Date: Saturday May 18 to Sunday May 19, 2024
Location: Flagmount Wild Garden, Cahermurphy, Flagmount, Co. Clare, Ireland

3:30 to 4:30 pm: a workshop facilitated by Slavek Kwi exploring listening, abstraction and non verbal communication

5 to 6 pm: p(art)y Here and Now, from 5-6pm. A participatory group@live performance art event open to all to@attend and take part in with special guests EL Putnam and David Stalling

Starting at 8 pm: An invitation to ‘Listening and Dreaming Journey across Dusk to Dawn’ a night long, concert like event with live constructions from artists Slavek Kwi and David stalling.

​​Curated by curated by Yi Cynthia Chen, Willful Dialects considers spoken, visual, and felt languages and dialects through the lens of a few Asian-American and Asian Diaspora artists working in and around Boston.An anti-survey, this moment in time intends to refuse a monolithic descriptor of what it means to be Asian in America today. The term “Asian-American” itself was coined in 1968 by Bay Area students and activists in part to foster camaraderie between ethnicities and reject the derogatory term “Oriental.” This concept of the Oriental as a fantasy constructed to maintain power dynamics was explored deeply in Edward Said’s seminal 1978 text Orientalism. Said noted that Orientalism is “willed human work.” Edward Said was a Palestinian-American writer whose work makes up some of the foundational texts of current Asian-American studies.In nonfiction book Willful Subjects, author Sara Ahmed also considers this willfulness, and how instead of being a locale for penalization, difference can be a source of resilience.

The ‘On Practice’ workshop is designed as an in-depth examination of your performance practice. We will consider what drives us to make the work that we make, how we approach developing it, and what methods we use for evaluating the success of the work.

Data Fluencies: Rivulets features the work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies Project (based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University). The exhibition aims to provide open public engagement with the research outputs emerging from the larger project and place them next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining the same themes and ideas. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.

Entangle explores the unavoidable interweaving of the literal, virtual, technological, and emotional threads that bind and define us. Participating artists Joetta Maue, Destiny Palmer, Loretta Park, EL Putnam, Alicia Renadette, and Amy Wynne explore how we are inextricably linked to each other and to this planet. The artists’ work reveals a web of connections formed by ideas, ways of thinking, relationships, memories, and shared experiences. The work in the exhibition is at once aesthetic, philosophical, and ideological, examining the themes of connection and entanglement through both material and metaphorical means.

Marilyn Arsem will be in residency at Glasshouse Project from November 10-17, engaged in research for upcoming performances. Open house on November 16, 2024 and screening and discussion on November 11, 2024. Links to both events are in the calendar listing.

How could local conditions and beliefs play into the technology we make and use? How could a diversification of technologies dislodge the monopoly of big tech and their associated sociotechnical imaginaries? Planetary Thinking addresses a widespread condition of disjointedness after the project of globalisation by producing hybrid cosmologies in times of ecological, economic, and political uncertainty.

The Dance Show is an evening-length performance by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects investigating what is dance and who decides.

The Dance Show by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects, investigates how dance is defined, challenges our notion of what dance should look like, and aims to create a shared experience between the audience and performers.

Under the Feet of Shadows is a multimedia artwork developed by EL Putnam and Mike McCormack that creatively explores human-technological relations, speculating other futures in these times of extreme change and crisis. It tells a fictional origin myth of a data center in Kilalla, Ireland, where the cyborg Terra is called upon to negotiate between the spiritus of technology, the environment, and human society as an entangled ecology. The work merges science fiction with folklore, imagined and actual mythologies with histories of technology in Ireland.

Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary anticolonial activist and theorist, led the most effective political and military guerrilla struggle in Africa to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese domination. He contributed to insurgencies against Portugal throughout Africa as well as to the fall of its fascist military dictatorship. Tragically, he was assassinated in 1973 shortly before Guinea-Bissau’s formal independence. Two-thirds of the country had already been organized by the party he founded into liberated zones in the rural areas where revolutionary democracy was practiced by villagers in local governing councils, schools, hospitals, and people’s stores. At the bookstore Medicine for Nightmares, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, join us in invoking Cabral’s brilliant strategic and theoretical militance through discussion, visual installation and live performances that call him into our midst as an actual force to contend with our living collective nightmares. In Balmy Alley, across the street from the bookstore, Cabral's words, “Culture contains the seed of resistance that blossoms into the flower of liberation”, are painted on one of the iconic murals of Central American wars of liberation and repression that survive there. May they reverberate into our evening of revolutionary remembrance.

Marilyn Arsem will participate in the international performance art festival Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RiAP) in Quebec City, Quebec Canada, which has been in operation since 1984. It will take place at Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, 345, rue du Pont, Quebec City, and in satellite locations, from September 12 through September 22, 2024.

"State of The Nation: A BIPOC Artist Perspective" delves into the intricate relationship between politics, social justice, and healing through the lens of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists. This exhibition underscores the transformative power of art in catalyzing change within our communities.

Flux Factory is celebrating its big thirtieth anniversary by exhibiting 37 alumni of our Artists-in-Residence program. This grassroots community spans decades and continents and features work across all media.

Remember those "Stories of a Mexican Immigrant" I shared on Instagram a few years back? Each post explored a different aspect of my life as a Mexican living in the US, sharing experiences and answering common questions about Mexico or being Mexican.

Those stories were the seed for my new dance solo – "Jimena"! It's a performance that explores identity and memory.

This year's "Jimena" holds a very special addition: I'll be sharing the stage with the one and only – my mom, Margie Bermejo! This year'sperformance also features works by: The Bang Group, Marcus Schulkind (my longtime dance mentor!), Lynn Modell, and Tony Williams.