Japanther May 7th

Performa commission artist Japanther is performing with The Pharmacy next Wednesday, May 7th, 7pm at Europa
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Posted by Lillie | Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | 0 comments

Hypermedia: the AOMC at SLC

Choreographer/Founder of The A.O. Movement Collective, Sarah Rosner shows new movement/hypermedia work at Sarah Lawrence College this weekend.
Performances are Friday, May 2 at 8pm and Sunday, May 4 at 2pm.
Directions
AOMC Blog
Dancers include Sarah Rosner, SLC students and Performa intern Lillie DeArmon.

Posted by Lillie | Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | 0 comments

Performa takes Screen Play to Mexico City April 25th!

Christian Marclay’s ‘Screen Play’
performance at the RADAR Festival
in Mexico City
Friday, April 25th at 8 pm

Featuring performances by:
Elliott Sharp
with Mexico City based musicians Hernan Hecht and Juan Jose Rivas
and
Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori

At the Palacio de Medicina
Brasil 33, esq. Venezuela, Centro Historico

For Tickets and more information
http://www.radar.org.mx/

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | 0 comments

Revolutionary pitchfest PKNY 5 April 30th

The idea of Pecha Kucha is simple: Invite a dozen creative professionals working across a variety of fields to present 20 slides for 20 seconds each on whatever topic the speaker pleases. Pecha Kucha New York strives to be multidisciplinary and feature a wide range of subject matters.

Speakers for Pecha Kucha 5 include:
Elizabeth Streb - S.L.A.M.
I??aki ??balos - Abalos & Herreros
Maria Cornejo - Zero
Sina Najafi - Cabinet
Dominic Leong, Jonathan Lott & Brian Price - PARA-Project
Andrew Andrew - Andrew Andrew
Rob Oden - Eco Securities
Michael Meredith & Hillary Sample - MOS
Philip Nobel - Metropolis
William Drenttel - Winterhouse & Design Observer

Details:
Wednesday April 30th, 2008
7:00 doors open, 8:20 presentations start
Element (Jasper Johns’s former home & studio)
Essex & Houston
$7 in advance / $9 at the door
www.iheartpechakuchany.com

Posted by Esa | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

MEMO to John, Barack and Hillary from DTW

GUEST BLOGGER: Lana Fee, PERFORMA

Dance Theater Workshop’s David Sheingold writes a fantastic blog post to our future president regarding the future of the arts in this country. We can all agree that the next lucky one in the hot seat will have to get creative in more ways than one, but we simply must invest more into our cultural persona as Americans and factor this into our thirst for change! Appointed leadership, funding, art education that translates to reasonable income: all very good points David. Pretty embarrassing that we even have to argue the importance of supporting our greatest innovators (not just those who can afford it)! America’s bloated budget is being disputed no doubt, but we must continue discussing this problem to exhaustion! Imperialists with no taste- we cannot go down this way!!

Please read:
http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/blog/2008/03/28/memotohillarybarackandjohn/

Posted by Lana | Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | 0 comments

RoseLee Goldberg gives presentation on Jan Fabre at the Louvre April 26

Director of PERFORMA, RoseLee Goldberg discusses the performance work of Flemish artist Jan Fabre in the onset of The Angel of Metamorphosis showing at the Louvre in Paris April 11-July 7.

World renowned draftsman and formally trained in the decorative arts, Fabre has also produced an impressive catalogue of performances since the late 70’s. Within the galleries of painted works of Flemish, German and Dutch masters, a selection of films of performances, ranging from the short subjects produced in the 1970s to the artist’s most recent projects, will be screened and discussed.

Presentation Saturday, April 26 at 4.40pm.

Posted by Lana | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments

LIGHT TRAP Greg Pope & Barry Weisblat at ISSUE Project Room Sunday April 13

GUEST BLOGGER: Lana Fee, PERFORMA

Performed with Andrew Lampert, Bradley Eros and Joel Schlemowitz, Pope (UK/Oslo) and Weisblat (Brooklyn) present LIGHT TRAP; a 4 screen 16mm projection. The progression of hand manipulated reels will transform the space with film’s most fundamental constituent (yes, light). Working negatively to produce a carefully controlled, yet arbitrary visual and aural experience I’ve heard described as “utterly fantastic!” Pope calls it something of a “live punk homage” to the seminal experimental film LINE DESCRIBING A CONE by artist Anthony McCall. Recommended.

Sunday April 13 at Issue Project Room presented in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives.

7pm $10

For more Information:

Posted by Lana | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments

Tamy Ben-Tor Performs at Kitchen

PERFORMA 05/07 Artist Tamy Ben-Tor’s video work opens at Zach Feuer Gallery tonight with a reception from 6-8 pm. The exhibit is on display untill May 3rd. The artist is also performing at the Kitchen this Friday and Saturday, shows are at 8pm and the ticket cost is $8. Read about it at Artinfo.com

Posted by Lillie | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 1 comments

Japanther show this weekend

PERFORMA07 Commission artist Japanther is playing a show with The Pharmacy and Pterodactyl this Saturday 3/29 at the Market Hotel which is located at 1142 Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. The show starts at 9:30 and the cost has not been listed.

Posted by Lillie | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments

Escalator to Common Art opens at Dispatch

MARK VAN YETTER and MATT HOYT: Escalator to Common Art
April 13 ‘ May 11, 2008
Opening reception: Sunday, April 13, 3-7 pm
Office hours: Thursday’Sunday, 1′6 pm

DISPATCH presents Escalator to Common Art featuring the work of Mark Van Yetter and Matt Hoyt. Declining the scale and production value of current artistic output, Yetter and Hoyt have each carved out unique practices and share a position of considered refusal. Mark Van Yetter, primarily a painter and draftsman, draws upon a range of intuitive and art historical styles; underlying the work is a return to origin similar to the early projects of the expressionists and surrealists.

Matt Hoyt’s small and intimate pieces have an extrasculptural status ‘ their scale relates more to the human hand than to the full human body. His arrangement of his hand-made objects, crafted from found and ordinary materials, shows a carefully considered, idiosyncratic process.

Mark Van Yetter received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY, with studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Hotel, London and Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, among others. Lives and works in Pennsylvania and Istanbul. Matt Hoyt received his BFA in 2000 from the School of Visual Arts. Past exhibitions include a group show at Massimo Audiello and solo project at Marquise Dance Hall. Lives and works in New York.

Image:Mark Yetter, untitled, 2008.

Posted by Esa | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 0 comments