Contents for April 27th, 2026
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1. Martha Wilson, Marina Abramović, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, RoseLee Goldberg, David Hammons, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Ana Mendieta, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Miriam Shapiro, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Tompkins Square Library, Manhattan, April 30, and more
3. Anh Vo, FF Alumn, at Participant, Inc., Manhattan, opening May 10
4. Supermrin, FF Alumn, at Silver Art Projects, Manhattan, April 30
5. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, now online
6. Coco Gordon, Jacqui Holmes, FF Alums, in CODEX Papers: Volume 5, 2026
7. Tsedaye Makonnen, FF Alumn, at European Cultural Centre Giardini Marinaressa, Venice, Italy, May 7
8. HISTORY/REALITY #4: from the Garden of Communication to the Dark Forest of the Internet
9. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
10. Federico Hewson, FF Alumn, at WirWir, Berlin, Germany, May 1-3
11. Jennifer Zackin, FF Member, at New York Society for Ethical Culture, Manhattan, May 1
12. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, 2026 Queens Art Fund recipient
13. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at BAX Annex, Brooklyn, April 29
14. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Filmmakers Coop, Manhattan, May 2
15. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, April news
16. George Peck, FF Alumn, at Mission Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, opening May 12
17. Nadia Coen, FF Alumn, at KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY, May 23
18. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at Circolo del Design, Torino, Italy, April 29
19. Ray Johnson, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumns, at Ortuzar, Manhattan, thru May 30
20. Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, May 15-16
21. Liz Magic Laser, FF Alumn, at 601Artspace, Manhattan, May 1
22. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, new publication
23. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, opening May 16
24. Aaron Landsman, FF Alumn, at Recording Studio, Manhattan, May 2
25. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new album, and more
26. David Jelinek, FF Member, at KGB Bar, Manhattan, April 29
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1. Martha Wilson, Marina Abramović, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, RoseLee Goldberg, David Hammons, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Ana Mendieta, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Miriam Shapiro, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Tompkins Square Library, Manhattan, April 30, and more
Thursday, APRIL 30, from 6 – 7pm
We’re From Here:
Writing the City that Raised Us
An Author Panel Discussion
Moderated by Ada Calhoun
with
Joana Avillez, Vincent Coppola,
Alvin Eng, Collier Meyerson
Tompkins Square Library, NYPL
331 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009
Can’t wait to participate in this panel discussion of New York City born-and-raised writers––curated & moderated by Ada Calhoun, author of two of my fave NYC books, Almost a Poet and St. Marks Is Dead. We will convene on Thursday, April 30, from 6-7pm, at the celebrated Tompkins Square Library of the NYPL.
From the NYPL: Native NYC writers share thoughts on their story-filled childhoods and how growing up in the city has shaped their lives and work. You’ll hear from three boroughs and three generations: the illustrator Joana Avillez, who grew up by the Fulton Fish Market and has a fantastic new edition of Joseph Mitchell’s essay collection The Bottom of the Harbor out in May; Collier Meyerson, author of the essay “I Was a Teenage Subway Terror,” raised on the Upper West Side and creator of the Crown Heights podcast Love Thy Neighbor; Alvin Eng, from Flushing, Queens, but educated by the downtown punk scene of the 1970s (and author of the memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town); Vincent Coppola, whose poignant new memoir about his 1960s childhood: Gowanus Crossing: A Brooklyn Boyhood, is out this June (we get a preview!). Hope you can join us in the East Village’s landmarked library!
and
Thursday, MAY 21, from 6 – 7pm
(rescheduled from February blizzard cancellation)
Our Laundry, Our Town:
Alvin Eng in conversation with Radha Vatsal
The World’s Borough Bookshop
34-06 73rd St, Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC
Excited to celebrate AANHPI/Asian Heritage Month in my home borough at the renowned World’s Borough Bookshop! I will read from my memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (OLOT), then be joined in conversation by Jackson Heights’ own Radha Vatsal, essayist and author of No. 10 Doyers St. Hope you can join us to celebrate NYC literature, community, and Asian Heritage Month!
OLOT decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of growing up in what was then one of the few Asian families in Flushing, Queens. From behind the counter of his parents’ laundry and a household rooted in a different century and culture to the turbulent, exciting streets of 1970s NYC, he shares his riveting, tender story of finding voice, identity and community through the transformative power of Asian American arts & activism, punk rock and downtown theater.
As a New York Public Library Long-Term Fellow, Eng started researching a companion book to OLOT entitled, OPIUM DREAMS, ORACLE BONES: Grandfather, Burroughs and Punk.
As always, I am most grateful for your ongoing interest and support.
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3. Anh Vo, FF Alumn, at Participant, Inc., Manhattan, opening May 10
Anh Vo, Song and Sex: Before the Revolution
Curated by Alhena Katsof
May 10 – June 21, 2026
Opening Sunday, May 10, 7-9pm
Gallery hours, Thursday – Sunday, noon-7pm
It is not a reconstruction. It’s not preservation. It’s an attempt to sit
inside the ambivalence between inheritance and experimentation, devotion and
irreverence. – Anh Vo
PARTICIPANT INC presents Vietnamese choreographer and performance artist Anh Vo’s
first solo exhibition in New York City, Song and Sex: Before the Revolution,
curated by Alhena Katsof. This unfolding exhibition exists in tandem with a series
of performances that will take place weekly in the gallery. Each performance is a
distinctive attempt at resurrection, invoked by an ever-evolving cast of artists,
dancers, and musicians.
Song and Sex: Before the Revolution is the culmination of a year-long project during
which Vo apprenticed with Vũ Thuỳ Linh and Phạm Đình Hoằng, two master-musicians who
specialize in Ca Trù. This dying form of northern Vietnamese chamber music, austere
and trance-like, is built on intricate poetic meters and a striking interplay
between voice, drum, and lute. In the 20th century, it was condemned and effectively
banned by the Communist government because of its association with prostitution and
opium culture.
Vo grew up knowing that their great-grandmother was a Ca Trù singer on Khâm Thiên
street in Hanoi, which was once notorious for its singing houses, opium dens, and
intimate entanglements between art and sex work. Vo’s great-grandmother was
eventually bought out of the singing house by their great-grandfather to be his
second wife. Even though Vo had never heard the music in-person, the family story
meant that when they did finally encounter Ca Trù in 2024, it was not as a neutral
“heritage form.” They understood that the music’s virtuosity and refinement were
historically inseparable from the lives of the women whose artistry unfolded within
colonial economies of pleasure and precarity.
This past winter, Vo embarked on the apprenticeship in Hanoi, studying with Linh and
Hoằng. This process was documented by visual artist Kyle b. Co., who produced a
series of field drawings that are now integral to the exhibition. They were also
joined by Barley Norton, a London-based ethnomusicologist and cherished
interlocutor, who has been studying Ca Trù since the mid 1990s. During the rehearsal
process, Norton said to Vo in passing: “Ethnography relies on the generosity of its
subjects.”
“My project isn’t ethnography,” writes Vo. “But it’s not not ethnography either. I
am deeply indebted to the generosity of Linh and Hoằng, two musicians of the Ả Đào
Phú Thị Ensemble. They opened their hearts and entrusted me with the form, even when
I myself don’t fully know what I am doing with it yet. I do know that I will
activate or play Ca Trù as I hear it now in the contemporary.”
In February, Linh and Hoằng joined Vo in New York City, during which time they
continued to rehearse intesively—at Initial Research in SoHo, and then during a
residency at the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University. At first, Vo
deliberately postponed “composing” a new performance; they wanted to soak in the
idioms of Ca Trù. Eventually, Vo began to experiment with the form, giving a
performance at Roulette Intermedium in March that centered the collaboration with
Linh and Hoằng.
Vo’s research, training and experimentation is metabolized during the unfolding of
Song and Sex: Before the Revolution. There will be a different performance every
Sunday at the gallery during the run of the show. PARTICIPANT INC will also host two
public conversations and a reading. Please see below for a detailed list of dates,
times, titles, and participating artists.
Performance Schedule
Resurrection #1: it’s not a revolution without blood
Sunday, May 10, 7-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Kristel Baldoz, Kyle b. co., Jessica Pavone, Marija Kovačević,
Natalie Zhao
Resurrection #2: how’s it going down there?
Sunday, May 17, 2-5pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Kristel Baldoz, Justin Cabrillos, Isaac Silber
Resurrection #3: death divination
Sunday, May 24, 12-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Jessica Pavone, Marija Kovačević
Resurrection #4: it was a hand, maternal yet formless
Sunday, May 31, 7-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Sto Len, Isaac Silber
Resurrection #5: a listening session
Sunday, June 7, 1-2pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Isaac Silber
Resurrection #6: another death divination
Sunday, June 14, 12-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Jessica Pavone, Marija Kovačević, gabby fluke-mogul
Resurrection #7: sex on sundays
Sunday, June 21, 7-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Kristel Baldoz, Justin Cabrillos, Jessica Pavone, Marija
Kovačević, gabby fluke-mogul
Public Talks
André Lepecki, Ann Pellegrini, and Anh Vo, moderated by Alhena Katsof
Tuesday, May 12, 7-8:30pm
Barley Norton and Anh Vo
Thursday, May 21, On Zoom, 5-6:30pm
Summer Kim Lee, Anh Vo, and Alhena Katsof
Wednesday, June 17, 6-7:30
Based in Brooklyn and Hanoi, Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer working
in the expanded field of performance. Their work emerges from the unlikely lineage
convergences between Downtown New York experimental performance, Hanoi performance
art, and Vietnamese folk ritual practices. Vo is indebted to Miguel Gutierrez’s
unapologetic queerness and amorphous excess, Moriah Evan’s speculative commitment to
the depth of interiority, Julie Tolentino’s durational poetics of intimacy, Tehching
Hsieh’s existential sense of time, and Ngoc Dai’s guttural sonic landscape of
postwar Vietnam. Their formal training is in Performance Studies, studying with
theorists and practitioners at Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA).
Vo is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Cooper Union.
With gratitude for their invaluable support: White Light Cinéhub Hanoi; Initial
Research; Joshua Lubin-Levy, Chief Curator & Director Center for the Arts | Wesleyan
University, Matt Mehlan, Executive and Artistic Director at Roulette Intermedium,
and Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc.
Song and Sex: Before the Revolution was made possible with funding from the Art
Matters Artist2Artist Fellowship, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Foundation for
Contemporary Arts Creative Research Grant.
Song and Sex: Before the Revolution is made possible by the New York State Council
on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State
Legislature.
PARTICIPANT INC is located at 116 Elizabeth Street, floor one, between Broome and Grand
Streets. The closest trains are the J/Z (Bowery) and the B/D (Grand); the closest wheelchair
accessible stop is the 6 (Canal).
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4. Supermrin, FF Alumn, at Silver Art Projects, Manhattan, April 30
Dear friends,
Please join us for our final open studios at Silver Art Projects. It has been an incredible year. I am so grateful for the space, the new friendships, and the opportunities this residency has provided. I would love to celebrate the culmination of the program with you.
Thursday April 30, 6–8pm
4 World Trade Center, floor 28
RSVP: https://luma.com/00hjcu1e
Please note: spaces are limited (sign up soon), and the building requires an RSVP for each person in your party.
Hope to see you there.
Mrin
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5. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, now online
Part of the Practice ep33: Creative Possibility with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib
link on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/33-creative-possibility-with-nicol%C3%A1s-dumit-est%C3%A9vez/id1756739158?i=1000763022267
link on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/78bDTiNw3pbE7KDwwGJjWN?si=c5712479c6174404&nd=1&dlsi=fdb2b11d834a4aba
Social Practice CUNY Teaching Scholar-in-Residence Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib joins host Catherine LaSota for a conversation about the South Bronx, cats, definitions of home, ecosexuality, and more. Tune in and be inspired by Nicolás’s description of his writing office, The Shrine, plus his deep love for water and his connection to the Bronx River.
This is our last episode before a brief hiatus in season two, while Catherine focuses on other projects at SPCUNY, including a book of conversations (Practicing in Public) to be published by OR Books in February 2027. We will be back with more Part of the Practice episodes soon!
About our guest:
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib treads an elusive path that manifests itself through creative experiences that he helps unfold within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07/21, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Sculpture Center, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance BAAD!, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, City as Living Laboratory, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Nicolás holds an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, where he studied with Coco Fusco, and an M.A. from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He was recently a Senior Lecturer and Social Practice Artist in Residence in the Art and Art History Department at The University of Texas at Austin; and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. Nicolás is a 2025-26 Teaching Scholar in Residence at Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY). Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.
Photo of Nicolás is by Donna Hoffman.
More about Nicolás: website: interiorbeautysalon.com
Instagram: @interiorbeautysalon
Learn more about Social Practice CUNY.
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Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Gaius LaSota for our Part of the Practice music.
Part of the Practice logo courtesy of Maliyah Mohamed.
Social Practice CUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
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6. Coco Gordon, Jacqui Holmes, FF Alums, in CODEX Papers: Volume 5, 2026
Megan N. Liberty, “Rags and Rituals: The Conceptual Art of Handmade Paper in Artists’ Books since the 1970s.” CODEX Papers 5 (2026), pp. 6–19. Featuring Clinton Hill, Jacqui Holmes, Coco Gordon, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Available here:
https://www.codexfoundation.org/store/codex-papers-volume-5/
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7. Tsedaye Makonnen, FF Alumn, at European Cultural Centre Giardini Marinaressa, Venice, Italy, May 7
Please visit this link:
https://thirdspaceartfoundation.org/performance-descriptions/
May 7th at 4:30pm at European Cultural Centre Giardini Marinaressa.
Thank you.
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8. HISTORY/REALITY #4: from the Garden of Communication to the Dark Forest of the Internet
Archiving networked art in the age of automation: talks, performance, and platform launch. Free & hybrid.
How do we archive and curate networked art in an age of automation and new, emerging superintelligence?
Presented in association with archivuminternetwork: 30 Years of artpool.hu, this event takes two contrasting visions of the internet as a starting point to explore a range of approaches by artists, archivists, curators, and historians. In 1998, Anna Balint envisioned the web as a ‘garden of communication‘, an open, collaborative space shaped by human interaction. Nearly three decades later, Bogna Konior reimagines it as a ‘dark forest, ‘ characterised by opacity, automation, and increasingly fraught navigation.
We’ll be guided by presentations by Elly Clarke [Dragging the Archive] and Flóra Barkóczi [netartdothu], as well as a new live performance by Viktória Monhor. Additionally, as the final event in the History/Reality series, Judit Bodor & Roddy Hunter will launch The Digital Attic Archive, following a three-year project reconnecting the internationally dispersed artist’s archive and self-historicisation project initiated by artist Pete Horobin in Dundee, Scotland, in 1980.
The event is free and open to all. It will be of particular interest to artists, curators, and art historians working with performance and networked art, as well as to those interested in digital humanities more broadly. It will also appeal to archivists, librarians, and cultural heritage professionals, as well as independent cultural workers interested in self-organisation and community-driven platform-building.
This is a hybrid event. Reserve your spot to join us online here or go here to join us in person at Artpool Art Research Centre in Budapest. Online attendees will receive the link closer to the event. The event will be held in English.
Agenda
Flóra Barkóczi: netartdothu as an Experimental Archive for Hungarian Net Art
Netartdothu is an online platform dedicated to archiving Hungarian net art from the 1990s, developed as part of Flóra Barkóczi’s doctoral research at the Film, Media, and Contemporary Culture program at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University). The presentation focuses on how the platform functions and the challenges of archiving early web-based art. As both a research tool and an open-access resource, netartdothu uses a media-archaeological approach to reconstruct and preserve obsolete works while addressing broader issues of born-digital heritage and early internet culture.
Elly Clarke: Revisiting Reiterating Returning to Franklin Furnace Archive
In 2023, twenty-five years after her first encounter as an intern, Elly Clarke revisited the Franklin Furnace Archive through Dragging the Archive, an online/offline exhibition at the Pratt Institute, New York. The exhibition considered the ‘drag of the archive’ as the burden and the performance of the archive at once, its boxes, the storage, the care, and the preservation and the labour involved – emotional, analytical and intellectual. This presentation reflects on that experience to ask what it might mean to return to an archive. It examines the concept of “dragging” within Clarke’s broader practice of drag and archiving, and the technological conditions that affect and infect the practices of both. Framing archival meaning as contingent, processual, and collaboratively produced through interactions with people (alive and dead), objects, and information across time attention is given to the material and digital infrastructures of the archive.
Judit Bodor && Roddy Hunter: The Digital Attic Archive
The Digital Attic Archive is a new open-source web platform for The Attic Archive (1980–present) created by an international research network led by Judit Bodor and Roddy Hunter, in collaboration with the artist now known as ha, and infrastructure artist Vo Ezn. The presentation outlines how the platform was developed to reconnect and reactivate material from an artist’s archive of over 50 years of continuing self-historicisation, now dispersed across collections in Scotland, Ireland, and Hungary, including Artpool. The presentation will also introduce questions about the platform’s future collective maintenance as a decentralised’ network of care’.
Viktória Monhor: Navigations [performance]
“If people considered more carefully what they engage themselves in, perhaps all would become scientists or observers, since everyone is interested in nature and the course of the world.” How do we navigate ourselves? North, south, west, east. Do directions matter? When is it time to change direction? What can we do if we are surrounded by institutions that contradict our values? The artistic practice underpinning The Attic Archive points to an attitude grounded in the freedom of personal decisions and movements – one that can be related to the thinking of Henry David Thoreau. The performance Navigation, along these connections, is a minimalist reflection on the possibilities of direction, choice, and observation, as well as on the question of whether it is necessary at all to define what we call art, performance.
More info and booking here:
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9. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=p20boPw7h3s&si=qjAihA0z2Mmb5GPy
Thank you.
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10. Federico Hewson, FF Alumn, at WirWir, Berlin, Germany, May 1-3
Join Federico Hewson Workers Day weekend in Berlin at project space WirWir for Radical Roses: Flowers symbolic and horticultural as tools in peace, politics and community in images, photographs & illustrations; Gaza carnations to Fairtrade roses; we’ll learn the politics of flowers and their trade and political symbolism. What’s pushing you to come to bring forth like a flower? From the political to the personal with prompts grounded in socialist principles, participants will write, read and print from the heart. The words will be Riso printed, folded into a zine to take home with a rose to inspire your own language of flowers.
Friday May 1 Lecture/performance 7-10pm, Saturday May 2 Writing and printing 2-6pm, Sunday May 3 Public readings 2-6pm. Come one day or all three – €25-45 (no one turned away for lack of funds) This day is a gift to you like a rose in full bloom, lying at your feet. Waiting for you to pick it up and press it to your lips. Rosa Luxembourg
Workshop with Federico Hewson & April Gertler
Sliding scale*: 25€ – 45€
Sign up : wir@wirwir.org
WIRWIR, Stuttgarter Str. 56, 12059 Berlin-NK
*no one will be turned away for lack of funds
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11. Jennifer Zackin, FF Member, at New York Society for Ethical Culture, Manhattan, May 1
Jennifer Zacklin, Hudson Valley-based artist and colleague/friend of FF Alumns Linda Montano and Kathy Brew, announces this special benefit event concert for Amazon forest restoration.
May 1 – John Medeski & Los Abstraccioneros, benefit concert for Amazon rainforest restoration at New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W 64th St, NY, NY
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
Keyboardist John Medeski performs with Los Abstraccioneros in a special concert supporting restoration efforts in the Amazon rainforest. The performance features experimental jazz and cumbia, raising environmental awareness through music.
All proceeds benefit Camino Verde, supporting reforestation, ecological preservation, and Indigenous-led stewardship in the Peruvian Amazon.
Tickets: www.caminoverde.org
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12. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, 2026 Queens Art Fund recipient
Please mark your calendars for WHAM! The Woodside Heights Art Museum’s Memorial Day Monday May 25th’s grand opening and sidewalk celebration of “Curly, Wavy and Straight: Hair Salons and Barber Shops of Woodside Heights.” The action starts at 12 noon and we hope to see you for this free public event. For more, please visit these links:
and
Thank you.
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13. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at BAX Annex, Brooklyn, April 29
Fight Censorship with UNDOXX
As censorship is reaching a fever pitch in the arts, the BAX Annex will host the UNDOXX collective for an UNDOXX Artist Hub, a gathering for artists at risk of censorship and concerned with censorship to build solidarity, contemplate collective strategies to protect freedom of expression, and meet other values-aligned artists. The UNDOXX Artist Hub aims to foster creative collaboration so that artists can keep making powerful work.
Wednesday, April 29
6:30 – 9:30 PM EST
BAX Annex
80 Hanson Place, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217
The UNDOXX Artist Hub will feature short strategic presentations from artists and advocates, a joyful collaborator BINGO match-making activity, and a celebratory reception with refreshments for relaxed community-building.
Stay for a joyful BINGO match-making activity to find your next radical and values-aligned collaborators and a celebratory reception with refreshments for relaxed community-building.
What can you expect at the UNDOXX Artist Hub?
• Hear from artists who are powerfully resisting and dismantling censorship
• Meet advocates who are working to protect artists from censorship and gathering data about what arts censorship currently looks like in the US and abroad
• Meet other artists & find future collaborators
Free to RSVP!
*Limited Capacity*
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 5th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215-3315
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14. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Filmmakers Coop, Manhattan, May 2
Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn: Video screening May 2, 7PM at the Filmmakers CoOp (475 Park Ave South)
Title:
BARBARA ROSENTHAL CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE, performed naked in her bathtub for Bill Creston on camera in 2005, surrounded by a trayful of knives, pills and poisons, Rosenthal writes in her (now 98-volume) Journal a single take of her thoughts on the matter — which, when you hear them, sound both so startlingly fresh-thought, at the same time as familiar to us all from the folio of a long-dead male dramatist.
The film will be presented with Q&A afterward, as part of the Film CoOp’s annual “Her Gaze” series of “visionary women who perform for their own camera” curated by Matt McKenzi and Erica Schreiner, who have included Rosenthal in this series for several years, screening such as I HAVE A NEW YORK ACCENT last summer on Governor’s Island and HOW MUCH DOES THE MONKEY COUNT at the CoOp the year before.
The full program May 2 comprises:
Barbara Rosenthal
Benja Thompson
Erica Schreiner
Laurie Anderson
Lynne Sachs
MM Serra
Stephanie Beattie
Because this is one of the dozen or so videos in which Barbara Rosenthal is nude, it is not publicly online, but Printed Matter offers this as a boxed DVD with both “full” and “single take” versions, described as follows:
Title: Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide
Run Time: Single take version: 4 min. 36 sec. 3fr
frames.; Installation / full 7-take version: 17 min. 40 sec. 4 frames.
Description:
Emerging from a long, uselessly medicated compounding of serious psychiatic diagnoses lasting nearly fifteen years during which the contemplation of suicide never left her mind, artist Barbara Rosenthal, always working at the intersection of Art and Life, now recites, with many irregularities and repeated takes, naked in a bathtub of lethal objects, Hamlet’s famous soliloquy.
The video exists in two forms: as the single take that the day of 50 takes of shooting intended, and as the loop-installation or full version of all takes through that decisive one, releasing the power of repetition pitted against the competing demands of performer/technology/director.
The piece world-premiered as a loop at Art Attack: Pool Art Fair at the Chelsea Hotel, NY, Sept. 27-29, 2007 as part of her Bathroom Installation which included her logo images Bird Hands, Brain Scan TR-9002, and Red Rubber Name Stamp, curated by Liz-N-Val. The single-version world-premiere is at the Boddinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, February, 2014, curated by Gianlucca Boccanico, at which he presented her their first “Independent Life Award.”
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15. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, April news
Hello all,
I hope you are all doing well. Or as well as can be.
I’m writing with some updates and some announcements for May and June.
I am currently working on a few larger productions that I will announce a bit later into the Summer. In short, they involve heavy metal(s), live transmission, variations between the speed of sound and light, a dead piano, a cut open Quonset hut, a newsvan, and some gesture space.
In July, I will send another announcement for a tour in and around the UK in collaboration with Marcia Bassett. Its a work involving vox and electronics in emerging syntax. In a way, articulations.
For now, here are some things that have culminated. Following with some upcoming events. If you happen to be in one place or another, I hope to see you!
A bit about building:
In 2025 I designed a spatial sound lab for the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. The lab is fully modular, with a 6.1 arrangement that allows for varying staging configurations. We are now closing out the spring semester with a course I developed, Listening Beyond Hearing, and I’m moved by the students presenting works that involve listening as a radical act in the face of conflict.
A lab cannot fully operate without a network. In November 2025, I started The Spatial Sound Union in partnership with Harvestworks (NYC). The union connects sound labs, studios, and organizations working internationally with multichannel and spatial sound, academic, independent, and institutional.
At the heart of the union is a shared understanding that the lab is a living environment, shaped by the people, histories, and forms of attention that move through it. Spatial sound is situational, environmental, and embodied. Our gatherings are built around dialogue, making room for the conditions and knowledge that accumulate in our work together.
Current members include Carol Parkinson and Ivana Dama (Harvestworks, NYC), Zeynep Bulut (SARC, Queen’s University, Belfast), Cristiana Palandri (Music, Technology and Innovation Research Group, De Montfort University, Leicester), Seth Cluett (Carnegie Mellon University), Chloe Alexandra Thompson (Reforesters, NYC), Fränk Zimmer (Sounding Future, Graz), William Russell (Monom, Berlin), Gerriet Krishna Sharma (Spæs Lab, Berlin), Cobi van Tonder (University of Bologna), Scott Wilson and Annie Mahtani (BEAST, University of Birmingham), Stephan Moore (CLEAT/Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago), Mariam Gviniashvili (Notam, Oslo), Daniel Neumann (New Ear Inc, NYC), Lee Gilboa (Berklee College of Music, Boston), Paul Geluso (NYU Steinhardt, NYC), and Emma Margetson (SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre, University of Greenwich, London).
We are actively building towards a traveling program, micro residencies, and developing new tools to better connect, explore, and learn from one another’s environments and practices. More soon. www.spatialsoundlab.org.
Upcoming
May 3, 2026 / 2PM EST
The Early Conceptual Sketches of Alvin Lucier : Signatures.
Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn
The event features a talk by Ted Gordon with performances by Daniel Fishkin and Victoria Keddie
May 7, 2026 / 6PM CET
IMMERSIA Festival
NOTAM, Oslo
This is the first edition of our new IMMERSIA series. Works by: Victoria Keddie Pierce Warnecke Annie Mahtani Nikos Stavropoulos Giulia Francavilla Martin Recker Leah Reid.
I will be premiering a work for 24 ch ambisonic arrangement.
May 19-22, 2026
Sonic Building
Zollverein Unesco World Heritage Site, Essen
This symposium is a collaborative initiative between the Royal College of Art (UK), EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), UdK Berlin (Germany), and Folkwang Universität der Künste (Germany).
Featuring : Jan St. Werner, Dr. Brett Mommersteeg, Patricia Reed, Dr. Alfredo Thiermann, Dr. Norbert Palz, Dr. Ines Weizman, Dr. Mark Campbell, Nikola Bojic, Vaoujan Chetirian, Victoria Keddie, Michael Akstaller, DAF (Silja Beck & Theresa Hartmann, SKIA, Mike Sekine.
June 11, 2026
Lecture, DIGITALE KUNST
Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
June 17, 2026
Audiovisionen: Victoria Keddie + Nour Sokhon
Kulturraum Zwingli-Kirche, Berlin
Victoria Keddie (US) and Nour Sokhon (Berlin/ Beirut) bring together two distinct approaches to sound and communication. Keddie works beyond structured language, exploring how error, interference, and transmission artifacts destabilize meaning. Sokhon draws from artistic research — interviews, field recordings, and site-specific interventions — translating documentary process into sound and music composition. Together, their practices trace the boundaries between communication, place, and signal.
June 20, 2026
Bruismelk Festival
De Nor, Antwerp
Featuring: Maria Bertel, Victoria Keddie, Strövels, Bjorn Eriksson & -The Bouviers, Clara Lissens, MV Carbon, DJ Mixmonster Menno & DJ -Grazzhoppa, Limpe Fuchs + DJs
–xv.
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16. George Peck, FF Alumn, at Mission Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, opening May 12
Budapest Exhibition
On April 12th, 2026, there was a pivotal landslide election voicing the change for the people of Hungary. A bloodless revolution. In the cusp of this enormous change, we are very excited to announce George Peck’s “From White to Black” George Peck returns to Hungary with a pop-up exhibition “From White to Black to White: An Action Etched in Memory” opening Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at the Mission Art Gallery in Budapest, Hungary. Curated by Katalin T. Nagy, art historian.
The exhibition presents a body of work shaped by exile, historical memory, and the psychological terrain of return. The project emerged after Peck returned to Hungary following life living in New York. The exhibition crystallizes Peck’s decisive shift where political memory solidifies into form.
➤ Read about the history behind the exhibition from his original From White Black Studio Update: https://drive.google.com/file/d/111-mUJx2eAY5rFPsravEnYH5_QXPzYhR/view
➤ Watch George speak about the exhibition in this two-part interview:
Part 1: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWE5jrngiSe/
Part 2: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWPanr9ggpk/
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17. Nadia Coen, FF Alumn, at KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY, May 23
the inclining experiment
KinoSaito Artist-in-Residence
I am pleased to be nominated for an artist-in-residence at KinoSaito
in Verplanck, New York, for the month of May.
I look forward to contributing to this experimental interdisciplinary art center
and its programming.
Save the date: May 23, 2026, 1-4pm
Open studio event and related programming at KinoSaito.
More details to follow!
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18. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at Circolo del Design, Torino, Italy, April 29
Kathy Brew announces that her evergreen documentary, DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA AND MASSIMO VIGNELLI, will be screening this Wednesday, April 29th in Torino, Italy, presented by Circolo del Design. Part of its curated Her Film series, this series is dedicated to highlighting significant female figures in design.
https://circolodeldesign.it/eng/evento/her-film-design-is-one-the-vignellis/
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19. Ray Johnson, David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumns, at Ortuzar, Manhattan, thru May 30
We are pleased to share with you that Ray Johnson is featured in How Beautiful This Living Thing Is at Ortuzar open today April 22nd through May 30th.
Curated by Andrew Durbin, this group exhibition features the circle of artists who were in dialogue with Hujar throughout his life: Sheyla Baykal, Susan Brockman, Ray Johnson, Greer Lankton, Joseph Raffael, Gary Schneider, Paul Thek, Ann Wilson, and David Wojnarowicz. The exhibition, whose name is taken from one of Thek’s letters to Hujar—explores several impressionistic themes shared across Peter’s work and the work of those included here. Life, death, urbanity, collage, collaboration, shared intimacy. The exhibition is timed with the release of Durbin’s biography The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
How Beautiful This Living Thing Is
Ortuzar
April 22 – May 30, 2026
curated by Andrew Durbin
Peter Hujar was fascinated by kinship. As a man who only partly knew his own origins, who was abandoned by his father and neglected by his mother, deep defining relationships held a certain mystery. In his photographs, especially his portraiture, Hujar is often thinking about the connections inside and outside the frame of the photograph. Who we are, and to whom we belong. Beneath the surface, under the skin…
EXHIBITIONS
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE, SFMoMA, August 23, 2025-Summer 2026
Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space, The B & M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens, Greece, March 18-July 19, 2026
How Beautiful This Living This Is, Ortuzar, New York, April 22-May 30, 2026
Black Mountain Coll(a)ge, Black Mountain Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina, opening May 29 – September 5, 2026
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence by Miriam Kienle, University of Minnesota Press, November 2023
A Book About Ray by Ellen Levy, MIT Press, October 15, 2024
RECENT PRESS
Ray Johnson’s Elusive Dream: ‘I Want to Dance’ by Jenny Harris for the New York Times
The Unknown Ray Johnson Takes the Spotlight by Roberta Smith for the New York Times
Ray Johnson by Hilton Als for the New Yorker
THE RAY JOHNSON ESTATE
34 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021
+1 (212) 628-0470 | info@rayjohnsonestate.com
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20. Lenora Champagne, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, May 15-16
Please come if you can! (Click link for tickets.)
https://dixonplace.org/performances/ordinary-days/
Dixon Place presents
Ordinary Day, by Lenora Champagne
7:30, Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16
Dixon Place is at 161A Chrystie St., NYC
In Ordinary Day, Lenora Champagne reveals her inner life as she weaves together memories, dreams, nature, today’s headlines, and the secret lives of hats, A witty, poetic meditation on finding moments of joy in these dangerous times, where disturbing things happen, yet pleasure and wonder still show up to surprise and delight.
A quick trip into life today, from someone who’s been around awhile.
See you there?
Lenora
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21. Liz Magic Laser, FF Alumn, at 601Artspace, Manhattan, May 1
PERSONAL POWER MOVES
Receive a customized empowerment gesture from Liz Magic Laser and Cori Kresge
Friday, May 1st, 6-8pm
601Artspace
88 Eldridge Street
Please join us at 601Artspace on Friday, May 1st for Personal Power Moves, hosted by artists Liz Magic Laser and Cori Kresge, inspired by their current installation, Power Moves. During “office hours” from 6-8pm, the artists will consult with visitors and determine a personalized hand gesture for each person based on their current needs.
Liz Magic Laser’s research into oratorical gesture began while studying how contemporary politicians perform authenticity on camera. In past works such as I Feel Your Pain (2011) and The Digital Face (2012), she examined the rise of emotionally expressive political performance in the age of reality television and teleprompters. The Digital Face featured Kresge and fellow Cunningham dancer Alan Good performing gestural choreography with rigorous mechanical precision.
Laser and Kresge have continued to develop this inquiry into a contemporary somatic training method for public address. Power Moves adapts François Delsarte’s nineteenth-century system of oratorical gesture into a sequence of codified actions: gestures for setting boundaries, taking control, cutting through noise, and stirring up a new message. Packaging political body language as a self-empowerment regimen, the work guides viewers through a set of gestures that place the decor and body language of political authority in conversation with the aspirational interiors of wellness culture.
Power Moves is part of our current exhibition When Thoughts Are Free, curated by Sara Reisman. Find more information about the exhibition here: https://601artspace.org/When-Thoughts-Are-Free
Power Moves, 2026, Liz Magic Laser in collaboration with choreographer Cori Kresge. Single-channel video installation, 35 minutes. Co-directed and produced by Zoe Chait. Commissioned by 601Artspace, New York. Cinematography and editing by Zoe Chait, Liz Magic Laser, and Alexander Mejia. Script by Liz Magic Laser and Cori Kresge. Makeup and hair by Nat Carlson. Sound engineering by Conner Chase. Sound mix by Trent Mazur.
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22. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, new publication
I’ve just released a signed and numbered artist book.
Edition of 30 (25 available, 5 reserved for curators).
Each copy includes an augmented reality overlay activated by scanning the cover.
Purchase:
https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14o7AJdJHbmP9CMaAw02
Let me know if you want me to hold a copy.
G H Hovagimya, ghovagimyan@icloud.com
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23. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, opening May 16
Coming Soon!
Babs Reingold Solo Exhibition at
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
Opens May 16, 2026
Dear Friends
I’m thrilled to announce my upcoming
solo exhibition “After Venus” at the
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg FL
May 16 – August 30, 2026!
I’m particularly excited for this exhibition at the MFA St. Petersburg as many of these works from the 1990s will be seen for the first time.
https://mfastpete.org/exhibition/babs-reingold/
https://babsreingold.com/body-builders/
“After Venus”
Women Bodybuilders and female icons 1990 – 1998
Nude Amazons — powerful women bodybuilders — transgress gender codes and boldly confront visualized and verbalized issues about women. Amazons are my metaphor, conveying the inherent physical, intellectual and emotional strength of women. The work accentuates the myth of the Amazon, beginning in domination found in ancient matriarchal societies. Symbols from these times, among them the Sheela-na-Gig, Mena, and Yoni, impart historical coda into the dynamics of contemporary women bodybuilders to provoke controversy of the female form, and underscore the long journey of the societal evolution of woman. Women bodybuilders juxtapose master works of female nudes by male artists, ranging from Rubens to Picasso, and destroy the female as desirable “object”. Profound in my mind is the cultural context of male-female bodies, androgyny, and the undertone of tension between them. The work is meant to transcend the parody of the stereotype and empower a new dimension in the continuing societal evolution of women.
“After Venus” site: https://babsreingold.com/body-builders/
MFA St. Petersburg FL: https://mfastpete.org/exhibition/babs-reingold/
Babs Reingold
Venezuela-born American artist Babs Reingold (MFA, SUNY Buffalo; BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art) creates sculptures, drawings, and installations that focus on beauty, poverty and the environment. Reingold’s exhibition history includes museums, universities, and galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Jersey City, Buffalo (NY), St. Petersburg (FL), Atlanta, and Savannah (GA). Her work resides in the collections of the Newark Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs FL and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY. Among her numerous awards are a Florida State Visual Artist Fellowship and a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Katherine Pill
Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Pill joined the Museum Fine Arts, St. Petersburg as the first curator to focus on modern and contemporary art, and has organized exhibitions including Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present; Benny Andrews: Mix Master; Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body, Gio Swaby: Fresh Up, co-organized with the Art Institute of Chicago, and most recently the career retrospective Nina Yankowitz: In the Out/Out the In, which is currently on view at the Parrish Art Museum. Pill previously held the position of Assistant Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. She is a founding member of the feminist art collective Cunsthaus in Tampa, FL, and earned a dual MA in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Special thanks to Senior Curator Katherine Pill for her support and interest in the “After Venus” series from the 1990s and Director Klaudio Rodriguez for making it happen at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. I’m particularly excited for this upcoming exhibition at the MFA as many of these works from the 1990s will be seen for the first time.
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24. Aaron Landsman, FF Alumn, at Recording Studio, Manhattan, May 2
The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture presents
NIGHT KEEPER
– listening event with Aaron Landsman/ Norman Westberg/ Jehan O. Young
WHEN: Saturday 2 May 2026, 2:30pm
WHERE: Recording Studio, 5th Floor, 194 Mercer Street [between Bleecker and West Houston Street]
Free, open to public, non-NYU guests must RSVP here
Night Keeper is out now on Hallow Ground Records
“Sometimes a dream is a eulogy
And a song is a story
And a map is a key…”
Originally performed at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens, Night Keeper is a musical meshwork, borne of insomnia, about insomnia.
About time, memory, space.
A twilight city symphony, brittle and blue, of dreams and drones.
Supported by commissioning funds from The Chocolate Factory and NYSCA
with additional funding from Creative Capital
AARON LANDSMAN is a text-maker, performance enabler and teacher. With work presented extensively in New York, the US and internationally, his projects often start with questions: how does technology affect the ways we remember? How do we perform power, and who gets to play which roles? Can the person who made you who you are, be the person who messed you up, the the person you forgive now? He is the instigator of the 20-year project Perfect City.
NORMAN WESTBERG is best known for his work with SWANS. Detroit-born, his name recurs and ripples through many interconnected micro-histories surrounding New York City’s music and art scenes – from appearances in film works associated with the Cinema of Transgression, through to his participation in bands such as The Heroine Sheikhs and Five Dollar Priest.
JEHAN O. YOUNG is a classically-trained actor, occasional dancer, and company member/ corps coordinator for Kotchegna Dance Company, a West African performance troupe specialising in the dance and drum traditions of the Ivory Coast. Young has performed internationally and appeared on numerous stages across New York City including countless esteemed basements with working pipes and a black curtain.
THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE (est. 2007): falling and laughing….
QUERIES: ss162@nyu.edu
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25. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new album, and more
Happy Spring, music-lovers! My new album, “I’m Still Bitter,” is now
available on Bandcamp. It contains 20 of my songs, including such catchy
numbers as “Bloated Plutocrats on Parade,” “Free Wine,” “Ptooey,” “Never
Shtup a Nutjob,” and “Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Punch You No Face.”
You’ll probably want to enjoy it, and you can find it on my Bandcamp
page: https://dougskinner.bandcamp.com
The 14th issue of that always captivating journal “Typo” is also out. I
contributed a slapstick account of Caesar’s assassination, “The 23
Wounds,” taken from my book “Papa Bach and Other Stories.” “Typo” also
showcases a dazzling and international array of writers, and the whole
thing is edited and designed by the tireless Norman Conquest (aka Derek
Pell): https://blackscatbooks.com/2026/03/31/typo-14-spring-break/
And lastly, White Knuckle Sandwich, that band from the ’90s made up of
Anne Shapiro, Jen Duffy-Perez, and myself, now has an Instagram page.
Gaze at it for videos and pictures from our checkered past!
https://www.instagram.com/whiteknucklesandwich
Doug Skinner
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26. David Jelinek, FF Member, at KGB Bar, Manhattan, April 29
join contributors John Madera, JF, and David Jelinek, FF Member, at the Launch Party at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street, Manhattan, 7-9 pm, for an evening of literary mayhem celebrating 40 years of “The Journal of Experimental Fiction.” Doors open at 7pm, and I start reading shortly thereafter, so please arrive on time.
Hope to see you there!
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