Flux Factory
Flux on the Floor: Sunday Painter edition
Thursday, April 25, 8pm - 1am
Our fourth installment Flux On The Floor (FOTF) celebrates the ingenuity and collaboration of Flux Factory, in tandem with our Artist-in-Residence Group Show, Sunday Painter.
The Great Flux Bake-Off
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYApril 28th, 12pm-6pm
This event is in conjunction with Sunday Painter
Discuss/confirm details together, but the general idea is that we will have an all-day roof picnic and bake-off/TV show filming in the kitchen.
Alt-Text As Poetry Workshop
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYSaturday, May 11, 3-5pm
How can we instead approach alt-text thoughtfully and creatively? In this workshop, we will reframe alt-text as a type of poetry and practice writing it together.
Breaking Down: A TALK BACK Panel Discussion on Art And Mental Illness
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYSunday, May 19, 3-5pm
The tale of the emotionally distraught artist lives strong through the lens of Hollywood’s biopics of Van Gogh and Sylvia Plath, but what of that is real?
Convening for Disabled Artists, Organizers and Organizations
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYFriday, May 31st, 7pm - 10pm
Saturday, June 1st, 12-6pm + 8pm-11pm
Sunday, June 2nd, 12pm-5pm + 7pm-9pm
Convene with disabled artists, organizers, activists and allies.
A View From Above: The Pre-Game Meal by Nathaniel Sullivan
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYTuesday June 25th
7:30pm
NOTE: This event is free, but has a maximum capacity of 12 people, the same as a basketball team, please RSVP
Wicket Leeks আড্ডা / Adda & Collaborative Beer Making Workshop
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYThursday June 27th
6-11pm
Wicket Leeks আড্ডা/Adda with Jess Rolls and Zaid Islam
Including a beer making workshop with Gil Lopez and Jon Sims
Specially Processed American Me: SPAM, War, and Cuisine Workshop
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYSaturday June 29th, 1 - 3pm
Over a communal meal, artist and playwright Jaime Sunwoo will discuss the history of SPAM, the canned meat, in the Asia-Pacific and its connection to war, class, imperialism, and nostalgia.
Julian Louis Phillips Performing “1518” and Post-Performance Dialogue
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYSaturday June 29th, 4:30 - 5:30pm
“1518” explores the struggle that the first of a demographic must endure when they break social barriers.
Flux Thursday: Wicket Leeks Potluck & Artist Salon
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYJuly 11
7:30 pm Potluck
8:30 - 9:30 pm Salon Style Presentations in the Flux Factory Gallery
Join us for Flux Factory's longest running public events, Flux Thursday. Please bring food or drink to share
Drinking Beer at the End of the World: A Booze Cruise in the Anthroposcene
Smith and 9th Street G Train Smith - 9th Street G Train Station 9th St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJuly 12th, 3:00pm-5:30pm
Meet at Smith & 9th street Brooklyn G stop.
Look for Death, our guide.
Diving Into The Surface: Solo Exhibition by Marta Masternak
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYAugust 23th - 26th
Gallery Hours: 1pm - 6pm
Opening Reception: August 23th - 7pm
On the edge where the outside ends and the interior begins.
Must They Also Be Gods: Flux Factory Major Exhibition
October 11 – November 3
Open Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm
A Major Exhibition featuring works by over 15 emerging and mid-career Black artists, each with an insistent focus on beauty and spirituality.
RUB – Flux Thursday
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYDecember 12
6pm - midnight
RUB Catalog launch, DIY Publishing panel and Karaoke Night!!
Please bring something to eat or drink to share.
RUB – Screening, “Two Women”
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYDecember 13
7 – 9pm
"Two Women" by Juanita Imran and Pharah Diaz, preceded by a series of short films.
Cada Cabesa Es un Mundo: Solo Exhibition by Diego Espaillat
May 15 - 23 || Opening Reception May 15
Join Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence Diego Espaillat for the culminating exhibition of his Residency.
I Love You, I’m Sorry, Come Here: Solo Exhibition by Natalie Tsui
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYGallery Dates: June 4- 6 | Opening Friday, June 4, 6 - 10pm
An examination of the complexities of personal memory using filmed recreations, personal video archives and documentary.
Haa Guumoben Waaliga (May You Never Be Disgraced): Dual Exhibition by Hana Mire and Samia Osman
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYON VIEW
June 11 - 20 | Gallery Hours Thursday - Sunday
This is a love letter to Mogadishu and its people.
¡Bienvenidxs! A Week-long Open Embroidery Workshop
Flux Factory 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NYJune 23 - 30, 1 - 5pm
Bienvenidxs, will be an installation of an embroidery workshop open to the public hosted by Lulu Varona.
Doing Nothing Together & The Other Question
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkJoin Kosmologym (Walker Tufts, Jo Bech Dalsgaard, Maria Teilgård) and Heather Kapplow for an evening of Doing Nothing Together and an experimental group version of The Other Question. Doing Nothing Together is an opportunity to practice resistance to the compulsion of doing, and an attempt, in a collaborative way, to understand what "being" might be…
FLUX + FOOD with Arnar Ómarsson + Will Owen and Flux Artists
Camping Book1 Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, DenmarkWhat is an international point of connection? FOOD! Flux + Food is an intentional meet and greet between Aarhus and Flux Factory through projects about food. We will also be hosting the 2nd Silver Croissant Awards. We will have conceptual snacks, artists from Aarhus and Flux Factory will discuss their work, followed by a food themed DJ set! Flux Factory Artists include: Will Owen, Carlos…
Creative tools for art-making, community building and publishing with Lee Tusman
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkProduced by Lee Tusman in collaboration with Code&Share Community and Cantina Imagine if all illustrators were required to use the same brand and design of #2 pencils or if all photographers could use only one type of camera and film and pay a monthly fee for their continued use. This is the situation today for…
Clay workshop with Mette Skriver
Huggeormen Thomas Koppels Gade 19, AarhusJoin Flux and Huggeormen's Mette Skriver for a workshop on creating and firing clay. Participants will be guided to make their own sculptures to take home. The workshop will take place in two sessions on Tuesdays August 10 and 17. Participants are encouraged but not required to attend both sessions. Huggeormen is an artist-run outdoor sculpture…
AFK Party with Sholeh Asgary and Heather Kapplow
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkInspired by a collaboration via Zoom through 2020-21 where we developed a series of audience-participatory explorations that used text prompts and immersion in sense and process within the context of Zoom--the corporate technology that has been colonizing our homes, schools, places of worship and other gatherings since Covid began--to disambiguate image from experience, and open…
Solar Sounders Workshop with Daniel Fishkin
Camping Book1 Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, DenmarkPlease RSVP on Eventbrite In this workshop, we will build musical circuits with circuit boards, soldering irons, wires, solar panels, and wood. A Solar Sounder is a synthesizer played by sunlight. It works opposite from just about every other circuit you might encounter. A Solar Sounder has no batteries, and no knobs; instead, its speaker…
Sound Program w/ Catalina and Victoria Keddie, Daniel Fishkin and Alex Nathanson
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkAn evening of live experimental audio-visual performances including the duo of Catalina Alvarez and Victoria Keddie, Daniel Fishkin and Alex Nathanson Victoria Keddie and Catalina Alvarez will present 56.1629° N, 10.2039° E, a site-specific live performance involving the tracking and sounding of space debris over host coordinates of ARoS. A collaboration between Victoria Keddie and…
Intro To Video Feedback Workshop by Jon Sims and Carlos David TC
Camping Book1 Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, DenmarkJon Sims will be leading an Intro To Video Feedback Workshop where he will go over the basic techniques to create Video Feedback. Video feedback is the process of pointing a camera at the screen displaying the camera's output. This creates a feedback loop of images infinitely repeating onto and over themselves creating interesting patterns.…
Flux Factory at at Juxtapose Art Fair
GodsbanenFlux Factory artists Sholeh Asgary, Heather Kapplow and Jonathan Sims presented at the Juxtapose Art Fair 2021, which featured 25 artist groups for 3 days at Godsbanen in Aarhus, Denmark. 3123 Telegraph Yes Presented by Sholeh Asgary + Heather Kapplow, 3123 Telegraph Yes is part of an ongoing effort, through play, to remind ourselves that…
[Mobilise / Demobilise] with Eva Ursprung
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkMobilise/Demobilise is an artistic response to a world of increasing conflict, crisis and emergency. Human mobility and the impact of mobile technologies are explored through a series of networked performances, as Covid19 lockdowns and travel restrictions force us to live more and more of our lives online. Mobilise/Demobilise wlil present a series of cyberformances as…
Cicada Waves Screening with Ben Seretan
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkCicada Waves (NNA Tapes, 2021) is a startling record in that, throughout its 47 minutes, we never hear anything else besides some footsteps, a piano quietly ringing out, and the remarkably varied sonic landscapes encountered in a dance studio in the woods one summer. It’s rich and evocative, but there is truly no other content…
Solar Powered Art Book Launch and Artist Round Table with Alex Nathanson
Camping Book1 Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, DenmarkThis event is in celebration of the launch of the book A History of Solar Power Art and Design by Alex Nathanson (published by Routledge on July 30, 2021). Alex will discuss his practice and introduce guests to this current and innovative topic. Alex will be joined by artists whose work is profiled in the…
Flux Intentional Listening Lab with Ben Seretan
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkTwo workshops took place on August 30 and September 10. Students received a lecture in contemporary music from musician Ben Seretan and went through various listening exercises to deepen their ability to listen and appreciate new forms of music.
Fluctuations with Georgia Muenster
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkFluctuations is an evening of video art featuring works by current Fluxers-in-Residence at the ARoS atelier. Fluctuations, beyond the Flux pun embedded in the title, is themed on change and collaboration, while taking cues from the Situationist International: How do Fluxers together interact with the city, collaborate within this environment, or disrupt the day-to-day? The…
Express Yourself Movement workshop with Kalon Hayward
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkThis workshop is a movement based class. Kalon Hayward will help the class express themselves using West African inspired movement and music. we will unlock creativity in our bodies by exploring west African and Congolese dance techniques. This is a safe space to explore the individual body and move as a group. This class is…
Live Zones with Ben Seretan
Camping Book1 Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, DenmarkSlowly unfurling clouds of tones, swirling drones, and other lovely sounds conjured up right before your eyes - a live set of music you could lie on the floor for by notable US ambient musician Ben Seretan. Ben Seretan is a musician and writer from Troy, New York who is working hard. In 2018, he…
Book Release: History of Solar Power Art
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404ASeptember 4, 2pm-3:30 at Flux’s house on Governors Island (Colonels Row House 404A)
Alex Nathanson will be celebrating the release of his new book A History of Solar Power Art and Design. He will be joined by NYC-based artists and designers working with solar power whose work is featured in the book, including Ted Victoria and Benedetta Piantella.
Flex Factory with Georgia Muenster
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkFlex Factory is back and getting SWOLE. After a brief hiatus, we’re back and lighting up the ARoS museum space with a series of very Fluxy games! Expect rooftop rainbow calisthenics, mini-mini-mini golf, Flexin’ ring toss, security guard basketball, giant craps (the game), silly costumes, and more. The event is organized by Georgia Muenster with…
Governors Island Open Studios
Governors Island Colonels Row House 404ASeptember 8-12, 11am-5pm daily at Flux’s house on Governors Island (Colonels Row House 404A)
Flux Factory will participate in an Governors Island-wide open studios program
Love Spell with Kalon Hayward
ARoS Public Aros Allé 2, Aarhus, DenmarkA concert & musical theater experience that will include original music and movement. Kalon explores spirituality and sexuality in his search for love. He will collaborate with local artists from the art collective LoftSound. Kalon bio: Kalon is a multidisciplinary performance Artist, teacher, and curator. He is a graduate of both the Duke Ellington school…
Comics Club with Noah Phillips
Camping Book1 Møllegade 3A, 8000, Aarhus, DenmarkDuring Comics Club, participants will enjoy a series of guided and timed drawing exercises that will invoke unpredictable comic characters, scenes, and strips. With both group and individual activities, attendees will explore how to use their imaginations for healing and growth. Led by Noah Phillips, an artist interested in the intersection of myth, mental health,…