New York, March 20th-27th
47 Great Jones, Floor 3
47 Great Jones, Floor 3
Re–Fest is CultureHub's annual festival that brings artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future. Our 2026 festival introduces the theme Re–Mapping, which gestures toward experiences of re-telling, re-seeing, and re-learning. Re–Mapping engages modes of mapping as a creative process that resists maps as stable products of universal knowledge.
2026 marks a year of transition for CultureHub as funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which has been the main funder of Re–Fest and other CultureHub programs for over a decade, has abruptly dissipated. As federal priorities shift starkly away from arts and culture in the United States, CultureHub is mapping a new path forward to structure support for Re–Fest.
As we chart this change, the 2026 festival is occurring on a smaller scale with workshops, conversations, and performances that initiate a two-year exploration of the theme Re–Mapping. Re–Fest is building towards a larger-scale festival in 2027 that offers participants ways to unlearn dominant narratives and understand their place in history anew.
Performances
Hippolytus
(in the arms of Aphrodite)
Friday, March 20th
Performances in 30 minute intervals from 5-9pm
Saturday, March 21st
Performances in 30 minute intervals from 1-6pm with a break between 3-4pm
Sunday, March 22nd
Performances in 30 minute intervals from 1-6pm with a break between 3-4pm
Description
An immersive augmented reality theatre experience, rooted in Euripides’ mythic tale, the performance explores the tragic fate of Hippolytus—a devout follower of Artemis who shuns Aphrodite, goddess of love. As divine vengeance unfolds, the natural world descends into chaos: trees ignite, landscapes crumble, and catastrophe looms.
Duration
20 minutes
Directed by
Yolanda Markopoulou
Produced by
Athens and Epidaurus Festival
Performed by
Paris Alexandropoulos and Vivi Fotopoulou
Workshops
(01.) Workshop
6:30pm - 9pm ET
$15
CultureHub NYC
Tuesday, March 24th
Dismantling
A workshop led by Blair Simmons and Cyd Cipolla, considers the acts of dismantling and co-creating as political, social, and/or meditative acts.
(02.) Workshop
6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
$15
CultureHub NYC
Wednesday, March 25th
lineage in loops
A craft × code workshop led by Helen Lin and Yu Lee that traces language, technology, and cultural memory through textile and computation.
(03.) Workshop
6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
$15
CultureHub NYC
Thursday, March 26th
Flowering a Computer
A workshop-performance led by Chia Amisola that plays with networks, ecologies, and computers as instruments.
Conversations
(01.) Conversation
Monday, March 23rd
Online Livestream
1pm ET / 10am PT
Deviant Play
Isabel Beavers and Lou Fauroux discuss charting queer histories and technologic fluidity.
Artists Isabel Beavers and Lou Fauroux examine the restorative capacity of re-mapping histories. While mapping can and has been used to assert power, revoke rights, and de-territorialize peoples, tracing and materializing hidden queer stories is also an act of resistance. By charting queer networks in Hollywood’s Golden Age, Fauroux unearths figures, narratives, and spaces that expand our understanding of LA’s queer past, thus opening up possibilities for queer futurity. These queer figures materialize as digital avatars, their relationships playing out in imagined dialogues and reconstructed spaces. Beavers and Fauroux discuss how fluid technological practices can counter the omnipotent structures of the post-digital age.
Lou Fauroux is a 2026 resident with Villa Albertine. Described as “GTA meets Hollywood Babylon”, their project Diamonds and Rust imagines a docu-fictional Los Angeles through a queer, critical, and technological lens.
Isabel Beavers is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles working at the intersections of new media, ecology, and collective action. Beavers is the Artistic Director of Supercollider LA.
About the Artists
(02.) Conversation
Wednesday, March 25th
Online Livestream
1pm ET / 10am PT
Anticolonial Gestures
Art politically and the Politics of Memory with eho animato and doplgenger.
Through personal collaboration histories, protest experiences and struggles of work on the independent scene, the dialogue between eho animato collective and doplgenger duo connects their artistic practices with solidarity, resistance and persistent effort to create collective meaning beyond capitalist and colonial frameworks.
About the Artists
Doplgenger is an artist duo from Belgrade, comprising Isidora Ilić and Boško Prostran. The work of Doplgenger deals with the relation between art and politics by exploring the regimes of moving images and the modes of their reception. They rely on the tradition of experimental and avant-garde film, and through some of the actions of these traditions intervene on the existing media products or work in expanded cinema forms. In addition to the moving image, their work is realised through text, installation, performance, lecture and discussion.
Eho animato is an independent collective based in Belgrade (est. 2011), working locally and internationally at the intersection of performing arts and multimedia. In their practice, performance, digital presence, documentary material, and collective authorship come together. Eho animato has created works in the fields of performing arts, multimedia, documentary theatre, hybrid theatre, and documentary film.
(03.) Conversation
Friday, March 27th
Online Livestream
1pm ET / 10am PT
Re–Mapping as Memory, Power, and Transformation
Charlotte Brathwaite in conversation with adrienne maree brown, Malick Welli, and Wendell Marsh
Maps chart powerful relational connections. They have taken the form of star paths, river knowledge, salt routes, underground railroads, migration stories carried in the body, and instruments of empire.
In this conversation, artist and director Charlotte Brathwaite reflects with writer and activist adrienne maree brown, visual artist and photographer Malick Welli, and Black studies scholar Wendell Marsh on what new spatial languages might take form when we loosen inherited coordinates and imagine new ones by listening across land, water, and diaspora. Together they explore the ocean as a keeper of memory, the land as witness, and imagination as a practice for shaping liberatory terrains.
This is an intimate exchange between friends and collaborators about how we reorient ourselves in a time of fracture and emergence.