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: 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 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: 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.
Mobius Presents: Tatsuya Nakatani with Rachel Devorah, Forbes Graham, and Diamond Machine
Master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani performs solo, as well as in a trio with Rachel Devorah and Forbes Graham. Diamond Machine opens.
Tatsuya Nakatani
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.
Rachel Devorah
I am an improvising electronic musician, educator, and labor organizer. I'm interested in superhuman prolongation, opaque complexity, the re-signification of archaic tools and materials, and parallels between the physical properties and social meanings of spaces. I practice improvisation with bespoke electronics and with the French horn, my mother tongue. I value machines for their patience.
Forbes Graham
Forbes Graham (b. 1977) is a composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist whose work explores themes of simultaneity, perceptibility, transformation and collage.
Diamond Machine
Writing music with LSDJ on a Game Boy. I try to create songs based on specific experiences in my life, where the feel, tempo, and instrument patches being used all tell a story...most of the time not.
Flyer design by Marcel
Mobius Artist Event: Anna Wexler ‘Bind me Tightly to Cabral’s Words’
Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary anticolonial activist and theorist, led the most effective political and military guerrilla struggle in Africa to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese domination. He contributed to insurgencies against Portugal throughout Africa as well as to the fall of its fascist military dictatorship. Tragically, he was assassinated in 1973 shortly before Guinea-Bissau’s formal independence. Two-thirds of the country had already been organized by the party he founded into liberated zones in the rural areas where revolutionary democracy was practiced by villagers in local governing councils, schools, hospitals, and people’s stores. At the bookstore Medicine for Nightmares, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, join us in invoking Cabral’s brilliant strategic and theoretical militance through discussion, visual installation and live performances that call him into our midst as an actual force to contend with our living collective nightmares. In Balmy Alley, across the street from the bookstore, Cabral's words, “Culture contains the seed of resistance that blossoms into the flower of liberation”, are painted on one of the iconic murals of Central American wars of liberation and repression that survive there. May they reverberate into our evening of revolutionary remembrance.
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem at RiAP
Marilyn Arsem will participate in the international performance art festival Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RiAP) in Quebec City, Quebec Canada, which has been in operation since 1984. It will take place at Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, 345, rue du Pont, Quebec City, and in satellite locations, from September 12 through September 22, 2024.
Mobius Artist Event: Joanna Tam State of the Nation
"State of The Nation: A BIPOC Artist Perspective" delves into the intricate relationship between politics, social justice, and healing through the lens of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists. This exhibition underscores the transformative power of art in catalyzing change within our communities.
Mobius Artist Event: Forbes Graham Dream Portals Rest Activations
The Department of Public Imagination invites you to an evening of collective dreaming, rest, and reflection. Drift away to a live soundscape and installation featuring local musicians + artists!
Leaves Some Kind of Residue
Kledia Spiro in Leaves Some Kind of Residue
Friday August 9 and Saturday August 10, 2024, 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
Kledia Spiro, “Te dua aq shumë: I love you so much”
Spiro will present excerpts from her dad’s own poetry notebooks through her performance. Her ultimate goal is to translate all of his work, including his dissertation, starting with this performance. Collaborating with her mom, she designed an outfit: a silver bodysuit with a skirt made of zippers. Spiro will perform while translating some of her father’s poetry, which has deeply influenced her family and promises to resonate with the audience.
To give and receive.
Te dua aq shumë.
During her performance, Spiro will invite members of the audience to trace her body and each other’s bodies on top of hers. Participants will then extract words from her outfit to collectively create new poetry within this new communal body. After the performance, Spiro plans to send everyone the collaborative piece they co-created.
Other participating artists: NiFe Lucey-Brzoza, “Leaves Some Kind of Residue”; Laila J. Franklin, “Loose”; Nora Stephens, “No Need To Argue Anymore”