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
Michael Workman, Mirrorglass: Land Acts (Traces), 2023. Performance, construction flag installation, text, and sound.
Zephyr / SITE/less (Michelle Kranicke and Molly Strom), 2023. Performance and installation view at SITE/less, Chicago.
Amanda Saucedo, Mirrorglass: Land Acts (Traces), 2023. Performed at the first Festival of Holes at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago.
National Book Award-winning poet Daniel Borzutzky reading at Festival of Holes, 2025.
Michael Workman, Hurm Watches, 2022. Sakura and Black Magic inks on archival journal paper.
2007
The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program was launched in 2007 in celebration of the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary. This unprecedented program donated over 28,500 photographs by Andy Warhol to educational institutions across the United States. More than 180 college and university museums, galleries and art collections throughout the nation participated in the program, each receiving a curated selection of original Polaroid photographs and gelatin silver prints.