ProvFlux 2007

featured events

Opening Celebration
Thursday, July 12 :: 6p-late :: Steel Yard Home Base
Come out and meet your fellow ProvFluxers under the stars and by the fire! This kickoff party for ProvFlux 2007 will feature a keynote address by AS220’s Bert Crenca, goodies from the grill, and several other ProvFlux events. After dark, Unkle Thirsty will play host to a very special Thirsty Theatre, including video presentations from ProvFlux artists Jason Groves and Marco Villani.

ProvFlux Lecture Series + Potluck Banquet
Friday, July 13 :: 4-9p :: Firehouse 13
presentation topics + schedule
Come feast with us as we fill your minds with ideas and your bellies with food. This year’s Lecture Series boasts a wide array of visionary speakers, featuring artist + architect Fritz Haeg, as well as Chris Taylor, Alexis Bhagat + Lize Mogel, Adriana Yoto, Michael Townsend, + Colin Bliss, and Phillip Nelson. Come hungry for knowledge and bring food to share!

An Atlas :: Lize Mogel + Alexis Bhagat, curators
July 6- 16 :: Firehouse 13
Exhibition Walkthrough: Friday, July 13, 12p
Opening Reception: Friday, July 13, 4-9p
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays-Sundays, 2-6p
www.an-atlas.com
An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with “radical cartography”—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change. The 11 participating artists, architects, and collectives take on issues from globalization to garbage and explore the map’s role as a political agent. Works include Ashley Hunt’s intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s mapping of the people who make and manage the “garbage machine” in New York City; Trevor Paglen and John Emerson’s route map of CIA rendition flights; and Invisible 5’s audio tour of the “toxic landscape” along Interstate 5 in California. Other participating artists include: An Architektur, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Pedro Lasch, Lize Mogel, Brooke Singer, Jane Tsong, and Unayyan. An Atlas is a companion exhibition to the book, “An Atlas of Radical Cartography," (upcoming Fall 2007, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles.) This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation and is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

WoollyFlux
Friday, July 13 :: 9p-late :: Steel Yard Home Base
This infamous summer extravaganza (formerly known as Woolly Fair) once again descends upon the Steel Yard! Hailed by its fans as “the best party you’ll go to all summer,” WoollyFlux will host a variety of music, theater, and games, including live music from Ebu Gogo, booty shaking beats by DJs Micah Jackson (pvd) + Spunkspurter (nyc), and the 203rd annual “M. 2 1/2 Cosmopolitans” pageant. Other ProvFlux events to be featured at WoollyFlux include The Running of the Woolly Flame, the Progressive Runway Project IV, Hubble Bubble, Searching Providence Solving Problems, plus lots of fire, water, and hula hoops! Come in costume; it is Friday the Thirteenth, after all!

FooFlux
Saturday, July 14 :: noon-midnight :: AS220
ProvFlux invades AS220’s legendary annual street bash! Our mobile information hub, MURL, will be located on the Empire St. site for much of the day + night, and many of the projects planned for this year’s ProvFlux will take place in and around the neighborhood, including A Parade Yay!, City Projects: Text Messages, Comment It, Didactic Walk, From Here to There Under an Umbrella, Searching Providence Solving Problems, Progressive Runway Project IV, the Small Press Pedaller, and The Last Time I Saw... Look for MURL in the upper pavillion of the street festival, or else we'll come to you!

Psycho Kickball Challenge
Sunday July 15 :: 2-4p :: Station Park
Kickball Jesus hosts the second annual kickball challenge! This year’s match pits the reigning Psychogeographic champions against the Neogeographic newcomers for the title of Ultimate Geographic Absurdity. After the game, stick around to take part in this year's final performance of the Progressive Runway Project IV . Come out, pick a side, and play ball!