Contents for September 29th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
2. John Giorno, FF Alumn, now online at https://artifacts.movie/john-giorno/
3. Guerrilla Girls, Tehching Hsieh, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
4. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, Oct. 26
5. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, extended thru Oct. 19
6. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at The Firehouse, North Joshua Tree, CA, Nov. 15-16
7. Rosamond S. King, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Nov. 22
8. M. Lamar, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 6
9. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Oct. 2
10. Bob & Bob, FF Alumns, now online at ArtReportToday.com
11. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy, Oct. 9-19, and more
12. Gilda Pervin, FF Alumn, at Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ, opening Oct. 5
13. John Giorno, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
14. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Angel Foods, Provincetown, MA, thru Oct. 15
15. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at MinorLiteratures.com
16. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, receives 11th Prix Pictet
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. John Giorno, FF Alumn, now online at https://artifacts.movie/john-giorno/
Please visit this link:
https://artifacts.movie/john-giorno/
Thank you.
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3. Guerrilla Girls, Tehching Hsieh, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at City Lore, Manhattan, Oct. 26
Annie Lanzillotto’s “The Windseller / Il Ventovendola”
By City Lore and Bronx Music Heritage Center
FF Alumn Annie Lanzillotto performs at City Lore, 56 East 1st St, NYC, on Sun Oct 26th at 4pm. Lanzillotto’s character “The Windseller / Il Ventovendola weaves a lyrical sales pitch to lift the spirit of a sailor waiting ashore.
Sunday, October 26 · 4 – 6pm EDT
for ticket information please visit citylore.org for $25
City Lore
56 East 1st Street New York, NY 10003
Wheelchair accessible. For other accommodations contact Lanzillotto@gmail.com ten days prior to event. We ask audiences to mask. If you have any symptoms please refrain from coming. Made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
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5. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, extended thru Oct. 19
Exhibition Dates: September 20th, 2025 – October 19th, 2025
Location: Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts
34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498
Dear friends,
We’re happy to share that Crossing Over has been extended and will now be on view until October 19th.
We continue to honor the life, art, and legacy of Nancy Azara––visionary sculptor, feminist mystic and educator.
This memorial celebration will feature a curated exhibition of Nancy’s carved wood sculptures, mixed media collages, banners, scrolls, and prints, alongside shared moments of remembrance, ritual, and reflection. In a moving continuation of their shared creative life, Darla Bjork, Nancy’s beloved partner of over forty years, will also present new work created after Nancy’s crossing.
We invite you to spend time with Nancy’s art and spirit before the exhibition closes.
Read the full press release here.
For press inquiries or further details, please contact:
Fanny Pérez Gutiérrez
“The woods speaks… and I listen.”
––Nancy Azara
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Byrdcliffe
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498
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6. Linda Sibio, FF Alumn, at The Firehouse, North Joshua Tree, CA, Nov. 15-16
Bezerk Productions Presents Linda Sibio’s
Hieroglyphs and the Insanity Principle
A Two-Day Workshop at The Firehouse in North Joshua Tree
During BoxoPROJECTS’s 10th Anniversary of its High Desert Arts Festival
Joshua Treenial 2025: Desert Futures
WORKSHOP: November 15 and 16, 2025
FESTIVAL: November 8 to November 16, 2025
JOSHUA TREE, CA – Arts nonprofit Bezerk Productions is pleased to present Hieroglyphs and the Insanity Principle, a two-day workshop led by interdisciplinary artist and Bezerk founder, Linda Sibio. Hosted at The Firehouse in Joshua Tree, California (65430 Winters Road, Joshua Tree, California 92252), this immersive experience takes place on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16, 2025, with a culminating public performance and discussion on Sunday from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Class size is limited to 10–15 participants. Tuition is $500 per person, with sliding scale options, scholarships, and special group rates available. For more information, and to reserve or apply for a spot, please visit: www.bezerkpro.org/workshop.
Hieroglyphs and the Insanity Principle is a featured program of Joshua Treenial 2025: Desert Futures, a biennial high desert arts festival produced by BoxoPROJECTS, taking place from November 8 to November 16, 2025. This fifth edition of Joshua Treenial—marking its 10th anniversary—will activate venues across Joshua Tree and beyond with installations and performances by fourteen desert-based artists and nine partners, including Sibio’s Bezerk Productions. Read more about Joshua Treenial 2025: Desert Futures in Art Daily’s recent coverage, and see the full schedule here. The celebrated festival brings together artists and cultural partners from across the region to explore the desert as a site of adaptation, resilience, and reinvention. For more information, visit: https://boxoprojects.com/joshuatreenial.
Sibio’s two-day workshop begins by inviting participants into what she describes as “a non-linear subconscious fragmented journey into a different world”—participants fall away from ordinary life into new terrains of perception. Students will explore “the non-ordinary language of the insane, the homeless, and the oppressed” through glyphs printed on marine vinyl. Each person will have a glyph booklet which gives meanings—the resulting finished “glyph stories” will be displayed on the outdoor screen scaffolding next to the Firehouse.
Day one continues with embodied practice: relaxation exercises, voice-and-body resonance, rhythm, and drum work that open pathways for performance. Participants will develop short performance pieces rooted in these explorations before being introduced to Sibio’s framework for “thinking like a schizophrenic”—non-linear thinking, opposites, word salad, and delusions, among other psychiatric patterns. This two-hour immersion leads to the creation of interdisciplinary works in performance, writing, and visual art.
On day two, students will expand these explorations into 15-minute multimedia compositions that weave together visual, performative, and written elements. In the afternoon, Sibio introduces her concept of “structured chaos,” assigning visual components to squares arranged in prepared patterns. Participants manipulate these forms into large-scale drawings made with charcoal and pencil—no erasers allowed! The final session transforms into a public performance, discussion, and celebration: students, paired in twos, present short vocal and movement works, followed by an improvisational jam of scrub boards, drums, dance, and collective sound. Students and audience members are invited to discuss the work and enjoy some refreshments at the conclusion of the workshop.
“In the beginning there is a fragment. But that fragment is interrupted by an interrupter. We fall into the abyss away from our ordinary everyday life,” reflects Sibio. “Art has the power to take these fragments — interruptions, delusions, word salads — and transform them into language, beauty, and connection. Through this, we find catharsis, resilience, and community.”
ABOUT
Linda Sibio / Bezerk Productions
Linda Carmella Sibio was born in 1953 in Montgomery, West Virginia, and currently lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. Sibio was diagnosed with schizophrenia while studying painting at Ohio University where she got her BFA in 1977. In the 1980s, she studied acting in Hollywood with Eric Morris, and performance with Rachel Rosenthal. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Lannan Foundation Grant, Rockefeller MAP Fund Award, Wynn Newhouse Award, and the Tree of Life Award. She has performed at numerous venues including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Franklin Furnace in New York, and Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Track 16 Gallery, and Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, as well as Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York.
In 2001, Sibio founded Bezerk Productions, a nonprofit organization where she developed Cracked Eggs, a series of art workshops for neurodiverse individuals, and educates the public on the interdisciplinary work of these artists. In 2021, Bezerk Productions resumed Cracked Eggs with funds from the San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health and funded by the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63), offering workshops twice a week to Clubhouses and TAY Centers in the county. In 2023, Bezerk Productions received a Creative Corps grant from the California Arts Council to fund the mental health coloring book See, See, See, More! Listen with Your Eyes.
Linda Sibio’s Bezerk Productions envisions a future where art serves as a powerful tool for mental health empowerment, helping individuals with mental health challenges unlock their creative potential and fostering a more inclusive society. As a nonprofit, Bezerk Productions blends interdisciplinary art with lived experience to offer innovative workshops, graduate-level programs, and community engagement opportunities that promote self-discovery, healing, and professional growth.
BoxoPROJECTS / Joshua Treenial
BoxoPROJECTS is a multi-program arts initiative based in Joshua Tree, California, dedicated to exploring contemporary art at the frontier and examining the role of art in shaping community. Founded in 2009 by Bernard Leibov, BoxoPROJECTS offers facilitated artist residencies, exhibitions, installations, and performances in Joshua Tree and beyond. The organization provides artists with immersive opportunities to engage with the desert environment and local communities, fostering creative exchange, dialogue, and lasting connections. In 2015, BoxoPROJECTS co-launched Joshua Treenial with Los Angeles–based curator KJ Baysa, a festival of site-responsive multimedia installations and performances that highlight the unique inspiration and possibilities of the desert.
Residencies at BoxoPROJECTS encourage artists to share insights through public programs while promoting diversity and inclusion, welcoming artists whose practices are informed by race, gender, sexual orientation or identity, religion, national origin, or physical ability. Through its programs, BoxoPROJECTS supports artists in creating work that resonates locally, nationally, and globally, and cultivates a vibrant, inclusive arts community in the high desert. For more information, please visit: https://boxoprojects.com.
The Firehouse
The Firehouse is a community event and art space in Joshua Tree dedicated to uplifting both local artists and the community at large, fiscally sponsored by Arts Connection, The Arts Council of San Bernardino County (501(c)(3). For more information follow @thefirehousejt on Instagram.
Links:
Linda Sibio – http://lindasibio.com
Hieroglyphs and the Insanity Principle – www.bezerkpro.org/workshop
Bezerk Productions- www.bezerkpro.org
Bezerk Linktree – https://linktr.ee/BezerkPro
Cracked Eggs – www.bezerkpro.org/cracked-eggs
The Cracked Eggs Facebook – www.facebook.com/TheCrackedEggs
Crazy For A Day – Sibio’s Wearable Art – www.crazyforaday.com
Sibio’s Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Carmella_Sibio
Desert Futures: Joshua Treenial 2025 – https://boxoprojects.com/joshuatreenial
BoxoPROJECTS – https://boxoprojects.com
BoxoPROJECTS Linktree – https://linktr.ee/boxoprojectsjt
BoxoPROJECTS IG – https://www.instagram.com/boxoprojectsjt
The Firehouse – www.thefirehousejt.com
PR Assets – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Yk0Wf267D7vTg-aP2VH91htSu5JHfCZc
For more information, photos, or to schedule an interview, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.
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7. Rosamond S. King, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Nov. 22
Please visit this link:
https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series-rosamond-s-king-noa-micaela-fields
Thank you.
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8. M. Lamar, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 6
M. Lamar and Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, at Performance Space New York, October 6 at 7 pm. For tix and complete details please visit PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org
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9. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Oct. 2
Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, 197 E. 3rd St. Manhattan, ten curated poets, Thursday Oct 2, 8-9:30pm
Ten Curated POETS perform 5 Minutes Each – this month includes: Saida Dahir, Chloé Miller-Bess, Matthew Marroquin, Joanna Doe, Nichole Currier, the Artist Anubis, Evan Fonarev, Matthew Marroquin, Serena Renée, Avalon Akahoho and with live fine art by Dig Ferreira all hosted by Galinsky and Anna Carlson with band leader Ian McFarland. 1st artist hits the mic at 8pm!
The show is FREE and is a great place to relax before and after the show. Full bar and light snacks are available throughout the night, come early, stay late! Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street, NYC.
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10. Bob & Bob, FF Alumns, now online at ArtReportToday.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy, Oct. 9-19, and more
Please visit these links:
https://artverona.it/en/prog-in-citta-post/the-then-about-as-until
https://museel.be/fr/evenement/journee-detude/aux-autres-other-loeuvre-peter-downsbrough
Thank you.
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12. Gilda Pervin, FF Alumn, at Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ, opening Oct. 5
Gilda Pervin
Of Time and Memory
You are cordially invited to the opening reception for an exhibition of work by Gilda Pervin. Sunday October 5, 2025, 1-3 pm, drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Curious Matter 272 5th Street Jersey City NJ 07302, 201-273-8569
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13. John Giorno, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/arts/design/dial-a-poem-giorno-exhibition.html
Thank you.
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14. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Angel Foods, Provincetown, MA, thru Oct. 15
Jay Critchley’s waterfront installation series, The Cold Warmth, combines national flags that address the authoritarian shift of The Whiteness House and its geopolitical realignment
Opening of The Cold Warmth #3, Thursday, October 9,
5:30 pm, performances at 6:00 pm.
The installation runs through October 15, 2025
Angel Foods, 467 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA
Contact: Jay Critchley
774 840-0458
Video The Cold Warmth #2
The Cold Warmth #3 opens Thursday, October 9 at 5:30 pm, with selected performances at 6:00 pm, at Angel Foods, 467 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA. Free and open to the public, refreshments will be served.
The installation runs through October 15, 2025.
With a second Cold War ramping up on all fronts – military buildup, free speech purging and environmental de-regulation, The Cold Warmth #3 zeroes in on the disruption of global stability by The Whiteness House and its authoritarian direction. This three-month harborfront installation concludes with its third changing of the flags, featuring the merging of the European Union with the USSR Flag, and a lone US Flag.
How will The Whiteness House’s enchantment with dictators affect our international relations, our culture and our economics? The lonely US Flag looms over the debacle.
“The daylong changing of light is one of the defining features of Provincetown and this project sheds light on the Whiteness House’s disturbing shift in our relationships with our closest allies and autocratic countries,” states Critchley.
The project, which is sponsored by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation, asks: What does it mean to be an American? A patriot? A world leader?
Previous Openings
The Cold Warmth #1 opened to the public, 24 hours/day, on July 28, 2025 and featured the US/Russia and US/Turkey flags. The performance featured artists/performers Sally Tighe, Igor Myakotin, Jay Critchley, and Cesar Luis Montes Arias, with tech support and production from Wyona Gene Tourmaline and Arvid Tomayko. Sam Tager from the Public Art Foundation introduced the event.
The Cold Warmth #2, which opened August 28, involved the replacement of the flags with the US/Canada and US/Greenland flags. Featured were artist/performers Myra Kooy, Kate Rogers, Anne Bloom, Lorah Yaccarino and Andy Scheib, with tech support and production from Wyona Gene Tourmaline and Arvid Tomayko.
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15. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at MinorLiteratures.com
An excerpt from my new novella Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of The Last God has dropped at @MinorLits here: https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/25/venus-voluptuous-in-the-loins-of-the-last-god-joseph-nechvatal/
Full paperback book and e-book soon to follow from Orbis Tertius.
Thank you.
Joseph Nechvatal
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16. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, receives 11th Prix Pictet
Alfredo Jaar wins 11th Prix Pictet
Galerie Lelong, New York is pleased to announce that Alfredo Jaar is the winner of Prix Pictet Storm, the 11th cycle of Prix Pictet. The Prix Pictet is the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. It was founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group with the goal of harnessing the power of photography to draw global attention to the critical issue of sustainability.
Jaar was selected by an independent jury from a shortlist of twelve photographers for his 2025 series The End. This series focuses on the Great Salt Lake in Utah, described by scientists as an “environmental nuclear bomb.” The lake is a keystone ecosystem in the western hemisphere but is being destroyed by excessive water extraction.
About his series, Jaar said:
“My objective in this series is to show the tragic fate of the lake and simultaneously reveal its extraordinary beauty and potential. In spite of the dire situation we are in, I wanted to create images of great beauty and sadness. In the face of the magnitude of this tragedy, I decided to print these images in a small, unspectacular format, as a kind of visual whisper, a lament for our dying planet.”
An exhibition featuring the work of the twelve photographers shortlisted for the award is on view at The Pictet Gallery at the V&A South Kensington, London, through October 2025.
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