LONG ISLAND CITY.- Flux Factory is showing The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, an exhibition of new works through which artists contemplate four specific "artifacts" of war and how their original purposes are transformed through integration into larger society.
Artists' responses include a video featuring a repentant Milosevic, an eerily playful floor installation that will illustrate America's involvement in armed conflicts around the world, competing recruitment videos in the style of Civil War reenactments, and a series of plays that reinterpret Subcomandante Marcos' actions through the text of Japanese revolutionary Yukio Mishima. The exhibition will be accompanied by a reader with commissioned texts that also respond to the "artifacts" of war.
Participating artists include Vahap Avsar, Hector Canonge, Joseph DeLappe, Patrick Dintino, Nick Fevelo, Yevgeniy Fiks, Gregory Green, Harvey Loves Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Yael Kanarek, Kristian Kozul, Julia Kul, Elizabeth Larison, Brian Leo, Paolo Pedercini, Public Studio, Ryan Roa, Christopher Robbins, Sayeh Sarfaraz, Aida Sehovic, and Matthew Sleeth.
Reader contributions by Rodney Dickson, Pauline Julier, Biko Koenig, Nick Kolakowski, Carin Kuoni, Morgan Meis, Catherine McMahon, Gregory B. Moynahan, Oliver Ressler, A.E. Souzis, and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor.
Curated by Elizabeth Larison, Douglas Paulson, Chen Tamir, Ginger Shulick, and Christina Vassallo.