September 17-20, 2026
September 24-27, 2026
511 West 25th Street,
New York, NY 10001
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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.
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.
Performances will take place during the 24th & 25th editions of Clio Art Fair in New York City.