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Flux Factory

Art F City at The L Magazine: Cooking With Cojones

by Paddy Johnson on March 13, 2013
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I feel like I spent from November through February reading endless screeds on how the market has killed art. There may not be a lot of life left in Chelsea, but Long Island City’s Flux Factory has enough to lit a small city. My report on their Iron Chef Contest after the jump.

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Why You Should Attend The Flux Factory Benefit Tomorrow

by Paddy Johnson on December 18, 2012
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I’m only gonna party this week. AFC began the holiday celebrations this Sunday when we launched the first AFC Wienerfest and Fundraiser and will continue them tomorrow when we head to Flux Factory’s Not So Silent Auction. This is a residency program that knows how to have a good time.

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Are Annual Budget Threats Weakening New York’s Cultural Institutions?

by John Gawarecki-Maxwell on June 28, 2012
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The annual budget dance between the Bloomberg administration and New York City’s publicly-funded art institutions has become something of a sad tradition. “There were several years where things were much easier,” NYC Arts Coalition chairwoman Norma Munn recalls to AFC. But “things have gotten much worse” this year, Munn says, as the mayor’s office has attempted to slash the budget of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the government agency responsible for city support of the 34 Cultural Institution Groups and hundreds of nonprofit arts groups that Munn represents. For many of the arts’ largest supporters, this year’s budget dance is more than just a fight to restore funding to the DCA. The process itself has become the enemy, and its threat to New York’s homegrown art has become all too real.

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Flux Factory Honors Me and Nato Thompson at Their Annual Art Auction

by Paddy Johnson on October 25, 2011
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I’ve always liked Flux Factory, a warm cockle they must share, as December 2oth the organization will be honoring me and Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson at their annual not-so-silent benefit auction. We have made a “lasting imprint on contemporary art.” This is exciting for me for a number of reasons, not the least of which being an opportunity to wear a fancy dress and give a speech in public. Hopefully, when that occurs I’ll be able to impart all the reasons I think it’s important to support organizations like Flux Factory, whose residency program and exhibition space focuses heavily on the collaborative practices I’ve been discussing frequently this year. Flux Factory actively fosters an art making practice that often doesn’t have support from the art market. From Congress of Collectives, a program that encourages collaboration, to their unique studio community and kitchen, the organization is well worth celebrating.

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Tuesday Links!

by Paddy Johnson on October 11, 2011

  • Kanye West’s golden grill visits #occupywallstreet. Foster Kamer reports. [Observer]
  • Poorer communities not getting nearly the amount of arts funding they need as reported by um, FOX NEWS? [Jesus] [Associated Press]
  • I feel like I’ve read this same Cory Arcangel profile at least five times in different publications. This one comes in advance of his Pro Tools at Lisson Gallery in London. [The Guardian]
  • Why young mothers are choosing to eat their placenta. [NYMag]
  • The Arava Review launches its latest issue, which is full of a lot of great photography and poetry. [The Arava Review]
  • So, in short, London art dealer Jay Joplin comes from money, gets along well with artists and is good at selling art to rich people. Enlightening [The Guardian]
  • Revisited Guthrie Lonergan’s website and was reminded how moving this Acapella piece is in its emptiness. Lonergan explores the banality of the web. [Age of Mammals]
  • No mobile exhibition is complete without kicking unicorns and sausages. Copy and paste this url into your phone to view. http://www.chiarapassa.it/publicart.html [Lorna Mills and Sally McKay]
  • Jean Michel Jarre discovers the zoom function in a video room and applies it to his face. [youtube]
  • Potluck Thursday 8pm at Flux Factory! [Flux Factory]
  • Tomorrow at Pratt University I will be giving a talk that maps my key points career path to online dating websites at Myrtle Hall Room 4E-3 (4th floor – dda lecture hall). 12:45 pm. Please come.

 

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Attention All Artists! AFC’S Call for Submissions Round Up

by Liza Eliano on July 19, 2010
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Whose looking for a big break? Now’s the time to get your proposals together for open calls. AFC offers a few opportunities from apexart, Hey, Hot Shot!, Flux Factory, and Momenta.

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