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Friday, May 28, 2021 - 1:00 PM
to Monday, May 31, 2021 - 2:00 PM
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May 28 @ 5:00 pm - May 31 @ 6:00 pm
Gallery Hours
Friday, May 28, 5 – 8pm
Saturday – Monday, May 29 – May 31, 1 – 6pm
Artist Talk
Friday, May 28, 5pm ET
Anika Todd will speak about the history of the view from above.
RSVP Here: https://withfriends.co/event/10756585/to_hold_water_artist_talk_with_anika_todd
Live event During the 29th Street Block Party
May 31, 2–6pm
This event is part of the exhibition Din Din, a series of free, socially-distanced outdoor public events which use food and art to build community.
You can read more about the Block Party here. http://www.fluxfactory.org/event/din-din-block-party/
Window Screening
May 28 – 31, After Dusk
Videos from To Hold Water will screen in the front window of Flux Factory at 39-31 29th Street, LIC, NY.
To Hold Water
To Hold Water is an exhibition that considers the paradox of ownership. Presenting a challenge to Western traditions of private property and surveillance, the works investigate the implications of the human impulse to survey, to organize, and to control in an effort to understand that which is uncomfortably unknown.
The video work at the exhibition’s center, Self Portrait, exposes the implications of a traditional god’s-eye-view. While one camera submerges into the murky waters of the East River, a second flies on a set of balloons above Wall Street, creating a two-channel video that tracks the artist’s efforts to extend sight. The humble technology of the balloons shifts our experience of the conventional “God’s eye-view” characteristic of military and government-controlled technologies. The unsteady image of the work subverts this customarily controlled top-down perspective, creating a portrait of precarity in the effort to understand oneself and one’s world from above.
