Flux Wednesday with Beat2beats
2022-08-03 18:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Join Flux Factory for our first event in Code&Share[], Aarhus of the year! Local DJs Beat2beats and Fluxers will DJ, and Book1’s happy hour will be a flowin’. We’ll host events every Wednesday during our stay at Book1 throughout August and September, and we can’t wait to reconnect with you all once again!

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Web World and Co-Operative Computing￼
2022-08-04 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Anders Visti (Code&Share Aarhus[]) and Lee Tusman (Flux Factory) will lead this workshop, an introduction for artists and creative practitioners and those new to building websites, or a radical re-introduction to those with previous experience. The workshop will begin with an examination of the web’s history, including early browsers and net.art to contemporary approaches to web design and creating online space. The workshop will start with the basics of creating a website with HTML and CSS, and work with participants to construct their own online homes. Along the way we’ll cover semantic HTML, brutalist design, hosting, resilient and simple approaches to creating long-lasting spaces, and new protocols and online communities exploring web minimalism, permacomputing and the ‘slow web’ movement. Bring a laptop.

Lee Tusman 👽 is a New York-based new media 🎨💻 artist and educator interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives 👩🏿‍🏭 👨🏼‍🎤 🧑🏿‍🎨 👩🏻‍🔬 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 and DIY culture 🧷 to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods 🖨️ of digital culture. He works in code ⌨️, collage ✂️, sound 🎶 and text 📝. His artistic output includes installations 🗑 , interactive media 📑, video art 📹, experimental games 🎮, sound art 🔊, websites 🌐, bots 🤖 and micro-power radio stations📡. His work has been shown at museums 🏛️, galleries 🖼️, artist-run spaces 🏚️ and virtual environments 🛸. He studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts. He is Assistant Professor 🏫 of New Media and Computer Science at Purchase College. Lee is an organizer with Babycastles, a NYC-based collective fostering and amplifying diverse voices in videogame culture as well as a collaborator with artist-run community Flux Factory. He co-founded Processing Community Day NYC. He is a past organizer at Hidden City Philadelphia, Little Berlin and KCHUNG Radio.

Anders Visti is an artist working with code. Founder and co-editor of the publishing house * [asterisk] from 2002-12. Founder and editor of the printed web publication ‡ DobbeltDagger and initiator of Code&Share[ ] and !=null, two public forums for artists, researchers, developers and hackers using contemporary technology for creative expression and aesthetic inquiry.

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Meal8: Open Kitchen with Red Flower Collective
2022-08-06 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Meal8: Open Kitchen is centered around dishes that can be cooked in the absence of fire. With the limitations of the available kitchen in mind, we explore in this menu propositions for a kitchen without heat: cooking without a stove or oven; operating with limited access to water; and focusing on fermented, cured, macerated, preserved, and pickled ingredients.

We know it’s going to be late-summer hot, so we’ll be serving up a medley of specialty drinks and cool, fresh, restoring courses. The meal will be picnic-style, with floor seating in a shaded, grassy area. The location is wheelchair accessible and we can provide chair seating upon request.

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Red Flower Collective is a food research and eating collective organized by art historian and researcher, Erin Montanez; artist and art worker, Jenna Hamed, and artist-homemaker, Tsohil Bhatia. In the year since its inception, the collective has hosted free, open meals out of borrowed kitchens loaned by friends and institutions. With a rotating membership of artists, chefs and homecooks, and community organizers, the collective is interested in sharing food and cooking together through community meals, installations, and programs. The project takes food and the labors of cooking as key tools in forgoing the sterility of the gallery exhibition space, collaborating with practitioners to center generational culinary histories and affirm diasporic identities.

Red Flower Collective was born during COVID 19, out of the desire to eat with people, to counter the taboo of being together and sharing home space, and to assert that food is a primary issue of public concern. We are drawn to the idea of a porous home, one that is malleable based on both individual and collective need. The provision of a meal and the meal as an event invites a group of people unfamiliar to one another to assemble. The collective aims to break the transactional nature of food consumption and instead encourage communal eating. The nature of care is at the center of the collective’s project.

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Daxophone Workshop
2022-08-06 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Institut for (X), Skovgaardsgade 5C, Aarhus C, Denmark
The daxophone is a carved hardwood strip that is played with a bow. It was invented in 1987 by German font designer Hans Reichel.

The instrument’s sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles and delicate whistles to wild screams.

In this workshop, daxophone luthier Daniel Fishkin will guide participants through a range of playing techniques and musical approaches.

You will learn how to play this rare instrument.

Participants are thusly invited to join a temporary daxophone band and perform at the Flux ARoS auditorium on 8/11!

workshop capacity: 5

RSVP to Daniel Fishkin, daniel.fiction@gmail.com to join the workshop!

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Benefit for Trans Justice Funding Project
2022-08-06 16:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Songs from some of the biggest trans music stars in a fundraiser for Trans Justice Funding Project played in the beautiful lawn at Colonels Row House 404A featuring short solo music sets by Erica Dawn Lyle (Bikini Kill, Art in America), Gavilán Rayna Russom (LCD Soundsystem), Erica Freas, Sulynn Hago, Worm Mother, Amelia Jackie, Starly Bri, and Kate Slauter.

Donations will be gathered for the Trans Justice Funding Project.

$10-20 suggested donation for fundraiser. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Sally Beauty Twin is a trans-woman artist living in New York City. Her practice includes creation and curation of visual art, music, and theater. For Governors Island, in June 2022 she made a 60 person art ecological parade and art show…and in October 2021, she curated a three day performance art festival both with Flux Factory at Colonels Row 404A. Included was a three weekend fine arts show which she curated. Hundreds of events she has curated can be seen at www.amphoranewyork.com. Her art has recently been shown at Tomato Mouse Gallery, Spring/Break Art Fair, and right this moment at Mizuma and Kips. She received her arts education at Tulane University.

Erica Dawn Lyle writes for Art in America and is guitarist for Bikini Kill. Gavilan Rayna Russom runs Voluminous Arts and was a keyboardist for LCD Soundsystem.

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Every Nigga Is A Star Trek Club Event
2022-08-06 22:00 - 2022-08-07 02:00 (America/New_York) | Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United States
This is the main club event for the Black Bliss Rave Exhibition. **Update – this event is limited capacity and invite only. For the general public, please come by for the open studio hours on Sunday.

So what is Every Nigga Is A Star Trek about?

Every Nigga Is A Star Trek is a dreamscape that exists to connect Black people to the bliss we so rightly deserve. It is a meeting ground to reclaim and reimagine our accessibility to bliss. It is beyond the physical realm, and instead a portal of the senses experienced through community.

What does the night look/feel like?

Every Nigga Is A Star Trek invites its passengers to journey through varying galaxies of Black bliss. Through experiential design, visual imagery, and creative production the dreamscape will offer multiple opportunities for guests to engage in bliss autonomously. All activities stations have been intentionally designed to follow a gradual progression of participation and stamina as the night moves. It is our hope that every Black person who experiences the dreamscape will feel empowered to create and sustain their own portal of joy.

***Every Nigga Is A Star Trek centers Black people and Black joy. With this in mind, we’d like to distinguish the space as a BIPOC-folx only social experience.

Main Nightclub Event

***Note: There will be a playlist on throughout the night until the live DJ set.

10 PM Start Time

10 PM-11 PM

ArrivalMingleExploration of Space

11:30 PM-12:15 AM

Arrival Chill Zone Activity (Meditation Sound Bath)Exploration of Space

12:30 AM-1:30 AM

Dance/Vogue PerformanceCallouts

1:30 AM-3:30 AM

DJ SetSoul Train Line

This event is part of the Pink Flamingo: Clubs In Flux Group Exhibition at the cell theatre.

A note on accessibility: Unfortunately, the cell is not wheelchair-accessible and visitors must go up a flight of stairs to access the space on the second floor.

Black Bliss Rave Open Studio Hours
2022-08-07 14:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United States
Open Studio Hours with the Black Bliss Rangers.

***We center Black people and Black joy. With this in mind, this space is designated as a BIPOC-folx only social experience.***

This event is part of the Pink Flamingo: Clubs In Flux Group Exhibition at the cell theatre.

A note on accessibility: Unfortunately, the cell is not wheelchair-accessible and visitors must go up a flight of stairs to access the space on the second floor.

DIRTY KARAOKE
2022-08-10 18:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Paris) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Join Flux & Dirty Time for Dirty Karaoke! Bring your favorite song about dirt, death or climate change and we’ll help each other keep our spirits up even though we know the end of the habitable world is nigh. You can also bring some soil from somewhere that’s important to you that you can add to our growing Dirty Library.

BIOS

Walker Tufts is an artist and game designer. Walker’s work explores our relationship to others (human and more-than-human) through games, exhibitions, dinner parties, and performances. With various collaborators Walker makes games that playfully place player’s bodies in physical relationship with global systems, dirt, bodies and microbiomes.

Hey There Kapplow uses prompts, conversations, objects, sound, installation, walks and circumstances to invite people to pause their usual ways of operating, and participate in embodied, anti-capitalist discovery processes together. Kapplow facilitates collective experimentation with alternative ways of being and understanding, in an effort to reduce suffering bred by the social structures around us.

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Into the Limelight Workshop Hours
2022-08-11 14:00 - 19:00, 2022-08-12 14:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United States
During these workshop hours guests are invited to come to the cell to share stories, photographs, and memorabilia from their past experiences in nightclubs. Audio recordings and video or photos will be taken to preserve and archive those stories with permission from the narrator. All are welcome!

This event is part of the Pink Flamingo: Clubs In Flux Group Exhibition at the cell theatre.

A note on accessibility: Unfortunately, the cell is not wheelchair-accessible and visitors must go up a flight of stairs to access the space on the second floor.

i would die 2 u
2022-08-11 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Friends and Lovers, come to Flux Factory’s latest showing of multimedia composition at the ARoS Auditorium. Expect filmic interludes, the sounds of badgers cooing and cawing, a daxophone orchestra, the gentle hum of electronic music in the forest, and a baby.

Catalina Alvarez will present new films. She makes choreographed films and experimental musicals. In her anthology documentary, Sound Spring, residents of Yellow Springs, Ohio become actors lip-syncing to their own interviews, narrating their village’s role in American history over hundreds of years. Her 16mm shorts include Paco, the story of a man who wants you to bounce on his lap. With this film and all her others, Catalina Alvarez gets to know her neighbors.

Daniel Fishkin will present a daxophone concert. Composer, sound artist, and instrument builder. Completely ambivalent about music. Daniel studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart. He has performed as a soloist on modular synthesizer with the American Symphony Orchestra, developed sound installations in abandoned concert halls, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Daniel’s lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal, 2014); as an ally in the search for a cure, he has been awarded the title of “tinnitus ambassador” by the Deutsche Tinnitus-Stiftung. He is the only luthier that studied with the daxophone’s inventor, Hans Reichel.

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Freewrite: Web Jam Session
2022-08-13 13:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Mixr, Filmbyen 4, 6. sal, Aarhus C, 8000, Denmark
This workshop and jam session follows from our August 4 workshop at ARoS Public but can also be attended standalone. In this session we’ll go into more advanced CSS territory to build unique, experimental, maxi or minimalist sites for homepages, art experiments and more.

In addition, we’ll spend more time with ‘smol’ computing, Gemini protocol, webrings, and web-zines.

The session will conclude with presentations by all participants showing off their new sites, and perhaps a new webring tying them all together.

Bring a laptop.

Lee Tusman is a New York-based new media artist and educator interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives and DIY culture to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods of digital culture. He works in code, collage, sound and text. His artistic output includes installations, interactive media, video art, experimental games, sound art, websites, bots and micro-power radio stations. His work has been shown at museums, galleries, artist-run spaces and virtual environments. He studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts. He is Assistant Professor of New Media and Computer Science at Purchase College. Lee is an organizer with Babycastles, a NYC-based collective fostering and amplifying diverse voices in videogame culture as well as a collaborator with artist-run community Flux Factory. He co-founded Processing Community Day NYC. He is a past organizer at Hidden City Philadelphia, Little Berlin and KCHUNG Radio.

Anders Visti is an artist working with code. Founder and co-editor of the publishing house * [asterisk] from 2002-12. Founder and editor of the printed web publication ‡ DobbeltDagger and initiator of Code&Share[ ] and !=null, two public forums for artists, researchers, developers and hackers using contemporary technology for creative expression and aesthetic inquiry.

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Into the Limelight Club Event
2022-08-13 22:00 - 2022-08-14 02:00 (America/New_York) | Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United States
This club night pays homage to NYC’s Limelight nightclub of the 1990s. Held on the second floor of the cell theatre, it will feature a dancefloor with disco balls, colorful lighting and live DJs playing dance music from the period. The walls will be adorned with paintings by artist Andrew Fish, depicting scenes of the original club, and video projection of archival footage. Two large stained glass window reproductions will enhance the nostalgic feel of the space while DJ’s PlayPlay, Andy Pry, and more will take turns spinning music of the era, keeping the dance floor active all night. A chillout room on the third floor will be available for those who need a break. There is no cover charge but admission is at the sole discretion of a discerning door person so dress to impress!

Other details:

The Cell’s second and third floor spaces are only accessible by stairs.

There will be some lite refreshments available but feel free to bring your own water.

Bathrooms will be available.

This event is part of the Pink Flamingo: Clubs In Flux Group Exhibition at the cell theatre.

A note on accessibility: Unfortunately, the cell is not wheelchair-accessible and visitors must go up a flight of stairs to access the space on the second floor.

ASSEMBALL at UAC
2022-08-14 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | UAC, Skovgaardsgade 5C, Aarhus, Denmark
Useful Arts for Communities will host Kosmologym for ASSEMBALL, which offers players a physical way to explore human organizational structures by precariously binding them together for a game of bondage basketball. Jerseys and connectors turn teams into visual representations of various hierarchical and non-hierarchical organizations.

Kosmologym is an art and game design collective. Our games challenge players to encounter others (human and more than human) and place human bodies in physical relationships to global systems.

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Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux Closing Party
2022-08-14 21:30 - 2022-08-15 02:00 (America/New_York) | Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, 338 W 23rd St, New York, New York, United States
Join us for our final closing party, featuring DJs muse(o)fire and Anton Lapov in the gallery + karaoke in the chillout room by Jevijoe Vitug. Also last chance to check out our archives space!

This event is part of the Pink Flamingo: Clubs In Flux Group Exhibition at the cell theatre.

THE SPACE

Founded in 2006, the cell has provided a developmental home in the heart of Chelsea for works in progress by artists ranging from early career to established staples of the New York community. Originally established as a theatre space, the cell has gradually restructured into a cultural hub for food artists, cyborg theatre artists, musicians, installation artists, choreographers and more.

A note on accessibility: Unfortunately, the cell is not wheelchair-accessible and visitors must go up a flight of stairs to access the space on the second floor.

THE CURATORS:

Jess Dilday, aka PlayPlay (NYC) is a DJ, producer, writer, teacher and music scholar. They have been a long-term artist-in-residence at Flux Factory and a teaching artist through NYC’s Building Beats and through the Next Level US Hip Hop diplomacy program in Peru. They have previously taught “The Art and Culture of the DJ” through the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music. With a particular investment in mentoring those who are not traditionally represented in the music industry, PlayPlay has held DJ workshops at festivals, museums and universities worldwide. As a music scholar, Jess is particulaly interested in local music scenes, queer theory, media studies, nostalgia, dance floor dynamics and creating safer spaces in collective environments. And as a DJ and music producer, their experience as a lifelong music nerd and mainstay at underground clubs for over 20 years is constantly informing their encyclopedic sets, weaving together new underground club tracks with the classics.

Anton Lapov (Ukraine/USA) is an artist, musician, independent curator and museologist. His practice follows a multidisciplinary approach based on his interest in new media, sound-art, creative coding, digital humanities and experimental museology. He is constantly in search of non-conventional forms of exhibitional representation and seeks to avoid the logic of instrumentalisation through the creation of procedural communicative situations. In addition to being involved in the sphere of artistic/curatorial production he also conducts research into the history of sound-art/electronic music and local artistic communities of Eastern Ukraine.

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Show & Tell & Tell & Tell & Tell
2022-08-17 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
Join Aliya Bonar and Flux Factory Residents for our weekly Flux Wednesday at Book1 as we share and discuss new artworks made during our Residency at the ARoS Museum. All are welcome to join in to listen and ask questions in this informal setting.

Aliya Bonar is an artist, community organizer and event producer. Using fashion, costume, interview and installation, her work engages individuals in exploring how we present ourselves to the world — and breaking down the divide between Professional and Playful.

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Flux Thursday with Kosmologym, thetOOth&therOOt and Aliya Bonar
2022-08-18 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
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Kosmologym will host an interactive Assemball performance (more info below). Ukrainian/French duo thetOOth&therOOt will present Fotomoton, a sculptural photo booth. Aliya Bonar will present an interactive weaving created during her Residency at ARoS.ASSEMBALL offers players a physical way to explore human organizational structures by precariously binding them together for a game of bondage basketball. Jerseys and connectors turn teams into visual representations of various hierarchical and non-hierarchical organizations. We’ll repurpose Assemball into a dance race through ARoS, embodying these organizational structures through rhythm and motion. Everyone is invited to participate.

Event begins at 18:00 and Assemball performance starts at 19:00. Please bring a piece of clothing or textile with personal meaning to add to the collaborative weaving (must be willing to add the textile to the art piece permanently!)

About the Artists:Kosmologym is an art and game design collective. Our games challenge players to encounter others (human and more than human) and place human bodies in physical relationships to global systems.

Walker Tufts is an artist and game designer. Walker’s work explores our relationship to others (human and more-than-human) through games, exhibitions, dinner parties, and performances. With various collaborators Walker makes games that playfully place player’s bodies in physical relationship with global systems, dirt, bodies and microbiomes.

Aliya Bonar is an artist, community organizer and event producer. Using fashion, costume, interview and installation, her work engages individuals in exploring how we present ourselves to the world — and breaking down the divide between Professional and Playful.

TheTooth&The Root is an alliance of three independent artists, working in the field of audio and videomedia. Yurii Khustochka , Nikita Kravtsov and Camille Sagnes-Kravtsova create audiovisual projects, talking about social problems of society in a very absurd and ironic.

Flux at Sydhavnens Festival
2022-08-19 10:00 - 2022-08-20 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Sydhavnen, Jægergårdsgade, Aarhus
Flux at ARoS Residents are excited to join the annual Sydhavnens Festival. Aarhus’ industrial district in Sydhavnen will have a blowout weekend to showcase the musicians, artists, entrepreneurs, associations, drop-in centers, institutions and companies that make up this vibrant area.

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Traveling Fountains & Performances
2022-08-20 17:00 - 2022-08-21 17:00 (America/New_York)
Site-specific installation: Graciela Cassel

Performances: Julia Santoli and Carolina Rivera

Curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés

Flux Factory on Governors Island presents Traveling Fountains + Performances, a site-specific installation by Graciela Cassel, and performances by Julia Santoli and Carolina Rivera. This show is curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés.

Considering the “fountain” as a symbol of free-flowing energy, paralleling our human circulatory system, Traveling Fountains invite the viewer to meditate on the water in different states. Governors Island becomes a reflective scenario where performances by Julia Santoli and Carolina Rivera create a dialogue to reinforce the water’s beautiful transparency and lucidity creating sinuous rhythms and movements.

Today, we witness in awe and despair the dissolving of water’s stoic, ageless solid state, our ice caps melting, a murmur bringing forth a troubled destiny, a political chore for society to unravel and restore. Traveling Fountains aim to bring awareness of our need to care for our rivers and oceans. Traveling Fountains + Performances conjures nature with the urban space.

This event is free and open to the public.

Brief Bios:

Graciela Cassel was born in Argentina and currently lives in New York. Cassel’s works based on nature, even all urban, are presented through a lens of nature. Cassel is a multimedia artist who showed her works at Museo del Barrio, Sotheby’s Art Institute, BRAC, Varis Center at Urban Glass, Chashama, and Bienal del Sur in Argentina. Cassel’s videos received numerous international awards. In 2020, Cassel received a fellowship in the NY Historical Society, and 2021 a fellowship with Ankhlave and Queens Botanical Garden.

Emireth Herrera Valdés (b. Saltillo, Mexico) is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. Herrera’s curatorial and writing practice reflects her commitment to socially-engaged projects and the contextualization of issues of migration, mobility, dislocation, refugees, and indigenous culture within the development of Latin and American art. Herrera has curated exhibitions at Queens Museum, Flux Factory in NYC, the Sinaloa Museum of Art in Mexico, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her articles have been published by Arte Fuse, Brooklyn Rail, VISTAS by ISLAA, and LAR magazine.

Julia Santoli. Creating immersive and precarious environments with voice, video, feedback, electronics, psycho-acoustics, and installation, Santoli navigates presence, memory, and postmemory– memory ruptured by dislocation and inheritance (diaspora), mediated only through representation, projection, and creation. Santoli has had the honor of being a 2019 Music Resident at Pioneer Works, a 2019 Asian Cultural Council grantee to Japan researching sound art and spatial practices, and a 2018 Artist in Residence at Issue Project Room.

Carolina Rivera (b. Santiago, Chile) began her dance training at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago School Ballet. She majored in dance at the University of Chile with High Honors and the Excellence Award. Carolina has performed as a Soloist and as Ensemble in various operas at the renowned Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile. Rivera attended the Martha Graham School, NYC, as a scholarship recipient and joined Graham II, performing soloist roles and chorus in the Graham repertory. She has danced works by Jacqulyn Buglisi, Yung Yung Tsuai Lerner, Blakeley White- McGuire, Lone Larsen, Martin Lofsnes, Edgar Cortes, Shawn Rawls, Alison Cook-Beatty, and Martha Graham.

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Meditation: Divination hosted by gil lopez and Jonathan Sims
2022-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
Schedule:6-8 pm: Labyrinth available for self-guided walking meditation6:45 pm: Group activity labyrinth education + instruction by gil lopez6-8 pm: Durational Fortune Telling with Mirrors by Jonathan Sims

Please join Flux Factory artists gil lopez and Jonathan Sims for an evening of education and action with two ancient meditative and reflective practices: walking labyrinths and divination mirrors.

Enter the Labyrinth, with gil lopezAn ephemeral walking labyrinth will be created on the ARoS lawn for individual participants to walk through.

At 6:45 pm Flux Factory teaching artist gil lopez will offer a group workshop with a group activity and guided instructions for walking and meditating with and within the labyrinth entity. Labyrinths have been used by ancient cultures around the world as a metaphorical tool for personal development and spiritual growth. The labyrinthine path offers one way in, leading to the center and then back out, creating a three-part journey.

Join this workshop to learn some histories of these ancient labyrinths, seed patterns to help draw or even build a labyrinth at home, and some suggestions for using labyrinths in your walking, meditative or reflective practice. Please bring a notebook or journal.

Enoptromancy, an Invocation, with Jonathan Sims

The use of mirrors as a divination tool is known as enoptromancy. Jonathan Sims has spent the last two years exploring the capacity of mirrors to reflect light, the universe, and ourselves.

Participants are asked to bring a question of personal relevance and, if possible, a mirror from home.

We will then engage the mirrors as divination devices and emotional fortune tellers to search for answers together.

gil lopez was born on the Louisiana bayou to a Los Angelino chicano and a working class southern belle, gil lopez is steeped in Southern hospitality and culturally entangled through summers with his family in the barrios of LA. Formally educated in landscape architecture and philosophy, gil currently creates & recreates in Lenapehoking (so called Queens, NYC) as a community organizer, environmental educator and water protector. Through integration of topics spanning from culinary arts, gardening and fermentation to primitive skills and mysticism, and through the reciprocity between soil, plants and humans/animals, gil creates opportunities to reclaim the commons cultivating inter-species community through experiential learning, participatory activism, civic eco-ritual and the potential legacies their events have on our shared future(s).

Jonathan Sims is a New York City based visual artist. Born in Austin, Texas, he began his practice with painting, but has since moved into sculpture, projection installations, print and curation. His visual arts practice is characterized by geometric abstractions and light. A consistent premise underlying his work is that a modern human’s relationship with the very ancient past is mirrored in their relationship with the distant future.

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Light as Material with Jonathan Sims
2022-08-26 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | ARoS Public, Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, Denmark
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Join Jonathan Sims as he shares his knowledge of how to use light as a material and medium for art. Learn about the history of lumia art, light sources, lenses, mirrors, filters, prisms, and the fundamentals of how to assemble, direct, and capture organic light projections and reflections. Workshop participants will have time to explore materials and work together to devise their own light art installation.

Jonathan Sims is a New York City based visual artist. Born in Austin, Texas, he began his practice with painting, but has since moved into sculpture, projection installations, print and curation. His visual arts practice is characterized by geometric abstractions and light. A consistent premise underlying his work is that a modern human’s relationship with the very ancient past is mirrored in their relationship with the distant future.

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August Flux Saturday
2022-08-27 00:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Governors Island, Colonels Row House 404A
Flux Factory hosts Flux Saturdays, a monthly public program, on the last Saturday each month through October. August Flux Saturday’s program features the exhibition opening of Julio José Austria, open studios with Amelia Marzec and Itala Aguilera, and outdoor performances by Jemila MacEwan, Jack Helfrich, Erica Mancini, Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, Jevijoe Vitug, and Maureen Catbagan.

Schedule:

12-6 pm Julio José Austria “Woodside Story” exhibition opening

12-5 pm Open studios “All That is Seen is Unseen” by Amelia Marzec

12-5 pm “Mama’s Augmented Reality” installation open studios with Itala Aguilera

2-3 pm “Metamorphic Meditation” performance by Jemila MacEwan, Erica Mancini, Jack Helfrich

3-4 pm Performance by Reverend Billy of the Stop Shopping Choir

4-5 pm Abang-guard: Life Drawing, Working Class

Project Descriptions:

Julio José Austria’s “Woodside Story” is a storytelling visual project that celebrates the love and relationships of Filipino immigrant couples in their changing neighborhood in Woodside, Queens. Comprised of paintings, sound installation, and videos. Woodside Story is a multi-disciplinary project that focuses on the lives of Filipino immigrant couples in Woodside. Woodside Story is inspired by West Side Story, an American musical romantic drama that talks about love and the determination to strive above racial prejudice and discrimination. Austria’s work is about the story of immigrants who found love in Woodside, Queens. Love speaks of romantic relationships and also love as a passionate endeavor for cultural heritage and community in the big city. Designed to support exhibition opportunities for art workers, this project is part of a curatorial initiative by La Guardia Agency and has been made possible through the New Work Grant from the Queens Council of the Arts.

“Metamorphic Meditation” builds mythological language into our planet’s rich geological history, guiding participants into a multi-sensorial soundscape experience as geologically-transformable bodies. ‘Ecomorphic Meditations’ are an ongoing series of performances created by a network of collaborators directed by artist Jemila MacEwan. These meditations facilitate a process of ‘species ego-death’ to release participants from the habits of monospecies thinking extending their experiences of self into that of mollusk, mushroom, mineral, and beyond.

Open Studios: “All That Is Seen And Unseen” by Amelia Marzec examines the relationship of queerness and Catholicism within the social structures of the Polish American diaspora. It considers the history of migrations and occupations in Eastern Europe, family stories that have gone untold, and transgressions embedded in pre-Christian cultural practices. The project uses computer generated imagery based on traditional paper cutting techniques for projections, and includes roadside shrines which contain a functional communication system, allowing people who are excluded to communicate through the symbolic objects.

In collaboration with itinerant research institute, The Institute for Diasporic Yearning and Longing (IDYL), Mama’s Augmented Reality is a series of installations created by three artists reflecting on their mother’s kitchens. Works will be installed in the first floor kitchen of Flux Factory’s house on Governors Island from August-October. Curated by Eleni Zaharopoulos with participating artists Itala Aguilera, Abby Cheney, and Li-Ming Hu.

The unstoppable theatricality of Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir of singing-activists bring audiences of all ages and backgrounds together. A church service with a roof-shaking cry meets a call to action in an ever-evolving survey of personal awareness and responsibility, rededicating ourselves to the politicizing of survival, pitting our freedom against the financiers of climate change.

Abang-guard duo Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug invite Governors Island visitors to drop-in for a life drawing class with museum guards as models. Participants will have an opportunity to develop their drawing and observation skills through examining Abang-guard’s form and uniform, highlighting the visibility of essential workers. Other workers are welcome to drop by to sit and model. All drawings will be shown at the Flux Factory gallery space and all skill levels are appreciated. Blankets and drawing materials will be provided and the event is free and open to the public.

Artist Bios:

Julio José Austria is a Filipino-American visual artist who lives and works in New York City. His works mainly focused on migration and urbanization which provides a visual portrayal of his profound life experiences and narratives based on his observations and absorption of the environment he is in. His practice includes painting, mixed media, video, and installation. For Governors Island, Austria conducted interviews of Filipino couples to capture a sense of intimacy and focus on the storytelling part.

Amelia Marzec is a Brooklyn-based artist focused on rebuilding and engaging with local communications infrastructure to prepare for an uncertain future. Her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ISEA (Canada), University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland), ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain), NODE Forum for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany), and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, Ox-Bow, and Harvestworks, a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA, A.I.R. Gallery, and Columbia University, a visiting artist at CalArts, a grantee of the Research Foundation of CUNY, and a nominee for the World Technology Awards for Art.

Jack, Jemila, and Erica have existed in human form for some time, playing in the realms of visual art, music, and multi-media experimentation. Prior to becoming the mortal human bodies they now inhabit the artists existed as mineral particles disperced through geological and atmospheric bodies across the cosmos.

Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir have performed all over the world, on stages and in the streets. Their work lies at the unique intersection between art, activism and spirit. They are committed environmental activists and have campaigned for 20 years against militarism, pesticides, extractive industry and the overwhelming threat of consumerism to the life systems of Earth. In 2016 they opened for Neil Young on his Rebel Content tour and recently attended the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow. Their highly original content is prescient and moving, addressing the complexities we all carry with us during this time of climate crisis.

Jevijoe Vitug and Maureen Catbagan met as museum guards and have been collaborating since 2017. As Abang-guard, they explore the intersections of immigration, labor, and visibility. Reflecting on the artistic strategies of the avant-garde, they infuse personal history and art practice to convey with theoretical humor the complexity and nuances between cultural production, institutional structures, and the role of labor. Performance venues include ARoS Museum in Denmark, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abrons Art Center Amphitheater, PS 122 Gallery, Socrates Park, and Flux Factory.

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At the Cookout with Ka (Black Sun) & K’la Soul
2022-08-28 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Institut for (X), Skovgaardsgade 5C, Aarhus C, Denmark
At the cookout will be an immersive artistic party celebrating American black culture. Black folk often need to see each other, bond, laugh, and embrace. We will explore ritual with music, food, and live performances. The cookout is a joyous event that celebrates our advancements, kinship, and growth.

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Speed Fortune Telling & Plushy Karaoke
2022-08-31 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Camping Book1, Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
For a festuge edition of Flux’s weekly Wednesdays at Camping Book1, Gil Lopez will lead in making personalized origami fortune tellers and lead a round of speed fortune telling for everyone to read each other’s fortunes using their freshly folded divination tools.

Simultaneously, Maureen Catbagan wiill lead Plushy Karaoke – Bring your favorite plushy, dress up in costume, cosplay, or your favorite rock star and sing your heart out! No judgments, only arty fun!

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

gil lopez is steeped in Southern hospitality and culturally entangled through summers with his family in the barrios of LA. Formally educated in landscape architecture and philosophy, gil currently creates & recreates in Lenapehoking (so called Queens, NYC) as a community organizer, environmental educator and water protector. Through integration of topics spanning culinary arts, gardening and fermentation to primitive skills and mysticism, and through the reciprocity between soil, plants and humans/animals, gil creates opportunities to reclaim the commons cultivating inter-species community through experiential learning, participatory activism, civic eco-ritual and the potential legacies their events have on our shared future(s).

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