Don't miss a weekend in Fire Island Pines like no other. The BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island returns in 2025 with a hot weekend of music, performance, and dance. Join us for a Day Festival on the beach and stay up late at a Night Festival that goes until sunrise. Each part of the Festival showcases performances and DJ sets from some of the most exciting artists and musicians in New York and beyond.
Participating artists include:
Shannon Funchess
Jonathan González
Byrell the Great
Nile Harris
Jas Lin
Lysis
Makadsi
River Moon
Symara Sarai
WILDBLUR
The 2025 BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island, titled Dystopian Ecstasy, presents an inverted, uncanny world where performances act as portals to multiple realities, blurring the line between what is real and what is a distorted reflection.
At a time when the US’s national political rhetoric insists on conservatism and obedience, the commissioned artists challenge coherence, conformity, and dogma. They offer ruminations on liminality, illusion, and queer possibility through durational performances, sensory, sensational experiences, and evocations of spirituality and ritual. Their multifaceted and mythopoetic practices congregate to speak new narratives into existence: stories which stand at the threshold of legibility.
Situated in an historic conclave of queer celebration, liberation, and expression, the festival’s location, the Fire Island Pines, provides a generative geography by which, over the course of a three week residency, artists will engage with the literal and symbolic landscape to cultivate new work. The artists’ spatial, sonic, and personified transformations will guide an audience through slippery, transitional spaces: day to night, club to beach, embodied to alienated, past to present, life to death and back again.
Performances will open doorways to numinous circumstances, where perhaps the performers themselves are messengers from the other side. Behold an artistic spectacle at the edge of existence.
Dystopian Ecstasy is curated by BOFFO Programs Manager Sydney Fishman and Programs Coordinator Lucas Ondak.
One can give a name or many names to a construct and call it a god.
– Rabun Taylor
