A comic and visually dazzling performance by renowned South African artist William Kentridge, in “I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine,” the artist himself gives an unusual presentation related to his current opera-in-progress: a work inspired by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical opera “The Nose,” based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name.

Analysis and commentary by RoseLee Goldberg on Day 3 of PERFORMA 09

An exhibition of 360 paper-based early 20th Century works from the Adrien Sina Collection including rare letters, photographs, documents, and manifestos written by or relating to Valentine de Saint-Point, the French poet, dancer, and thinker who wrote the “Manifesto of Lust” in 1913 and was one of the few women to establish herself within the Futurist movement.

A half-hour presentation examining the romance, figuratively and literally, between cultural funding and sex, drawn from such diverse sources as environmental psychologist Pace Underhill’s “WHy We Buy,” George BUchner’s “Danton’s Death,” and congressional records concerning the NEA Debates of the late 80s.

Analysis and commentary by RoseLee Goldberg on Day 4 of PERFORMA 09