Walking Tour: Nina Folkersma
In the Hoofprints of Leonora Carrington
November 8, 2025
Performa 2025, New York
Location
Central Park Entrance West
Central Park Entrance West/W 79th St
Schedule
Sat, Nov 8, 12:30 pm (45 min.)
Sat, Nov 8, 2 pm (45 min.)
Sat, Nov 8, 3:30 pm (45 min.)
In the Hoofprints of Leonora Carrington is a guided walk from the Central Park entrance at W 79th Street to 306 W 73rd Street, an address where Carrington briefly lived in the early 1940s. Framed as an “interspecies dialogue,” the tour invites participants (and their leashed pets) to choose an animal alter-ego and move through the city as a mixed herd of humans, animals, and ghosts. Along the Bridle Path, Nina Folkersma threads together city lore and surrealist history; Baudelaire’s flâneur, Dalí’s anteater, and New York’s own wild sightings, before pausing at the Dakota to attune to unseen presences.
Part of Performa 2025 i.c.w. Extra Extra
Feel Me, Hear Me – Echoes From the Metropole
Performa has partnered with Extra Extra—an interdisciplinary platform exploring sensuality in urban spaces—to present a series of fourteen sensory walking tours throughout New York City. Drawing from Performa’s rich 20-year archive and Extra Extra’s investigative spirit, select international artists, curators, designers and thinkers will reimagine New York’s cultural landscape through themes of play, intimacy, and the city’s evolving future.
These walks invite participants to experience the city and its performance landmarks, from SoHo and Tribeca to Harlem, Brooklyn, and the East Village, through an intimate sensory lens of voice and place.
The program will coincide with Performa’s 20th anniversary, featuring city walks compiled and guided by Andrius Arutiunian, Defne Ayas with RoseLee Goldberg, Nadine Botha, Nina Folkersma, Gabriel Fontana, Emmanuel Iduma, Adam Kleinman, Gabriel Lester, Raimundas Malašauskas, Tavia Nyong’o, Willem de Rooij, and McKenzie Wark.
The guided tours are a harbinger of hope for an unexpected future of the metropole. They encourage you to rediscover the city’s shifting sensuality and engage deeply with its performative legacy, mapped through Performa’s archive.
Join us for this extraordinary journey where artists, designers and thinkers transform how we see, hear and feel the city, offering new perspectives of hope in one of the world’s most vibrant cities.
Credits
Co-produced by Performa and Extra Extra. Curated by Defne Ayas, Senior Curator-at-Large, Performa, and Director, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and Samira Benlaloua, Artistic Director, Extra Extra.
Supporters
A Performa and Extra Extra Project
. Produced by Performa and Extra Extra. Supported by Creative Industries Fund, Consulate General of the Netherlands, Lithuanian Cultural Institute, Mondriaan Fund, the Municipality of Rotterdam, and the Netherland-America Foundation.
