January 16 through April 11, 2024. The new exhibition The Ballad of Reversals: Ephemeral Images of Ephemeral Art reflects on the medium of reversal film through the image archives at Franklin Furnace.
February 28, 2024, 7-8pm EST - Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and ask questions about Franklin Furnace Fund programs from our staff. The session was followed by a Q&A.
EVENT CANCELLED: join this live discussion between J.SON, a journeyman graffiti writer, historian and author of Graffiti 365 (Abrams 2011) and Riff 170, one of the greatest graffiti style-masters of all time.
On November 16, 2023 at 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm ET in the Alumni Reading Room of Pratt Institute Library, Franklin Furnace will introduce the 2023-24 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients. This in-person event provides a unique opportunity to celebrate this year's ten fundwinners and introduce them to the wider audience.
Open Call for submissions: Dry Run: A Night of Student Performance Art. On Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 6:00pm – 8:30pm in Pratt Institute’s Student Union, Dry Run is co-presented by Franklin Furnace and PerformVu.
October 17th, 7:00-8:00pm: Performance artist and author Anya Liftig and Founder of PPL (Panoply Performance Laboratory), Esther Marveta Neff, will discuss the role of different states of consciousness in Liftig’s recent performance art memoir, Holler Rat. The conversation will explore the psychology of the traditional memoir form as performance art and the role of association and dissociation in written language.
September 29, 2023, 5-6 pm ET. The Full Moon Exhumed Zoom honors 40 years of Billy X Curmano's 3-day burial act, Performance for the Dead. Original pallbearer, mourner, and gravedigger will participate, along with a reappearance by Curmano.
Join us to uncover the art history of some of the earliest instances of performance art and avant-garde art on the Internet, and engage in conversations with humanities professionals to better understand the genesis and evolution of these art forms. "Internet Firsts" aims to explore, compare, and contrast artists’ ideas and projects, past and the present followed by a Q&A session. This event emulates more than just a journey through time; it is an intergenerational crash course in the origins of online art, highlighting the pioneering days of the World Wide Web.
This event celebrates a new monograph by Jennifer Malvezzi and Flora Pitrolo which for the first time comprehensively chronicles their practice and sets it into today’s context, artist Roberto Taroni and the book’s authors show and discuss material from the Taroni-Cividin archive.
A virtual tour of the exhibition Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view January 19, 2023 through April 6, 2023 onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library and online via Zoom