Letter from the Director
I founded PERFORMA, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization, to
establish a distinctive biennial for the vast array of high caliber
performance by visual artists from around the world. I was prompted by the
belief that curating and contextualizing such cutting edge material serves
to build an exciting community of artists and audiences, and provides a
strong basis for educational initiatives.
Performance is an important catalyst in the development of the history of
twentieth century art. A biennial dedicated to performance will provide
audiences with a highly selected overview of the most outstanding work and
will, at the same time, show the relevance of live art as an innovative and
important contemporary form. We feel that the biennale will ignite a new
performance scene in New York, inspiring both emerging and established
artists to consider new dimensions for live performance.
PERFORMA provides New York City with a performance festival deserving of
the city’s status as a major cultural destination. It has already
established a critical platform for public discussion of this important
work, since at the heart of the organization is an ongoing commitment to
education, history, and active investigation of performance in all aspects
of the visual arts.
Please join PERFORMA’s friends and family by making tax-deductible
donations to our exciting new organization. A contribution to PERFORMA is
an investment in maintaining New York’s extraordinarily rich heritage of
radical performance and in nurturing new work for the future. Your help is
essential to realizing this ambitious project.
Thank you for your support!
Yours sincerely,
RoseLee Goldberg
Director