Flux Saturday: If Walls Could Talk
2025-09-13 15:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Flux IV, 56-21 2nd St, Long Island City
Our serial public program and potluck is back! Flux Saturdays are organized by different artists and take many forms, including pop-up exhibitions, performances, screenings, artist presentations and more.

3:00 – 4:00 PMRhizome Fellowship Artist Talk: Zella Vanié & dre jácomePlease join Flux Factory’s 2025 Rhizome Fellows, dre jácome and Zella Vanié, for artist talks that will provide greater insight into their practice and process as they work towards an exhibition in 2026. dre jácome will speak about her interactive storytelling archive and installation, Earthseed, which weaves together land-based, Indigenous, and contemporary technologies. Zella Vanié will elaborate on We Be Coming Free, a zine series developed communally, through integrated workshops drawing on Black imagination, somatic wisdom, and contemporary critical thought. Rhizome Fellowships are an annual residency and exhibition opportunity that make time and space to forge stronger ties between Flux Factory and community-based practice engaging under-heard, under-seen, and under-supported voices in Queens. 2025-2026 is the inaugural year of the fellowship.

www.drerenate.xyzzellavanie.cargo.sitewww.fluxfactory.org/rhizome-fellowships/

4:00 – 6:00 PMFamily Workshop: Jiří Pitrmuc and Savka MarenićChildren, parents, and neighbors are invited to join Flux Factory’s international artists-in-residence, Jiří Pitrmuc (Czech Republic) and architect and artist Savka Marenić (Czech Republic/Montenegro) in a creative workshop exploring the Hunter’s Point South waterfront and its traces of wilderness. Together, we will practice being attentive to our surroundings, try to see space through different eyes than we may be used to, and experiment with a variety of objects and media as tools for discovery.

7:15 PM – 8:30 PM Performance: If Museum Walls Could Talk by Margarita KulevaThis performance is dedicated to revealing “behind the scenes” political struggles for creativity and cultural expression in wartime Russia. It draws upon a variety of less visible protest and dissent actions caused by the new wave of censorship and extreme police brutality. The performance is based on self-ethnography and interviews Margarita Kuleva conducted with Russian cultural workers since the beginning of the war. The event interweaves the voices of protesters, fragments of official discourse, seekers for stability, and those who’d like to escape into “pure art”, in one dramatic story that unfolds in dialogue with a media installation created by Daria Trubarova specially for the performance. www.margaritakuleva.comThis version of the performance is co-curated by N.A. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with N.A. and Margarita.

Image: Margarita Kuleva, {min}enligntenment, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
