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Living Practices Friday, June 26, 7pm Short Films & Conversations, Betsy Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte Moderated by Alex Jones |
Betsey Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte — Living Practices: Short Films/Conversations
Bird State : a Performance Reading
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.
Water, Agent of Life & Mementos of a Living Practice
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
A Busy Summer 2026
 Greetings! It feels good to be this busy — carrying Pierre’s work forward, & keeping the promise I made to him: to keep going with my own work. So this spring/summer is full. Pierre’s Reader is out. the Poets House three-months exhibition of his notebooks opens on July 14 —his 80th birthday. His gravestone has been erected. My exhibition with my dear friend, the indefatigable & inspiring eco-artist Betsy Damon, is around the corner. Ariane Daguin & I keep cooking along on Voilà Voilà!!, our cooking channel. This Saturday I will be reading from Pierre’s work at Stand4 Gallery as part of Jennifer Jo McGregor’s beautiful exhibition, Charting the Narrows & the Harbor . And Rigwreck, titled after Pierre’s poem & for which he wrote the libretto, is now out from The Crossings the four-times Grammy winning choir conducted by Donald Nally. Below you’ll find all the information, links & dates. Please come in person if you can — and if you are too far away, you can always follow along online. Thank you for reading. À bientôt, Nicole |
DAMON / PEYRAFITTE   Betsy Damon: WATER, the Agent of Life Nicole Peyrafitte: Mementos of a Life Practice OPENING 6PM with Action Performance Painting 7PM Ben Chadabe (percussions) Thursday June 18 COLLECTIVE ACTION CONVERSATION Saturday, June 20, 4pm Betsy Damon and Lauren Bon LIVING PRACTICES Friday, June 26, 7pm Short Films & Conversations with Betsy Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte Moderated by Alex Jones BIRD-STATE: A PERFORMATIVE READING Tuesday, June 30, 7pm Nicole Peyrafitte 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. 198 Gallery 198, 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 https://www.flipsnack.com/6877BAF7C6F/damon_peyrafitte_card-_web |
THE READER IS OUT!  In Between Keep Moving: A Pierre Joris Reader (2026) Edited by Ariel Resnikoff & Pierre Joris Afterword by Charles Bernstein. In Between, Keep Moving: The Pierre Joris Reader gathers, for the first time, the range of Pierre Joris’ work across poetry, prose, poetics, translation & collaboration. Spanning more than half a century, it includes a previously unpublished memoir section and traces his lifelong movement through languages, thresholds & translingual word-worlds. The volume opens toward the continuing life of his work. |
PIERRE JORIS’ NOTEBOOKS
Please save the date:
Pierre Joris’ Notebooks Exhibition
Poets House, New York
July–October 2026
Opening July 14 on Pierre’s 80th birthday
Reading with guests soon TBA
Before Pierre’s notebooks travel to the Centre National de Littérature du Luxembourg to be fully digitized and made available to the world, Poets House will present a three-month exhibition curated by John Vincler & the Poets House team, with events, readings & seminars to be announced soon.
VOILÀ VOILÀ ! Are you following Voilà Voilà? With Ariane Daguin, we created a lively cooking series rooted in friendship, Gascon know-how & the pleasure of cooking with confidence. Find us, follow us, & comment on: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or YouTube We have now posted to 40 fun, instructive food videos — and counting — and have also been leading joyful hands-on workshops at AOOA Farm, with more coming up. Next workshop: August 9 — Omelettes! |  |
 | READING PIERRE’S POEM AT STAND 4 GALLERY I am delighted — & deeply moved — to have been invited by Jennifer Jo McGregor to read Pierre’s poems as part of her beautiful exhibition, Charting the Narrows & the Harbor. Pierre launched Interglacial Narrows at Stand 4 in 2023 (full reading here). So it was especially meaningful to read his poems to echo Jennifer’s work on the Narrows, the harbor, shoreline weather, maps, memory, land & water. Was May 23 — 3-4 PM 414, 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY11209 |
GREENWOOD: Pierre’s resting place Pierre’s gravestone has now been erected in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.He is located in Cedar Dell, also known as Druid Circle — one of the cemetery’s most historic areas, with some of its oldest grave markers dating back to the mid-eighteenth century. Pierre & I used to visit this place.Go read him a poem & bring your binoculars too — Green-Wood is a prime birding destination. Look for lot 44602 |  | ||||||||||
 | LAST NOTE! Pierre was very fond of his several collaborations with The Crossing, and it is wonderful to see Rigwreck — titled after Pierre’s poem, with music by composer Gabriel Jackson and text/libretto by Pierre Joris — now out, performed by the award-winning choir The Crossing under conductor Donald Nally. Streaming links are gathered here, and physical CDs are available through The Crossing’s album page. |
Nicole Peyrafitte / Karstic-Action : Overstory / Pastels, Pigments, Egg Yolks on Paper / 78”x42”
Stand 4 Gallery : A Degree of Uncertainty II
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
