{"id":314758,"date":"2026-08-05T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314758\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:42:13","slug":"dark-matters-symposium-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314758\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matters Symposium &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-208353 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Flux-Factory-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"  \/>Flux Factory is pleased to present the Dark Matters Symposium at Flux IV, on August 15, 6:30 \u2013 9 PM, 56-21 2nd Street, featuring the work of Sherese Francis and Tom Tsai. Francis and Tsai were selected from a pool of over 50 applicants responding to the themes of surveillance, anti-surveillance, countersurveillance, and the lived or inherited experience of \u201cbeing watched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis\u2019s Oracle of Opacity (A Kwantum Performance) is a ritual sonic poetry performance and experimental reading inspired by Edouard Glissant\u2019s concept of opacity (Poetics of Relation) and Octavia Butler\u2019s practice of primitive hypertext. Tsai\u2019s contemporary dancework, A Fantasy of Having Home, informed by hip hop battle sensibilities, was created a decade ago to honor Taiwanese resilience in the face of unceasing threats of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flux Factory is pleased to present the Dark Matters Symposium at Flux IV, on August 15, 6:30 \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-314758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}