Contents for June 16th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Esther Newton Made Me Gay: screening and discussion, online at the FF LOFT, June 19
1. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at The Bardo, Los Angeles, CA, June 28-29
2. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, June 17
3. Arantxa Araujo, Alison Cornyn, Sara Kostić, Xinan Helen Ran, Amy Ruhl, Brooke Singer, Asia Stewart, FF Alumns, receive Brooklyn Arts Council grants
4. Micki Spiller, Priscilla Stadler, FF Alumns, now online at Qns.com
5. Jessica Blinkhorn, FF Alumn, at the National Mall, Washington, DC, July 26
6. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, June 26
7. Caroline Garcia, FF Alumn, at A. I. R. Gallery, Brooklyn, thru June 29
8. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, at Roca Umbert, Barcelona, Spain, June 26
9. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY, thru July 31
10. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at frankmoorearchiveupdates.substack.com
11. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM, opening June 13
12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, June 19
13. Mira Schor, FF. Alumn, at Art Basel Unlimited, Switzerland, June 16
14. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at Lulu.com
15. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
16. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, thru April 12, 2026
17. Nancy Buchanan, FF Alumn, at The Brick, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 22
18. Maciej Toporowicz, FF Alumn, at Galli-Curci Theater, Margaretville, NY, opening June 28
19. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, now online at https://fb.me/e/6pfzDMT2G
20. Paul Granjon, FF Alumn, at Kulturhus Björlkboda, Finland, thru Aug. 31
21. John Giorno, FF Alumn, at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, thru Sept. 7
22. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
23. Ida Applebroog, Beth B, FF Alumns, at Anthology Film Archives, July 15
24. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at PBS.org
25. Rosemarie Chiarlone, FF Alumn, now online
26. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, at Quaker Meeting House, Brooklyn, June 22
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Weekly Spotlight: Esther Newton Made Me Gay: screening and discussion, online at the FF LOFT, June 19
Upcoming LOFT Event:
Esther Newton Made Me Gay: screening and discussion
Esther Newton, Jean Carlomusto
[June 19, 2025, 6-8pm EST] RSVP Link: https://shorturl.at/7trai
Join us for a special virtual screening of Esther Newton Made Me Gay, a feature documentary that celebrates 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.
Directed with deep sensitivity and insight, the film follows Newton’s intellectual and personal journey—from her early awakenings in 1950s gay life to her role in the women’s liberation and lesbian-feminist movements, to her current reflections on butch identity in relation to trans-masculinity. Interwoven with her passion for competitive dog agility, the documentary offers a nuanced and tender portrait of a scholar-athlete navigating aging, illness, and resilience.
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1. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at The Bardo, Los Angeles, CA, June 28-29
Singles Weekend
IN PERSON PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP!
In Los Angeles
Location – The Bardo
231 Emerald St Los Angeles, CA 90026
Program:
Sat: Going In
– writing prompts to mine your life’s gems
– performance warmups
– mid-cringe guided improv with other workshop members
Sun: Getting It Out
– getting on your feet
– eliminating the uncnecessary so that the necessary may speak
– developing a support system
* Bonus biz drag *
-setting up your own show
– fundraising crash course
Plus lots of Q + A time with me
early bird special –
$600 if you register before June 20th
$666 after June 20th
to register please complete this very short questionnaire https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDCtQ14jtruGjBH6WD-MGHXqunEiG4Q4Tm3WV9kHwMLEqPMg/viewform– space is limited
questions? please email me > dynastyhandbag@gmail.com
What you will need to bring
comfortable clothing, notebook and pen, lunch
I will have extra supplies if you need, snacks + drinks
HIGH PRAISE FOR SINGLES RETREAT
I’ve been performing for two decades and took Singles Retreat to zhuzh up my practice. Oooweee did it deliver! Jibz’s prompts led me to *multiple* narrative breakthroughs in a project that was heretofore giving “meh”. Thank you, Jibz!! – CPR
The fundraising segment lit a fire to ask for more resources for a project. Not to be all MLM but I actually made money as a result of this program (!). – MJ
This was such a special class! I’d been wanting an excuse/structure to get deeper into performance, and got to learn how the proverbial sausage is made DIRECTLY from one of my favorite performers. I would take this class again in a heartbeat!!! The community aspect was an unexpected bonus! – CJ
It meant a lot to me to have really generous insights from Jibz, whose work I so love, it was exciting from the POV of an admirer AND encouraging from the POV of a dirtbag low budget performer. -BP
About me:
I have been making solo performance work since 2001. I have an undergrad degree from San Francisco Art Institute and certificate of completion of advanced Acting Program from American Conservatory Theater. I have written and produced dozens of solo performance pieces and videos. I have been in several trashy punk bands, short films and web series that never saw the light of day. In 2019 I sold a TV show to FX. I have taught theater and performance at NYU, Cal-Arts and PRATT and lectured internationally. I grew up going to a performing arts summer camp as a child and learned improv from the activist clown and Woodstock MC, Wavy Gravy. I have been curating and hosting Weirdo Night since 2016 in Los Angeles and NYC.
Awards + Fellowships:
2022 Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Drama and Performance
2021 United States Artist Award
2021 Department of Cultural Affairs COLA Grant
2020 Creative Capital Award
2020 Art Matters Grant
2019 MacDowell Colony Artist Residency
2019 Dress in Purple Fund, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts
2017 Kindle Project Carousel Award
2014 LMCC Process Space Artist Residency, NYC
2013 Yaddo Artist Residency
2013 Kindle Project Makers Muse Award
2008 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
2008 Fresh Tracks Artist Residency, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
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2. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, June 17
A Care Cafe,
Celebrating the Love Amongst Us
a free event created by Lois Weaver and hosted by La Mama,
image courtesy of @wewillnotbesilent
Tuesday June 17 , 2025, 5-7pm
Community Arts Space at La Mama
74A East 4th Street. New York, NY 10003
It’s PRIDE month and time to celebrate the love amongst us. It is also a time to acknowledge the histories of protest that have secured important civil and human rights for our LGBTQ+ friends and family. Although now, unfortunately, we are living through those histories again because so many in our community are being targeted for who they are and who they love.
So yes, PRIDE is a time for celebrations and protest but it’s also a time to protect and support each other and draw strength from the love we share. It’s a time of joy and rejoicing in times that are filled with fear and insecurity.
That is why we are inviting you to the PRIDE Care Café, Celebrating the Love Amongst Us. This Care Café at La Mama on Tuesday June 17 will a provide 2 hour space to come and sit with all of our complicated thoughts and emotions and to talk to others about them
So please join us for a A Pride Care Cafe to celebrate the love amongst us.
You can RSVP to let us know you are coming, but you can drop in anytime between 5-7 pm
To book: https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1242989
We hope to be holding these Care Cafes monthly. Stay tuned for dates.
https://www.lamama.org/care-cafe/
A Care Café asks us to turn up as we are, with no specific agenda, expectation, or discussion topic, simply asking the question: How can we maintain an attitude of care in an uncaring world?
Set up like a conventional café with small tables and chairs, the Care Café acts as a temporary venue for community and conversation with some simple table activities set up within a framework of care. Just by entering the room, we acknowledge something of our own needs in the present moment and our desire to give and receive care.
https://www.split-britches.com/care-cafe
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3. Arantxa Araujo, Alison Cornyn, Sara Kostić, Xinan Helen Ran, Amy Ruhl, Brooke Singer, Asia Stewart, FF Alumns, receive Brooklyn Arts Council grants
Please visit this link:
https://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/what-we-do-grants-2025-grantees
Thank you.
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4. Micki Spiller, Priscilla Stadler, FF Alumns, now online at Qns.com
Please visit this link:
https://qns.com/2025/05/150-queens-artists-recipients-queens-arts-fund/
Thank you.
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5. Jessica Blinkhorn, FF Alumn, at the National Mall, Washington, DC, July 26
July Is Disability Pride Month — Artist Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn to Lead Powerful Protest Performance in Washington, D.C. on July 26
Washington, D.C. — On July 26, 2025, to mark the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), interdisciplinary artist and activist Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn will present DOGEWALKER—a live protest performance on the National Mall that uses satire, embodiment, and public spectacle to confront authoritarianism and advocate for disabled and queer rights.
Disability Pride Month, observed each July, honors the passage of the ADA in 1990, a landmark civil rights law won through decades of grassroots disability activism. Leaders like Judith Heumann, Ed Roberts, and Justin Dart Jr. paved the way for this legislation through tireless advocacy and civil disobedience.
But in 2025, those rights are again under threat.
Across the U.S., the rise of anti-trans laws, book bans, reproductive surveillance, and political rhetoric echoing fascist ideologies pose growing dangers—particularly to disabled people, queer communities, and immigrants. As Blinkhorn states, “Fascism doesn’t always come in jackboots. Sometimes it comes in suits and soundbites. We must resist now—publicly and collectively.”
In DOGEWALKER, Blinkhorn will walk symbolic effigies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk on leashes, asserting that when public figures abuse their power, it’s the people who must take back control.
Funds are being raised to support travel, accessibility accommodations, and payment for participating disabled and queer artists.
To support DOGEWALKER DC, donate here:
Media, community leaders, disability advocates, and the public are invited to join the walk on July 26. Together, we honor our history—and fight for our future.
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6. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, June 26
Los Angeles and beyond!
I am so happy to invite you to a hometown screening of The Tuba Thieves at the endlessly glamorous Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles in the Ted Mann theater. This screening will have the absolute best sound and image possible to experience, so if you haven’t seen the film yet, DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! This may be the last local screening for a while.
June 26, 2025. 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 and available for purchase at this link:
I will be in attendance with some of the cast and crew for a Q&A after the film.
The Tuba Thieves has open captions and ASL interpreters will provide ASL during the Q&A.
I can’t wait to see you there!
Alison
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7. Caroline Garcia, FF Alumn, at A. I. R. Gallery, Brooklyn, thru June 29
My solo exhibition just opened at A.I.R. Gallery
Heaven Knows at A.I.R. Gallery (on view until June 29, 2025).
https://www.airgallery.org/exhibitions/heaven-knows
Thank you
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8. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, at Roca Umbert, Barcelona, Spain, June 26
Art in process / A meeting with Laia Solé, accompanied by the performero Nicolás Dumit Estévez at Roca Umbert, Barcelona, Spain
Thursday, June 26, 2025
6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Roca Umbert
Carrer d’Enric Prat de la Riba, 77, 08401 Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
To register go to: https://www.rocaumbert.com/ca/agenda/c/3465-art-in-process.html
Location: Arts Space (La Miranda Room)
Laia Solé , artist in residence at Roca Umbert, offers an opening of the research process “Allò que no va ser: descartes i phantasmagories”, a project about artistic ideas and practices scorned or interrupted by interferences of life or the system. Solé invites the performero and curator Nicolás Dumit-Estévez, with whom she has worked and wandered through the Bronx and Upper Manhattan, to share her “great successes and famous failures”.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel ‘s career manifests itself performatively through creative experiences intertwined with everyday life. He has been a resident and has received grants from institutions such as PS1/MoMA, Yaddo, Smithsonian Institution, Hispanic Society of America, and MacDowell. Linda Mary Montano, an iconic figure of performance, has been his mentor in art and everyday life. Nicolás is the founder and director of The Interior Beauty Salon, a living organism located at the intersection of creativity and care. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros in the Dominican Republic, he was baptized in 2011 as a Bronxite: citizen of the Bronx.
Laia Solé Coromina is an artist, researcher and educator. She is a resident at the Espai d’Arts Roca Umbert in Granollers. Her work has been exhibited at the Sala Zero of the Espai d’Arts a Roca Umbert (Granollers, 2025), at the Drawing Center (New York, 2015), at Cuchifritos Gallery (New York, 2016), at the Chirivella-Soriano Foundation (Valencia, 2015), at Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2011), among others. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2000), and a doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University in New York (2018). She is currently a professor at the University of Vic.
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9. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY, thru July 31
The Future Belongs to the Loving
Upcoming Collaborative Events
June 21: Vulva Glyphs
Alexandra Brock + Kate Quarfordt
A feminist day of light glyphs and vulva bedazzling.
We Grab Our Own with Alexi Brock
Sun Glyphs with Kate Quarfordt
June 22: International Lace Day Event with Brooklyn Lace Guild
Elena Kanagy-Loux, Ellyanne Hutchinson, and members of BLG will demo and share lace histories and expertise.
July 17: Ink, Zines, Pigments
Making Ink from Firearms with Thomas Little, A Rural Penworks
Invasive Pigments with Mickey Mariash
Wasp Nest Ink with Patricia Miranda
Zines with Elizabeth Castaldo
Stay tuned for more upcoming events- info at our website.
MAPSpace
6 No. Pearl St., 4th floor, Port Chester, NY, 10573
www.mapspace.art
RSVP to mapspace.art@gmail.com
on view thru July 31, 2025
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10. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at frankmoorearchiveupdates.substack.com
We have created a new Substack blog as an archive of the monthly updates that we send to our donors about our Frank Moore archiving activities. All of the updates we have done are now posted, starting with November 2023 and going up to April of this year. You can read them all here:
https://frankmoorearchiveupdates.substack.com
Every few months or so we will post more…
To receive the very latest updates on our archiving activities each month, please become a monthly donor at https://inter-relations.com/donate.html.
Thank you.
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11. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM, opening June 13
Debra Pearlman is included in Currents New Media 2025 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She will be installing several, recent uv printed aluminum sculptures opening Friday
June 13 – 22, 2025
Railyard Art District
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
555 Camino de la Familia
Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA
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12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, June 19
Galinsky presents “Poetry in New York” now in it’s 4th year at Book Club Bar (197 East 3rd st. by Ave B) Thursday June 19th, 8-9:30pm, free event – 10 incredible poets doing 5 minutes each. This month also featuring Irish poet Jack Briody!
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13. Mira Schor, FF. Alumn, at Art Basel Unlimited, Switzerland, June 16
SEXUAL PLEASURE (1998) at Art Basel Unlimited, June 16 –22, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10
Mira Schor’s Sexual Pleasure (1998) is a fifty-canvas manifesto spanning 28 feet (8 5/8 meters), the culmination of a decade-long period of appropriating patriarchal language from war, medicine, and law within a dedication to the expressive qualities of oil paint. The Mondrian-inspired checkerboard in luminous lemon yellow and blood-red cadmium emerged amid the AIDS crisis, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; the Riot Grrrl movement, intersectional and sex-positive feminist frameworks. During the 1990s, Schor’s deployment of elliptical phrases like margin of safety; area of denial; and undue burden; function as coded critiques of institutional violence against women and queer communities.
Sexual Pleasure is the culmination of these word paintings. The work’s expansive format corresponds to Jenny Holzer’s text-based interventions, while its assertion of sexual agency extends the sex-positive practices of Carolee Schneemann and David Wojnarowicz. Sexual Pleasure transcends female subjectivity to encompass all bodies constrained by patriarchal structures, positioning sexual self-determination as radical political resistance and self-love.
This is a collaborative presentation by Marcelle Alix, Paris and Lyles & King Gallery, New York City
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14. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at Lulu.com
In 2010 there was an Exhibition at the Stendhal Gallery (NY) where a part of the TAM Rubberstamp Archive was shown. John Held, Jr. arranged the connections. Not many people maybe know, but the lecture was also put together in a visual way and is still available at:
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15. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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16. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, thru April 12, 2026
Joseph Kosuth
‘Non autem memoria’
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
June 14, 2025 – April 12, 2026
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce ‘Non autem memoria’, a comprehensive survey of seminal works by Joseph Kosuth, commemorating his 80th birthday year. The exhibition will span an impressive fifty-year history and will present all of Joseph Kosuth’s works in the museum’s collection.
Joseph Kosuth is regarded as a pivotal figure in conceptual art, recognized not only for his innovative artworks, but also for his influential writings that have shaped the theoretical framework of the movement. His philosophy is succinctly captured in the title of an early series, Art as Idea as Idea, which encapsulates the radical approach established in the 1960s. Kosuth’s exploration of meaning over aesthetics asserts that “meaning, and not shapes, colors and materials,” is the essence of his artistic practice, with language serving as a primary medium for conveying his ideas.
The exhibition, curated collaboratively by Kosuth and Ulrike Groos, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Director, derives its title from the Latin phrase meaning “time flies, but memory does not.” Spanning the entirety of the gallery, This presentation allows viewers to engage deeply with Kosuth’s influential practice and to trace its evolution from 1965 to the present, featuring an extensive selection of eighteen works that reflect his significant contributions to contemporary art.
Among the notable works in the exhibition is Kosuth’s early neon, One and Eight – A Description, 1965, consisting of eight words in pink neon that form a self-referential description, embodying Ludwig Wittgenstein’s assertion that “what can be said at all can be said clearly.” This theme of language and meaning continues with the exhibition’s latest work, Texts for Nothing (Waiting for-) #3, 2011, which integrates text fragments from Samuel Beckett, highlighting the parallel exploration of meaning within both Kosuth’s and Beckett’s artistic practices.
Kosuth’s relationship with Stuttgart is particularly noteworthy; from 1991 to 1997, he served as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts, contributing significantly to the local art community. His impact was further underscored through numerous exhibitions and public projects, including the installation Measurement Described (A Dedication), 1994, which features a quote from Hegel on the façade of the city’s train station. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart has notably the largest collection of Kosuth’s works in Germany, underscoring his deep personal connections to the region.
For additional information on the exhibition, please visit kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
For information on Joseph Kosuth, please visit skny.com
For media inquiries, please email Adair Lentini at Adair@skny.com
For all other inquiries, please email Cecile Panzieri at Cecile@skny.com
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17. Nancy Buchanan, FF Alumn, at The Brick, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 22
TRUTHFULLY, NANCY BUCHANAN
A Retrospective
June 22- September 20, 2025
Opening Reception: June 22, 2-5pm
For over five decades, artist Nancy Buchanan has been a vital part of the L.A. art community, creating performance, video, drawing, collage, digital art, sculpture, and mixed-media installations, and teaching for over thirty years as a respected core faculty member at CalArts. Organized by artist Laura Owens and The Brick’s @cat.taft.cat, this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Buchanan’s expansive body of work, foregrounding her important conceptual practice, pioneering experimentations with new media, and rarely-seen works on paper.
Join us to celebrate this L.A. legend!
https://the-brick.org/nancybuchananretrospective
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18. Maciej Toporowicz, FF Alumn, at Galli-Curci Theater, Margaretville, NY, opening June 28
OBSESSED
MACIEJ TOPOROWICZ
ART RETROSPECTIVE
JUNE 28 – JULY 05, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 28, 4-6PM
GALLI-CURCI THEATER
801 MAIN STREET
MARGARETVILLE, NY 12455
HOURS: EVERYDAY 11AM-6PM
Dear Friends
Yesterday I was a child rockin’ in a cradle. Today I am walking closer to the summit with a shorter breath yet steady as before. How can you present more than 40 years of creative work in various media such as performance, photography, painting, drawing, sound in a limited space and time? I will do my best to do so and I want to invite you to come and witness it.
Maciej Toporowicz
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19. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, now online at https://fb.me/e/6pfzDMT2G
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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20. Paul Granjon, FF Alumn, at Kulturhus Björlkboda, Finland, thru Aug. 31
As mentioned in the last post, a Mud Machine was installed as part of the Garden and the Hedge exhibition and programme @kulturhus_kubu Björkboda Finland.
Full details on the exhibition artworks and programme, curated by the fantastic curator artist professor Teresa Dillon, are now available on Kubu’s website https://kubu.fi/ . These include workshops, talks, performances and collaborations all the way to the end of August.
The programme largely focuses on soil and art, with a great range of artworks and activities aiming at activation of empathies between human and other than human living beings as well as more practical knowledge on botanical, food production, self-sufficiency and other related themes.
I am looking forward to seeing the exhibition and discover exciting new ecological artworks.
The Garden and the Hedge
International Summer Exhibition & Programme
5.6.–31.8.2025
Kulturhus Björlkboda (KUBU)
Smedskullavägen 3
25860 Björkboda
Finland
Team:
Teresa Dillon
Curator The Garden and The Hedge and Artist Lead of Elemental Threads Programme.
Tuomo Tammenpää and Sari Kippillä
Executive producers, Kulturhus Björkboda
Participants:
@mrandybest
@laitinen_antti
@constanzadessain
@kalelhamam
dzamil_ka
@kasiamolga
@robinrimbaud
@paulgranjon
@knowlewestmc
@teemu_lehmusruusu
@mediengruppe_bitnik
@zabriskiebuchladen
@kaukolampi
@anttitolvi
@weiweiweiwear
@dusjagr
@ilveskorpi
@jussipuustjarvi
@ronjatammenpaa
@marjutnordb
@agryfp
@heymayahey
@jondroriuk
@uni_southampton_wsa
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21. John Giorno, FF Alumn, at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, thru Sept. 7
John Giorno: Welcoming the Flowers
June 12 – September 7, 2025
Palais de Tokyo
13 avenue du Président Wilson
Paris, France
Ten years after Ugo Rondinone: I Love John Giorno (2015), an exhibition presented at the Palais de Tokyo as a declaration of love, John Giorno’s poetry returns to the Palais in a new site-specific installation on the building’s main windows, accessible for free.
Designed by the artist Ugo Rondinone, this new large-scale installation transforms a selection of prints from Giorno’s Welcoming The Flowers series (2007) into an epic “stained-glass” window illuminated by sunlight. In this new version, the flowers are lit by natural light, creating a vertical garden of light, colour, and words that celebrate love, sexuality, spirituality, social, and political engagement.
Welcoming The Flowers is part of a ten-year anniversary celebration of Ugo Rondinone: I Love John Giorno, which also included Merci! John Giorno, a two-part benefit exhibition at Galerie Almine Rech, and a contribution to Pom Pom Pidou, the Centre Pompidou’s current collection display at the Tripostal in Lille, highlighting the scope and influence of Giorno’s work in Paris and at the intersection of poetry, art, activism and music.
Welcoming The Flowers is organized by Yoann Gourmel and supported by the galleries Almine Rech and Eva Presenhuber.
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22. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
We are pleased to announce the representation of
Candace Hill-Montgomery
The work of Candace Hill-Montgomery spans painting, photography, installation, assemblage, textiles and writing. Making and exhibiting since the 1970s, Hill-Montgomery developed an experimental approach in relation to her experience of post-war segregation in New York and the revolutionary activism of the time. She writes: ‘My work is about language. Even if it’s not talking about language within the piece, it’s about language and how we look at things through history. And that is political.’
In the 1980s, she exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Museum, Franklin Furnace and Fashion Moda in New York and at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her work was included in the infamous Times Square Show, New York and Issue, Social Strategies by Women Artists at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, curated by Lucy R. Lippard. In 1983, together with Lippard, she organised and exhibited in Working Artists/WorkingWomen/ WorkingTogether at Gallery 1199, New York. At this time, she also made public installations across New York City and published artist books of poetry and photography alongside texts in publications including Wedge and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics.
Hill-Montgomery (b. 1945, Queens, New York; lives and works in Bridgehampton, New York) is included in the group exhibition Here Is a Gale Warning: Art Crisis & Survival at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition Pretty Birds Peer Speak Sow Peculiar at Blank Forms, New York. Her latest publications include the collection Muss Sill (Distance No Object, 2020) and Short Leash Kept On (Materials, 2022), a long poem inspired by detective fiction and the writing of Lloyd Addison and Russell Atkins.
Watch: Candace Hill-Montgomery and Fred Moten in conversation, Blank Forms, New York, 2024
For enquiries, please contact office@hollybushgardens.co.uk
Hollybush Gardens
1–2 Warner Yard
London
EC1R 5EY
020 7837 5991
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday, 11:00 – 18:00
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23. Ida Applebroog, Beth B, FF Alumns, at Anthology Film Archives, July 15
CALL HER APPLEBROOG
at Anthology Film Archives
Tuesday, July 15, 7:30pm
Beth B in person
https://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/program/film-screeningcall-her-applebroog-at-anthology-film-archives
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24. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at PBS.org
Let’s light the fire in us! Jay
This is a timely and hopeful short doc that was picked up by PBS: There Are Things To Do, Directed by Mike Syers, produced by Fermin Rojas.
Urvashi Vaid, an outspoken immigrant, lesbian, and woman of color was an LGBTQ+ superhero helped shape the modern day gay rights movement. Her vision for the movement serves as a roadmap of initiatives & tools for generations of activist as they face anti-LGBTQ+ backlash. The film features Urvashi’s life in Provincetown, MA and 34-year relationship with partner Kate Clinton, and inspires us that the best place to build community.
https://www.pbs.org/show/wgbh-documentaries
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25. Rosemarie Chiarlone, FF Alumn, now online
Essay, The Story That Remains, Written by Carmen Ferreira de Terenzio, Sunday, June 8, 2025 now online.
This essay is a review of Chiarlone’s exhibition The Story, installed at Miami Beach Regional Library, Miami Beach, Florida through July 17, 2025.
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26. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, at Quaker Meeting House, Manhattan, June 22
“La La La Liberate” means what? Liberation from Trump?
Here’s an answer from one of our soloists in the NY Times last year.
“Music is a part of all revolutions,” said alto artist Francisca Benitez, a NYC-based Chilean artist who joined the choir in 2017. “We are rehearsing the world we want to live in.”
6 pm Sunday, June 22
Quaker Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place (East of Union Square, between 2nd & 3rd Ave)
Free, family-friendly
Earthalujah!
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