It’s History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, Mar 24
IT’S HISTORY NOW:
PERFORMANCE ART AND THE MUSEUM
A Panel Discussion About Current Performance
Presented by Performa’s Not For Sale Series
Featuring Alexander Alberro, Chrissie Iles,
Martha Rosler, and Glenn Wharton,
with Respondents Eungie Joo and Adam Pendleton,
and Introduced and Moderated by RoseLee Goldberg
Wednesday, March 24 at 6:30 pm (Doors open at 6 pm)
Einstein Auditorium, New York University
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York
Tickets:
FREE, RSVP required to guarantee a seat
RSVP to notforsale@performa-arts.org
Performa’s popular Not For Sale educational series is back with It’s History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, a panel discussion that will examine the long history of performances presented in museums, from commissioned performances to artist-driven actions and protests, and explain the many reasons for the current performance boom.
Performance is in the middle of an extraordinary resurgence in popularity, with performance-based exhibitions currently on view at several major New York museums and galleries, a rapidly growing interest in performance programming at art fairs and biennials, and entire departments devoted to performance at The Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and beyond. Since the first Performa biennial in 2005, the importance of performance has been increasing exponentially, raising a number of questions. How do institutions collect and conserve works that are ephemeral by nature? Is it possible for museums to accurately re-present radical historic performances, many of which were specifically intended to be anti-institutional? Or has the function of the contemporary art museum itself changed so radically that it welcomes such organized anti-institutional approaches?
Panelists for It’s History Now will include Alexander Alberro, Art Historian, Chrissie Iles, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Martha Rosler, Artist, and Glenn Wharton, Conservator in the Department of Conservation at The Museum of Modern Art. Respondents will include Eungie Joo, Curator at the New Museum, and Adam Pendleton, Artist. The panel will be introduced and moderated by Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg.
It’s History Now is organized by Performa and the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions.
ABOUT NOT FOR SALE
Not For Sale is an ongoing public education series presented by Performa that features artists, authors, curators, and critics discussing current issues in performance and new media, and the related task of writing about art and artists whose work encompasses several disciplines at once.
Image: Min Tanaka performing at The Museum of Modern Art as part of Performa 07. Photo copyright Paula Court.
