Contents for September 21st, 2026
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Weekly Spotlight: Martha Wilson, Arantxa Araujo, Bradley Eros, Jean Carla Rodea, FF Alumns, at Brooklyn Book Festival, Issue Project Room, Sept. 23
Weekly Spotlight: Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS dedicated to Franklin Furnace, September 26 & September 27 on 14th Street, Manhattan NY, featuring FF alumns Alicia Grullón, Day de Dada Performance Art Collective (Mary Campbell, Milenka Berengolc, Lydia Grey and others), GOODW.Y.N., Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Martha Wilson, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, Nima Nikakhlagh Raquel Du Toit, Sara Kostic Yali Romagoza.
1. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, now online at ARTnews.com
2. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, at Wagner Park, Manhattan, Oct. 3-4
3. Nima Nikaklagh, FF Alumn, at Film and Video Art Festival, Visualcontainer[.Box] in Milan, Italy, Sept. 26
4. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
5. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, at Sony Studio Lot, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 10 and more
6. John Kelly, Ishmael Houston-Jones, FF Alumns, at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Manhattan, Sept. 21 and more
7. David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, FF Alumns, now online at Time.com
8. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, received Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Swift House Prize for Best Depiction of the Arts
9. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Art in Odd Places, Manhattan, Sept. 27, and more
10. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 26
11. Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Barbara Carrellas, FF Alumns, at Anthonology FIlm Archives, Manhattan, Oct. 10-11 and more
12. Holly Hughes, FF Alumn, named 2026 Ruthie Awardee
13. Patty Chang, FF Alumn, at Stanford University, CA, thru Feb. 8, 2027
14. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA, Sept. 28
15. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, thru Oct. 26
16. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, at HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre, Manhattan, Sept. 30
17. Allied Productions / Le Petit Versailles, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Sept. 24-27 and more
18. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, at The Grolier Club, Manhattan, thru Nov. 28, and more
19. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Brown University, Providence, RI, Sept. 24
20. Guy de Cointet, FF Alumn, reissued publication now available
21. Ann Hamilton, Joan Jonas, Bonnie Marranca, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson, FF Alumns, in new PAJ publication
22. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Palindroma Gallery, Piermont, NY, opening Sept. 25
23. Fiona Templeton, FF Alumn, at Torn Page, Manhattan, Oct. 31-Nov. 1
24. Kunio Suzuki, FF Member, at NIOSYA, Sagamihara, Japan, Sept. 29-Oct. 9
25. Christo & Jeanne Claude, John Held, Jr., FF Alumns, now online at SquareCylinder.com
26. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Bryant Park, Manhattan, Sept. 23
27. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL, Oct. 7
28. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, autumn news
29. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new album and publications
30. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, in Latin America, Sept. 23-Oct. 5
31. Mae Howard, FF Alumn, at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 9, and more
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Weekly Spotlight: Martha Wilson, Arantxa Araujo, Bradley Eros, Jean Carla Rodea, FF Alumns, at Brooklyn Book Festival, Issue Project Room, Sept. 23
Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace
Wednesday, September 23rd at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room presents an evening of performance and conversation in partnership with Franklin Furnace as part of their 50th anniversary commemoration and the November publication of Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace, edited by founder and pioneering artist, Martha Wilson. Held at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater during the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival, the program reflects the two organizations’ commitments to experimental practice and freedom of expression, while celebrating their respective anniversary seasons.Founded by Wilson in 1976, Franklin Furnace has spent five decades championing cutting-edge performance art, avant-garde art practitioners, and their publications. Back to the Present — published by Princeton Architectural Press — traces that history through rare archival materials, artist writings, and reflections on censorship, free speech, and artistic freedom. Both an archive and a call to action, Back to the Present documents how artists challenged institutional norms, and is a reminder that the struggle for creative freedom is far from over. The evening extends that dialogue into the present, and features a new collaborative performance by Jean Carla Rodea (2023 ISSUE AIR) and 2020 Franklin Furnace FUND alumn Arantxa Araujo, alongside a conversation between Wilson and “mediamystic maverick” Bradley Eros (1993 Franklin Furnace FUND alumn & 2007 ISSUE AIR) reflecting on live art and alternative cultural spaces across fifty years of interdisciplinary practice.
for tickets, $27, please visit: https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/back-to-the-present-50-years-of-free-expression-with-franklin-furnace-in-person/
Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, meditative and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women Latin American Art Exhibit, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Grace Exhibition Space, The Queens Museum (NYC); RAW and Satellite Art Fair (Miami); Illuminus Festival (Boston), and SPACE Gallery (Pittsburgh); ExTeresaArte Actual Museum, and La Explanada del MUAC (Mexico); and Nuit Blanche Festival (Canada). Araujo is a Franklin Furnace FUND awardee, BAC and LMCC grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, Creative Capital taller, ITP Camp and EMERGENYC (flagship program 2017). Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College.
Bradley Eros is an experimental film director, actor, curator, poet, and performance artist who also makes Musique concrète sound collages, music videos, photographs, live projection performances, works on paper and art objects. His work has been presented in multiple screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and is in the permanent collection of the museum. He has also created dozens of zines, posters, soundtracks and unique artist’s books. He is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City and is known for his work in the field of contracted cinema.Jean Carla Rodea (b in Mexico City) is a research-based interdisciplinary artist and educator currently living between Brooklyn, NY and San Francisco, CA. Her/their work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound, poetry, vocal performance and performance art, photography, video, movement, and sculpture. Her artistic practice deals with spaces and instances where problematic socio-political and cultural constructs are rendered visible through multimedia installations and performance.
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past five decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae. She began making these videos and photo/text works in the early 1970s while in Halifax in Nova Scotia, and further developed her performative and video-based practice after moving in 1974 to New York City, embarking on a long career that would see her gain attention across the U.S. for her provocative appearances as political personae. In 1976 she founded, and as Founding Director Emerita, continues to help direct Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artists’ books, installation art, video, online and performance art, further challenging institutional norms, the roles artists play within society, and expectations about what constitutes acceptable art mediums.
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/bookend-events
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Weekly Spotlight: Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS dedicated to Franklin Furnace, September 26 & September 27 on 14th Street, Manhattan NY, featuring FF alumns Alicia Grullón, Day de Dada Performance Art Collective (Mary Campbell, Milenka Berengolc, Lydia Grey and others), GOODW.Y.N., Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Martha Wilson, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, Nima Nikakhlagh Raquel Du Toit, Sara Kostic Yali Romagoza.
Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS
SENSE | DREAM | BODY | CARE | CONNECT
45+ local, national, and international artists’ visual &
performance public projects along on 14th Street, NYC
September 26 & 27, 12-5pm
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2026: UTOPIAS will take place on September 26 & 27,
2026, and is curated by Arantxa Araujo & Pancho López. For the twenty-first
edition of the annual public visual and performance art festival on 14th Street in
Manhattan, 45+ featured visual and performance artists will present work that
asks to consider the city not as it is, but as it could be. Transforming 14th Street
across two days, Saturday’s performances will span 1st to 3rd Avenues, and
Sunday’s between 6th and 10th Avenues.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
Across UTOPIAS, artists turn 14th Street into a space for testing how we might live,
move, and imagine differently together. In A Scene for a Utopia, Belén Robeda will
construct an unexpected beach scene in the middle of the city, inviting passersby to
pause, inhabit it, and temporarily transform an ordinary sidewalk into a shared space
of leisure and collective imagination. Christopher Kaczmarek’s Local Utopias:
Conditions of Compliance will divide the sidewalk into zones governed by
contradictory instructions—asking pedestrians to move faster or slower, remain silent
or speak loudly, keep their distance or take up space—and revealing the tensions
embedded in any attempt to define an “ideal” public realm.
In its 21st (odd) year, AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS is dedicated to Franklin Furnace’s
50th Anniversary.
Participating Artists, Collectives, collaborators:
Abeer Khader | EMBARCAÇÃO-ENTIDADE: Authors & performers: Alejandro
Chellet x Brittany Maton, Performers: Stacey Anderson, Maira Duarte, Tanasha G,
Catherine Chen, Cristina Bartley Dominguez | Alicia Grullón | Ana De Orbegoso,
Julia Justo, Jessica Alazraki, Salomé Egas, Giana González | Ariel Kleinberg |
Belén Robeda | Blanka Amezkua | Christopher Kaczmarek | Cynthia Reynolds |
Day de Dada Performance Art Collective (Viv de Dada, Mary Campbell, Barbara
Lubliner, Douglas LaTourette, Milenka Berengolc, Eileen Ramos, Tamara Wyndham,
Joel Cohen, Lydia Grey, Mark Semanchik) | Édi Longwave (with Deirdre Macleod)
| Elizabeth Velazquez | Emilio Rojas | ENTUNG LIU | Erin Amlicke with Frontera
Flotante: Lillian White, Gloria María Chong Yparraguirre | erin devine | Gabbing
With Gays (Zach Rothman-Hicks & Andre Knights) | Geraldo Zamproni | Gerardo
Morantes | GOODW.Y.N. | Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Irene Chan | Kristin Hillery |
Larissa Velez-Jackson | leonardo gonzalez | Maria Eugenia Chellet | Martha
Wilson | Naivy Pérez | NATACHA VOLIAKOVSKY | Nicolás Barrera Martínez |
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib | Nima Nikakhlagh | Noah
Ortega | Nora Almeida | Óldo Erréve & Lechedevirgen Trimegisto | Paris Cullen |
Polina Porras Sivolobova | Qween Amor | Raquel Du Toit, Ryan Maloney | Sara
Kostic | Simone Schiefer | Susana Gonzalez-Revilla | Tilted Axes: Music for
Mobile Electric Guitars | Thomas Stempka | Thorn (Colleen Marie Foley & Erin
Ethridge) | Yali Romagoza | Yapci Ramos | Yasmeen Abdallah, C.Y. Chen and
Amanda Wu
*Polina Porras Sivolobova ‘s “Mi Pedazo de Casa” is made possible partly by the Artist Support Grant from the New YorkState Council on the Arts with the support from the Office of the Governor and the New York Legislature. FY2026.
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1. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, now online at ARTnews.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/100-best-artworks-about-america-1234786764
Thank you.
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2. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, at Wagner Park, Manhattan, Oct. 3-4
A fulsome fantasy created and over/scene by Great Ant Pat Oleszko and her eclectic Myrmidons because, it’s no giAnt picnic these daze. On the grounds of the Pavilion, join in a daft aft observing and swerving from the DefiAnts in our midst with a blitz/fool performAntz of engagement, spectacle and ‘artfelt shenanigans.
October 3, 4, Wagner Park* at 1:00 pm in the relentlessly battered and now bettered Battery Park in Lowered Manhattans.
*The address for Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park is 20 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280 in Lower Manhattan in Battery Park City (between West Street and 1st Place)
This plethora of goodies will be aided by Ken Field’s Banned in Boston, stars from the Battery Park Dance and Bindlestiff Circus and other multi-talented bipeds along the way with a short film inspired in no small Pa’t by the epic creature feature THEM!
Ant so, forth…
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3. Nima Nikaklagh, FF Alumn, at Film and Video Art Festival, Visualcontainer[.Box] in Milan, Italy, Sept. 26
I am delighted to announce that my collaborative work, “AN ELEGY IN A DREAM,” created with two fellow Iranian artists, will be screened at the Film and Video Art Festival at Visualcontainer[.Box] in Milan, Italy.
با خرسندی فراوان اعلام میکنم که اثر مشترک من با دو هنرمند ایرانی، با عنوان «مرثیهای در رؤیا» در جشنواره فیلم و ویدئو آرت در Visualcontainer[.Box] در شهر میلان، ایتالیا، به نمایش درخواهد آمد.
AFTER THE IMAGE IS THE PRESENT // Pebbles Underground Festival (CA)
Screening curated by the Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival curatorial team, in collaboration with the Les Boîtes Explosives collective.
The stories told here do not simply belong to the past. The division of Cyprus in 1974, the crimes against humanity committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Artsakh, and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza are all still unfolding political issues. Their consequences, like ripples, alter the ways and subjects through which they are remembered, denied, documented, or erased.
These stories aren’t even part of a concluded sequence of regional catastrophes. They belong to a political geography in which past wars, occupations, and acts of destruction continue to shape what is visible, sayable, and credible today. The current US war against Iran, though not directly depicted in any of the films, is an “elephant in the room”: the tragic continuation of the program in reality.
Who records the evidence? Whose story is believed? Who ends up disappearing twice: first physically and then through the erasure of their history and culture? What happens when the present generates an enormous quantity of images, without these necessarily leading to accountability?
The multiplication of evidence does not resolve the dispute over reality. Parallel to the struggle to preserve political memory, the films seem to embody the need to reconstruct and resist through rituals rooted in the body. A battle against a Present transformed into an incessant producer of its own archive in real time, pouring out military communiqués, satellite images, cell phone footage,
Thank you. Nima Nikaklagh
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4. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
https://hyperallergic.com/alfredo-jaar-is-still-trying-to-change-the-world/?ref=daily-newsletter
Thank you.
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5. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, at Sony Studio Lot, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 10 and more
Cheri Gaulke’s feature documentary, Acting Like Women, is in its festival run and showing in the US and Europe. The film is about feminist performance art and the Woman’s Building in 1970s-80s Los Angeles. Upcoming screenings in Sept.-Oct-Nov include Oslo/Fusion, Port Townsend, St. Louis, DOC NYC, Queer Porto, and others. There will be a Los Angeles screening on Oct. 10 at the Sony studio lot. For details go to the film’s website https://actinglikewomen.com/.
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6. John Kelly, Ishmael Houston-Jones, FF Alumns, at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Manhattan, Sept. 21 and more
Please join us next Monday, September 21st, for Adventures in Archiving: Preserving the Career Work of LGBTQ+ Artists at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 6-7:30pm.
Pick Up Performance Co. Director Ain Gordon moderates a conversation with Ishmael Houston-Jones, John Kelly, and Richard Move about our participation in the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project (https://www.lgbtqartistsarchive.org/) . We will discuss the current process of creating our individual archives and the context for leaving our career work on permanent record, accessible for future generations. We will also discuss the overall vision of the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project led by Co-Directors, Linda Chapman and Alyce Dissette.
Free Event – CLICK TO REGISTER (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adventures-in-archiving-preserving-the-career-work-of-lgbtq-artists-tickets-1998601105708?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*bueiet*_gcl_au*ODk0OTA1MDcyLjE3ODkwNTIxNzE.*_ga*OTEzNTE1ODI3LjE3ODkwNTIxNzE.*_ga_P03CNT7C31*czE3ODk1Njk2NzMkbzQkZzEkdDE3ODk1NzAyMDckajU4JGwwJGgw)
I’ve just returned form a month-long residency at the VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE AR (https://www.vcca.com/) TS (https://www.vcca.com/) , where I began a new body of works on paper. These drawings are being created from video stills taken from the LIFELINES projection component of my 2018 performance TIME NO LINE (https://www.johnkellyperformance.org/projects/time-no-line/). I plan to continue to working on these drawings during my 5-week residency in Venice, Italy (November 17 – December 22), as part of the group of artists at THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION (https://www.emilyharveyfoundation.org/index.html)
In June I took part in a month-long LIFE DRAWING course at THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE
During July I took an ANATOMY course (also through THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE), which began with a day-long visit to the LIBRARY at the NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE (https://nyam.org/library-resources/) . We were given access to the Library’s vast collection of medical prints, books, and drawings (including Albrecht Durer!) which illuminated the progression of human knowledge, medical questions, and advancements from ancient times through today.
This was followed by a week in the (chilly) basement of the WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE (https://weill.cornell.edu/) , where we observed lectures and made drawings from actual cadavers. Intense and exhilarating, it was a privilege to have this level of access and study.
Our band RIMBAUD HATTIE is working on our first recording!!
Making an appearance as THE MONA LISA at June’s annual DRAG MARCH, which gathers at TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, and parades across town to the STONEWALL.
Have a spectacular autumn!
~ John
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7. David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, FF Alumns, now online at Time.com
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Thank you.
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8. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, received Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Swift House Prize for Best Depiction of the Arts
BIG NEWS — WE WON A PRIZE!
We’re thrilled to share that Acting Like Women received the Swift House Prize for Best Depiction of the Arts at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival!
It was such an honor to have the film recognized among an extraordinary group of filmmakers and films. This award means so much to all of us who have worked to bring the history of feminist performance art, the Woman’s Building, and this remarkable community of artists to the screen.
We’re deeply grateful to the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and the Swift House Prize for this recognition — and to our incredible Acting Like Women team, supporters, and audiences who have carried the film this far.
Cheri Gaulke
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9. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Art in Odd Places, Manhattan, Sept. 27, and more
Hola Friends and Colleagues!
As we move toward the midterm elections, the state of our union continues to feel deeply unsettled. In the midst of so much uncertainty, I’ve been thinking about the ways art can create spaces for connection, reflection, and collective action—and about how much of my own work continues to live in the space between art and life.
Forms of Connection
I’m beginning this quarterly update with some very exciting news: I was invited, as an AIM alum and current AIM faculty member, to contribute an essay to the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ AIM Biennial catalog, Forms of Connection. My essay, “A Liminal Space for Art and Life,” reflects on my experience with AIM and considers the role museums can play in our lives, not simply as places where art is presented, but as spaces where communities, histories, and ideas can come together.
Here’s a quote:
“Since being an AIM fellow, I’ve continued work where art becomes a civic gesture. Projects like Percent for Green emerge from that same desire to bridge the institutional and the lived, transforming the structures that shape our environments into opportunities for dialogue and transformation….For me, the museum remains a porous threshold where the boundaries between art and life are continually negotiated. ”
I’m grateful to the Bronx Museum, AIM, and everyone who continues to make these kinds of spaces for artists and communities possible.
A New Studio at ISCP
Much of my summer was spent moving into my new studio at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), where I will be a first-floor fellow for the next two years.
Having a dedicated studio is enormously meaningful, particularly for mid-career artists. Studio space in New York is increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain, and having the time and physical space to work can make an enormous difference in an artist’s ability to develop ambitious, experimental projects.
I’m deeply grateful to all of the individuals, organizations, and staff whose labor and generosity make a place like ISCP possible. I’m looking forward to seeing what emerges from this new chapter.
A Summer of Beaches, & Mycelium
I managed to spend some time at the Jersey Shore, and saw some incredible and inspiring work at CARA. I ended the summer in the woods near Saratoga Springs, New York, at the Mycelium Symposium. It was a delightful and remarkable experience filled with kindred spirits. I won’t necessarily be using mycelium in my artwork, but I deeply appreciate the symposium’s emphasis on collectivism, research, interconnections, and finding better ways to understand and live within our world.
At the same time, I’ve continued developing Percent for Green, the legislative art project I first developed with Bronx residents in 2014. More to come on that soon.
Upcoming Performance: Arts in Odd Places- Come join us on the sidewalk!
On Sunday, September 27, from 1–4 PM, I’ll be performing as part of Arts in Odd Places’ 20th Anniversary. It is such a pleasure to support my friend Ed Woodham and to be part of an incredible group of artists taking up public space throughout New York City.
I’ll be presenting Rehearsing Resolutions: Working Through Our Shit Together, a project that transforms a New York City sidewalk into a stage where performers, participants, and passersby reenact real moral dilemmas drawn from The New York Times Magazine’s “The Ethicist” column.
Audience members are invited to step into each scene, propose alternative actions, and collectively reshape the outcome. By turning everyday conflict into collaborative performance, the project asks what it might mean to practice radical empathy, creative problem-solving, and shared agency in public.
Performance Details
Sunday, September 27
1:00– 4:00 PM
In front of the U.S. Post Office
426A W 14th St., New York, NY 10014
Eco-Social Realism
I’m also excited to be participating in “Eco-Social Realism,” a five-venue environmental art exhibition curated by Daniel Tucker.
My work will be presented at the Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art, where the exhibition will run November 2–December 19. I’m particularly excited to share work from my 2024 solo exhibition at Amherst College, including the video “A Worker Dies and Goes to Heaven…” (2024), along with “Banners for Grounding and Reflection”, 2024.
Daniel has organized an ambitious exhibition that moves across multiple venues and communities, and I’m happy to share the exhibition brochure with you all. If you’re in Philadelphia or the surrounding region, I hope you’ll have a chance to experience some of the exhibitions and related happenings.
Developing New Work at BAX
I’m also very happy to announce that I’m participating as a current artist in residence through a space grant from BAX, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary season.
This residency is giving me time and space to develop new experimental work exploring reimagining democracy through performance. The work will eventually become part of a larger public art project, but for now I’m grateful for the opportunity to be in process—to experiment, question, try things out, and not have to know exactly what the final form will be. Just like life.
As always, thank you for following along, showing up, reading, watching, participating, and making this work possible. So much of what I do is about creating spaces for encounter—between people, histories, ideas, and places—and I’m grateful that you’re part of that ongoing conversation.
All love,
Alicia
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10. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 26
RE-ENACTING THE LIE
PERFORMANCE
Saturday, September 26, 2026, 7pm
Come to Human Resources join Los Angeles Poverty Department in
“Re-enacting the Lie”
The impetus for LAPD’s new performance began with the demise of Skid Row Housing Trust and the crumbling – literally and figuratively of the non-profit model for decent supportive housing.
As we witness compassionate structures crumbling all around us, “Re-enacting the Lie” answers the question ‘How is self-deception possible?’
— on an individual and societal level.
Devised and performed by LAPD’s in the know Skid Row resident performers.
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE ($7 – $15)
HUMAN RESOURCES, 410 COTTAGE HOME STREET, LA CA 90012
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11. Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Barbara Carrellas, FF Alumns, at Anthonology FIlm Archives, Manhattan, Oct. 10-11 and more
October 10, 2026/ NYC / Anthology Film Archives
Filmmaker pre-film intro and Ecosex 101 Primer to precede screening
Post-screening Q&A moderated by Barbara Carrellas
October 11, 2026/ NYC/Anthology Film Archives
Filmmaker pre-film intro and Ecosex 101 Primer to precede screening
Post-screening Q&A moderated by Angelo Madsen
Ofur Anthology Film Archives is part of a tour beginning at the REDCAT in Los Angeles on September 26th. Then we go to the Music Box Theatre in Chicago on September 29th and 30th. We are showing the completed ecosex trilogy there. Then we’ll head to our beloved NYC Anthology Film Archives. After that, we fly to Berlin to show the film at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) on October 18th. While we’re there, we will also have a Wedding to Fire and then go to the Porn Film Festival, where we are receiving something special (but it hasn’t been announced yet).
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12. Holly Hughes, FF Alumn, named 2026 Ruthie Awardee
Thrilled to announce 2026 Ruthie Awardee! Holly Hughes is a writer and performer who launched her thespian career at the legendary WOW Cafe, after getting her first taste of performance when she was cast as the lead vagina in a site specific feminist ritual in 1979. They count themselves extraordinarily lucky to have found their way to WOW, then described as a home for wayward girls, and to have been given a direct order by Peggy Shaw to make a performance piece. Hughes is also the author of The Lady Dick, World Without End, Clit Notes and Preaching to the Perverted and co-author with Split Britches of Dress Suits to Hire, along with several other titles. Many of these works were developed in collaboration with luminaries, particularly Dan Hurlin and Lois Weaver. A recipient of a Lambda Book Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Hughes has published four books. Hughes is a Professor at the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, with joint appointments in Women and Gender Studies and the Department of Theatre and Drama.
The Ruth Maleczech Award is a no-strings-attached cash award granted by Mabou Mines together with Ruth’s family, Clove Galilee and Lute Breuer. The awardee is selected through a nomination process and is given to a performer who embodies Ruth’s daring and raw, naked, fearlessness in every performance. “The Ruthie” was created to honor Ruth Maleczech, the beloved artist/performer/director and co-founder of Mabou Mines. She was an inspiration, a mentor, and a role model for countless artists. #ruthieaward #artist #maboumines #ruthmaleczech #hollyhughes
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13. Patty Chang, FF Alumn, at Stanford University, CA, thru Feb. 8, 2027
“Patty Chang: surfacing” is now on view!
Newly installed at the Anderson Collection, this exhibition explores the hidden histories of Chinese fisher families along the California coast in the early 1900s.
Through stories of labor, loss, family, and legacy, Patty Chang brings these overlooked histories into conversation with the present.
September 17, 2026–February 8, 2027
The Anderson Collection is free and open to all.
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14. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA, Sept. 28
Where are we going? (A rasanblaj walk & lunch)
RSVP required by September 28th at 5pm: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwB3L-7TZ5S1qpOEmCfUHM2W5FwpFwhuiyAXH8YlzbdIgHMw/viewform
You are invited to join a special walking pilgrimage that moves between three installation locations of Gina Athena Ulysse’s Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. In collaboration with New York-based artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, the time together will be a chance to reflect on individual and collective futures as we move from the redwoods to downtown Santa Cruz, California. We will finish with lunch at Abbot Square.
Please read: The walk will be approximately 3.25 miles, mostly downhill. Please bring comfortable walking shoes and check the weather to plan for layers, sun gear, etc as September weather can vary. Please pack water and a small snack. If you would like to participate but the walk is not possible, please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate. Thank you!
Itinerary
9:30am – Meet at the Museum of Art & History (705 Front Street) – Depart via carshare to the Quarry Amphitheater
*The fare will be covered but please note that you will be in a shared car*
10:00am – Meet at the Quarry Amphitheater to view the installation Fèy and begin the walk
*If you would like to drive, we recommend parking in Lot 101 and then walking (about 10 min) to the Quarry Amphitheater*
~12:15 – Arrive at Variance Objects (1537 Pacific Ave #101), Downtown Santa Cruz to view Lamercie’s Variance Residency
~12:45 – Arrive at the Museum of Art & History to view N’ap Balansé (Saved by…)
~1:15 – Lunch at Pana in Abbott Square
Thank you to our supporters and partners!
This event is made possible by the The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and co-sponsored by the Institute for Arts & Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, E.A.R.T.H Lab SF, Variance Objects, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and the Quarry Amphitheater.
This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
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15. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, thru Oct. 26
Solo Exhibition at Rivalry Projects in Buffalo, NY opening September 18
https://www.rivalryprojects.com/crystal-z-campbell-after-touch-mimosa-pudica
Exhibition Dates:
September 18 – October 30, 2026
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 18, 2026, 5:00-9:00pm
Rivalry Projects is thrilled to present Aftertouch: Mimosa Pudica, the
gallery’s first exhibition with Crystal Z Campbell. The presentation
will debut a new series of paint and photo-based collages, alongside
cast bronze and iron sculptures that examine global herbarium
specimens of the mimosa pudica – an abundant, touch sensitive plant,
with medicinal and sentient properties. Native to South and Central
America, but now found in tropical climates around the world, the
history of mimosa pudica is grounded in anthropomorphization, colonial
touch, and scientific experimentation. Together, the works in the
exhibition expand upon these histories to speak to contemporary
ripples of colonialism, extraction, and empire.
and
Group Exhibition at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Amy Kahng and
GYOPO with support from Katy Dammers
September 12-December 13
https://www.redcat.org/events/flesh-witness
and
Artist Talk at Parsons, NY, NY
September 23, 2026 7PM
Stiefel Hall, Arnhold Hall, 55 W 13th Street, Room i400, New York NY
https://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/lectures/crystal-z-campbell
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16. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, at HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre, Manhattan, Sept. 30
The Village Trip Where the Beat Lives On
September 30, 2026; 6:00 PM-7:15 PM
Mapping the Legacy: Village Artists Tell Their Stories
The Performing Arts Legacy Project (PAL) An initiative of the Entertainment Community Fund is an online public platform where older performing arts professionals are invited to document their careers, on their own terms.
This panel, moderated by PAL founder Joan Jeffri, will bring together a group of ground-breaking Village artists who have mapped their stories on the site. Hosted by HB Studio.
Panelists: playwright Barbara Kahn; bilingual actor/director/producer Alicia Kaplan, founder of Danisarte; and performance artist and activist LuLu LoLo will talk about the focus and evolution of their work, their experience of the Village context, and of generations of change.
With additional excerpts from the sites of iconic PAL artists we have lost in recent years – George Bartenieff, Agosto Machado, and Juan Villarreal
HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre 124 Bank Street,
Admission: $15-$20
https://events.humanitix.com/mapping-the-legacy-village-artists-tell-their-stories/tickets
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LuLu LoLo
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17. Allied Productions / Le Petit Versailles, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Sept. 24-27 and more
Allied Productions / Le Petit Versailles returns to Printed Matters NY Art Book Fair
September 24-27th at MoMA / PS 1.
https://nyabf2026.printedmatterartbookfairs.org
LPV highlights subjects vital to open space, collectives, queer / poc community and women. In addition to book works and printed matter, Allied presents archival ephemera from artistic projects representing 45 years in the culture of resistance, inclusive of its primary NYC venue, Le Petit Versailles community garden.
Featured Allied / LPV Book Artists 2026 @ Table T8
Helen Oji – Kokeshiこけし Studies
Kokeshi こけし Studies reflects Oji’s lifelong connection to Japanese culture, childhood memories, and the natural world. Inspired by traditional kokeshi dolls—symbols of protection and resilience—I explore their distilled forms through walnut ink; a material tied to my farming upbringing. The work becomes a meditation on ancestry, material memory, and quiet strength. Publisher – Yk OK Press USA
Yoko O.K. – Uncoiling: A Japanese-American Family’s History
Part talk-show interview where Yoko interviews her deceased ancestors, part adventure storytelling based on what she learns from these relatives, the story centers mainly on her great-grandparents’ immigration to California between 1905 and 1913, and the ensuing chaos. Some themes include banishment, transgenerational storytelling, family trauma and healing. Publisher – Yk OK Press USA
Su Friedrich – I Still Am; A Woman, Pissed-Off & Curious
Acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich takes us on an intimate and visually rich autobiographical journey through her personal journals and letters, showing her artistic influences, sense of humor, and flair for adventure as she describes a trip she took through West Africa in 1976 at the age of 21. Features 175+ b&w photographs, drawings and archival images. Publisher – Seven Stories Press
Chuna Chugay – That Same Wind
Chuna Chugay’s work investigates the legacy of the 1937 deportation of Koreans from the Soviet Far East to Central Asia—an act of ethnic cleansing that displaced more than 170,000 people, including their family. Chuna explores how histories of forced migration reverberate across generations. Chuna is currently writing and illustrating a graphic memoir called That Same Wind about growing up in Russia and the hidden history of the Koryo-Saram diaspora.
We are also offering original Posters by Keith Haring (signed), Jean Michel Basquiat, Billy Name, and Leslie Lowe.
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18. Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, at The Grolier Club, Manhattan, thru Nov. 28, and more
Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, has work included in the display case labeled “Art and Artifacts of Pioneering Papermakers”, in the Grolier Club exhibition, “Pioneers in Hand Papermaking: 50 Years of Innovation at Dieu Donné”, Sept 8 – Nov 28.
https://www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=384827&ssid=322448&vnf=1
and
The exhibition, “Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books”, is at the University of Florida Galleries in Gainesville, Florida.
September 10 – December 2, 2026
Robbin Ami Silverberg, FF Alumn, and Carole Naggar (FF Board member) curated this show for the 50th anniversary of the Center for Book Arts.
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19. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Brown University, Providence, RI, Sept. 24
The Logic of Illogic
Public Panel Discussion
Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 5:30 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
The Logic of Illogic, led by PRIZMA artist Jeanette Andrews and hosted by the Brown Arts Institute, positions magic alongside the interdisciplinary expertise of participating scholars into an aperture through which we might understand the current moment– a moment when feeds, models, and deepfakes engineer belief at scale.
This public panel places magic and anthropology in dialogue with perception and illusion, Black feminist sound and technology studies, and the overlap of choreography and computational studies. Sponsored in part by the Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of Fine Arts
RSVP: https://arts.brown.edu/programs/prizma-arts-research-residency/jeanette-andrews/logic-illogic
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20. Guy de Cointet, FF Alumn, reissued publication now available
Please visit this link:
https://primaryinformation.org/product/a-captain-from-portugal/
Thank you.
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21. Ann Hamilton, Joan Jonas, Bonnie Marranca, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson, FF Alumns, in new PAJ publication
PAJ Publications, THE THEATRE OF DRAWING
EDITED BY BONNIE MARRANCA AND DANIEL SACK
A dazzling selection of drawings and writings by 42 American artists from the 1960s to the present, working in theatre, dance, music, and performance. The first book to present such an expansive theatrical perspective, it includes more than 160 images, printed in color. The individual artists’ portfolios offer a remarkably intimate look into the creative process that transforms drawing into the art of performance. Among the artists featured in the volume are Ann Hamilton, Robert Wilson, Jay Scheib, Gyun Hur, Julie Mehretu, Annie-B Parson, Lucinda Childs, Mina Nishimura, Madeline Hollander, Meredith Monk, Raven Chacon, Peter Schumann, Joan Jonas, John Zorn. The new volume marks PAJ Publications’ 50 th year of publishing, joining the 160 other titles the press has published since its founding in 1976.
Comments on the volume—
The Theatre of Drawing is an extraordinary book showing drawing as a way to think, drawing as memory, which captures the process of thinking and living.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director, Serpentine, and author of The Interview Project
A thrilling selection and wide-ranging survey of artists utilizing drawing as a mode of visual thinking and conceptualization for theatre, performance and dance-related works.
Ann Butler, Director of Library and Archives, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Pub date: September 15 Price: $35 Pages: 212 Paperback: 7 x 10" Illus: 166
ISBN: 978-1-55554-169-9 Distributed by Theatre Communications Group
Bonnie Marranca is Publisher/Editor of PAJ Publications and author of several volumes of writings and interviews. Daniel Sack is the author of the recent Cue Tears and editor of Imagined Theatres.
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22. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Palindroma Gallery, Piermont, NY, opening Sept. 25
27/28 Salon Exhibition Preview for 2027/2028 Solo Exhibitions at the Palindroma Gallery, 456 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, N.Y.
Robin Tewes is scheduled for a solo exhibition, September 2027. Opening Reception is September 25, 2026, 6PM.
Exhibition Preview is thru December 13, 2026. RSVP at www.galleryPalindroma.com.
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23. Fiona Templeton, FF Alumn, at Torn Page, Manhattan, Oct. 31-Nov. 1
Songs Between Worlds
a diptych
solo performance by Fiona Templeton
Saturday October 31st 2026 8pm
Sunday November 1st 2026 2pm
at Torn Page
435 West 22nd Street, NYC 10011
reservations advised
Two stories of women and voice
from remote northwest Scotland and remote northeast Japan
written and performed by Fiona Templeton
Fiona Templeton, poet and artistic director of The Relationship
performs solo for the first time in 30 years, in a stripped down presentation
running time 90-100 minutes including interval
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24. Kunio Suzuki, FF Member, at NIOSYA, Sagamihara, Japan, Sept. 29-Oct. 9
I will hold a solo exhibition from 29 Sept to 9 Oct, 2026
all information at http://islands.main.jp/niosya/
The theme of this solo exhibition is cinema; I created these works based on some of my favorite films.
I approached the work with creative freedom and my own interpretations, without limiting myself to any single technique.
I hope you enjoy the exhibition.
Kunio Suzuki
Nihonga (Japanese-style)artist Kunio Suzuki HP
https://kuniro-water.blogspot.com
Gallery HP
http://islands.main.jp/niosya/schedule.htm
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25. Christo & Jeanne Claude, John Held, Jr., FF Alumns, now online at SquareCylinder.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.squarecylinder.com/2026/09/christo-and-jeanne-claude/
Thank you.
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26. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Bryant Park, Manhattan, Sept. 23
Greetings Friends and Neighbors:
I’ll be performing next week at Accordions Around the World, in Bryant Park, an annual celebration of the diversity of Free Reeds in the heart of Manhattan. The series takes place on three days, Sept 21, 22, and 23, each day featuring 15 different artists.
This event is free!
I’ll be part of Wednesday’s show, performing a set between 5:40 and 6:20. Please follow this link for more information on the lineup.
After my set, I’ll be listening to the new ensemble The Balloonatics, who’ll be playing at 6:20.
Accordions Around the World
Bryant Park (6th Avenue between 40th and 42nd Street, behind the Big Library)
Wednesday Sept 23
5:-7: PM
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27. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL, Oct. 7
Artist Talk
Babs Reingold
“Forest Bathing”
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
Friday October 7, 6-8pm
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
600 E. Klosterman Rd, Tarpon Springs FL 34689
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28. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Intern Alumn, autumn news
KATYA GROKHOVSKY STUDIO FALL 2026 NEWS
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Happy Fall 2026! I’m excited to share my recent news with you. I have several exhibitions, a Fellowship and new projects underway, and I’m looking forward to a very busy season ahead, with the launch of the third edition of The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Identity Card, unfolding across New York City this October and November. Thank you, as always, for following along and supporting my work.
EXHIBITIONS
POST SEDUCTION
September 15 – December 8, 2026\
Artists: Sally Apfelbaum, Dietmar Busse, Katya Grokhovsky, Rie Hasegawa, Calvin Kim, Cary Leibowitz, Regina Parra, Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Armita Raafat, Dena Sturm
Curated by Deric Carner
EFA Gallery
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY
MAKING STRANGE: LESP Keyholder Residency Exhibition
September 8 – November 13, 2026
Opening Reception: September 17, 5 – 8pm
Essay by Jenn Bratovich, Chief Curator at Print Center New York
Artists: Mira Dayal, Natasha K. De Armas, Amelia Akiko Frank, Katya Grokhovsky, Leekyung Kang, Melissa Ling, Mahalexmi Mohan and Wenfei Quan
Lower East Side Printshop Gallery
306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor,
New York, NY
THREADS and TRACES
October 24 – November 21, 2026
Opening Reception: October 24, 6-8pm
Artists: Katya Grokhovsky, Qiqing Lin, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Aida Sulova, and Maria de Los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez
Curator: Zeljka Himbele
Mixed Media Space
1 Canal St,
North Adams, MA
2026-2027 VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP
October 2026 – April 2027
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER
24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA
EFA OPEN STUDIOS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 4–9 pm
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10,12–6 pm
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th Street, Studio 407
New York, NY
The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2026: IDENTITY CARD
October 8 – November 11, 2026
Opening Event: October 10th 5-8pm
Nguyen Wahed
504 E 12th St,
New York, NY
Curators: Sanna Almajedi, Sofia Thiệu D’Amico, Eva Mayhabal Davis and Anna Khimasia
Venues: Brooklyn Art Haus, Nguyen Wahed, Essex Kitchen co-presented by Artists Alliance Inc, Residency Unlimited, BRIC and Shiva Gallery at John Jay College
FLAT FILE PROGRAM
Two of my works are housed for one year in the Peep Space gallery’s flat file, for visitors to peruse and purchase, through January 2027.
Peep Space
92 Central Avenue
Tarrytown, NY
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29. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new album and publications
Happy September!
I’m pleased to announce that “The Quotidian Kerfuffle” is now available
on Bandcamp! This album consists of vintage recordings and fugitive
pieces from my curiously checkered career: live shows, radio spots,
choral rounds, high school hijinks, ventriloquial songs, and other
tidbits. And on Bandcamp, you can buy a copy or listen for free:
dougskinner.bandcamp.com/album/the-quotidian-kerfuffle
The latest issue of “Paranthropology,” a “Journal of Anthropological
Approaches to the Paranormal,” is also now available. I contributed the
article “Richard Shaver: A Personal Mythology of Secret Caves and
Ancient Rocks,” based on a talk I’ve given at various galleries and
symposiums: paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com
I also contributed a short story, “The Spherical Moon,” to the science
fiction anthology “Today,” now out from Black Scat Books:
Doug Skinner
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30. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, in Latin America, Sept. 23-Oct. 5
HECTOR CANONGE, Franklin Furnace Alumn, continues with his project TROTAMUNDOS 2026 with upcoming presentations in Latin America: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Caribbean; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Interdisciplinary visual performance artist and cultural producer, Hector Canonge, recently arrived in South America to complete the realization of TROTAMUNDOS (Globe Trotter), his long term project presented this year in various countries in Europe, Asia, and Australia. After finishing successfully a residency period in Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney, the artist will make the following presentations in South America:
September 23, 8:00 pm
Museo Melchor Pinto
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
LOS LAZOS QUE NOS UNEN
Performance that addresses notions of identity for the celebration of the city’s independence movement. With the participation of local artists and attending audiences.
September 29, 9:00 pm
Espacio de Arte G150
Buenos Aires, Argentina
EN MEDIO DE NADA, MUCHO.
A new performative dance piece that fusions Easter and Western movement rituals about ancestry and lost genealogy.
October 3-5
Galeria Arte
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
ELOGIOS & CULPAS (Praises & Guilts)
A project that references the encounter of peoples, the syncretization of cultures, and recent commoditization of cultural identity.
More information:
@hectorcanonge
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31. Mae Howard, FF Alumn, at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 9, and more
Dear FF Community,
I am honored to announce my first solo show: between the skin and flesh, a thing at A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY) from September 5th – October 4th. The show features new work made in deep collaboration with M. Celeste, Jess Dayan, Fluent, blue, and Gabriella N. Báez. There will be an Opening Reception from 5-8pm on September 9th with a masked hour from 5-6pm.
The show has two in-person programs as part of its duration. The first is a conversation with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan on September 26th at 6pm EST called Capture and Reanimation. The second is a conversation with Johanna Hedva on October 3rd at 5pm called Debilitated Endurance. Both events will be masks required and provided.
For friends who are unable to make it in person, I will be available for virtual studio visits and Zoom tours of the show.
I have made physical invitations with a piece of the show’s archival material. If you would like one, please respond with your mailing address. I am looking forward to sharing this new work with you.
xx Mae
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