September 17-20, 2026
September 24-27, 2026
511 West 25th Street,
New York, NY 10001
Call for performance - apply now
CALL FOR PERFORMANCE
“I Don’t Want To Be Useful”
Clio Art Fair – September 2026 Editions
“I Don’t Want To Be Useful” invites performance artists to challenge the pressure to be productive, efficient, marketable, or easily understood. In a culture that often measures value through output, visibility, and constant optimization, this program creates space for refusal, slowness, ambiguity, presence, and acts that do not need to justify themselves.
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We welcome works that explore exhaustion, resistance, absurdity, silence, vulnerability, uselessness, care, failure, play, and the body as a site of interruption. The stage becomes a place where art does not have to serve a function, explain itself, or perform usefulness for approval.
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Performances will take place during the 24th & 25th editions of Clio Art Fair in New York City.