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Posted by Guest Blogger | Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | 0 comments

PERFORMA’s Second Life

I have been trying to track down the “Pizza Sluts” here in Second Life. Finally I stumbled upon vestiges of their performance on display at Odessey Art and Performance. When you step on the flying rolling pizzas in the back room they unleash red glowing flying objects and then suddenly you are whisked away to new uncharted territories. Some powerful pizzas they are indeed.

Posted by Performa Kamachi | Monday, June 25th, 2007 | 0 comments

Re-Master

GUEST BLOGGER: Kate Robinson, PERFORMA

Mathew Barney to present DE LAMA LAMINA and Other Short Films
Wednesday, June 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15 (Adults) $5 (Members)
IFC CENTER
323 Avenue of the Americas (West Third Street)
(212) 924-7771
http://www.ifccenter.com/event?eventid=999834

See the artist Mathew Barney tonight! See the art of Mathew Barney tonight, too. The artist will be at IFC tonight to present three of his rarely-screened short films, spanning a decade of his work.

The screening will begin with ‘De Lama Lamina’ (2004) ‘ leave it to Barney to begin in the middle, at least chronologically speaking. Set in Brazil, this performance-film, which is a collaboration with the musician Arto Lindsay, explores the culture and religion of the Afro-Brazilian spectacle of Carnaval and the geography of place.

‘Scab Action,’ (1998) the artists first video work, captures the esthetic of physical strain and pain. As viewers are subjected to nauseating, prolonged close-ups of a facial blemish (Barney’s own), the artist subjects himself to surgery by razor, needles and nose-pliers. (Obviously there is a conscious allusion to ‘ 70s body art here, the grand gestures of self-laceration in all of their psycho-symbolic meaning, but Barney’s interest seems to be less about the effect of the action on the subject than his own child-like fixation with the grotesque and its effect on the viewer.

The screening will conclude with Barney’s most recent film-performance, ‘Drawing Restraint 13′ (2007), which is part of an on-going series of ‘Drawing Restraint’ projects, in which the athletic artists hooks himself up to various encumbering apparatuses in an attempt at free-expression. In ‘Drawing Restraint 13′ Barney emerges from a large crate dressed as General MacArthur, walks across a platform, and then falls into a vat of petroleum jelly. Executed behind closed doors at New York’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery, which at the time was exhibiting work of Barney’s from ‘Drawing Restraint 9,’ the production of ‘Drawing Restraint 13′ conflates the two works to show that the new is always made in the free-limitation of the past.

Don’t expect the expected. What you see is what you see.

Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 0 comments

PERFORMA BOOK AVAILABLE TO ORDER

We are very proud to announce that you can now order our first book! Your copy will be shipped from our office directly to you. We hope you’ll support PERFORMA and get your copy of this exceptional book which documents in great detail PERFORMA05, the first biennial of new visual art performance.

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 0 comments

Jesper Just, Vicious Undertow, Opens July 11th in New York

Jesper Just
A Vicious Undertow
July 11 - August 17, 2007
Perry Rubenstein Gallery
534 West 24th St

Our good friend Jesper is back with a wonderful new film which I had the pleasure of seeing beautifully installed at SMAK in Ghent. Worth a summertime Chelsea visit!

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 0 comments

Dexter Sinister co-hosts

Check the book launch of John Russell’s FROZEN TEARS III — THE TRINITY. This is a
two-part event at two locations:

7:30 - 9:00 pm
Installation and book launch
at Dexter Sinister
38 Ludlow Street at Hester Street

9:00 - 11:00 pm
Readings / performances organized by Mark Beasley for Creative Time
at 205 Club
205 Chrystie Street at Stanton Street

Readings / performances by:

Hillary Raphael
Genesis P-Orridge
Trinie Dalton
Ilana Halperin
Roxy Pain
Mark Harris

Plus White Reggae Disco

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Contents: Kristen Alvanson, Stuart Bailey / Will Holder / Louis Luthi /
John Morgan, Tim Bailey, Stephen Barber, Mark & Stephen Beasley, Marianna
Botey, Jesse Bransford & Casey McKinney, Charles Bronson, Paul Buck,
David Burrows / Simon O’Sullivan, Bonnie Camplin, Lisa Castagner,
ccru/orphan drift, Dennis Cooper, Michael Corris, Karen Cunningham, Kim
Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Michael Cross / M Satai, John Cussans, Enrico
David, Anthony Davies, Lorenzo de Los Angeles III, Madeline Djerjian, Ross
Downes, Electric Six, Patricia Ellis, John Espinosa, Dick Evans, Keith
Farquhar, Dan Fox, Luca Frei, Barnaby Furnas & Ivette Zieghelboim, Tony
Garifalakis, Babak Ghazi, Ilana Halperin, Mark Harris, Richard Hawkins,
Iain Hetherington, Damien Hirst, Stewart Home, Rachel Howe, Mark Hulson,
Andy Hunt, Andrew Hughes, Gareth Jones, Kevin Killian, Kool Keith, Steve
Klee, The Knockouts, Pete Lewis, Cedar Lewisohn, Fiona Lumbers, Patricia
Macormack, Andrea Mason, Nathaniel Mellors, Anna Mitchell, N.R.K. Mohammad
/ SOS Newsrod / Dan Thurwen, Gean Moreno, HV Morton, Donal Mosher, Neil
Mulholland, Yuki Maruyama, Reza Negarestani, No Bra, Paul Noble, Bernard
Noel, David Osbaldeston / Joe Devlin, Arthur Ou, Mike Pare, Chloe Piene,
Esther Planas, Elizabeth Price, Adam Putnam, Harry Pye, Hillary Raphael,
The Rebel, Steve Rushton/Hubert Czerepok, Amelia Saul / Jo-ey Tang , Kenji
Siratori, Craig Slee, Alison Smith, Emma Stark, John Strutton, Rebecca
Taylor, Simon Thompson , Mark Titchner, Ian Rafael Titus, Dan Torop,
Jeffrey Vallance, Harlan D Wilson.

http://www.dextersinister.org/index.html?id=98

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THURSDAY JUNE 21 2007 7:30 - 9:00

Dexter Sinister
Just-In-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore
38 Ludlow Street (Basement)
New York City

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Posted by Defne | Monday, June 18th, 2007 | 0 comments

77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno

Conceived by Brian Eno as “visual music”, his latest artwork, 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and imagescape which continues his exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of “generative software”.

He first created 77 Million Paintings to bring art to the increasing number of flat panel TV’s and monitors that often sit darkened and underutilized. Now Eno is also showing large installations of this work, recently at the Venice Bienniale and Milan Triennale, and in Tokyo, London and South Africa. The installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be the North American Premiere of his work.

About Long Now

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

The term was coined by one of our founding board members, Brian Eno. When Brian first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our foundation as we are trying to stretch out what people consider as now.

* The Long Now Foundation uses five digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.

Posted by Defne | Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | 0 comments

MONKEY TOWN SEMIENNIAL

MONKEY TOWN SEMIENNIAL
Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16
Admission: $5
Viewing Times: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations are recommended
MONKEY TOWN
58 N 3rd (btwn wythe and kent), WMSBG
718.384.1369
http://www.monkeytownhq.com

Monkey Town, Williamsburg’s singular video eatery, offers a
twice-yearly video art program - called our ’semiennial’ - of the high
water marks, the standouts, the stuff we’ve seen that really made an
impression: the immersive video equivalent of “come hang out at my
place and listen to some records.”

The curatorial criteria are no more complicated than this is the best
new stuff we’ve seen. We continue to be turned on to great work and
we’re just itching to pass it along.

Featured artists include:
Open Arms
Josh Atlas
Lew Baldwin
Michael Bell-Smith and Aa
Josephin B??ttger
John Michael Boling
Wesley Heiss
Daniel Joseph
Ellen Lake
Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand
Jillian McDonald
Zachariah Rockhill
Kelly Sears
Skye Thorstenson and Xiu Xiu
Ryan Trecartin
Kent Lambert
Ray Sweeten
Marisa Olson

Curated by Montgomery Knott, Nick Hallett, and Sam Zimmerman
with Christopher Borkowski, Shoshana Brand, Don Carroll, and Andrea
Grover

Special thanks to:
Perpetual Art Machine http://www.perpetualartmachine.com
Venturous Vanguard Video Festival
http://www.shoshanabrand.org/video/vvv.html
Jack The Pelican Presents http://www.jackthepelicanpresents.com/
Aurora Picture Show http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
New York Underground Film Festival http://nyuff.org

Posted by Defne | Thursday, June 14th, 2007 | 0 comments

From Vito Acconci to Zubi Zuva
Ubu.com? A great find!

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

UbuWeb is a completely independent and free audio and visual resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. This gorgeous online archive serves an impressing large collection, of rare and out-of-print film , video and mp3.

Included categories are Dadaism, Futurism, early 20th century experiments, musique concrete, electronic music, Fluxus, Beat sound works, minimalist and process works, performance art, plunderphonics and sampling, and digital glitch works, to name just a few. All artists are listed alphabetically instead of categorically.

Posted by filip | Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | 0 comments

Whitney Live

GUEST BLOGGER: Lauren Pegram, PERFORMA

The Whitney Museum of American Art
July 6, 13, 20, 27 (each Friday night in July)
6 - 9 pm
Lower Level

The Whitney is hosting a series of performances inspired by the radical spirit of the 1960’s. Words, sights, and sounds are intrinsically connected to the sounds and visions of the psychedlic era.

Featured performances include but are not limited to: PSYCHEDELIA’S PROGENY, KOMPASSHUN (DJ Scientific), and REVOLUTION AS A WORK IN PROGRESS (Black Rock Coalition).

Whitney Live is free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis; reservations are not accepted.

For more information go to: http://www.whitney.org

Posted by Guest Blogger | Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | 0 comments