UPCOMING EVENTS
This calendar has all the details of upcoming Mobius events (like the Spring 2024 edition of our favorite high speed performance art event 1-Minute Solos, curated by Jimena Bermejo) 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: 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 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: 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: 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 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.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción, Heather Kapplow & Marcel Marcel in Open Studios at Boston Center for the Arts
Come explore the four floors of the Artist Studios Building and meet the artists currently in the BCA Studio Residency.
From 5–8pm, the BCA Artist Studios Building will host a building-wide Open House, where current residents in the BCA Studio Residency program will open their studio doors to the public. Come meet the artists, see their work in progress, and get an inside look at the creative process.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción in Resonant Currents
Transporter is dedicated to experimental sound as communal practice.
We aim to create a space of flow, movement, and crossing – of ideas, possibilities, and temporalities.
Established in 2024 at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Transporter is a series focused on music, sound, and performance. We’re particularly interested in showcasing experimental music that pushes – and erodes – the boundaries of the sonic, revealing unconventional approaches to making, absorbing, and engaging with the medium.
Mobius Live! Series: Bodies
Mobius Live! Series: Bodies is a night of live art that involves bodies and noises.
Mobius Live! Series: Entanglements
Mobius Live! Series: Improvisations is a night of live art that involves bodies and noises.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción in Transporter
Transporter is dedicated to experimental sound as communal practice.
We aim to create a space of flow, movement, and crossing – of ideas, possibilities, and temporalities.
Established in 2024 at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Transporter is a series focused on music, sound, and performance. We’re particularly interested in showcasing experimental music that pushes – and erodes – the boundaries of the sonic, revealing unconventional approaches to making, absorbing, and engaging with the medium.
Mobius Artist Event: Jimena Bermejo at An Evening of Movement, Music and Words
Join us for an immersive evening at Saint Augustine’s Church, where words and movement come together to build community. Through prompts, you'll be invited to engage in moments of poetry, music, and movement, all inspired by the church's unique architecture. No performance experience necessary—just an openness to connect and explore together. (Participation is not required.)
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow in Please Say
Heather (Hey There) Kapplow will be performing from November 10-24 within a piece called Please Say by Danielle Freakley in the Seychelles Island Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem at Glasshouse Projects
Marilyn Arsem will be in residency at Glasshouse Project from November 10-17, engaged in research for upcoming performances. Open house on November 16, 2024 and screening and discussion on November 11, 2024. Links to both events are in the calendar listing.
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam in Planetary Thinking
How could local conditions and beliefs play into the technology we make and use? How could a diversification of technologies dislodge the monopoly of big tech and their associated sociotechnical imaginaries? Planetary Thinking addresses a widespread condition of disjointedness after the project of globalisation by producing hybrid cosmologies in times of ecological, economic, and political uncertainty.
Mobius Artist Event: Jimena Bermejo in The Dance Show
The Dance Show is an evening-length performance by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects investigating what is dance and who decides.
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 Live! Series: Soundings
Mobius Live! Series: Soundings is a night of live art that involves bodies and noises.
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow Thinks at AIOP
Mobius Member Heather Kapplow is acting as Thinker-in-Residence for the 2024 edition of Art in Odd Places: CARE.
CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek and features 75+ artists' projects intervening along 14th Street, from river to river, in Manhattan between October 18-20, 2024.
Mobius Artist Event: Jimena Bermejo & Jeff Huckleberry in Sideways Door 3
Short performances by:
Julia Handschuh + Anna Hendricks
Greg Kelley + Yoona Kim
LOCULUS
Jimena Bermejo + Jeff Huckleberry
Ron Schneiderman
Mobius Artist Event: EL Putnam Under the Feet of Shadows
Under the Feet of Shadows is a multimedia artwork developed by EL Putnam and Mike McCormack that creatively explores human-technological relations, speculating other futures in these times of extreme change and crisis. It tells a fictional origin myth of a data center in Kilalla, Ireland, where the cyborg Terra is called upon to negotiate between the spiritus of technology, the environment, and human society as an entangled ecology. The work merges science fiction with folklore, imagined and actual mythologies with histories of technology in Ireland.
Accumulation + Migration
Expect vibrant interpretations of the estate through movement pieces and mixed media works. This event will offer fresh perspectives on the historic grounds.