Nicole Peyrafitte

Tuning, Toning, Flowing At Socrates Sculpture Park
2023-09-09 15:15 - 16:30 UTC | Socrates Sculpture Park, 34-32 Vernon Boulevard, Queens, NY, 11106
Join us in a free, collaborative performance led by artists Betsy Damon, Mary Mattingly, & Nicole Peyrafitte
around Mattingly’s sculpture Ebb of a Spring Tide at Socrates Sculpture Park.
Bring a bell, a drum, a spatula—anything to make a noise!
Saturday, September 9, 2023
3:15 PM 4:30 PM

Socrates Sculpture Park
34-32 Vernon Boulevard
Queens, NY, 11106
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A Sympoietic Walk/Shop through Constitution Marsh
2023-10-28 10:00 - 13:00
A Sympoietic Walk/Shop through Constitution Marsh led by Nicole Peyrafitte
Sympoiesis or “making-with” is a term used by Donna Haraway, the feminist philosopher of science, who has been calling for an interspecies symbiosis. Join us in exploring a more intimate relation with the natural world.
Suggested Material & Equipment to bring:

Small notebook
Pencils/pens
Camera
Snacks/Water/Tick repellent/ Sunscreen
Small musical instrument
Good hiking shoes – we will be walking and the terrain is rough until we get to the boardwalk

Sign up here:

Joris/Peyrafitte @ Poetry Project NYC
2024-02-28 20:00 - 22:00 | The Poetry Project, NY, United States
A multimedia soirée with Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte weaving, braiding their individual and shared travails.

Earth Celebrations’ – Ecological and Social Change through the Arts
2024-05-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Jardin del Paraiso
Join me for Earth Celebrations for the Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions
Saturday May 11, 2024 (rain date Sunday May 12)
A short performance action: Lifeworld at Jardin del Paraiso celebrating the spirit of the moment at El Jardin
Detailed program will be uploaded here closer to the date.
ECOLOGICAL CITY – Art & Climate Solutions Action project applies Earth Celebrations’ innovative cultural strategies to engage our Lower East Side community and build engagement, collaboration and action on climate challenges and solutions to mitigate impacts of flooding and sea-level rise, decrease waste, improve water quality and conservation, cultivate sustainable urban agriculture and reduce carbon and global warming.

Sympoiesis & Conviviality at Mildred’s Lane
2024-06-12 | MILDRED’S LANE, 517 Plank Road, Beach Lake, 18405, United States
I am delighted to be part of The Land Stewardship & Skill Share a week of workshops at Mildred’s Lane.
The session runs from June 7-14
SYMPOESIS & CONVIVIALITY will be on Thursday June 12:
Nicole Peyrafitte will guide participants through a “walk-shop” (walking workshop) to engage in conviviality (living-with) and sympoiesis (making-with, or becoming-with) the rich multispecies environment at Mildred’s Lane. Silent walking and listening will be interspersed with adaptive expercises that shift our expectations about how we move through and engage with a site, from experimental movement to making music. The walk will yield surprising perceptions both for those who (think they) know Mildred’s Lane well, and for those – like Nicole – who have never visited before!
After the “walk-shop,” Nicole will make crêpes for a lunchtime “cook-shop,” teaching us the history and technique of this traditional French food, which is affordable to make, adaptable to a variety of diets, and easily inflected by readily-available fillings and toppings — in this case, farm-fresh produce, dairy, and foraged herbs and fungi.

AOOA Farm : A Nourishing Walk-Shop
2024-06-15 10:30 - 13:00 | AOOA Farm, 221 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY, 10924, United States
Reconnect with nature and take home resourceful tips for integrating simple, healthy recipes into your daily life. Lunch is included!
Get your tickets here:
https://www.alloneoneall.org/event-details/a-nourishing-walk-shop-lunch

100 WOMEN OF SPIRIT Exhibition
2024-06-25 - 2024-07-18 | Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NY
Very excited to announce the 100 WOMEN OF SPIRIT exhibition!
opening on Tuesday, June 25th from 2:00-6:00 PM on view through July 18th, 2024.
This exhibition will be the culmination of the 9 editions of 11 Women of Spirit that have taken place over the last four years and will feature the work of all 99 Women who have participated in the project. I was included in the first installment .

ZÜRCHER

New York / Paris

www.galeriezurcher.com
Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, New York NY 10012
Tel: +1 212-777-0790

STAND 4 Brooklyn: Karstic-Action VOTE 2024!
2024-08-17 17:00 - 2024-08-31 17:00 | STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, United States
STAND4 Gallery announces :
Karstic-Action VOTE 2024!
Performance- Vote drive – Exhibition
Saturday, August 17th – 5:00PM
Voting in November 2024 is of the utmost importance and we are back on our steadfast mission to mobilize voters.
Exhibition of our Domopoetic Karstic-Action VOTE 2020 works
(courtesy of Galerie Simoncini) will be in view from:

Saturday, August 17th – August 31st
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12:00-3:00
& by appointment
Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center
414 78th Street
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn New York 11209 US
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Adeena Karasick, Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
2024-09-06 19:00 - 21:00
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn

Reading/Performance for River Poems @ Lansingburgh Historical Society
2024-09-14 12:00 - 14:00
Reading with Pierre Joris and Scott Laudati, curated by poet/activist Nancy Klepsch. The reading will be on the porch of The Herman Melville House, today the headquarters of the Lansingburgh Historical Society.
12-2 PM
Suggested donation requested to benefit Lansingburgh Historical Society

AOOA Farm Residency & Exhibition
2024-09-21 | AOOA Farm, 221 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY, 10924, United States
Exhibition as the final part of my summer long residency at All One One All – A Regenerative Silvopasture Farm in Goshen NY .

Joris/Peyrafitte Translationary Practices — University of Arizona campus
2024-11-22 10:00 - 11:00 | University of Arizona, Modern Languages building
University of Arizona campus
Modern Languages building
Room 453
Translationary Practices
Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte will engage in a presentation of the ways in which poets & artists can draw on distant languages & traditions or invent or pretend to invent new languages so as to go beyond the limitations of their first language. The talk will include documentation of their own performance work of poetic & translationary materials.

Joris/Peyrafitte POG Reading, Tucson, Arizona
2024-11-23 19:00 - 21:30 | Wave Archive, 197 E Toole Ave, Tucson, Arizona
Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte will weave & braid their individual & shared travails.
Domopoetics is the name Joris & Peyrafitte give to 34 years of daily practices in transforming & intertwining their lives & works, be it through writing, painting, video, physical conditioning, cooking & all other shared household activities.
Karstic refers to the geological phenomena of dissolution & transformation at work in the formation of superficial or underground limestone topographies. Here it is taken literally & figuratively as nature & cave explorations are an important part of their process.

Essential Shore / Permeable Future Exhibition
2025-04-19 15:00 - 2025-06-21 18:00 | STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, United States
I am truly thrilled to be part of this exhibition:
Essential Shore / Permeable Future
Bay Ridge Public Art & Ecology Biennial
April 19 – June 21, 2025
Opening Reception
3:00 – 6:00 PM
Stand4 Gallery
414 78th Street
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn New York 11209
R train. around the cornet of 77th street
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and Opening Day Events:
Saturday, April 19, 12:00 – 6:00 PM
12:00 – 2:30 Protest Karaoke (Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere) Owls Head Park
12:00 – 2:00 Lingo Bingo (Thomas Gallagher), Owls Head Park.
12:00 – 3:00 Gallery open for viewing
3:00 – 6:00 Opening Reception at Stand4 Gallery
3:00 – 5:00 Lingo Bingo at Stand4 Gallery
— May 3rd : I will lead a Bird Tour on NYC Ferry (details coming soon)
— June 11 : Part of the Film Screening at Alpine Cinema (evening)
Curated by Jennifer McGregor
Participating Artists: Cynthia Alberto, Graciela Cassel, Emilie Clark, Betsy Damon,
Thomas Gallagher, Clarinda Mac Low/ Carolyn Hall (Sunk Shore), Jan Mun, Valerie Tevere/
Angel Nevarez, Seema Lisa Pandya, Nicole Peyrafitte, Ana Bessie Ratner (The Other
Almanac), Hannah Salyer, Brooke Singer

Upstate Art Weekend
2025-07-19 13:00 - 14:00 | AOOA Farm, 221 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY, 10924, United States
Saturday July 19th I will be at All One One All Farm (Goshen) for Upstate Art Weekend.
Come & treat yourself to a delicious lunch & performance!

Performance 1PM
I will also have art for sale ( photos, books, drawing…

Looking forward to see you!

PoemTalk: Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg @Kelly Writers House
2025-09-10 18:00 - 20:00
Philadelphia — September 10, 2025
The Kelly Writers House, UPENNSpecial Episode of PoemTalk: Pierre Joris & Jerome Rothenberg6:00 PM in personCo-sponsored by: The Creative Writing ProgramRSVP here to attend in person

NYC launch/memorial : Pierre Joris — Poasis: Many Tongues, Many Fires
2025-09-12 19:15 | The Poetry Project, NY, United States
Friday September 12, 2025
Pierre Joris — Poasis: Many Tongues, Many FiresThe Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church131 E 10th St, New York, NY
Reception 7:15PM
Reading: 8PM sharp
The program will feature poetry, music, & tributes reflecting the scope of Pierre’s decades-spanning, boundary-crossing work
— and most of all POASIS II (Wesleyan University Press), selected poems from 2000–2024.
Copies will be available at the event, and you can also order the book online if you cannot attend.
Book link: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819501950/poasis-ii/

Pierre Joris — Poasis & Beyond: Always the Many @ NYSW BookFestival Albany,NY
2025-09-27 16:00 - 21:30
Albany — September 27, 2025
Pierre Joris — Poasis & Beyond: Always the Many
Part 1: Panel — 4:00–5:30 p.m. in UAlbany Campus Center Auditorium,
Sponsored by NYSWI and Department of English.Part 2: Reading & Performance — 6:30 p.m. in UAlbany Campus Center Multipurpose Room following a 5:30 p.m. reception. Hosted by Department of English with support from NYSWI. More details TBA.
Presented by The English Department, New York State Writers Institute, and University at Albany, as part of NYSWI Book Festival

Stand 4 Gallery : A Degree of Uncertainty II
2025-11-15 12:00 - 2025-11-23 15:00 | STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, United States
A Degree of Uncertainty II
Stand4 Gallery & Community Art Center
414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY
November 15 – 23, 2025
Gallery hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12–3 PM
I’m pleased to take part in this invitational small-works exhibition exploring how every measure—of art, life, or science—carries its own degree of uncertainty.
Works are available for purchase online through Stand4 Gallery’s shop & webiste:https://stand4-gallery.square.site/s/shop

CHARTING THE NARROWS & THE HARBOR SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
2026-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 | STAND4 Gallery, 414 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, United States
May 23 3:00 – 4:00 Place: Stand4 Gallery Nicole Peyrafitte artist and poet, reads from Interglacial Narrows by Pierre Joris, a collection that draws on his own poems and his work as a translator and essayist, and was conceived at the edge of The Narrows. Peyrafitte participated in Essential Shore / Permeable Future at Stand4 last year. Charting the Narrows & The Harbor, a solo installatio Peyra. This is McGregor’s first exhibition as an artist at Stand4 Gallery. She was the curator of Stand4’s first and second public art biennials, Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens and Essential Shore, Permeable Future, which focused on the community and ecology of Bay Ridge. McGregor’s immersive biennial work with Stand4 is the inspiration for this place-based installation. Collaborations with past biennial artists, Jan Mun and Nicole Peyrafitte will be included in the exhibition’s programming

Water, Agent of Life & Mementos of a Living Practice
2026-06-18 18:00 - 2026-07-04 17:00 | 198 Gallery, 198 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Besty Damon :Water, Agent of Life
Nicole Peyrafitte: Mementos of Like Practice
June 18 – July 5, 2026
Two artists whose work bridges art, ecology, performance, and activism.
Betsy Damon, a Guggenheim Fellow and pioneering ecofeminist artist, presents recent paintings and collages inspired by the creative agency of water itself:
“Every piece in this exhibition is created from two basic water images: one is water spinning into vortices in a creek and the other is the movement of healthy microbes in a drop of water as seen through a microscope. In this intense investigation from which all life is created.” – Betsy Damon
Nicole Peyrafitte presents paintings, bird studies, performance-based work, and reflections drawn from an ongoing interdisciplinary practice spanning visual art, food, language, and observation.

Opening Reception: June 18, 6–9pm
Action Painting Performance at 7pm

Bird State : a Performance Reading
2026-06-30 19:00 - 21:00
Bird-State: A Performative Reading
Tuesday, June 30, 7 PM
Free event but RSVP here
Please join Nicole Peyrafitte at the gallery for Bird-State: A Performative Reading, an evening of bird poems, field notes, voice, and embodied attention presented within the exhibition.
She will read from her ongoing Bird-State series, alongside selected bird poems by Pierre Joris.
Rooted in fieldwork, memory, shores, migration, and the other-than-human world, the evening will bring together poetry, observation, and performance as part of Peyrafitte’s living practice of Bird-State

Her exhibition, Mementos of a Living Practice will also be on view (running June 18 – July 4, 2026).
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
