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Read more about the article Program Support for Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium at MoMA PS1
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Program Support for Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium at MoMA PS1

[December 4, 2025] The inaugural Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium was jointly organized by Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and Cai Foundation. It was a full-day event curated by Paul Holdengräber and featured two keynote speeches and three panel discussions.

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November 6, 2025
Read more about the article Return to the Story That Holds You
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Return to the Story That Holds You

[October 25, 2025. 1:00pm EST (7:00 pm CEST) streamed live from Munich, Germany] “Return to the Story That Holds You” situates performance as a site of ancestral remembrance and embodied research. Drawing on South Asian heritage and Indigenous epistemologies, the work reactivates practices of communal gathering in which ritual, storytelling, and care functioned as modes of survival and connection.

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October 6, 2025
Read more about the article Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace 1976—2026 | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Brooklyn, NY
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Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace 1976—2026 | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Brooklyn, NY

[Oct 2025—April 11, 2026] A retrospective gallery show anticipating its 50th anniversary in 2026. Included in the exhibition are works by Martha Wilson, Jenny Holzer, Tehching Hsieh, Dread Scott, and more.

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July 7, 2025
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FF Rising: Gallery 360 | Tokyo, Japan

[July 4 (Fri) – July 19 (Sat), 2025] Pre-Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of Franklin Furnace. It introduces the groundbreaking activities of Franklin Furnace―still relatively little known in Japan. It focuses on avant-garde and time-based art forms such as artists’ books and performance art, and highlights FF’s global efforts to support emerging artists and archive their ephemeral works.

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July 2, 2025
Read more about the article Esther Newton Made Me Gay: screening and discussion
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Esther Newton Made Me Gay: screening and discussion

[June 19, 2025, 6-8pm EST] Join us for a special virtual screening of Esther Newton Made Me Gay, a feature documentary that celebrated the life and legacy of cultural anthropologist, activist, and iconic butch lesbian Esther Newton. With a career spanning over seven decades, Newton has been a trailblazer in queer scholarship, shaping the foundations of LGBTQ+ and Gender Studies through her groundbreaking work on drag, lesbian identity, and the politics of representation.

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May 19, 2025
Read more about the article Return to Valhalla, video with the artist
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Return to Valhalla, video with the artist

[April 22, 2025, 6-7pm EST] Through salvaged artworks, travel videos, and recuperative actions, Return to Valhalla is an essay film that traces the scale of the personal against that of the epic. It has a particular sense of lost time, and of blurred boundaries between realities lived, imagined, and hypothesized. An obsession is lived out in pursuit of the elements of a 30 year old trauma: can what seems fated be rewritten through some digging in history, or language, or location?

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March 22, 2025