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 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: 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 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.
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 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: 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 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.
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!
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Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem’s Ceremony [1]
On the midsummer weekend, Future Ritual presents Ceremony [1], a day of durational performances in a pair of dilapidated Victorian houses in South East London. Slow actions by artists Marilyn Arsem, Sandra Johnston, Helena Goldwater and Devika Bilimoria will unfold in long form performances evocative of memory, decay, and endurance. As the year turns, we invite some long breaths, attuning with these old spaces, and inviting reflection and connection.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción “SONG/LAND/SEA: Water Warning”
Lani Asunción (Boston, MA) will present SONG/LAND/SEA: Water Warning, where climate justice is embodied by a Filipinx Sirena who holds the knowledge of Kali and their ancestors: laniasuncion.com
Mobius Artist Event: Bonnie Han Jones at AS220
Join us at the AS220 Black Box on June 9th for an evening of free music organized by Brooklyn-based synthesist, improviser, and curator, Matthew Ryals. The line up features an array of improvisers working across the northeast.
Mobius Artist Event: Hey There Kapplow included in Saturn Return
Flux Factory is celebrating its big thirtieth anniversary by exhibiting 37 alumni of our Artists-in-Residence program. This grassroots community spans decades and continents and features work across all media.
Mobius Artist Event: Bonnie Jones at Non-Event
Non-Event is pleased to present a double bill featuring improvised sets by Noeplace (Nomi Epstein, piano and Laura Cetilia, cello) along with a duo by Bonnie Jones and Liew Niyomkarn.
Mobius Artist Event: Jimena Bermejo performing in DANCE NOW
Remember those "Stories of a Mexican Immigrant" I shared on Instagram a few years back? Each post explored a different aspect of my life as a Mexican living in the US, sharing experiences and answering common questions about Mexico or being Mexican.
Those stories were the seed for my new dance solo – "Jimena"! It's a performance that explores identity and memory.
This year's "Jimena" holds a very special addition: I'll be sharing the stage with the one and only – my mom, Margie Bermejo! This year'sperformance also features works by: The Bang Group, Marcus Schulkind (my longtime dance mentor!), Lynn Modell, and Tony Williams.
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow at Mama Tried with tK
Sloppy Heads, tk, Little Black Egg
Thursday, May 9, 2024 7:00 PM
Sloppy Heads - shambling/pretty, structured/disintegrating
tK - (Phil Milstein, Heather Kapplow & Thalia Zedek) causes situations in which everyday aural experience is distended from its natural function. By applying arbitrary manipulations, new functions and contexts are undertaken. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is mutilated and all possible interpretations are quashed.
Little Black Egg (Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo)
Mobius Artist Event: Marilyn Arsem’s Teach Me!
Marilyn Arsem will perform Teach Me! at the 11th Annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival on Saturday April 6, 2023.
Mobius Artist: Event Marilyn Arsem Lecture
Marilyn Arsem will give a lecture entitled Really, What is Performance Art? at the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, at 6:00 pm, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. She will speak about the history of performance art, show work of performance artists who have influenced her, as well as images of some of her own work, and will finish with a question and answer period.
Mobius Artist Event: Forbes Graham with Sumac and Scarcity
Forbes Graham will be performing on a bill with Sumac and Scarcity at The Arts at The Armory in Somerville, MA on February 16, 2024.
Mobius Artist Event: Heather Kapplow Open Studio at Wedding Cake House
February 12 at the Wedding Cake House!
Open house / open studios: 4:30-6pm!
Hang out, explore the house, have a snack, make some friends, and most importantly, see what the artists have been working on! All are welcome, no RSVP needed
Artist presentations: 6-7pm
Listen to presentations from each of the artists in residence! This event has very limited seating, to RSVP please reach out to dirtpalacepublicprojects@gmail.com First come first serve with RSVPs.
Both the open house and the artist talks will be masked events, and we will have masks on hand.
AMAZING LIST OF ARTISTS: Ines Bellina, Lili Chin, Sophia Karina English, Carrie Hawks, Heather Kapplow & Liz Nofziger, Evans Molina Fernandez, Fatema Maswood.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción “Rooted Waves”
Rooted Waves follows the threads of Lani Asunción’s and Feda Eid’s work exploring identity in relationship to nature, place, geographies, and landscapes. Together these facets overlap into a surge of bold expression of self, history, community, and envisioned future.
Mobius Artist Event: Lani Asunción “Duty Free Paradise”
Duty-Free Paradise (DFP) (2020-23) plays on the tensions between lived and imagined Hawai’i. Through the lens of tourism, around which the Islands’ economy heavily circulates, this work explores the contradictions between perceptions and realities of island life as a paradise constructed through American pop culture, underwritten by militarism and biopolitics.
Mobius Artist Event: Hey There Kapplow “Deathbed Dreams”
American artist Hey There Kapplow hosts an experimental workshop experience investigating the shape of the uncomfortable gap between how we feel ourselves being internally, and how our external environments and communities shape, categorize and articulate us.
The process will involve reflecting together on our own eventual deaths and the difficulty that memorial rituals pose for capturing the nuance of being and then ceasing to be. We will also stay aware of our historical context, thinking together about exactly what it means for every human life to matter—to have value.