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Presenting visual & performance art in unexpected public places. 𝘈𝘪𝘖𝘗 2026: 𝘜𝘛𝘖𝘗𝘐𝘈𝘚 coming Sep 26 & 27 to NY

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@embarcacao.entidade went to New York City for @artinoddplaces UTOPIA 2026

Featuring in this images our epic family:
The Devil embodied by @tanasha_g
The High Priestess by @stacey.z.anders
The Shaman by @troizel
The Intergalactic by @aluutte
The void by @cristinabartleydominguez

Pictures shot on film by @brittinavase and edited by @alex.chellet.studio

Curated by @pancholopez @arantxaaraujo

Special thanks to @tobinpolk and @miaojiaxinstudio for supporting documentation and filming.

More to come…

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On September 11, 2026, The Archive of Possibility, one of my ongoing projects, came to life as a personal studio performance, shared with a dear guest in my private studio. She called it a 'ceremony.'

Then, on September 27, the work continued its life in the public realm as part of the 21st year of Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS @artinoddplaces on 14th Street in Manhattan.

Huge thanks to the AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS team and to everyone who supported this piece through their contributions, whether during its creation or presentation, and through their time and participation in imagining, even for a moment, a life not yet touched. Without them, this piece would not exist.

Special thanks to my incredible daughter, Niki Nikakhlagh, who patiently and beautifully documented the performance on that eventful, rain-soaked Sunday.

Supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

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A MOST EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL IS IMMINENT

Let the bells ring. Let the heavens part. Let the city prepare itself.

Visionary outsider folk artist, international influencer, and provocateur of uncertain jurisdiction, CA$H COW, announces the forthcoming public action PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, a spectacular New York City intervention of uncertain consequence and potentially historic significance.

On Saturday, November 7, this most unconventional dignitary of the contemporary world shall make an appearance on the streets of Manhattan. The occasion calls for volunteer videographers and photographers to document the proceedings for posterity, or at the very least, for the internet.

THE GRAND ITINERARY

12 PM to 1 PM | 23rd Street
Beginning at First Avenue and proceeding west to Tenth Avenue.

1 PM to 2 PM | 14th Street
Beginning at Eleventh Avenue and proceeding east to Avenue A.

Members of the press, documentarians, image-makers, loyal subjects, curious bystanders, and all persons of sound or questionable judgment are cordially invited to attend.

Those wishing to secure a place in this momentous affair may DM here, send correspondence to artinoddplaces@gmail.com, or simply present themselves on the day, when history, spectacle, and the possibility of loose change shall converge upon the streets of New York.

No velvet rope. No papal bull. No guarantee of miracles.

CA$H COW IS COMING.
Govern yourselves accordingly.

#CashCow #PenniesFromHeaven #ArtInOddPlaces #NYC #PublicArt

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Two weeks ago, we had the pleasure of participating in Art in Odd Places: Utopias. Our piece, "Prompt 'n Play," was an artistic intervention which invited participants to co-create an interactive play space outside the McBurney YMCA.

Special thanks to these artists and organizations:
@materialsforthearts for donating materials
@artinoddplaces for their energy and support over a rainy weekend
@ed.woodham for being an incredible life force of energy
@aiop_nyc for their logistical support
@arantxaaraujo and @katya.at.the.studio for this opportunity and all of the effort into curating such an amazing festival.

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Last Friday, I built new sides for the Foam Booth, the enclosure made originally for last year’s CounterPointe collaboration with @annaantongiorgi that I planned to take to last weekend’s @artinoddplaces - the wind had already started so I tested it with weights to make sure it would hold up during the nor’easter on Saturday.

As the forecast changed and projected wind gusts rose, I decided it wouldn’t be safe and opted to improvise an alternative. But the amazing sunset on Friday gave me the chance to get some photos and documentation of my own semi private performance (with a cameo by my cone-of-shame-sporting Velcro dog Thelma) like that I was hoping to give others the opportunity to do. Another time …

#artinoddplaces #noreaster

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Art in Odd Places, September 27, 2026. Where I learned (again) that the Emergency Index is a place. And a feeling still drifting from the lonely apartments where we watch the storm from a window. And a memory of a silent walk to work with sweat running down our backs. And the idea that the weather is not itself hostile but some larger reminder that adaptation is difficult and a privilege. To stand in front of the box fan, to feel the heat from the subway grate. Like the place where the air and the overheated sea meet and create something that moves and howls. Without the Refuge but under the shelter of what my friend called fancy scaffolding there was listening and exchange. I’m still not sure if it’s possible to collectively hold or release somatic residues of climate trauma that I carry in my right shoulder, shivering in my umbrella dress. In the company of friends and strangers. Sharing some of the stories I’ve been gifted through the witness prints. What are the landscapes where we can imagine a displaced emergency covering parts of the skyline? Like the low clouds and some mix of grief and gratitude. And this passage into the season of storms where we gathered.

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It happened suddenly. I was alone in the rain installing my goddesses over an empty storefront when I looked up and saw one was missing. A man was walking away. I ran in front of him and saw he was tearing her apart. I cried out “why did you do that?” He yelled “because it's ugly” and I took the pieces from his hands.

A kind person was suddenly there with an umbrella, comforting me. She said she was a therapist. She stayed until Arantxa and a friend came and took me under their wings.

I was more shaken than I realized, afraid my other works were missing. We made what felt like a long journey to the west to where the whole crew was set up. Everyone was so kind, bringing me tea & donuts. Ed dried the rain from all of my goddesses and encouraged me to tell the story to get it out of my body.

Katya said maybe this was the patriarchy feeling threatened by these nonbinary goddesses. She also said it seemed cosmic & I began to think of myths of dismemberment like Osiris, Zagreus, Purusha… sometimes gods are torn apart because they are too powerful, sometimes new worlds are created or a rebirth takes place.

Someone noted that he had ripped the goddess artfully and indeed he had: across her neck, waist, legs, & ankles, into six pieces. He could have torn down everything or attacked me or crumpled her up, but he even gave her back.

Originally I had wanted to invite passersby to engage with my goddesses. I had designed a ritual where people could choose one to trace with chalk as a blessing, but in the rain I left this part out.

Perhaps this was a ritual. Perhaps this goddess was meant to be broken. Even in the moment, I had told the therapist that I might repair the pieces in some way to commemorate the experience. Yes, like with gold, she agreed. In a recent narrative medicine class, we discussed kintsugi as a way of processing trauma. Maybe he needed something to break. Maybe I needed something to put back together. Maybe I needed to be reminded of the fragmented world we live in.

In the end, it felt like a gift that I got to spend the rest of the day in community having conversations I wouldn't have otherwise had & I received this unexpected jolt of inspiration

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Thank you @artinoddplaces @arantxaaraujo @pancholopez for inviting me to present Germinating Futures this past weekend during AiOP 2026 UTOPIAS. It was an important moment for me to bring this project to life thanks to the organizers of this performance art festival in its 21st year! I had beautiful exchanges with people willing to listen and engage in conversation, receive free seeds, propagated plants, seed dispersals, and learn how to fold a seed envelope.

#ArtInOddPlaces #AiOP2026 #PublicArt

@gwynethleech
@juliana.q.m
@blankaamezkua

Thanks to Carlos and Rejin for documenting! There's the cutest dog I've ever seen in the last photo😍

images 1-9 @carlosrigau
images 10-13 @rejinl

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A very special part of this year’s @artinoddplaces was the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Franklin Furnace, one of the most important spaces for performance and experimental art in Lower Manhattan, and its founder, the supremely legendary Martha Wilson. #aiop2026 #utopias #franklinfurnace #performanceart #womenartists

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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS, a festival that brought together visual and performance artists to imagine the city not as it is, but as it could be. Over two days, and despite the severe weather, the projects transformed 14th Street in Manhattan and invited us to consider other possible ways of inhabiting the present.

There, I presented yo, Guirre, a performance that brings two ancestral practices from the Canary Islands, my homeland, to the streets of New York: Silbo Gomero and Salto del Pastor. The action offers an alternative vision of the future rooted in ancestral practices that have survived colonization, reclaiming them as other ways of moving, communicating, and relating to the territory.

Este fin de semana tuve la oportunidad de participar en Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS, un festival que reunió a artistas visuales y de performance para imaginar la ciudad no tal como es, sino como podría ser. Durante dos días, y a pesar del fuerte temporal, las propuestas transformaron la calle 14 de Manhattan e invitaron a pensar otras formas posibles de habitar el presente.

Allí presenté yo, Guirre, una performance que lleva a las calles de Nueva York dos prácticas ancestrales de las Islas Canarias, mi tierra: el Silbo Gomero y el Salto del Pastor. La acción ofrece una visión alternativa del futuro arraigada en prácticas ancestrales que han sobrevivido a la colonización, recuperándolas como otras formas de desplazarse, comunicarse y relacionarse con el territorio.

Thank you to
@artinoddplaces artinoddplaces, @arantxaaraujo and @pancholopez for including yo, Guirre!

Photo @pacoamate_
Vídeo @edgargisbert
Costume design & styling @bernatbuscato

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Amid the buzz of art fairs…WITH RAIN AND ALL…AIOP: Utopia artists set out to share in the streets of New York City…as Rhea Nayyar states “Stay curious, and don’t be too serious.”

Art in Odd Places Participants Seek Utopia Under Dark Clouds / Despite the rain, the public art festival’s 21st edition unfolded across 14th Street throughout the nor’easter this past weekend. WE WERE THERE! AND YOU?

Read all about it here:

https://hyperallergic.com/art-in-odd-places-participants-seek-utopia-under-dark-clouds/?ref=new-york-newsletter

Thanks to friends that managed to catch us, we know it was a challenging weekend for everyone...

Congratulations to our wonderful organizers, artists and curators that despite everything they made everything possible! @arantxaaraujo and @pancholopez
¡Los amooooooo!

Photos by Leonidas Alexandropoulos...my hubby is such a trooper!!! No one as him!!!!! So grateful for his interminable support, ahora y siempreee...

@keoqui
@rejinl
@artinoddplaces
@velazquezart729
@aureliux1
@hyperallergic

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Flood (A Path Through), 2026

I began this work by observing traces of water moving across the pavement of West 14th Street—small paths left behind as water navigated the architecture of the sidewalk.

I responded by allowing the hand-pulled linen to create a path of its own, spreading across the pavement and forcing pedestrians to alter their movements around and through it.

And then it rained.

Water returned to the site.

The linen absorbed it. The pavement changed. People changed their routes. A work conceived from the traces of water became an encounter with water itself.

Presented within UTOPIAS, Flood (A Path Through) considers the city as something that is never entirely fixed—a space continually reorganized by weather, bodies, materials, and forces we often overlook.

For a few hours on West 14th Street, the sidewalk became something else.

Flood (A Path Through)
Art in Odd Places: UTOPIAS @artinoddplaces
West 14th Street, New York
2026

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