eli Fola\, Felicia Holman\, Ishmil Waterman\, Jade Fair\, Jonathan Gonzalez\, K’La Soul\, Mellasenah Edwards\, Monica Brown\, Mr Hollis King\, Niambi Ra and The Blackstarz\, Nichole Washington\, Nicole Goodwin\, Ntangou Badila\, Ricardo Osmondo Francis\, Sasa\, Stanley Février\, Urban Mystery Skool for Radical Creatives\, Zeelie Brown \n\n\nFULL SCHEDULE\nFriday October 11 – OPENING\n> 7pm\, Ain’t I a Woman (?/!)\, Performance by Nicole Goodwin\nPerformance is a study in both physical body movement and the antithesis of movement. Using the body\, breath\, and voice to Challenge traditions. she forges a new path that shows a large Black\, Queer woman as someone who is deserving of public admiration. “I see myself as a living time capsule transporting itself through this dimension.”\n> 8pm – 11\, DJ Set by Eli Fola\, Yoruba Tech Soul with Saxaphone \nThursday October 17 – Late Hours for the LIC Gallery Nights\nSpecial Open Hours from 1pm – 9pm  \nSaturday October 19 – WORKSHOPS\n2pm\, Hip Hop Yoga workshop Urban Mystery Skool for Radical Creatives\, with MC Make Change\n4pm\, Orgonite Workshop with Sasa The Crystal Wrapper \nFriday October 25 – NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE\n7pm – 9:30pm\nPerformances by Albert Andrew Garcia\, Felicia Holman and Zeelie Brown\,  \nSaturday October 26 – WORKSHOPS\n2pm\, Transferable Skills: Writing & Creative with Felicia Holman\n4pm\, Twerk Dance Class with Bri Frei  \nThursday October 31 – CONCERT & BAZAAR\nDoors at 8pm\, Show at 8:30\nFeaturing K’La Soul and Niambi Ra and the Blackstarz 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/musttheyalsobegods/
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SUMMARY:Flux Takeover of Socrates Sculpture Park
DESCRIPTION:Flux Takeover of Socrates Sculpture Park\nSaturday\, October 19th\, 12 – 4 PM\nFree. No rsvp required\n\nSocrates Sculpture Park\n32-01 Vernon Boulevard / Long Island City\, NY 11106 \nSocrates Sculpture Park\, gets Flux’d! Flux Factory is thrilled to bring Resident and Alumni performance interventions to the beloved the Long Island City/Astoria waterfront park dedicated to supporting artists in the production and presentation of public art. \nFlux Factory\, takes over the Park for an adventurous afternoon of performance\, engagement\, and installation activating The 2019 Socrates Annual exhibition. Come experience Flux’s core themes in action — collaboration\, experimentation\, and play. \nPROGRAM OF EVENTS\nAll events will occur throughout the park between the hours of 12 – 4pm. \nLIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS \nAbang-guard (Jevijoe Vitug and Maureen Catbagan)\, Abigail Entsminger and Seth Timothy Larson\, Amir Badawi\, Catalina Jordan Alvarez\, Daniel Fishkin\, Eleni Zaharopoulos\, Flex Factory with Aliya Bonar\, Cayla Lockwood and others\, Jaime Iglehart\, Jonathan Sims\, Roopa Vasudevan\, Tommy Nguyen \nWorks by Jevijoe Vitug (Abban-guard)\, Eleni Zaharopoulos and Daniel Fishkin were presented with help by Queens Council On the Arts.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-takeover-of-socrates-sculpture-park/
LOCATION:Socrates Sculpture Park\, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11106\, United States
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