Tongue Tide: Full Schedule
Tongue Tide
–A month-long exhibition exploring the multitude of ways in which artists engage with language, addressing both its tide-like ebb and flow as well as its limitations.
Calendario Completo (español)
July 6th, 6-9PM- Opening Reception
Featuring The Blue Bus Project, and performances by Irene Chan, JeviJoe Vitug, and Martha Wilson
July 7th, 6:30PM – 9:30PM – Food Forum & Artists Walk
– Exploring perception, affect and communication through food, walkings and writings.
6:30PM Great women of Queens – A dinner conversation with artist Bibi Calderaro and Xenia Diente at the Jamaican restaurant,
The Melting Pot Cuisine organized by Xenia Diente. Please RSVP to tonguetide@fluxfactory.org
8PM Waves of WoW Artists Walk* by Bibi Calderaro
join – , inspired by Helen Keller, Toni Morrison and Patricia Ticineto Clough. WoW is a performative walk from the restaurant to the Queensbridge riverfront and back to Flux Factory — reading, talking and composing a performative bridging gesture together while the full moon rises in the sky.
*Walk is limited to 15 people. Flashlights suggested! Please RSVP to tonguetide@fluxfactory.org
July 8, 15, 22, 29, Saturdays 3pm – 6pm – Arts Workshops
Windmill Community Garden
39-22 29th Street, Long Island City
Saturdays from 3pm – 6pm
Artist Masoom Moitra will offer arts workshops for all members of our community Saturdays during the month of July.
Workshops will be located in the Windmill Community Garden, across from Flux Factory.
To register please email moitra.masoom@gmail.com or phone 631-612-7283 or walk in.
All sessions are free and open to public
Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
July 13, 5:30PM – 11PM – Flux Thursday
5:30PM Waves of WoW Artists Walk* by Bibi Calderaro, inspired by Helen Keller, Toni Morrison and Patricia Ticineto Clough. WoW is a performative walk to the Queensbridge riverfront and back to Flux Factory — reading, talking and composing a bridging gesture together. *Walk is limited to 15 people. Please RSVP to tonguetide@fluxfactory.org
7PM Potluck
8PM Performances by Maribel Plasencia and Purgatory Pie Press
9:30PMDance Party
July 15 & 16, 1-5PM – Artists Books Workshop
“Los libros de la interpretación” with Carlos Salas In the Windmill Community Garden
Thursday July 20, 6-9PM Special Gallery Hours
Open to the public as part of LIC Arts Open
6:30PM Artists Walk*by Bibi Calderaro,
*Walk is limited to 15 people.
Please RSVP to tonguetide@fluxfactory.org
July 22, 11:45AM-1:45PM – Food Forum: The Color Blue Across Languages
A conversation with artist Magali Duzant, talking about her project, A Light Blue Desire — an artist book mapping the amorphous definitions of blue across languages.
Blue is generally outside of the first 5 colors to be named in a language, appearing much later than black, white, or red (as well as green and yellow); if we are late to naming a color do we use it, how do we embody it?
Greek Cuisine
Lunch Special: $10 – $15
Each guest is responsible for paying their own meal. *The restaurant opens at noon. Please arrive promptly, Tavernas Kyclades will only seat the table upon arrival of all guests.
Taverna Kyclades
3-07 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, NY 11105
Event Contact: Xenia Diente (718) 877-8997
July 22, 2-5PM – LICCA Arts Stroll
The stroll features a guided tour of Materials for the Arts (MFTA), and a special curators tour of the exhibition Tongue Tide, currently showing at the Flux Factory.
Click HERE for tickets and information
July 26, 8PM – Cinema Flux
Film program organized by J Triangular.
A decolonization of the imaginary and the forms of representation.
Verbal amalgamation, counter-discourses, hybridizations, Peripheral strategies, meta-narratives, TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT! a diverse reality with a subversive content, linguistic and semiotic analyses , symbolic connection, new universes of meanings all of this and more!!! AT TONGUE TIDE!!! CINEMA FLUX! all invited! A special film session with poetry, performance, and sensorial cinema, reinventing the language constantly, synchretic, diverse and complex. Visual statements, social engaged artistic consciousness, THE OTHER VANGUARD*
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Queens Food Forums – discuss art, language and place at several minority and women business owned restaurants. Get your seat at the table!
July 28, 1-3PM – Food Forum with artist Patricia Silva
Patricia will discuss her on-going book project, Urbeto, dealing with collective experience of respatialized diasporas through labor.
Meet at the 180-year old Neir’s Tavern “The Most Famous Bar You’ve Never Heard Of” for lunch and discussion led by Patricia Silva.
Silva has been photographing Queens since the late 1990s. The selections currently in the Tongue Tide exhibition are photographs of storefronts throughout the borough of Queens. The images include some of the longest operated small businesses in NYC, along with others that have not survived, and some that are hobbling along. Three of the businesses pictured are among the longest-operated small/independent businesses in New York City.
organized by Xenia Diente. Please RSVP to tonguetide@fluxfactory.org
July 29, 11:30AM-1:30PM – Food Forum with artists Emmy Catedral & Jevijoe Vitug
A conversation exploring the connections between trade routes, colonialism, immigration waves and how it’s all reflected in food and language.
Cuisine / Price
Filipino Brunch Special: $12-15 (Each guest is responsible for paying their own meal.)
Krystal’s Cafe 69-02 Roosevelt Ave 2nd Fl Woodside, NY 11377 www.krystalscafepastryshop.com
organized by Xenia Diente. Please RSVP to tonguetide@fluxfactory.org
July 30, 2-6PM -Closing Reception
Performances by Amela Parcic & Marija Draskic, and Patricia Silva, with an opera by Michal Dzitko, as well as a potluck dinner organized by Masoom Moitra.