Constructed in a GMC 1989 Step van (model: forward control, body type: P3500, vehicle ID# 1GDHP34R0K3501306, as of June 2013 the most recent odometer reading was: 214,398 miles). Note: at the conclusion of the hiatus project: PULL! (2013), the truck was donated to 2100 Lakeside Men's Shelter in Cleveland, OH.
the BF travels throughout America (or as much of it as we can afford on three miles a gallon, bringing possibility and the glaring light of amusement, boredom, pushy conversation and a flaky utopianism wherever it's needed most. The interior of the truck was renovated in 2003. The cab is our office/greeting center and gift shop. The rear, offstage area, is for storage of props, tools, costumes, black objects, flotsam jetsam and a giant double-wall balloon that displays rotating curations of the black object archive. The renovation was designed and shepherded to completion by spurse, a very approachable but mysterious set of individuals, who do not like to be called spurse (according to Iain Kerr) and in collaboration with MASS MoCA and Nato Thompson.
The BF gathers, shapes, packages and re-packages feelings, ideas, the share we breathe, the experiences we slake, the products we make, e.g., a rambling tour, a participatory-community artwork, an art experience as ramshackle noble mobile economy, etc. etc. etc. etc. The BF parasites ideas and consumables to poke us to be the creative XXXXX potential schism-ed within the politics of love, shame, and indifference. At each stop on our journey, the Factory welcomes visitors, the broken, the token, the unspoken to bring material that references lackness for them (which is usually them! "Yea, but but you said it's called 'The Black Factory'! I'm not black! I'm not black! I'm not black! and so on ad infinitum), this is an opportunity, a chasm — the truck being the most tangible (but mistaken) matrix for that knot.
The performance location chosen for the Factory to stop and set up shop becomes the thru to which: folks gawk, stream by, stop, arrive, arrive, chat, gawk, complain, conspire, sup, hopefully buy something, reject, partake, hang out, hopefully buy something — all conducive to getting the black out!!!!!!!!