Special offer for PERFORMA fans–discounted tickets to Charlotte Vanden Eynde

MAP ME by Charlotte Vanden Eynde at Dance Theater Workshop
September 13-15, 7:30pm (65 minutes)
Tickets: $20 Full Price / $12 Student, Seniors, Members

Friends of PERFORMA receive a 20% discount on full price tickets!

Belgian choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde, known for her organic and experimental work that pushes the definition of dance, makes her first appearance at Dance Theater Workshop this fall. Her signature duet with Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME, stages an intimate view of lovers who explore and manipulate human anatomy in both real and recorded time. As video projection shapes Charlotte and Kurt??s bare flesh, it also maps an evolution of bodies etched, sculpted, cut, and assembled into new forms.

To purchase tickets, call the Dance Theater Workshop box office at
212.924.0077, or go to dtw.org.
Tickets can also be purchased at Dance Theater Workshop, located at 219 W.19th Street.

Posted by Beatrice | Thursday, August 30th, 2007 | 0 comments

Japanther on NPR’s Soundcheck

Listen to PERFORMA Commission artists Japanther on an episode of National Public Radio’s Soundcheck:

Posted by Lana | Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | 0 comments

AUDIO V??RIT?? PRESENTS: AKI ONDA

AUDIO V??RIT?? PRESENTS: AKI ONDA
CINEMAGE 2007, 65 minutes, slide projections and guitar improvisation.
With live performances by Loren Connors and Alan Licht
Saturday & Sunday, September 1 & 2 at 8pm
Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave (at 2nd St.) www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

Each night will include the New York premiere of two new Cinemage pieces!
A THOUSAND LIGHTS AND NIGHTS
A HIDDEN PLACE FOR BIRDS

CINEMAGE is Aki Onda’s audio-visual project, performances of which are composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar improvisation. “Cinemage” means “images for cinema,” or “homage for cinema.” The visual images in CINEMAGE are snapshots taken from Onda’s daily life. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation ‘ the particulars within lose significance. What emerges is the architecture, and the essence, of memory.

Posted by Esa | Friday, August 24th, 2007 | 0 comments

Trisha Brown Dance Company - FREE performance

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:00 PM
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
FREE and open to the public!

Postmodern legend Trisha Brown possesses a distinctive artistic sensibility that weaves movement, music and visual elements into a beautifully integrated design. Founded in 1970 when Brown branched out from the experimental Judson Dance Theater to work with her own group of dancers, the Trisha Brown Dance Company has become an international force, with a repertory that ranges from small group pieces to evening-length works and collaborations between Ms. Brown and major visual artists.

Program: Accumulation, PRESENT TENSE, Spanish Dance, Canto/Pianto.
For more information on the Trisha Brown Dance Company,
visit www.trishabrowncompany.org

Posted by PERFORMA | Monday, August 13th, 2007 | 0 comments

Belgian Artist Macel Broodthaers,D??cor: A Conquest.

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Michael Werner Gallery
4 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10075
Tel: 212-988-1623

Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present Decor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers, the first presentation in the United States of this legendary work. Decor: A Conquest is a groundbreaking work of art and one of the most important sculptural works of the twentieth century. It anticipates installation as a conspicuous mode of artistic expression and is daring in its use of objects to relate a narrative. With Decor: A Conquest, Marcel Broodthaers moved beyond Duchamp’s ideas about the resonance of objects to focus instead on the stories those objects can tell. Marcel Broodthaers began work on Decor: A Conquest in 1974, when he was invited by Barry Barker to inaugurate London’s new Institute of Contemporary Art. The artist installed two ‘period rooms’: one from the 19th Century, displaying a stuffed python amidst cannons, potted palms and Napoleonic candlesticks and chairs; and another from the 20th Century, with patio furniture, an unfinished puzzle depicting the Battle of Waterloo, and handguns and rifles displayed atop pedestals and shelves. Decor: A Conquest is a complex work, simultaneously exploring ideas about war, conflict, interiority and comfort.

D??cor: A Conquest is the culmination of the Marcel Broodthaers’ life’s work, building on themes explored in earlier d??cors, a term the artist used to describe a number of his late works. As Marcel Broodthaers remarked, speaking of himself in the third-person: In January 1974, Marcel Broodthaers installed a conservatory in one of the rooms of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels: a few dozen palm trees, some folding garden chairs, natural history engravings…For him, this first achievement heralded the idea for D??cor: A Conquest…

D??cor: A Conquest was later shown at Documenta 7 in 1982 and at the Hamburger Banhoff, Berlin in 1999.

Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924 - Cologne, 1976) is one of the most original and influential artists of the twentieth century. He worked early on as a poet and was widely published throughout Belgium by the mid 1960s. His first work as a visual artist came in 1964 and consisted of several copies of his final volume of poems, Pense-B??te, embedded in a mound of plaster. From that time, Marcel Broodthaers produced works in various media that revolved around his interest in word-play and his concept of joining word and image. It is precisely because of his deep exploration of these complex themes that Marcel Broodthaers remains a seminal figure in contemporary art, an artist on par with major figures of early conceptualism including Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni.

Marcel Broodthaers has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Walker Art Center, the Reina Sofia and the Galerie National du Jeu de Paume. A major selection of important works was included in Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, curated by Kynaston McShine for the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999. Marcel Broodthaers had his first exhibition with Michael Werner in Cologne in 1969. Subsequent exhibitions in the gallery presented major installations and sculptures, the artist’s complete prints, and key works on paper from the sixties and seventies.

In August White Columns will screen Marcel Broodthaers’ The Battle of Waterloo, which is an integral part of D??cor: A Conquest. Filmed in and around Lond’s ICA during the first exhibition of D??cor: A Conquest, The Battle of Waterloo makes use of the installation as film setting and serves also as a document of the original installation of D??cor: A Conquest. For more information, please call White Columns at (212) 924-4212 or visit whitecolumns.org.

Posted by PERFORMA | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | 1 comments

Role Exchange - A group show at Sean Kelly Gallery

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Sean Kelly Gallery
528 West 39 street, NYC

Please contact Maureen Bray at the gallery (212.239.1181) or maureen@skny.com for more information. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11am until 6pm and Saturday from 10am until 6pm. In July, gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10am until 5pm.

Artists:
Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Sophie Calle, Samuel Fosso, Robert Gober, Anthony Goicolea, Douglas Gordon, Fergus Greer / Leigh Bowery, Johan Grimonprez, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Michel Journiac, Nikki S. Lee, Kalup Linzy, Urs L??thi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Yasumasa Morimura, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, Andy Warhol, Gillian Wearing

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce a group exhibition, Role Exchange, which opens on June 29th. The exhibition brings together works in diverse media that address questions of identity, role-playing and gender. The exhibition continues through August 3rd. The opening will take place on Thursday, June 28th, from 6pm until 8pm.

Alternate personas and role exchange have been consistent themes for artists at least since Marcel Duchamp’s adoption of the persona of ‘Rrose S??lavy’ in 1921. However, the point of departure for this exhibition is Marina Abramovic’s 1975 performance “Role Exchange,” in which Abramovic exchanged roles with an Amsterdam prostitute for a four-hour period. Abramovic sat in the prostitute’s window and plied her trade whilst the prostitute assumed the role of the artist at her exhibition opening.

The artists in this exhibition address the process through which identity is constructed by exploring different roles and characters. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Adrian Piper, Johan Grimonprez, Robert Gober and Lyle Ashton Harris, to name a few, challenge traditional gender roles while Janine Antoni, Gillian Wearing and Michel Journiac examine the relationships within the nucleus of the family. Duane Michals, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, and Nikki S. Lee further investigate identity by introducing the use of fictional characters. Leigh Bowery (photographed by Fergus Greer) and Lynn Hershman Leeson actually inhabit these fictional characters in real time, blurring the line between the real and the imaginary.

Though disparate in formal resolution, the twenty-seven artists represented in this exhibition share an impulse to transform traditional social roles. They require us to redefine our perceived categorizations of gender and identity, allowing for more nuanced systems of classification and a greater understanding of their abiding interest in role exchange.

Posted by PERFORMA | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | 0 comments

I’ll come running

Mark August 15-19 on your calendars NOW for a four-film retrospective at Anthology Film Archives that absolutely cannot be missed–THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: THE MELODRAMAS OF VINCENTE MINNELLI. 3 of these films are not available on DVD, and all 4 are amazing.

The series features:

- THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, a cynical, scintillating tale set within the Hollywood studio system starring Kirk Douglas, as well as my own namesake (Lana Turner)

- THE COBWEB, starring the always entrancing Gloria Grahame selecting new drapery for a mental hospital, a trivial decision that sets off a chain of events which will eventually consume and destroy an entire network of lives

- TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN, another industry insider tale adapted from a Shaw novel, and featuring the unlikely combination of Edward G. Robinson and Cyd Charisse, among many others

- SOME CAME RUNNING, with three incredible performances by Frank Sinatra as a drunk, Dean Martin as a gambler, and Shirley MacLaine as a sweetly uncouth “good time girl” in post-World-War-II small town America–featuring one of the most moving and astounding final sequences ever put on film. DO NOT MISS!

Posted by Lana | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 0 comments

Detourism: Curated by Carly Busta and Luke Cohen

Orchard47.org
47 Orchard Street
NYC, NY 10002
(212) 219′1061

Exhibition Dates: July 1 - July 28, 2007
Opening: Sunday July 1, 6-8 pm

Exhibition participants:
Artur Barrio, Carola Dertnig, Corporate Mentality, Keller Easterling, Thomas Eggerer, Dan Graham, Alan Licht, Christian Philipp-M??ller, Michael Snow, and others’

Special Event:
Friday July 13, 7pm ‘ 9pm Lenin for your Library?
Yevgeniy Fiks in conversation with Olga Kopenkina and Nicol??s Guagnini

Spectators and agents, tourists routinely vacate their habitual surroundings to occupy alternative subject positions, if not a geographical location. Yet, with pressure to ensure each vacation is well spent, the voluntary activity of tourism supports a guide industry. Barthes considered the guidebook an “objectified form of ‘immaterial labor’ ['] essentially serving as a ‘labor saving device,” ‘objective fact relegating efficient, guided, disorientation.

If tourism seeks a reliably mapped alterity, the exhibit detourism can only offer an itinerary of shifting curatorial endpoints. detourism takes topology as an impetus to highlight the interstices in the urban field constitutive of subject relations. The spatial practices exhibited underscore the line of demarcation between the subject and its dematerialization within the built environment.

Posted by Esa | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 0 comments

Art in General’s 9th Annual Video Marathon: VALUES

ART IN GENERAL 79 Walker Street | New York, NY 10013 |
Tel 212-219-0473 | www.artingeneral.org | info@artingeneral.org

4 ‘ 8 pm
79 Walker Street, 6th Floor
Between Broadway and Lafayette ‘ just below Canal

Art in General’s 9th Annual Video Marathon, VALUES, explores the long-lasting influence of ’90s subculture on video practice in contemporary art. Innovative and anarchistic communities based around music flourished at the time, as people sought extreme and experimental alternatives to corporate youth culture. Many young people both in America and abroad became involved in underground scenes and became passionate about the radical ideas, values, lifestyles and esthetics signified by subcultures’hardcore, punk, riot grrrl. rave, underground hip-hop and indie-rock, to name a few’that were regarded as a refuge from a bland, homogenous and consumerist mainstream society. Many of the most interesting artists working today, including those included in VALUES, came of age in those communities.

This program will include the work of, Alex Bag, Sadie Benning, Slater Bradley, Martha Colburn, Devin Flynn, Forcefield, Klara Liden, Anne McGuire, Steven G. Rhodes, Pepo Salazar, Ryan Trecartin and YACHT. Also included in the Video Marathon screening is a selection of videos of live performances by bands from the era, including Bikini Kill, Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, Nirvana, The Boredoms, Wu-Tang Clan, Underground Resistance, Huggy Bear and others.

VALUES is organized by Josh Kline and Anthony Marcellini

Posted by Esa | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 0 comments