Contents for September 14th, 2026
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Weekly Spotlight: Party in the Park: Trio Under the Triboro, an event by Franklin Furnace + Socrates Sculpture Park + Materials for the Arts, on September 19, 12-5PM, Astoria NY
1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, Sept. 20
2. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Sept.19
3. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Old Stone House, Brooklyn, Sept. 24
4. Kimiko Tanabe, FF Alumn, at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, Oct. 15-17
5. David Antonio Cruz, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumns, now online at CentroPR.Hunter.Cuny.Edu
6. Anh Vo, FF Alumn, in Immigrant Artist Biennial, Oct. 30
7. Matt Romein, FF FUND 2025-26 recipient, at Mutu580, Brooklyn, Dec. 3-13
8. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, now online at books-on-books.com
9. Sha Sha Higby, FF Alumn, at Sausalito Art Center, CA, Sept. 26, and more
10. Nicholas Vargelis, FF Alumn, at Fondation Fimico, Romainville France, Sept. 18-20
11. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Sept. 27
12. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, at Stinson Public Library, Anna, IL, Sept. 17
13. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 21, and more
14. Daniel Georges, FF Alumn, at Newburgh Open Studios, NY, Sept. 26-27
15. Tod Lippy, FF Alumn, at Public Records, Brooklyn, Sept. 24
16. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru September 26, 2026
17. Glenda Hydler, FF Alumn, at 1027 Grand St., Brooklyn, Sept. 19-20
18. Sarah Safford, FF Alumn, at 11th Hour Art, Brooklyn, Sept. 20
19. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, September news
20. Letizia Scarpello, FF Member, at A Pick Gallery, Turin, Italy, opening Sept. 17
21. Coracle Books, FF Alumns, at South Tipperary Arts Centre, Ireland, thru Oct. 24
22. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, opening Sept. 15
23. Guy de Cointet, FF Alumn, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, thru Feb. 28, 2027
24. General Idea, FF Alumns, at The Breuer, Manhattan, Sept. 24-27
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Weekly Spotlight: Party in the Park: Trio Under the Triboro, an event by Franklin Furnace + Socrates Sculpture Park + Materials for the Arts, on September 19, 12-5PM, Astoria NY
Party in the Park: Trio Under the Triboro
SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 | 12 – 5PM
FF@50 / MFTA@50 / SSP@40
Location: Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Boulevard
Astoria, NY 11106
Party in the Park is a day-long performance art festival presented in collaboration with Socrates Sculpture Park and Materials for the Arts. Rooted in the belief that artists thrive within a strong cultural ecosystem, the festival celebrates the decades-long partnership between three Queens-based arts organizations committed to providing artists with resources, space, opportunity, and community.
A milestone year for each organization—Socrates Sculpture Park’s 40th anniversary and Materials for the Arts’ and Franklin Furnace’s 50th anniversary — the festival brings together their shared communities for a dynamic day of live performance, music, and public engagement along Socrates’ waterfront.
Curated by Francheska Alcántara and titled Performaxxing, the program will feature bold, body-based, durational performances that embrace a more-is-more aesthetic as both symptom and material of contemporary life. Performaxxing asks a single, unresolved question: what is revealed when we take the self all the way to the maximum, and what, then, is destroyed?
More than a party, Party in the Park is a celebration of three longtime Queens-based arts organizations whose enduring partnership has strengthened New York City’s cultural landscape for decades. It is an opportunity to honor artistic collaboration, champion creative risk-taking, and reaffirm the enduring role of public space in supporting artists and nourishing communities.
Artists:
Itala Aguilera
Wearing an outfit made of edible fabric, three performers will cut away pieces to eat and share with the audience until the entire outfit is been consumed.
Crackhead Barney
The Park temporarily becomes the territory of a fictional immigration-processing system. Instead of constructing a literal detention center, Crackhead Barney creates an institution that moves.
Jake Brush w/ Candystore & Mike Feswick
A stacking contest while reciting MTV True Life episode titles as displaced confessions, with the winner earning a minor “special power” to sabotage the karaoke number that follows.
kara lynch
Keening is a sonic and somatic invitation to wail, mourn, and weep together in public, gathered at a geographical sinkhole in the Park as a metaphor for our personal and collective grief.
zavé martohardjono
An operatic lament set to a stitched-together track of disco and house singers’ wails, addressing queer emotional and physical labor under political persecution.
Reed Rushes
Exploring climate change, hypermasculinity, denial, and extraction, drag king Stan unravels through movement, clowning, and sound.
Sandy Williams IV
Pushing physical limits by playing guitar and repeating a single line from Nirvana’s “Come As You Are,” until exhaustion.
Coco Villa
Fruitflesh explores how repetition and endurance operate as forms of lumination and catharsis.
Music by Madre Guía
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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, Sept. 20
MexFest Presents Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Cognitive / Affective Body — Repetition to Repair + Story Circle
Sunday, September 20 | 3–5 PM
Rain Date: Saturday, October 10
Socrates Sculpture Park
Free with RSVP info@socratessculpturepark.org
Artists Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib and Mónica Palma come together for a communal participatory gathering centered on Tierra/Earth—as soil, land, mud, humus, memory, and connection.
Nicolás will facilitate a story circle drawing from Restorative Justice and Healing Circle practices, while Mónica will guide participants in co-sculpting a collective object from earth, seeds, small rocks, and respectfully gathered fallen leaves. The evolving object will function as an organic “talking stick,” guiding moments of storytelling, listening, and silence as the group moves together through memories of past, present, and future.
The event is part of Cuerpxs en Resonancia, a three-part bilingual series of participatory performances, communal rituals, workshops, and artistic offerings organized by MexFest, curated by Arantxa Araujo and Xtian Ávila, and hosted by Socrates Sculpture Park during Hispanic Heritage Month.
The series brings together Mexican artists and artists from across the Latinx diaspora to explore the physical, cognitive, and energetic dimensions of the body through movement, sound, storytelling, visual art, and collective care.
For the second offering of Cuerpxs en Resonancia, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib and Mónica Palma invite you into an afternoon of storytelling, making, listening, and connection at Socrates Sculpture Park.
Together, we’ll sit in circle, share memories and stories, and co-create a collective object using earth, seeds, stones, and fallen leaves gathered from the park.
Part story circle, part communal sculpture, part moment to slow down and be together.
Come as you are. No experience needed—just curiosity.
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2. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Sept.19
Dark Age, a new performance by Carlos Martiel
Saturday, September 19 – prompt 2pm start
The 8th Floor, 17 W 17 St, NYC
RSVP: https://www.the8thfloor.org/newevents/dap
Dark Age is the first of three new performances commissioned as part of Carlos Martiel’s solo exhibition at The 8th Floor, taking place on the opening weekend – Saturday, September 19 at 2pm (RSVP).
Dark Age continues to develop a new body of work in which the artist collaborates with members of his family. In this case, he does so with his only biological brother, establishing between them an archetypal dynamic that emerges from an intimate bond to address questions that transcend the familial. This performance is deeply connected to the historical moment and global transition toward a new era that we are experiencing on Earth. It reflects an intensified perception of the struggle between antagonistic forces inherent to human nature—forces that, in their confrontation within reality, reveal our individual and collective level of consciousness, question which path we are choosing as humanity, and how much suffering we are willing to endure in order not to let collapse a dysfunctional and ineffective system that currently feeds solely on violence, authoritarianism, and terror.
The gallery is open from 11am-6pm on the day of the performance, with a 1-2pm closure and prompt 2pm start for the performance. It will last approximately one hour. Guests are requested to arrive on time and stay for the entire duration. This performance may not be suitable for younger audiences.
Dark Age is one of three new performances commissioned as part of the exhibition Dark Age, opening on September 17 from 6-8pm (RSVP), curated by Anjuli Nanda Diamond and George Bolster. The subsequent performances will be Mano de hierro (Iron Hand) on October 8 at 7pm, and Fear of Them on December 10 at 7pm. Additional fall-winter programming is to be announced.
All of our programs are free and open to the public, with RSVPs encouraged. Info on accessing our space can be found here.
Navigate here to learn more about the artist and the exhibition. Please direct media inquiries to katrina@bluemedium.com.
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3. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Old Stone House, Brooklyn, Sept. 24
Thrilled to be returning to the Brooklyn Book Festival for a “Stage to Page” panel discussion at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn, Thur., 9/24, from 7-8:30pm. Looking forward to being in conversation with fellow author/playwrights, Steven Fechter(The Big Breeze), and Kim Merrill (Red Girl Jumping). The event is free but RSVPs are encouraged. Link at the end of this post.
Back in 2022 I was rained out of the BBF when my memoir, “Our Laundry, Our Town,” was published in hard cover. But I had a glorious, beautiful Sunday afternoon there the following year when the book was published in paperback. This year we are indoors, so it will definitely be happening! Hope you can join us and support these wonderful Brooklyn institutions that support NYC Lit! h/t Louise Crawford, Linda Quigley
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4. Kimiko Tanabe, FF Alumn, at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, Oct. 15-17
TRISK PRESENTS KIMIKO TANABE + NORA ALAMI, 2026 TRISK FELLOWS
Triskelion Arts is thrilled to present Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert, by 2026 Trisk Fellows, Kimiko Tanabe and Nora Alami. Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert will premiere at Triskelion Arts, October 15-17 at 8PM each night.
Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert is a dance duet by Japanese American artist Kimiko Tanabe and Moroccan American artist Nora Alami. Warm Greetings dives into the “desert” within the american imaginary exploring what desires lay inside it, beyond it, under it, and after it.
Blending dance, visual design, and performance, Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert transforms the theater into a surreal desert landscape. It invites audiences to reconsider the “Orient” as a shifting construction within the contemporary American imagination. The work brings histories and mass-media fantasies like Dune, Oppenheimer, and Looney Tunes into collision with lived realities. Here, the desert is a site for reckoning with how Arab and Asian bodies have been imagined and performed in American culture.
Warm Greetings keywords:
Orientalism
Desire
Impossible
Desert
Sand
Ruins
Nuclear / neon
Adorn / death
The prestigious Trisk Fellowship granted Kimiko Tanabe and Nora Alami over a year to fully explore their creative vision, offering studio access and substantial financial support. Fellows receive extensive technical and theatrical design support and have opportunities for showings and open rehearsals, fostering community engagement and behind-the-scenes access. The Trisk Fellowship reflects Trisk’s commitment to nurturing artistic growth by providing time, resources, and support for artists to realize their visions in their most impactful form.
TICKETS
EARLY BIRDS
$22 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS
AT-THE-DOOR
$26 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS
All seating is general admission.
What’s Behind Our Ticketing Tiers?
Our tiered ticketing is crafted to prioritize maximum compensation for our incredible artists, fair wages for our production team, and inclusive ticket prices for all our performances. This structure also addresses the financial challenges of producing live performances in NYC by aligning ticket costs more closely with the actual, unsubsidized value of each seat. Our ticket options now range from $17 to $50. Regardless of the ticket price, every attendee will enjoy the same magical experience.
Triskelion Arts, lovingly referred to as Trisk, is a nonprofit organization, live performance venue, and rehearsal space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offering NYC-based dance and movement artists high-quality, sustainable opportunities to create and present work. Trisk partners with artists creating trailblazing work that broadens the cultural dialogue and elevates its community’s many voices and perspectives. Trisk is a home for artists and audiences to connect, to make art happen, to make magic. Trisk presents artists practicing, crafting, mining, experimenting, speaking up, and speaking out.
Trisk Presents is made possible with generous support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Thompson Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC City Council Discretionary Funding, NYS State Assembly Discretionary Funding, the SHS Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation For Dance.
www.triskelionarts.org/fall-2026-performances/kimiko-tanabe-nora-alami
Triskelion Arts
106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Enter on Banker Street
MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACT:
Miriam Rose
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
NORA ALAMI (she/they) is a Moroccan experimental dance artist born in Colorado. Dance is her tool for conducting research, building community, and organizing politically.
Her choreography has been presented at Nublu Classic, UNDOXX Festival at JACK, the New York Arab Festival at LaMaMa Moves!, Danspace Project’s DraftWork series, Triskelion Arts, Houston Metropolitan Dance Center, Center for Performance Research, and Movement Research at Judson Church.
She is a 2026 Trisk Fellow with Kimiko Tanabe, 2026 ImPulsTanz ATLAS Artist, 2025 danceWEB Scholar, 2024 MANCC Forward Dialogues Artist, and 2023-2024 CUNY Dance Initiative Artist. She has been supported by residencies at New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks, JACK, BRIClab: Performing Arts, The Petronio Center, and Triskelion Arts. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2010), River to River Festival (2016), and toured with Jadd Tank (2018) in the Focus on Mediterranean Choreography platform in Castiglioncello and Spoleto, Italy. She is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies and Mellon Fellow in Middle East North Africa Studies at Northwestern University.
KIMIKO TANABE (she/they) is a fourth generation Japanese-American experimental dance artist. Her research moves through the social, cultural, and political landscape of post-internment Japanese-America. She draws inspiration from Japanese folkloric ghost tales of yūrei and yokai to tease at the seams of perceived reality, making space for the logic of spirits, dreams, and the afterlife to emerge. She is currently a 2026–27 Fresh Tracks Artist, 2025–26 Trisk Fellow along with Nora Alami, and a 2026 Chocolate Factory Artist in Residence. She has been a MANCC Forward Dialogues Artist in Residence (2024), Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipient (2024), New Dance Alliance Artist in Residence (2024), Colorado College Crown Family Professorship for Innovation in the Arts Artist in Residence (2023), BAX Space Grant Recipient (2022), and Gallim Moving Artist Resident (2022).
MAJESTY ROYALE-JACKSON (Sound Designer) (they/them) is a Black Seminole performance maker, sound artist, and installationist based in Durham, NC. Their work uses sound as both archive and engine, sampling Black musical lineages, field recordings, and vocal experimentation to create immersive sonic environments that move between theater, gallery, and public space. Majesty’s interdisciplinary background informs a practice grounded in remixing, improvisation, call and response, and other Black queer technologies that transform memory toward a space for living.
Their research-based approach has been supported through residencies at New York Live Arts, Cité Internationale des Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Majesty has developed sound-driven performance works presented at The Painted Bride Art Center, See Chicago Dance, and Hayti Heritage Center.
FOREST ENTSMINGER (Scenic Designer) Credits include Dad Don’t Read This (Greenwich House Theater, St Luke’s); Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen (Torn Page);Time Passes (Target Margin, IRT, Mabou Mines); Meow! (Loading Dock); Faust (Heartbeat Opera); Cankersore Paradise,The Threepenny Opera (Lenfest Center); Two Girls, The Monkeypox Gospel (Ars Nova); Sweet Bird of Youth (Barn at Lee, TWF); Meaghan Robichaud is the Greatest Show on Earth, I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty, u are the dream, Horsefacts.gov/, Babies on the Street, Goldhaven, Sleeping Car Porters (The Brick); The Salvagers (Yale Rep). M.F.A. – Yale School of Drama. bentscenic.com
CONNOR SALE (Lighting Designer) is a New York based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn. Recent collaborations include projects with Dominica Greene, Julia Antinozzi, Nicole von Arx, Stuart B Meyers, Erick Montes, Hilary Brown-Istrefi, Zoe Rabinowitz, Nocturnal Medicine, among many others. His work has been seen throughout New York and Chicago, including at: Triskelion Arts, La MaMa, PAGEANT, Gibney Dance, Performance Space New York, The Brick, HERE Arts, SMUSH Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Victory Gardens, Edge Theatre, The Chopin, among others.
He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space.
He tours internationally with Akram Khan’s Gigenis and the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler’s Wells and École des Sables are producing. Previously, he was the Lighting Design Intern on the 2019 Broadway transfer of The Sound Inside; a Venue Technician at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival; and a Production Intern in 2018 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
ANNA WOTRING (Triskelion Arts Director of Production) is a community-minded dance artist, lighting designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists. Her work ensures that Trisk serves as a creative home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and serves as a lecturer in lighting design within the graduate program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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5. David Antonio Cruz, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumns, now online at CentroPR.Hunter.Cuny.Edu
Familias Raras and the Quest into Queer-Rican Genealogies An Interview with David Antonio Cruz
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, September 5, 2026
To read this full interview published by Center for Puerto Rican Studies, go to: https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/publications/familias-raras-and-the-quest-into-queer-rican-genealogies-an-interview-with-david-antonio-cruz/
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel: We met through Elia Alba in 2015 and, ever since, I have been curious about your work. You grew up in Philadelphia, where I went to graduate school at Tyler in the late 1990s. However, my experience with diasporic Puerto Rican communities has been mainly in New York City. My recollection of Philly is that of a city deeply segregated by class and race, as well as being a major locus of Black cultures and histories. How was it for you to be New York Rican, Puerto Rican, or Nuyorican in this context?
David Antonio Cruz: I grew up in North Philadelphia, in a Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood that had the highest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the city during the 1970s. The city was-and still is-somewhat segregated, with economics and race playing significant roles in daily life. But growing up I was immersed in Phila-rican and Black culture. My block buzzed year-round with a mix of Spanglish, hip-hop, salsa, block parties, and delicious food.
Thank you.
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6. Anh Vo, FF Alumn, in Immigrant Artist Biennial, Oct. 30
Oct. 30, 6-7 pm, Guerrilla Performance
Anh Vo: Phoenix Forever
Meet at 5:45 pm
email for location info@theimmigrantartsbiennial.com
Curated by Sofia Thiệu D’Amico
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7. Matt Romein, FF FUND 2025-26 recipient, at Mutu580, Brooklyn, Dec. 3-13
SAD SOFT CAVES
presents
Created by Matt Romein
Directed by Jerry Lieblich
December 3–13, 2026 · Mitu580, Brooklyn
ONE PERFORMER
ONE KEYBOARD
ONE JOB
DELIVER THE MILK…
Sad Soft Caves will present the world premiere of MILKMAN ZERO, a new solo performance by Matt Romein, at Mitu580. Written, coded, and performed by Romein and directed by Jerry Lieblich, the production runs December 3–13, 2026 at Mitu580, Theater Mitu’s 60-seat black box at 580 Sackett Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Design by Kate McGee (lighting + set) and Ryan Gamblin (sound).
MILKMAN ZERO is a darkly funny work of psychological horror built inside a text adventure, the oldest kind of computer game. No graphics, no images, just a world conjured with text, and a blinking cursor waiting for the next typed command: “open door”, “talk to woman”, “deliver milk”. Artist Matt Romein plays the game live from a keyboard as the story spells itself out letter by letter on a video wall behind him, every character landing with the clack of a typewriter. An immersive soundscape accompanies the text, building a milk-mad town out of nothing but words and sound. Like a ghost story around a campfire, the horror takes shape in the audience’s collective imagination, one milk delivery at a time.
Part solo performance, part live playthrough: over the course of an evening, the world of MILKMAN ZERO continues to exist only as long as the player keeps typing.
Deliver the milk. Ignore everything else.
Learn more: milkmanzero.com
“Text adventures are a game format from the 1970s. There are no graphics, just you typing into a machine and the machine typing back. Fifty years later, this has become our primary mode of communicating with machines. People sit at keyboards, asking ChatGPT to tell them what happens next. MILKMAN ZERO takes that older format and uses it to explore our contemporary anxieties: that we are being replaced, that we are being watched, and that we are, willingly or not, feeding our work, our thinking, and our imaginations into something that could bring about our own destruction.”
– Matt Romein, creator and performer
PRAISE FOR MATT ROMEIN’S BAG OF WORMS
“Romein starts the show sitting center stage at a mic and greeting us genially. He’s tall and self-possessed with a deep voice and a broad, warm smile, both of which hover in a fascinating place between being genuinely welcoming and vaguely unsettling. Is he giving big brother or Big Brother? … Listening to Romein wax existential (and emotional) over this kind of question is quite funny… And then it’s also something other than funny. As with Romein’s smile, it’s unnerving, too, even strangely melancholy.”
– Sara Holdren, Vulture
“Matt Romein displays a homicidal, but all-too-human touch in Bag of Worms…”
– Robert Johnson, The Dance Enthusiast
SUPPORT & DEVELOPMENT
MILKMAN ZERO was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2025-26, supported by Jerome Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
The production is developed, in part, with support from Theater Mitu’s Artists-At-Home Program.
Technical equipment and support provided by Onassis ONX.
MILKMAN ZERO was developed during residencies at MacDowell (Peterborough), Yaddo (Saratoga Springs), the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), with work-in-progress showings at CATCH at The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, 2025) and IDFA DocLab (Amsterdam, 2025).
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
Where: Mitu580, 580 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
When: December 3–13, 2026
Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Show Dates and Times
Thursday, December 3 – 7:30pm (Opening)
Friday, December 4 -7:30pm
Saturday, December 5 -7:30pm
Sunday, December 6 – 2pm
Thursday, December 10 – 7:30pm
Friday, December 11 – 7:30pm
Saturday, December 12 – 7:30pm
Sunday, December 13 – 2pm
Tickets
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at
https://matt-romein.com/tickets
$30 General Admission
$20 Early Bird (limited number at every performance)
$60 Actual Cost Ticket
Getting There
Mitu580 is Theater Mitu’s 60-seat black box in Gowanus, Brooklyn, a short walk from the Union Street R station and the Carroll Street F/G station.
ACCESSIBILITY
Mitu580, though not yet fully ADA compliant, is committed to accessibility and maximizing our community’s ease of use at our home in Gowanus. Our building has no stairs, a ramp at our front entrance and into our performance space, and dedicated floor seating for patrons who cannot climb our risers. We continue to make improvements and welcome conversations about accessibility. If you have specific questions around accommodations, please reach out to us at tickets@milkmanzero.com.
CONTENT ADVISORY
Recommended for ages 13+. Psychological horror themes and violence, loud sound, flashing and bright video imagery.
FOR PRESS
Press comps are available for all performances; reviewers are encouraged to attend the first weekend (December 3–6). To request a comp ticket, please email leahpw16@gmail.com.
General inquiries: please reach out to matt.romein@gmail.com or leahpw16@gmail.com at any time with questions or requests.
CREATIVE TEAM
Creator – Matt Romein
Direction – Jerry Lieblich
Lighting + Set Design – Kate McGee
Sound Design – Ryan Gamblin
Producer – Matt Romein, Sad Soft Caves
Associate Producer – Leah Plante-Wiener
Stage Management – Jeremy Kadetsky
Publicity – Privy Collective
Key Art – Yuan Peng
Dramaturgical Consultant & Additional Material – James La Bella
Coding Consultant – Oren Shoham
Cast: Matt Romein
A Sad Soft Caves Production
ABOUT SAD SOFT CAVES
Sad Soft Caves is the Brooklyn-based producing company of artist Matt Romein, founded in 2026 to produce theatrical performance work at the meeting point of video games, technology, and live bodies. MILKMAN ZERO is its inaugural production.
ARTIST BIOS
Matt Romein (he/him) is an artist, coder, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work spans live performance, virtual puppetry, generative computer art, and video game theater. He writes and codes theater performances that run on video game logic, telling stories, often funny, often unnerving, about characters caught between their physical and digital lives.
His shows include Bag of Worms with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey (Under the Radar, 2024), God Mode with James La Bella (The Brick, 2025), and the upcoming Castle Door with Walker Caplan (La MaMa, 2027). Additionally he has worked as a video designer for artists such as Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey, James Allister Sprang, Neal Medlyn, and Piehole. He has received grants and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Franklin Furnace, NYFA/NYSCA, Mercury Store, and Pioneer Works, among others. He is a studio member at Onassis ONX.
matt-romein.com // @header_munging
Jerry Lieblich (they/them) writes and plays in the borderlands of theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore unexpected textures of consciousness and attention. Plays include The Barbarians (La Mama, OBIE Award, Outstanding Direction), without mirrors (The Brick, Drama Desk Nomination), Mahinerator (The Tank), D Deb Debbie Deborah (Clubbed Thumb, Critic’s Pick: NY Times), Ghost Stories (Critic’s Pick: TimeOut NY), and Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera). Jerry has held residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, MassMoCA, Blue Mountain Center, Millay Arts, UCROSS, and Yiddishkayt. MFA: Brooklyn College. Founder and artistic director of Third Ear Theater Co.
Thirdear.nyc // @thirdeartheaterco
Kate McGee (she/her) is an Obie award winning lighting designer. Past collaborators include Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey, Taylor Mac and Matt Rey, On the Rocks Theater Company, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Target Margin Theater, Mabou Mines, Diana Oh, Knud Adams, Jerry Lieblich, The New York City Players, Object Collection, Nazareth Hassan, and The Wooster Group. As a Project Number One Artist in Residence at Soho Rep she developed, wrote, and designed the solo VR experience Girl Mode, since seen at the Fabric Arts Workshop and ASU’s MIX Center. She has toured extensively with Esperanza Spalding and Tanya Tagaq. Other awards include Barrymore, Drama Desk, and multiple Henry Hewes Award nominations.
katemcgee.xyz // @mcgeesmagic
Ryan Gamblin is a composer, sound designer, and performance-maker whose practice blends found media, original composition, and the use of systems as instruments. They have worked with artists including Nazareth Hassan, Faye Driscoll, 600 Highwaymen, Andrew Schneider, Leslie Cuyjet, Big Dance Theater, Michael Herwitz, Maia Chao, The Civilians, and many others.
ryangamblin.com // @sound.by.ryan
Leah Plante-Wiener (she/her) is a playwright/performer/producer and curator originally from Montreal. She is one half of noise theatre duo laialeah, co-director of DIY performance venue box machine, director of promotion and documentation for the CATCH Performance Series, associate producer for Honigman and Sons, and a writer for Staff Picks. She has an MFA in playwriting from Columbia. There are many places you may have seen her.
leahpwrites.com // @leah.annia
Jeremy Kadetsky (they/them) is a multimedia artist, writer, performer, and technologist working in live performance based in Brooklyn, NY. They are one half the post-theater duo ‘doxies,’ which is currently developing an a capella clown opera (with theremin). Their original work has been presented by The Brick and by Catch at Life World. Jeremy’s collaborative video and sound design work in theater, dance, interdisciplinary performance, and opera has been featured in New York City’s downtown scene, Off-Broadway, and internationally. Education: Johns Hopkins University (BA), Sarah Lawrence College (MFA).
kadetskyj.com // @kadetskyj
Yuan Peng (they/them) is an illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NY. They graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2026 with an MFA in Illustration. They have a penchant for drawing bugs and gore, and they are available to work on posters, record jackets, beer cans, trinkets, and more!
yuan.cool // @yuandotcool
James La Bella (he/him) is a writer and dramaturg. As a dramaturg, James has worked with artists like José Rivera, Steve Cosson, Lisa D’Amour, and Elliot Reed. He has done literary work for institutions such as Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, The Civilians, The Mercury Store, New Georges, Hedgepig Ensemble, and The Goodspeed Opera House. James is an MFA Playwriting candidate and a Stephen Sondheim Graduate Fellow at Brown University.
jameslabella.com // @james.la.bella
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8. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, now online at books-on-books.com
Please visit this link:
https://books-on-books.com/2026/09/09/books-on-books-collection-robbin-ami-silverberg/
Thank you.
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9. Sha Sha Higby, FF Alumn, at Sausalito Art Center, CA, Sept. 26, and more
GET YOUR TICKETS FOR SEPTEMBER 26th performance in Sausalito
So much news to tell you !!
SHA SHA HIGBY will be part of an exhibit of West Marin artists opening September 20th at Sausalito Art Center with the performance on September 26th. Space is Limited
Sha Sha is also currently part of The Box show in Point Reyes until September 26th and you can bid on her piece now:
Then On October 3rd at 4:30 pm Sha Sha performs at
UUCB in Berkeley
for Fall of Freedom
Sha Sha will also go to Japan for a performance for a sculptural show November 2nd:
if you want to donate to SFIAF
If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation, please
earmarked for Sha Sha
or Donate directly to Sha Sha
https://www.facebook.com/sha.higby
Sha Sha Higby P.O. Box 152, Bolinas, CA 94924
Phone: (415) 8682409 email: shashaatshashahigby.com
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10. Nicholas Vargelis, FF Alumn, at Fondation Fimico, Romainville France, Sept. 18-20
Dear Friends in France and beyond,
Here is a quick note to share with you informations about the art fair I organize happening soon just outside Paris;
This year, in addition to the exhibitor stands and performances ; you can once again find my lighting interventions plus a new iteration of Poetry Anywhere linking up written text and performance.
A pleasure to see you there !
Nicholas
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11. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Sept. 27
Barbara Rosenthal
Sun, Sept 27, 2pm
MoMA: Museum of Modern Art
MoMA, 11 W. 55 St, NY, NY,
Theater 1 MoMA, Floor T1.
“Pregnancy Dreams,” color, 1979. 4mins. Super-8 to digital.
Directors Bill Creston and Barbara Rosenthal; text and performance Barbara Rosenthal; Concept; Camera; Editing; Costuming, Bill Creston.
In Pregnancy Dreams, Barbara Rosenthal, nude and nine months pregnant, reads from her Journal dreams about death, filthy bathrooms, impeccably dressed men, and other parallels. Greeted by calls of outrage when it premiered at the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (BACA) in 1979, the film has gained an increasingly receptive audience throughout the years.
Rosenthal is slouched nude in a blue butterfly chair in their raw, top floor Chelsea loft on a sweltering hot August day, 9 months pregnant with her daughter, Ola Creston. It was recorded by Bill Creston as a test for their upcoming Lamaze delivery, shot in assorted Super-8 film stocks which is aparrant as the scene textures vary almost line by line. She had asked Bill if she should put something on, and he’d reached into their costume box and pulled out the velvet fake-pearl choker she had worn during the ten years as a go-go dancer she’d retired from at pregnancy. She reads aloud the bizarre and poignant dreams she had been writing at that moment in her Journal (a practice she has maintained since age eleven, 98 volumes of which are currently in her archives at Queens College.
“Pregnancy Dreams” was an extremely controversial piece at the time, and when it was shown at BACA: Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association, the audience reacted with overwhelming horror and disgust, loudly castigating her for publicly screening her nude, pregnant body, a shocked reaction which took these two idiosyncratic but unassuming artist-filmmakers by great surprise. Not until ten years later, when Demi Moore appeared nude and (much less) pregnant on the cover of NY Magazine, did such a thing become “acceptable” to those who follow received morality such the like.
“Pregnancy Dreams,” color, 1979. 4mins. Super-8 to digital.
Directors Bill Creston and Barbara Rosenthal
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in “Long Live the Underground!: Diaries, Notes and Sketches”. This landmark showcase features nine thematic programs and works by 100 filmmakers celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and 60th anniversary of the Millennium Film Workshop
This selection will be screened again on Monday, Oct 5, 4pm
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12. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, at Stinson Public Library, Anna, IL, Sept. 17
Please join us September 17th, 5:30 pm, Stinson Public Library,
409 S Main St, Anna, IL 62906.
A book sale/signing for
NOTEBOOK OF NOTES: AN ARTIST BOOK
A collection of individual drawings with accompanying texts. Thoughts, quotes, and sketches, primarily on environmental issues, women’s issues and personal experiences. Kept over many years from many sources: the news, readings, podcasts, documentaries, and conversations.
All proceeds go to the Stinson Public Library!
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13. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF AlumnS, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 21, and more
Comics events this month:
Brooklyn Book Festival Carousel at Dixon Place, Sept 21
Brooklyn Book Festival panel at Center for Brooklyn History, Sept 27
I’ll also be at the Small Press Expo in Maryland all this weekend
Details below:
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2026 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
Back at Dixon Place! Readings of graphic novels, gag cartoons, and comics as performed by the writers and artists. Followed by a book signing.
Featuring: Morgan Boecher (Chicken Heart)
Makee (Call Me Emma: One Chinese Girl Finds Her Way in America)
Corinne Halbert (Scorpio Venus Rising)
Maria Hoey (The Shadower)
Kriota Willberg (Cadaver Chronicles)
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland (Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn From Animal Sex) Hosted by R. Sikoryak
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002
Monday, Sept. 21, 2026 7:30pm
TICKETS $15
Tickets and more info: https://dixonplace.org/performances/carousel-comics-performance/
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/carousel-comics-performances-in-person-4/
Plus:
Brooklyn Book Festival on Sun. Sept. 27 at 2pm
Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn NY
“250 Years of American Activism” panel
The comic book can lampoon the powerful, illustrate ideas, and preserve the history of activists and popular struggle. R. Sikoryak’s Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated remixes pop icons to make an illuminated, accessible edition of the Declaration of Independence, inviting us to question the contradictions and unfinished business of our country’s value, Angélique Roché, through deep community research into generations of Black activism, preserves the story of the fight for federal recognition of Juneteenth as a holiday in First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth. Jarrett Dapier’s Wake Now in the Firedocuments high school students in Chicago who resisted a district-wide ban on the award-winning graphic novel Persepolis. Join these three authors’ discussion of what a comic can do to defend democracy.
More info: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/250-years-of-american-activism/
This is part of the BKBF Festival Day & Literary Marketplace
Brooklyn Borough Hall and surrounding venues
Sunday, September 27, 2026 10am – 6pm
And finally, if you’ll be in Bethesda, Maryland this weekend:
Carousel @ SPX: Sept. 12, 2026
Carousel on Sept. 12 at SPX 2026 (Small Press Expo) in Bethesda, Maryland
Carousel returns to SPX with exhibiting artists and guests, performing live. Featuring:
Rumi Hara (Different Ways to Fly)
Lola Lorente (Mary Pain)
Frederick Noland (Major Taylor)
Noah Van Sciver (The Mess)
Whit Taylor (Fizzle)
and Coco Fox (Let’s Go, Coco!)
Hosted by R. Sikoryak (Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated).
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Saturday, Sept. 12 | 6 pm – 7 pm | White Oak Room
More info: https://www.smallpressexpo.com/program-panels/
(We’ll be at SPX all weekend, selling books with Kriota Willberg at Tables N2A and N2B https://www.smallpressexpo.com/exhibitors/)
I’ll also be on another SPX panel on Sunday:
Rethinking U.S. History
09/13/2026 | 3:30pm – 4:30pm | White Oak Room
Recent and long-standing events make it clear that history is far from being objective. Who gets to tell history is a fluid and flawed process that often seeks to excise the truth in favor of a smoother narrative that sells an agenda. On this 250th anniversary of America, moderator Francesca Lyn will lead Whit Taylor (Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom), Peter Bagge (Founding Fathers Funnies), Joel Christian Gill (Tales of the Talented Tenth, Strange Fruit), and R.Sikoryak (Declaration Illustrated/Emancipation Illustrated) in a discussion on how they approached American history in their comics.
Thanks for reading!
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14. Daniel Georges, FF Alumn, at Newburgh Open Studios, NY, Sept. 26-27
The Pitch
Photography by Daniel Georges
August 30 – October 11, 2026
Tooker Gallery
195 Front Street, Newburgh NY 12550
It will be open during Newburgh Open Studios weekend Sep 26 and Sep 27, 10am – 5pm
followed by a
BBQ PARTY AFTER NEWBURGH OPEN STUDIOS outside by the river,
Sunday September 27 5-8pm
open at other times by appointment:
call 718 704-6954 or 718 614-1935
Other than Sep 26 and 27
BE SURE TO HAVE AN APPOINTMENT IN ADVANCE
as there is a gate to the area.
The gallery is located right at the Hudson River on the North End of the Regal Bag Studio Complex. After the gate keep driving on the river side past the large studio buildings. The entrance is in a lower rise building.
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15. Tod Lippy, FF Alumn, at Public Records, Brooklyn, Sept. 24
Over the course of the past year and a half, the Welsh composer/sound artist Owain Kelly and I have been working together remotely across the Atlantic—we’ve never met in person—on an album, GULFF. It takes its title from our multidisciplinary project of the same name, which we formed to create music, art, and public interventions that engage with the ruptures of our current era.
On Thursday, September 24th, the eve of the album’s release, we’ll be hosting a listening party for the record in the remarkable Sound Room at Public Records in Brooklyn. Would love to see you there. Because of space limitations, it is RSVP-only
RSVP to hello@gulffonline.com
ALSO: At Public Records, we’ll have copies of the first vinyl pressing of the album (ed. of 50). I am particularly excited about this edition, as it hearkens back to my days creating Esopus, which, as many of you know, I was inclined to fill with facsimiles, limited-edition artworks, removable (and interactive) media, and more.
This first GULFF edition comes with a signed-and-numbered 11 x 8.5” archival digital C-print, a 20 x 23” poster, a sticker, and facsimiles of notes taken by Owain and me during production. It will also include a custom flash drive with uncompressed files of the album’s 10 tracks, all of my demo versions, a special ambient composition by Owain, audio stems for DIY mixing, and an “Archive” folder with digital files related to our creative process.
PRE-ORDER GULFF VINYL EDITION
This first edition will ship on September 25th, but it can be pre-ordered now. And if you happen to attend the event, we can give you your copy there.
It will be a great crowd, including Owain, who will be “attending” via live feed from his studio in Manchester (in line with our pledge to never meet in person). Let me know if I can save you a spot.
Best,
Tod Lippy
Copyright (C) 2026 Tod Lippy.
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16. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru
A WORLD UNTO ITSELF
September 8-26, 2026
CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 4–6 PM
ARTISTS
SUSAN COSTES / BART DLUHY / KAZUO ISHIKAWA / VERNITA NEMEC
ROBERT T. ROGERS / SUE ROLLINS / KRISTEN STRUEBING-BEAZLEY
Viridian Artists is pleased to announce A WORLD UNTO ITSELF, an affiliate group exhibition featuring the work of SUSAN COSTES, BART DLUHY, KAZUO ISHIKAWA, VERNITA NEMEC, ROBERT T. ROGERS, SUE ROLLINS, and KRISTEN STRUEBING-BEAZLEY. The exhibition will be on view September 8–26, 2026, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, September 10, from 6–8 PM, and a Closing Reception on Saturday, September 26, from 4–6 PM.
A WORLD UNTO ITSELF brings together seven artists whose practices span figuration, abstraction, painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculptural wall works. Each is immersed in an intuitive and exploratory process, allowing personal experience, observation, memory, material, and chance to shape the work. Together, their practices give rise to distinct visual worlds, each shaped by an individual artistic vision and each a world unto itself, where ideas, experience, and possibility converge.
SUSAN COSTES explores human connection and the quiet narratives of everyday life through paintings that move between realism and abstraction. In this exhibition, Costes presents a series of oil portraits characterized by flattened forms, subtle shifts in tone and color, and washes of paint. Blurred surfaces, matte finishes, and high-contrast textures create a sense of ambiguity, placing the figures between recognition and abstraction. Working intuitively, Costes uses color, texture, and line to look beneath the surface and evoke a sense of intimacy and connection. Her layered process begins with an abstracted, textured underpainting, allowing traces of earlier layers to remain visible as the work develops. Line and the absence of line, transparency and opacity, realism and abstraction coexist, creating a space where image, surface, narrative, and gesture converge.
Process-driven artist BART DLUHY centers his practice on abstraction, combining woodworking and painting through a layered approach to wood surfaces. Using acrylic paint as a foundation, he incorporates other media to alter the paint’s physical qualities and create unexpected results. His process explores the tension between human agency and chance, embracing experimentation and unpredictability. Circles, lines, arcs, contrasting colors, and exposed wood recur throughout his work, while contrasts between dark and light, organic and geometric, delicacy and harshness, and clarity and ambiguity create dynamic opposition. Through an intuitive process, Dluhy balances intention and abandon, emphasizing the serendipitous nature of creation.
KAZUO ISHIKAWA creates abstract mixed-media sculptural wall works that explore the relationship between material, space, and perception. Working with acrylic, polycarbonate, leather, rubber, metal leaf, and other materials, he assembles modular, interlocking geometric forms that move beyond conventional planar structures. Inspired by what he calls “hidden landscapes,” Ishikawa translates the sounds, rhythms, and sensations of nature into imagined spaces defined by points, lines, and planes. Viewed from multiple perspectives, his constructions create complex spatial relationships where geometry and form interact, presenting each work as both an object and an imagined environment.
VERNITA NEMEC’s series Lost Landscapes features abstract interpretations of landscapes she calls “Haiku Collages,” a name inspired by their simplicity and diminutive scale. The works evoke imagined vistas that serve as symbols of landscapes already lost, as well as those that may disappear due to humanity’s continued disregard for the environment. Concerned with environmental issues, Nemec has incorporated discarded materials into her art, including junk mail and other forms of trash. She also presents altered digital photographs inspired by Color Field painting, transforming landscape imagery through intensified, non-naturalistic color. These vivid compositions reflect on the beauty, fragility, and evolving reality of the natural world.
The abstract expressionist oil paintings of ROBERT T. ROGERS emphasize mark-making and explore color, shape, and gesture as means of conveying emotion. He works across multiple media, including oil painting, drawing, photography, and text, creating multilayered projects that reflect the complexity of his subject matter. His work connects personal with shared emotional realities. Subconscious painting and intuitive decision-making are central to his process, which often unfolds physically on the floor as he moves around and rotates the canvas. References to religion, particularly Christian ethics, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy appear throughout his work, grounding his practice in spiritual and psychological narratives.
SUE ROLLINS creates metaphorical landscapes that reflect the subconscious, constructing scenes that feel both familiar and disorienting. Shifting perspectives, atmospheric changes, and layered imagery evoke connections between the seen and unseen, memory, and emotion. In her Artifacts of Memory paintings, Rollins incorporates vintage letters and found objects, allowing unexpected political, environmental, or personal narratives to emerge. Lines, whether drawn, painted, or stitched, divide the canvas into quadrants for stories within stories, suggesting the passage of time and changing perspectives. Through layered brushwork, Rollins embraces the process of painting, reworking, and refining as a meditation on impermanence. Her paintings connect the external world she observes with the internal world she experiences.
KRISTEN STRUEBING-BEAZLEY presents seven works from Autumn Orgy: Ancient Greeks at Play, a series of linocuts and monotypes inspired by the black-figure and red-figure imagery of ancient Greek pottery. After discovering playing cards in Athens featuring frolicsome depictions of ancient Greeks in intimate situations, she recognized their connection to motifs found on vessels created for Classical-era symposia. Further research at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford deepened her fascination with these works and their erotic imagery. Her series reinterprets and combines these ancient motifs through a contemporary lens.
For more information, please contact:
Lola Shepard or Juliet Doyle
(212) 414–4040
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17. Glenda Hydler, FF Alumn, at 1027 Grand St., Brooklyn, Sept. 19-20
Please come to Glenda Hydler’s open studio, Sept. 19-20, 12-5:30 pm, 4th Floor – no elevator (except by arrangement via text to 917-301-1496)
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18. Sarah Safford, FF Alumn, at 11th Hour Art, Brooklyn, Sept. 20
Sarah Safford FF alum collaborated on music videos showing at this event opening September 20th.
Join us during Climate Week NYC 2026 for the opening of Living Systems: Collective Power In Motion Living Systems: Collective Power In Motion, the culminating exhibition of HII’s Urban Environmental Health Lab Fellowship, hosted at Eleventh Hour Art Gallery. 61 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, 2-5 pm, Sept. 20
Bringing together creative projects developed by this year’s fellows, the exhibition explores the connections between urban soil, water, air, and collective care. Through film, visual art, interactive installations, and other creative forms, fellows translate research and lived experience into stories that illuminate the environmental realities shaping our city. Come experience their work and imagine new possibilities for a healthier, more equitable New York City.
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19. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, September news
Everything – In- Air, Golestani Gallery , Düsseldorf, September 5- October 4, 2026
GOLESTANI is pleased to present Everything-in-Air, the first solo exhibition by New York–based artist Victoria Keddie. At the center of the exhibition is the ongoing video installation Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (40.7128° N, 74.0060° W), accompanied by a series of graphic works and a live performance. Drawing on real-time data from orbiting satellites, the work translates movement in orbit into image and sound, making hidden networks of technological communication perceptible. We warmly invite you to the exhibition opening on Saturday, September 5, 2026, from 6 to 9 pm at the gallery in Düsseldorf.
https://golestani.gallery/exhibition/everything-in-air
Opening reception
Saturday, September 5, 2026
6–9 pm
Live Performance
Friday, October 2, 2026
7 pm
and
Universal Language: Concrete Composure, Stroom Den Haag, NL, September 25- January 3, 2026
Group exhibition with work by: Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Victoria Keddie, Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu and Rodrigo Ochigame
Curator: Rachael Rakes
25 September 2026 – 3 January 2027
Opening: Friday 25 September, 18:00 – 23:00 hrs
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
This autumn, Stroom Den Haag presents Universal Language: Concrete Composure, bringing together four international artists — Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Victoria Keddie, Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu and Rodrigo Ochigame. Through voices and images, cultural objects, pop songs and computational systems, their works explore how language is made, learned and transformed — and what happens as humans, AI and machines increasingly learn from one another.
Museum objects take on a digital life, algorithms become poets, and familiar voices and pop songs take on unexpected meanings. In Unmasking IV, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé challenges how cultural objects are interpreted, represented and claimed through digital technology. Rodrigo Ochigame turns to an early poetry algorithm to expose the cultural assumptions embedded in computational systems. Victoria Keddie traces the subtle ways voices influence and adapt to one another, while Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu’s REAL KARAOKE playfully unsettles the familiarity of pop music, allowing unexpected meanings to emerge.
https://www.stroom.nl/en/stroom/agenda-en/universal-language-concrete-composure
and
Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen, September 26, 2026
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20. Letizia Scarpello, FF Member, at A Pick Gallery, Turin, Italy, opening Sept. 17
I am pleased to invite you to the opening of my next solo exhibition, hosted by A Pick Gallery in Turin.
Carnalia: a plot for memory resistance will open to the public on September 17, alongside Domingo by José Victor De Castro.
Although stemming from two different artistic researches, both exhibitions reflect on memory as a living space of transformation, where personal experience, matter, and imagination intertwine and give shape to the present.
The opening event is part of Ouverture 2026, a programme promoted by TAG (Turin Art Galleries) that marks the beginning of the new exhibition season in the city of Turin.
Both exhibitions will be open to the public until October 17, 2026.
I look forward to meeting you there.
Kind regards,
Letizia Scarpello
Multidisciplinary Artist, Italy
M: +39 3339719413
IG: @letiziascarpello
Art Program Manager: @Pollinaria
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21. Coracle Books, FF Alumns, at South Tipperary Arts Centre, Ireland, thru Oct. 24
CORACLE
through 24th OCTOBER
AT
SOUTH TIPPERARY ARTS CENTRE
Coracle is a small publishing press directed by writer & artist Erica Van Horn and
poet, artist & editor Simon Cutts, based in rural South Tipperary since 1996.
Through an extensive archive of their books and ephemera, this exhibition will
explore the influence of Coracle on artist-led-publishing, the development of the
artist book, & the book as art object.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a commissioned text by Dr.Julie Bates,
as well as a series of talks related to Coracle’s work & artist-led-publishing.
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22. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, opening Sept. 15
Coming to Kitchener Canada
Currently in Prototype / building period (try your luck)
and
Exhibition time 15.09 until (at least) 15.10.26
Location: in Front of City Hall
in September 2026:
SPEAKERS ARENA:
The sculpture serves as a public participatory sound platform. Audiences can express themselves through the sculpture . Designed both to be sat on and used as a stage, it transforms public space into a communal sonic experience.
It consists of 400 connected loudspeakers, 2 amplifiers, a direct internet interface for people to talk through it and leave messages , 3 Bluetooth receivers, , 4 input jacks, 1 microphone, mixingboard. The public and local musicians can participate “live”through the sculpture.
People from all over the world can talk through it via an internet interface https://speaker-arena.art and visit it via live streaming and QR code
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23. Guy de Cointet, FF Alumn, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, thru Feb. 28, 2027
Mozart’s Chair, a group exhibtion considering how furniture establishes the preconditions for action, at Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, thru Feb. 28, 2027. Curated by Benjamin Chaffee. For complete information please visit wesleyan.edu/cfa
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24. General Idea, FF Alumns, at The Breuer, Manhattan, Sept. 24-27
General Idea
Independent 20th Century 2026
The Breuer | Booth 316
945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
September 24–27, 2026
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present a survey of work by the Canadian artist collective General Idea (AA Bronson, Jorge Zontal, and Felix Partz; active 1969–1994) at the Independent 20th Century September 24–27.
Central to the presentation is General Idea’s iconic AIDS motif. They first developed it in 1987 by reconfiguring the familiar image of Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture (1965) and replacing LOVE with the acronym for the mysterious deadly virus, AIDS. Bringing together sculpture, painting, and works on paper, the booth traces how General Idea deployed this image to, in their own words, “play the part of a virus itself,” spreading across media with the same relentless logic as the epidemic it addressed.
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