One of the premier Permaculture teachers and designers in North America with over two decades of experience in the field. His passionate and mind expanding talks and curriculum have motivated teachers, students since his decade long career as a H.S. teacher at Upattina's, a open community free school in Glenmoore, PA. View Faust's TED X lecture

Andrew created his own Permaculture Ph'd project, in 1999, a fully off grid, Straw Bale educational center in Pocahontas County W.V. He moved to Brooklyn in 2007 and has been applying his knowledge to the urban landscape.Faust has been inspiring film makers with the message of Permaculture culminating in the film: Inhabit, and a life changing Permaculture Design Certification course, with over 500 graduates. Faust received a dual diploma in Design and Education from Permaculture Institute of North America in 2016. Andrew and Adriana Magaña with their daughter Juniper run the Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY., a hands-on educational campus for students and clients.

Andrew Faust, a visionary permaculture and bioregional educator taps into the rich synergy between permaculture and biodynamic agriculture which he has been studying with a focus on orchards since he completed his permaculture design training in 1996. Some of our design clients include: Click to View

​Andrew is a certified Alternative School Teacher, focusing on Bioregional Education; he instructed at Upattina's Open Community High School from 1992-2001. Faust holds a B.A. in comparative religions from Guilford College.

https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/

Adriana Magaña is a drummer and visionary making the world a better place. Known as Dreiky Caprice in the NYC underground music scene in the 90’s and 00’s she created temporary autonomous zones with her friends at her loft the Happy Birthday Hideout, and now makes her home upstate where she harvests rainwater and talks to plants. The future is here so let’s be brave and help each other!

www.permaculturenewyork.com

My work is about creating a liminal participatory space using ritual components (film, story-telling, glossolalia vocals and movement) in order to produce an alchemical unity between myself and witnesses in the audience. I am influenced by afro-futurist tropes, black feminist thought and speech act theory. I acknowledge my teachers in ritual practice: Kali Maie, White Star, Astrea Aurora, Jane Carleton, Vickie Dodd, Jonathan Goldman and Tom Kenyon. I acknowledge the teachers who influence my thought: All of the above plus, Malidoma Some, Audre Lorde, Tracie Morris, Fred Moten and others.

www.kaliartproject.com

Tomasz flew from Finland to New York City the day before Trump cancelled flights from Europe. Tomasz went to Grace Exhibition Space with his New York Cousin Amelia Grabowska and filmed two performance pieces. He caught the last flight back to Finland. He's home safe and sound!

Tomasz Szrama (b. 1970 in Poland) graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. Currently he lives in Helsinki, Finland. Szrama shifts between multiple disciplines, including photography, video and other time-based works. Regardless of the medium, a dominant thread, common in his work is the use of his own body and methods of performance art, which he practices since 1995. Characteristic feature of his work is the use of spectators, active participation of the audience and improvisation. Such a strategy embeds his presentations into the tradition of understanding performance art as a process art, where the very moment of creation is essential. His work touches on themes of travel, trust in interpersonal relationships, and the ever present potential for personal failure.

Szrama has been regularly performing internationally in various events and festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. Further, over the past 15 years, he has been an active performance art event organiser. Between 2005 and 2013 he co-organised with Willem Wilhelmus Art Contact and New Art Contact, a series of performance art events that took place in various locations in Helsinki. In 2011 he co-organised Fake Finn Festival of Experimental Art, that took over HIAP Gallery Augusta for three days, showcasing the work of 21 artists. In 2013 Szrama co-organised Uprooted Fake Nations Festival, a three-day event that presented 16 international and local artists at HIAP Gallery Augusta. Further, he, together with performance artist Liina Kuittinen, organised a series of events titled Tonight in 2014–2015. In 2016 he curated the 18th edition of the International Art Festival Interakcje in Poland.

Szrama has worked as a producer, designer, technical manager and has been responsible for organising live art events at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme. Recently teaches, gives lectures, and offers workshops.

Szrama is a working grant recipient from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland for the year 2016 as well as the years 2018–2020 and from the Kone Foundation for 2017.

https://www.tomaszszrama.com/

"I think that we shouldn't escalate the situation, I think that for myself, I will be staying in Canada. We are obligated to go in isolation after any travel for 14 days... My performance was about disapearence and regards of the self insivibility of women. So I think that it would be the perfect occasion to work on it, and more than that, on live streamed." - Mai on Friday, March 13

Through the installation of various objects and forced improvisation, themes of identity and ethnic duality always come to punctuate and nourish the performances of Quebec-Vietnamese artist Mai Thi Bach-Ngoc Nguyen.

It is through a constant claim of the medium of performance that the artist throws a physical invitation to create a non-destructive poetry where metaphors and soul pains fit in. It could be accurate to describe art as one of the few ways that the visual poet found to transcend the dichotomy of her daily life and never-ending questions.

www.maibachngocnguyen.com

ARANTXA ARAUJO is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist with a background in neuroscience based in NYC, interested in art as a vehicle to create awareness and social change using video, mapping, LEDs and performance. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, University Settlement, Glasshouse Gallery, Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, Art in Odd Places in NYC; El Monumento a la Revolución, and El Vicio, in Mexico; RAW during Miami Art Week; The Semel and Huret&Spector Gallery in Boston; and SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh; Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada. Araujo was part of EMERGENYC (2017), ITP Camp (2018) and was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University.

https://www.arantxaaraujo.com/

WEIHUA HUA [CHINA/NYC]

《祈祷》
说明：在人类面临这一次疫情挑战，在整个人类面临的生和死之间，我不认为艺术家有任何作用可言。我能做的是默默为因为疫情去世的人祈祷，为救死扶伤的医护工作者祈祷，为在日夜努力力图攻克病毒的科学家祈祷，为天下苍生的生命祈祷。
艺术家：Weihua Hua
时间：2020.03.20
地点：纽约
时间：30分钟
过程：穿西服，在黑夜中站立，双手抱胸，虔诚祈祷。

2020..3.20
prayer
Explanation: I don't think artists have any role to play in the face of this epidemic challenge, and between life and death. What I can do is to pray silently for those who died because of the epidemic, for the medical workers who rescued the wounded, for the scientists who work hard to overcome the virus day and night, and for the lives of the world.
Artist: Weihua Hua
Time: 2020.03.20
Location: New York
Time: 30 minutes
Process: Wearing a suit, standing in the dark, arms folded, praying prayerfully.

03.20.2020