UPCOMING EVENTS
This calendar has all the details of upcoming Mobius events as well as events that members of our group are involved in outside of Mobius.
The calendar also serves as a history of our group’s live and online activities since the Covid pandemic began, including our Spiderweb series of artist talks by emerging and mid-career artists from the New England area.
You can view a video archive of many past Mobius events, and the entire Spiderweb series here.
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Mobius Artist Event: Kledia Spiro “Karamele/Candy”
Artist Kledia Spiro invites audiences into a multi-sensory archive with her upcoming solo exhibition, Karamele/Candy opening September 5 at The Bellslip Gallery in Greenpoint, NY. The exhibition is curated by Anissa Petri, Assistant Curator at the RISD Museum.
Mobius Artist Event: Sara June in Rhythms and Renewal
Rhythms and Renewal is an immersive evening of electronic music, visual projections, and butoh dance – a multi-sensory experience where sound, light and movement converge to create a space for healing, relaxation, and introspection. Live visuals envelop sonic landscapes of ambient textures and deep rhythmic pulses. Butoh dancers animate the space, channeling emotional currents to evoke stillness, transformation and inner reflection. Join us for a night where the digital and the human meet in a shared journey toward renewal.
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam in Becoming Tallaght
This year's Becoming Tallaght Performance Art Festival will showcase the work of artists Emma Brennan, Tara Carroll, Austin Hearne, Mariya Hoyin, Rachel Macmanus, Shiro Masuyama, Katherine Nolan, and EL Putnam.
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow in 20 Questions for 20 Years
As a part of the opening weekend of the Design Studio for Social Interventions’ 20th anniversary celebration, “20 Questions for 20 Years”, Heather (Hey There) Kapplow hosts a participatory art piece called VIP Table which highlights ingredients in the primorial stew that DS4SI emerged from 20 years ago, and the stone soup of community that flavors the rich broth of serious-play fueling its current and future investigations and activities.
Mobius Presents: Mobius Live: Outside/Inside
Mobius presents three duos working in improvised sound, improvised movement, and objects. Instruments including saxophones, percussion, mandolin, trumpet, laptop computer, glass, and who knows what else.
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam in Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025
The Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025, organized by P(art)y Here and Now, start on 13 September at the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon with performance art workshop led by Rachel Macmanus and Slavek Kwi at10 am. This will be followed by solo performances by EL Putnam, Olivia, Hassett, Joseph Hendel, and Aoibhinn O' Dea at 2 pm. The day will end with the participatory live group performances P(art)y Here and Now at 5 pm
Mobius Artist Event: Anna Wexler in The Other Art World
THE OTHER ART WORLD: A Photo-Performance & Film Exhibit by Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra at the Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation.
A bold and expansive exhibition chronicling over four decades of transgressive, trans-disciplinary work by El Mad Mex and his legendary performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra.
THE PERFORMATIVE OPENING: Friday, from 7pm-10 pm. September 12, 2025. San Francisco en llamas! Come dressed as your favorite "illegal alien"!
Mobius Artist Anna Wexler will be performing
“Green Alien Asylum Application: Footnotes to Banish ICE” during the opening.
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow in Together Elsewhere
Together Elsewhere is a monthly performance art project with two artists, one from d PAB - Performance Art Bergen and one from PANCH - Performance Art Network Switzerland, performing at the same time, with the same materials, but in different locations. The performances will be streamed live on one screen side by side and last 30 minutes. Viewers can watch the performances online via a link. The streaming as well as the archiving of the performances will be done by the Mediathek of the Academy of Art and Design, Basel. Live Stream
Mobius Open Call: Outside/Inside
We are currently seeking submissions for perfomance-video works to be included in this event. Artists are invited to respond to Outside/Inside as an open prompt, to interpret as they wish.
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem at Summer Think Tank 2025: Centering Performance in American Art
Marilyn Arsem will participate in Colby College's Lunder Institute of American Art's Summer Think Tank 2025: Centering Performance in American Art, in Waterville, Maine, from July 28th to August 1st, 2025.
Mobius Artist Event: Marcel Marcel in Of Both Worlds in Double Time
Enter into a queered neurodivergent counterallegory of Plato’s Cave. In the wake of fascism, how do we discern fact from fiction? What is real, surreal or… the hyperreal? This multimedia installation is a rabbit hole of an experiment over time; i.e. Plato’s Cave + sci fi + Joann’s Fabrics.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción at Funk Fest Boston
Fuck the Fourth Presents Funk Fest Boston.
Mobius Artist Event: Forbes Graham in We Two See Jazz II
Forbes Graham (trumpet) and John Dalton (percussion) will improvise together along with Tommey (paint and canvas) playing jazz standards, their own tunes, and free-from improvising.
Mobius Artist Event: Jimena Bermejo in The Dance Show
The Dance Show by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects, investigates how dance is defined, challenges our notion of what dance should look like, and aims to create a shared experience between the audience and performers.
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam in The Irish Contemporaries {iv}
The Irish Contemporaries series has become an essential platform for showcasing the breadth and diversity of contemporary Irish visual art in Los Angeles. By presenting work in Los Angeles—one of the world’s most influential art capitals—the exhibition creates opportunities for Irish artists to engage with new audiences, gain international recognition, and contribute to a wider cultural dialogue with local artists. Each year, The Irish Contemporaries fosters cross-cultural exchange, amplifying the voices of artists from Los Angeles, Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción in Data Fluencies: Tributaries
Data Fluencies: Rivulets features the work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies Project (based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University). The exhibition aims to provide open public engagement with the research outputs emerging from the larger project and place them next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining the same themes and ideas. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem Practice and Research of Durational Performance
Marilyn Arsem will give an online lecture on 'Practice and Research of Durational Performance,' on Monday, May 26, 2025, 9:00–11:30 JST, which can also be viewed in person at the Community Salon, 3rd Floor, International Exchange Building, Tokyo University of the Arts, Ueno Campus, Tokyo, Japan. It will be presented in English with Japanese translation. A video of the lecture will later be available on the IPAMIA website.
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam in Here and Now Festival
Date: Saturday May 18 to Sunday May 19, 2024
Location: Flagmount Wild Garden, Cahermurphy, Flagmount, Co. Clare, Ireland
3:30 to 4:30 pm: a workshop facilitated by Slavek Kwi exploring listening, abstraction and non verbal communication
5 to 6 pm: p(art)y Here and Now, from 5-6pm. A participatory group@live performance art event open to all to@attend and take part in with special guests EL Putnam and David Stalling
Starting at 8 pm: An invitation to ‘Listening and Dreaming Journey across Dusk to Dawn’ a night long, concert like event with live constructions from artists Slavek Kwi and David stalling.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción and Joanna Tam in Willful Dialects
Curated by curated by Yi Cynthia Chen, Willful Dialects considers spoken, visual, and felt languages and dialects through the lens of a few Asian-American and Asian Diaspora artists working in and around Boston.An anti-survey, this moment in time intends to refuse a monolithic descriptor of what it means to be Asian in America today. The term “Asian-American” itself was coined in 1968 by Bay Area students and activists in part to foster camaraderie between ethnicities and reject the derogatory term “Oriental.” This concept of the Oriental as a fantasy constructed to maintain power dynamics was explored deeply in Edward Said’s seminal 1978 text Orientalism. Said noted that Orientalism is “willed human work.” Edward Said was a Palestinian-American writer whose work makes up some of the foundational texts of current Asian-American studies.In nonfiction book Willful Subjects, author Sara Ahmed also considers this willfulness, and how instead of being a locale for penalization, difference can be a source of resilience.
Mobius Presents: 2025 Boston Butoh and Performance Art Festival
Mobius is thrilled to announce the 2025 Boston Butoh and Performance Art Festival premiering April 24th through the 27th at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theater.
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem On Practice Workshop
The ‘On Practice’ workshop is designed as an in-depth examination of your performance practice. We will consider what drives us to make the work that we make, how we approach developing it, and what methods we use for evaluating the success of the work.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción in Data Fluencies: Rivulets
Data Fluencies: Rivulets features the work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies Project (based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University). The exhibition aims to provide open public engagement with the research outputs emerging from the larger project and place them next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining the same themes and ideas. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam in Entangle
Entangle explores the unavoidable interweaving of the literal, virtual, technological, and emotional threads that bind and define us. Participating artists Joetta Maue, Destiny Palmer, Loretta Park, EL Putnam, Alicia Renadette, and Amy Wynne explore how we are inextricably linked to each other and to this planet. The artists’ work reveals a web of connections formed by ideas, ways of thinking, relationships, memories, and shared experiences. The work in the exhibition is at once aesthetic, philosophical, and ideological, examining the themes of connection and entanglement through both material and metaphorical means.
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow at SUPERMARKET Art Fair
Mobius Member Heather (Hey There) Kapplow will be presenting a new participatory, walking-based piece called Taking Dictation at the 2025 SUPERMARKET Art Fair, in a program curated by John Schuerman and Berg Duo, called WALKING WITH PASSION, along with two other artists from the Walking As Practice Collective, Juanma González and Aurike Quintellier.
Mobius Presents: States of Emergence
Mobius Artists Group is proud to present States of Emergence, an evening of performance art and spatial interventions presented throughout Boston’s City Hall on Saturday March 29th, 2025, from 5:30PM-8:30PM.
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem on Horizontal Pedagogies and Research-Creation Panel
Panel Discussion – ‘Horizontal Pedagogies and Research-Creation: A Panel on Mobius Artists Group with Marilyn Arsem and Natalie Loveless,’ Friday, March 28, 2025 from 12 pm – 2 pm, as part of the exhibition ‘an archive and/or a repertoire,’ at Tufts University Art Galleries, SMFA at Tufts, 230 The Fenway, Boston, MA, USA.
Mobius Artist Event: Joanna Tam Imagine Safety
Joanna Tam's temporary public art project, Imagine Safety, will be featured in Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, 2024-2025 curated by Lani Asunción. This exhibition showcases temporary public art and performance place-based projects created as part of the 2024-2025 Un-monument initiative. These public art projects create space for joy and community celebration of cultural identity, through uplifting Chinatown as a neighborhood, cultural hub, and monument within the city of Boston.
Mobius Live! Series: SLAY
SLAY celebrates the Ides of March–a time of omens, superstition, curses, hexes, prophecy, plotting and crowd-sourced assassination. Taking inspiration from a date famous for being the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire, Mobius calls in queer community to join six performance artists in pulling out all of the psychomagical stops to cast anti-authoritarian spells with us. Bring your queer power to conspire towards the fall of all of the Roman Empires of the present. Show us how you slay!
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción BLOODLESS | BLOOD, BONES, ALOHA!
Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and Mobius member Lani Asunción with sound artists and musicians Matthew Azevedo and Magdalena Abrego for an immersive sonic multimedia performance with sound, video, and time as memory and remembering, BLOODLESS! | BLOOD, BONES, ALOHA! The durational performance will take place from 3–8 PM with the sound-based portion of the performance taking place from 6–8PM.
Hollow Center: A Performance by Takahiro Yamamoto
Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and artist Takahiro Yamamoto for a performance of Hollow Center, in conjunction with the exhibition an archive and/or a repertoire.
Hollow Center (with film by Roland Dahwen, design by Maggie Heath, and sound contributions by Cenk Ergün, Jesse Majía, Shao Way Wu, Byron Au Young, and Sofia Acosta) embodies an intricate quality of slowness, high physicality, and balance through sound, video, gestures, and repeated movements over a long duration.
By stretching time, Yamamoto practices a “minor” mode of aesthetics—lingering, listening, obscuring, and relating—without capturing or pre-determining meanings. In continuation of his previous works NOTHINGBEING (2022) and Opacity of Performance (2019–2023), Yamamoto contemplates the porous duality of nothingness and being from his dual-cultural position.
The artist will offer activations of Hollow Center:
Thursday February 13, 2025, 3–8pm
Wednesday March 12, 2025, 1–5pm
Saturday April 12, 2025, 12–4pm
Hollow Center: A Performance by Takahiro Yamamoto is part of a new commission in an archive and/or a repertoire, on view at TUAG / Boston, 230 Fenway, through April 20, 2025.
Takahiro Yamamoto is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer. His current conceptual investigations revolve around the phenomenological effects of time, embodied approach to the presence of nothingness, and the social/emotional implications of visibility. He has received support from New England Foundation for the Arts, Bogliasco Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, MacDowell, NCCAkron, National Performance Network, Japan Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium and others. His performance works have been presented at On the Boards, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Portland Art Museum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Diverseworks, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, The Henry Art Gallery, GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi, among other venues. Yamamoto holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. He is part of the Portland-based group Physical Education with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Lu Yim. Yamamoto is currently a visiting professor at Studio for Interrelated Media Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.
Mobius Event: Undoing the Archive
Join Tufts University Art Galleries and Mobius Artists Group for performances, sound works, and installations responding to the Tufts University Archival Research Center (TARC)’s Mobius Inc. Records and the larger conception of the “archive.” Resisting the urge to adhere to the de facto logics, organization, and authority of the archive, contributions from Marilyn Arsem, Margaret Bellafiore, Jimena Bermejo, Serena Gabriels, Sara June, Heather Kapplow, Marcel Marcel, Forbes Graham, Jeff Huckleberry, Sandy Huckleberry, EL Putnam, Kledia Spiro, and Joanna Tam embody adjacencies, challenges, resistances to, and thinking with archives—institutional, governmental, collective, familial, and personal.
Mobius Artist Event: Forbes Graham performing at opening for "an archive and/or a repertoire”
Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) for an opening celebration of an archive and/or a repertoire with a performance by Mobius Co-director, Forbes Graham.
Mobius Artist Event: Jimena Bermejo and Sara June in Waste Scenes
Waste Scenes tells non-linear stories about trash, value, and desire in corporate culture and neoliberal capitalism through a new body of work by artists Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales produced during the Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR). Given access to the construction and demolition waste stream generated throughout the Tri-state region, Chao and Schmidt-Arenales collected items from the trash piles in a new two-channel video installation Waste Scenes (2025), accompanied by wall drawings, a print series, a movie poster designed with Kristian Henson, and a sound-based performance event in collaboration with Erik DeLuca and Mobius Artists Group members Jimena Bermejo and Sara June for the opening.