Artist Opportunities and Upcoming Events
Funded Residencies for Culturally Underserved Artists |
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Flux Factory is excited to expand its artists-in-residence program by offering two fully-funded six-month residencies to culturally underserved emerging artists who demonstrate financial need. We’re looking for artists, community members, and friends who enjoy being part of a wonderful and prolific social milieu. The residency is perfect for artists who have a focused practice, but revel in sharing it with others in a vibrant environment. In addition to providing a venue for personal production, Flux Factory also functions as a collective taking on a number of exhibitions and projects all in which its artists-in-residence are encouraged to participate. The residencies will run from July 1, 2011 until December 31, 2011. While our program has many international artists, artists living in the New York area will take priority for this opportunity. All residents have the chance to have a show in our gallery space, organize their own programming, and have a voice in planning future programming that will help sustain the organization as a whole. These two six-month residencies are made possible by the Edward & Sally Van Lier Fund from the New York Community Trust. For more information or to apply, please visit our Wooloo page by February 15, 2011. |
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 Flux Factory’s April 2011 exhibition, Objects of War, needs writers for its accompanying reader as well as contributors to the exhibition’s related events and programs! We’re looking for writing submissions 300-500 words in length responding specifically to one of the five artifacts of war on which the War Show is based: (1) Transcript of the Milosevic war crimes trial at The Hague, (2) Balaclava face mask, adopted as a symbol of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, (3) US Army recruitmentvideo game, (4) Save Darfur Coalition full-page ad in New York Times, and (5) North Korean Hell March video and the ensuing discussion posted on YouTube. Additionally, we’re looking for complementary presentations, performances, or films to accompany the show throughout the month of April. Please send a short biography and a relevant and dynamic proposal to elizabeth (at) fluxfactory.org by 11:59 pm EST on February 12, 2011 (subject heading: PROGRAMMING SUBMISSION). Accepted submissions will receive a stipend. |
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 Postponed to February 8, 7 pm Stopped By the Police? What do you do? What are these “rights” you have and how do you use them? The Street Law Team is coming to Flux Factory! The NYC National Lawyers Guild Street Law Team is group of law students from various New York City Law Schools who help people feel empowered despite the imbalance in power in street interactions with police. The workshop gives participants an opportunity to talk about the role of police in their communities and focuses on Fourth Amendment rights in relation to searches and seizures. The Street Law Team does role plays! They also provide practical advice for getting through a police encounter safely and mitigating the potential harm. They explain what constitutional rights are and why they are important and answer tough questions like, “If they are going to search you anyways, why bother saying you don’t consent?” The workshop will be facilitated by Kate Watson and Paula Z. Segal, NLG NYC Street Law Team Members. |
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 February 3 – 9 Non Solo is pleased and excited to announce the opening of our show and zine release party at Flux Factory on Thursday, February 3rd, from 6-9. As a collaborative group, we are committed to an ongoing dialogue with one another while creating new site-specific work and touring the show, d.i.y. band style, across America. In early May we will load up our van and and leave New York to exhibit in a range of spaces, from traditional contemporary galleries to garages to theater lobbies. The show is constantly changing in relation to the limitations of space, time, and group psychology. This may or may not motivate us to jump medium and experiment, collaborate with one another in any way inspired, pursue creation of work stemming from a sincere and post-ironic perspective, and challenge ourselves and the viewers in the process. A self-produced zine and “merch table” will be included at every exhibition. We will be hosting a potluck Sunday brunch on Sunday, February 6 from 2-4. Bring champagne for mimosas or your favorite brunch dish! Tuesday, Feb 8th from 7-9: No Se Cabaret. Time Based experimental work? Yes. A bunch of artists presenting? Yes. Who knows what might happen… $3-7 suggested donation. Participating Artists: Margaret Coleman, Stephen Eakin, Heather Elizabeth Garland, Lacey Prpic Hedtke, Yasamin Keshtkar, Kevin Loecke, Solange Roberdeau, Anna Marie Shogren, Bonnie Kaye Whitfield. More information can be found here. |
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 Sarah Kipp, The Liar: 2010 February 13 – 27 Brunch and Opening: Closing Party, Book Release, and Performances: Open Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12 - 6pm, and by appointment The Perfumed Handkerchief is themed on grotesque beauty, featuring over the top, overly ornate artwork. Laden with traditional beauty icons that verge on the extreme, the works are inspired by Rococo's ornate symbolization of love and desire. Decorative arts, architecture, and dress worked in tandem to produce an immersive environment of florid ornament. The title The Perfumed Handkerchief refers to the way perfume was used during the eighteenth century. It was less often worn as something to attract or allure others; rather, it was worn for the sensation of the wearer, dabbed onto a handkerchief or glove and held to the nose. This not only blocked the putrid smells of the streets and gutters, but also provided an interior sensory world for the person wearing the scent. Like the veil or the handkerchief, the works gathered here create an internal universe. In its separation from reality, art becomes fantastic and beautiful, as well as grotesque and monstrous. Through performance, installation, video, and painting,The Perfumed Handkerchief creates a place in which the line between desire and repulsion is almost indiscernible. Curated by Flux Artist-in-Residence Alison Ward. For more information, contact: info (at) fluxfactory.org or call 917 613-6016. Participating Artists: Mike Estabrook, Hannah Heilmann, Jaime Iglehart, Jayson Keeling, Sarah Kipp, |
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Saturday, February 19 Participating Artists: Hannah Heilmann, Ann Hirsch, Georges Negri, Sunita Prasad, Nathaniel Sullivan, Alison Ward, Angela Washko, Chester Zecca. Curated by Angela Washko. Forty years after Valie Export’s infamous gun-wielding, crotchless pants wearing performance in an erotic film cinema in Munich, can the public accept the female body beyond private erotic fantasy? The exhibition title, Diaristic Indulgences (taken from a line in Carolee Schneemann’s Interior Scroll and Kitch’s Last Meal), refers to the exploration of the discomfort in the physical reality of the body that permeates everyday life. The artists participating in Diaristic Indulgences find inspiration in the works of Judy Chicago, Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler, Lynda Bengalis, Ana Mendieta, Karen Finley, and Marina Abramovic and explore notions of femininity, voyeurism, sexuality, and gender. The artists in this show expand on the path paved for them and reconsider today's deep-rooted understandings of the physical body in relationship to the social body. Contact: info (at) fluxfactory.org. |
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All events are free and take place at Flux Factory at 39-31 29th Street in Long Island City, Queens. |
