Flux Factory Presents
Going Places (Doing Stuff)
Take a summer ride with Flux Factory!
June 14, 2008 – August 2008
Going Places (Doing Stuff)—you get on a bus, you don't know where you're going, and then something happens. Flux Factory invites New Yorkers to take a tour with artists who have become tour guides for the city. For six weeks, the general public can sign up for personally designed artist tours that range from a single afternoon to 3 days. The content of the tours are entirely up to the artists, though where you will be going is secret. Even to you!
Each tour has simply the following information: the artist, a title, a duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when you sign up for a tour, you know what to bring and how long you will be gone, but you will have no idea where you are actually going or what you will experience.
There is always mystery in traveling, even if you know where you are headed. Going Places (Doing Stuff) is all about this mystery, asking the general public to give themselves over to our artists. The excitement of simply stepping on a bus to who-knows-where becomes a metaphor and catalyst for the leap of faith inherent to aesthetic experience in general.
The tours are free and open to the public, the only limitation being capacity.
All tours will be first-come first-serve. Riders can sign up for tours by writing jean@fluxfactory.org
JULY TOURS
Saturday July 12th: WANDERING RESTAURANT, led by Gary Wiseman
TOUR DURATION: Day trip, 10 am to 9pm
Wandering restaurant mostly caters to omnivores but vegetarians and vegans are welcome to attend.
ARTIST BIO: From March 2006 to January 2008, Gary Wiseman produced 30 interactive performances under the heading Tea Project in collaboration with Red 76, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Cooley Memorial Gallery at Reed College and hundreds of performers and participants. Wiseman is currently engaged in numerous smaller scale collaborations and ongoing projects such as Personal Favorite Places (an ongoing exploration of the world through the experience of strangers), Ephemeral Temple Ltd (Purveyors of high quality low overhead temporary sacred-space), Penny For Your Thoughts (with Amy Steel) and T-Folk: Granville and Reginald Sing the Sacred Songs For You which debuts at the upcoming Artcity festival in Calgary, Alberta.
Saturday July 19th: WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
Led by Flux Factory senior trio: Jean Barberis, Stefany Anne Golberg and Morgan Meis
TOUR DURATION: Day trip, 10am to 9pm
Precise instructions including dress code and what to bring will be send out with the RSVP.
UPCOMING TOURS IN AUGUST:
8/02/08 T.B.A.
8/23/08 Jeff Stark
For further information:
http://www.fluxfactory.org
Phone: 718-707-3362
Email: info@fluxfactory.org
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