The Festival of Holes is a two-day event and exhibition platform for the presentation of hybrid work that lacks visibility or support in the commercial art world. Instead of favoring legibility, scalability, or market potential, the festival celebrates work that is radical, experimental, and defies easy categorization. To be held at SITE/less in Chicago, a guerilla storefront located beneath elevated tracks of the city’s rail line.
The Festival of Holes
1928
August 6, 1928. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh to Julia and Andrej Warhola, Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants and devout Byzantine Catholics who had fled poverty and war in current-day Slovakia.