Join us in welcoming the 2021-22 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipients! Franklin Furnace will be hosting a virtual event through The Loft introducing this year’s awardees. The artists will each give a presentation describing their newly funded projects, explaining the influences, thought-processes, and practices culminating in their eventual performances. It’s a rare chance to listen and engage with performance works in various stages of becoming. We hope to see you at our exciting event!

Video documentation of the September 18, 2021 (5 - 6:30 PM EST) performance of Sirreras Fem presented by Franklin Furnace and Arantxa Araujo, Verónica Peña, and Yali Romagoza.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmUQXHkFvYThis was a hybrid performance: Live at a Chashama Space to Present and virtual through the FF LOFT. Lugar/Location: 340 E 64th Street, New York, NY 10065 (Upper East Side), a Chashama Space to Present. Presentado como parte de la Exhibición “Dissolving Borders II”. Presented as part of “Dissolving Borders II” Exhibition. Descripción Sirreras Fem propone…

As a Berlin based painter and filmmaker, Stefan Hayn (*1965) rediscovered painting through cinematic approaches, especially along the questions about ”representative authenticity” in so-called ”documentary films”. In his lecture he will talk about relationships between cinema and painting and show his film MALEREI HEUTE/PAINTING NOW. Hayn’s focus is directed less on the blending of painting’s and cinema’s modes of production and reception, as usually happens in ”new media“, but rather on the collision of their different pictorial and narrative potential, trying to make socio-political effects of today’s media communication perceptible.

Join Ruth Benitez, Ines Yujnovsky, Flavia Krause, Carlos Motta, Liliana Porter and Rosaura Ramos for a discussion on HISTORIAS and avant-garde art. Event will be held in Spanish with English translator and subtitles.

Video documentation of the September 27th, 2021 (7 - 8:00 PM EST) performance of HISTORIAS presented by Franklin Furnace. This event celebrated the avant-garde conceptual artist and filmmaker Jaime Davidovich. This was the first of three events in relation to HISTORIAS.  Recorded on Zoom, edited by Jenna Kramer (Fall Intern, 2021).https://vimeo.com/641633092As part of the online exhibition HISTORIAS Franklin Furnace, in collaboration with Pratt Institute, invite you to screen, from September 20 through September 27, the following Jaime Davidovich online films in advance of the…

In a short, spoken-word and performance video— all in a little black box - Ladd shape shifts into a puppet character named fingers and eyes. She dances, sings, and speaks poetic text. It sounds funny, and at times it is, but the piece can also be heartbreaking. It ranges from slapstick to mime to dance to a cry from the depths of the artist’s heart.

FIVE FIGHTS was a Virtual Celebration (and/or Roast) of an East Village Poem,” fetes one of Off-Broadway playwright/actor Robert Galinsky’s most popular spoken word pieces, FIVE FIGHTS. The poem is from a collection of works called “The Mayor of the Lower East Side Speaks”, which High Times Magazine reviewed saying, “Galinsky is manic, takes rapid-fire shots at drunk drivers, firearms, and bicycle messengers with almost psychotic precision.” This program features 12 artist interpretations of the poem, each under 2 minutes, and each with a unique look and feel. Galinsky has performed the poem in New York, Los Angeles California, Buenos Aires Argentina, Aberswyth Wales, Napoli Italy, London England, and also in the bathroom, bedroom, and living room. FIVE FIGHTS made it’s Franklin Furnace Virtual Loft debut, so sit back and enjoy a dozen variations of a classic East Village literary anaphora.