Paterson Opening this Saturday afternoon

[labrujah]

This Saturday, June 2nd, at 4pm we are celebrating the opening of the Paterson Project, at the Paterson Museum in (you guessed it) Paterson, NJ.


The Flux Factory (an arts collective) will be in residency for six weeks, holding town meetings, group readings of the William Carlos Williams poem Paterson, lots of great tours (industrial archaeology!!) and otherwise researching and investigating the place. The objective is to create a new monument to Paterson.

I am starting a small community outreach photo project, where I will be giving away disposable cameras to Paterson residents, and displaying the results in the museum as a visual representation of their own Paterson. I've found some really great similar projects out there:
The Cameo Project
and
Phototag.org -- both tracking disposable cameras as they are handed off on journeys around the world. I love it.

Paterson:
an artistic collaboration between Flux Factory and an entire city
June 2-July 14

At the opening: meet the participants, eat some food, hear about the project, and most importantly...come to Paterson!

For further information, including a schedule of our summer events in Paterson visit:
http://www.fluxfactory.org/paterson

Phone: 718-707-3362
Email contact: Stefany Anne Golberg, info@fluxfactory.org

Flux Factory is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization
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PATERSON PARTICIPANTS
Jean Barberis, Mikey Barringer, Angela Beallor, Jason David Brown, Christine Conforti, Joseph Costa, Giacomo De Stefano, Peter Duyan, Alita Edgar, eteam, Neil Freeman, Dana Gramp, The Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic of Paterson, Suzanne Joelson, Joe Milutis, The Paterson Museum, Leonora Retsas, Joe Ruffilo, Shuli Sade, Ruth Stanford
*Conceived and Organized by Stefany Anne Golberg and Morgan Meis*

Comments

[kore.livejournal.com]

joe!

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

yes! we bonded over south carolina stuff. I'm looking forward to hanging out w/him more. He reminds me of Speed Levitch a little bit!

[cheesetoast.livejournal.com]

i was born in paterson and grew up near there. basically, i knew it as a place kids from my town bought crack. they have a pretty falls though. i think there is a lot of abandoned shit you'll find interesting. are you guys going in costume?

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

what would we be in costume as? crackheads?

[cheesetoast.livejournal.com]

i don't know. most of you events require costumes or dressing up, right.

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

I suppose we could dress up as like modernist poets? Or industrial age Patersonians? The costumed interpreter is way out of vogue in the historic preservation world these days.

Yeah I guess a lot of the things I do have a theme...but I wouldn't say it's required to dress up. More like an excuse to get dressed up whether it be in costumes or formal attire or whatever.