Flux Factory is pleased to present the Dark Matters Symposium at Flux IV, on August 15, 6:30 – 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 “being watched.” Francis’s Oracle of Opacity (A Kwantum Performance) is a ritual sonic poetry performance and experimental reading inspired by Edouard Glissant’s concept of opacity (Poetics of Relation) and Octavia Butler’s practice of primitive hypertext. Tsai’s 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.