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SOMEWHERE I READ
Arto Lindsay
Duffy Square, 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th St.
Sunday, November 1 8:00pm
Acclaimed musician and artist Arto Lindsay will design and organize a multidisciplinary procession, "SOMEWHERE I READ," featuring over 50 dancers and performers. Serving as Performa
Performance 6: Fischerspooner
Fischerspooner
The Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd Avenue
Sunday, November 1 6:00pm
An evening-length work by New York artists Fischerspooner, "Inbetween Worlds" is a pop spectacle developed in conjunction with Fischerspooner’s new recording, Entertainment. The work runs continuously, with no clear beginning or end, on a large
100 Years (Version #2)
PS.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Sunday, November 1 12:00pm
Performa 09 Closing Party: Nov. 22, 3-6pm
On the occasion of Performa 09, an exhibition drafting a short history of actions, events, situations, happenings, and performances beginning with the Futurist manifesto in 1909 and continuing to
Biennial Headquarters
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 1 10:00am
Open 10am-8pm from Nov. 1-22
Located in the latest architectural gem on the Bowery, the brand new Cooper Union building, the Performa Hub will function as our headquarters during the biennial. The Hub offers a meeting point,
Symphony n. 1
Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson
Performance Space 122
150 1st Avenue
Monday, November 2 8:00pm
For Performa 2009, the Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson (currently representing Iceland at the Venice Biennale with “The End”, a non-stop performance which began on June 5th) will present “Symphony n.1”, a live
Without Sun
Brody Condon
The Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
Monday, November 2 7:00pm
Condon’s “Without Sun” (2006), is an edited collection of ‘found performances’ – online videos of individuals who recorded themselves while having a psychedelic experience. The 15 minute video will be followed by a performative re-creation
The Pervasive Echo
Ruth Sacks
Castle Clinton, Battery Park
Monday, November 2 5:30pm
"The Pervasive Echo" is a re-examination of the 19th century phenomenon that was Jenny Lind, a singer also known as “the Swedish Nightingale,” in which a fragment of Lind’s inaugural concert in America will be
L’Inhumaine and Rhapsody in Steel
The Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
Monday, November 2 4:00pm
Set in a highly stylized Art Deco world, an opera singer is the object of a scientist’s obsession in "L’Inhumaine," which will be shown with "Rhapsody in Steel," an Impressionistic account of machine activity in
Metropolis and La Marche des Machines
Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
Wednesday, November 4 4:00pm
In the film "Metropolis" (to be shown with live piano accompaniment!), a city of the future replaces workers with robots that will be less susceptible to revolution. Preceded by "La Marche Des Machines," an abstract
Art History with Benefits
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
X Initiative
548 W 22nd Street
Thursday, November 5 6:00pm
This fall The Bruce High Quality Foundation founded BHQFU, a free, unaccredited "university" dedicated to the creation of new histories of art. These histories, which take an omnivorous approach to research, combine satire and polemics,
The Ants Struggle On the Snow (Le formiche fanno fatica sulla neve)
Marcello Maloberti
Washington Square Park (next to the arch)
Thursday, November 5 3:00pm
An improvised carnival. Vital sprint. Dance. Collective run to the take-off. An interactive performance.
The performing group will be formed by a heterogeneous crowd of approximately thirty people including friends, volunteers, strangers, six basketball players, a
Jonas Mekas and Now We Are Here
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Friday, November 6 9:00pm
Jonas Mekas with friends and the band Now We Are Here, featuring Jonas Mekas as the lead singer and surprise appearances by special guests.
Jonas Mekas is a pioneering filmmaker, founder of Anthology Film Archives, and
Hear it Here
Shana Lutker
X Initiative
548 W 22nd Street, 2nd Floor
Friday, November 6 6:00pm
The installation and performance "Hear It Here" consists of two actors, an audience and an accordion player. The audience is invited to spontaneously create lines for the actors by speaking into microphones that feed directly
Futuriste: Women in Art and Literature
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo
24 W. 12th Street
Friday, November 6 6:00pm
An exhibit dedicated to the most prominent female Futurist writers and painters, curated by Giancarlo Carpi. There will also be a presentation of Carpi’s new book, "Futuriste."
Curated by Giancarlo Carpi. Presented by New York University and Casa
Futurism and Women
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo
24 W 12th St
Friday, November 6 6:00pm
A panel discussion to kick off the opening of the "Futuriste" exhibition with Giancarlo Carpi, Ara H. Merjian (New York University), Lisa Panzera (Director, McCaffrey Fine Art), and Christine Poggi (University of Pennsylvania).
Presented by New
Pasta Sauna
Proef (Marije Vogelzang)
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Wednesday, November 4 - Friday, November 6, 12:00pm
According to Marinetti, pasta was the worst food to eat, because it made humans slow, dull, and fat--so in this installation, the steam created from boiling pasta will form a sauna, giving audience members the
SAAQIOU
Terence Koh
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Saturday, November 7 9:30pm
Terence Koh, whose work is featured in the Brooklyn Museum's collection, presents a special performance that blends vocals, rock and synthesized music, mixed with a light and media installation. Curated by Sarah Giovanniello, Traslin Ong,
Bedroom w TV and a Woman Lays w Aide
Yemenwed
Fake Estate
179 Canal
Saturday, November 7 9:00pm
The audience is drawn into a dance and music performance set on a stage designed to resemble a bedroom in the Laguardia Houses, a public housing project in the Lower East Side.
Yemenwed is a project
Ingrid (Inzwischen)
Discoteca Flaming Star
Performance Project @ University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
Saturday, November 7 8:15pm
A music, film, and spoken word performance that draws on a partially fictionalized biography of 70s performance artist Ingrid, and the confrontational politics of the No! Art movement’s Boris Lurie.
Presented by Performa. Part of
Twirl
Jen DeNike
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn
Saturday, November 7 6:00pm
Video and performance artist Jen DeNike creates a contemplative, disciplined, and focused moment that erupts into spectacle as a spinning majorette. Curated by Sarah Giovanniello, Traslin Ong, and Eugenie Tsai.
Presented as part of Target
Pre-enacting the Now and Future City
City of Tomorrows
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
Saturday, November 7 3:00pm
A playful tour of the New York City of the future that merges urban geography, science fiction and guerilla street theater. Four short sci-fi scenes about New York City's political, spatial, and social futures will be produced in
Reading from "Those Who Suffer Love" and "Strangeland"
Tracey Emin
Performance Project at University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
Saturday, November 7 3:00pm
Tracey Emin will read from her new book of poems "Those Who Suffer Love" and from her critically acclaimed 2008 autobiography "Strangeland," followed by Q&A moderated by RoseLee Goldberg.
Tracey Emin (b. London, UK, 1963) came
The Present Doesn't Exist In My Mind, And The Future Is Already Far Behind
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Performance Project @ University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
Saturday, November 7 1:00pm
A performance inspired by the writings of Valentine de Saint Point and Mina Loy that reflects on past, present and future visions of lust, romanticized sexuality and the subjugation of women.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (b. Manila, Philippines,
Actions Propaganda
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Saturday, November 7 11:00am
Performa teams up with Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, on a workshop laboratory inspired by Actions: What You Can Do With the City, a CCA exhibition with 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary
Radio Broadcast
Broadside
www.eastvillageradio.com
Saturday, November 7 9:00am
BROADSIDE, the collaborative initiative of Alexander Fleming and Emily Bellingham, will broadcast a series of feminist inspired audio performances, including experimental readings, consciousness raising dialogue, presentations and live music.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Wendy Vogel
Karen Soskin
Lowry Burgess
Center for Urban Pedagogy
Christina
History of the Future II
Abrons Art Center
466 Grand Street
Friday, November 6 - Saturday, November 7, 8:00pm
Honoring Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French artist known for encrypted works on paper, theatrical productions, and readymade language, the "History of the Future II" will intersperse live performances--reconstructions of historic works as well as
Curated by Meg Stuart
Auf den Tisch! (At the Table!)
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street
Friday, November 6 - Saturday, November 7, 7:30pm
Picture this: you enter a room and can take a seat at an enormous table, with four microphones at the ready, as if in a conference situation. From your chair you can see how the
Craneway Event
Tacita Dean
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery
131 E. 10th Street
Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7, times vary
A stunning 16-millimeter, feature-length film showing Merce Cunningham and his company rehearsing an Event in the craneway of an abandoned Ford Motor factory in Northern
Betteraves Club
Emily Sunblad and Margaret Lee
179 Canal Street
Sunday, November 8 9:00pm
RSVPS ARE NOW CLOSED!
A long night with music provided by Matthew Higgs featuring Snöfrid arriving via kortege from Swiss Institute and performance by Emily Sundblad.
Margaret Lee (b. Bronx, NY 1980) works often with sculptures and
Nils Bech and Lina Viste Groenli
Performance Project @ University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
Sunday, November 8 7:15pm
Performing on a set designed by Lina Viste Groenli, Nils Bech will combine sparse acapella versions of contemporary and classical music and well-crafted electronica in a conceptual stage show laced with cabaret and contemporary dance,
Refence
Michael Aerts and Vadim Voster
White Box
329 Broome Street
Sunday, November 8 6:30pm
A fencing confrontation between two Belgian artists, this performance claims a new position in the art of fencing--somewhere between fencing as a sport, theatrical fencing, spectacle fencing, and “mensur,” or modern academic fencing. The performance
Camp Kid Friendly
Michael Smith and Malcolm Stuart's Color Wheel
SculptureCenter
4419 Purves Street, Long Island City
Sunday, November 8 5:00pm
Malcolm Stuart’s hoop dance troupe, Color Wheel, together with friends, will perform with Baby IKKI at SculptureCenter on Sunday November 8th at 5 pm. Manipulating hoops, fire, and other objects, the dancers will activate Mike Kelley's and Michael Smith’s
The Universe Will Be Our Vocabulary: Futurist Music, Film, and Literature
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 8 4:00pm
Two mini-lectures by two experts in the Futurist avant-garde--composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa, who is a leading intonarumori (Futurist noise machine) scholar, and York University professor John Picchione, who has extensive knowledge of Futurist
Demonstration
Lisa Kirk
Seward Park
Sunday, November 8 3:00pm
Inspired by Valentine de Saint Point’s manifestos and William Henry Seward’s ardent anti-slavery position, people will be invited to march through the streets of the Lower East Side with picket signs that proclaim their own
4 Hour Fundamental
Professor Eilers
On Stellar Rays
133 Orchard Street
Sunday, November 8 2:00pm
Go back to school with Professor Eilers and his students Sara Ziff, Juan Antonio Olivarez, Phyllis Ma, and Corey Stanton who will present their semester-end projects based on Valentine de Saint-Point’s "Manifesto of Lust."
Professor Eilers
Kalup Linzy
Taxter & Spengemann
123 E. 12th Street
Sunday, November 8 1:00pm
The drag-queen diva Taiwan, a major character in Linzy's soap-opera series "Conversations Wit De Churen," will perform for the first time an acoustic set with accompanying guitar.
Kalup Linzy (b. Clermont, FL, 1977) is best known
PERFORMAT
Marcella Vanzo, Jennifer Walshe, and Lucie Fontaine
Performance Project @ University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, times vary
PERFORMAT is a traveling, site specific performance inspired by 70’s feminism, mixed up and spiced with Vogue magazine, the television show Big Brother, and plastic surgery, starring the magnificent Lucie Fontaine,
Rabih Mroué's Gift to New York
Rabih Mroué
PS 122
150 1st Ave.
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, 8:00pm
Rabih Mroué's surprise reading for New York by an unannounced guest, followed with a 50 minute screening of a selection of his video works including Face A Face B (10 min.), With Soul, with Blood
The Lust Weekend
Various locations on the Lower East Side
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, times vary
Avant-garde dances, sensual songs, mysterious avatars, and intimate confessions: Performa pays tribute to Futurist poet and dancer Valentine de Saint-Point, author of the “Manifesto of Lust” (1913) and the only Futurist to perform in New
A Soldier's Lust
Katia Bassanini
Forever & Today, Inc.
141 Division Street
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, times vary
Bathing and performing domestic tasks around a bathtub installed in this tiny storefront, the artist will assume the role of "Madame D" to entertain passersby with tales of her heroic adventures.
Katia Bassanini (b. 1969, Lugano,
Ideal Viewer
Einat Amir
Scaramouche
53 Stanton Street
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, times vary
Scaramouche presents Einat Amir, "Ideal Viewer." Opening a voyeuristic lens onto conflicting authorship, "Ideal Viewer" is a two-phased series of performances, beginning with actors hired on Craigslist to improvise three biographical archetypes in the "neutral" gallery
Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawings IX
Nikhil Chopra
The New Museum (lobby gallery)
235 Bowery
Wednesday, November 4 - Sunday, November 8, times vary
As part of his exhibition "Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawings IX," Nikhil Chopra embodies the semi-autobiographical, largely imagined Victorian draughtsman Yog Raj Chitrakar. As an ambiguous past collides with an unstable present, daily actions—washing, eating,
Snöfrid Ruby Distillery
Ylva Ogland
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway # 3
Tuesday, November 3 - Sunday, November 8, times vary
“The Ruby is for the core of Lust…for the connection to the uncontrolled controlled.” The artist’s mirror twin will enter the earthly world through an ancient alchemical process, made present as a distillate of
Honor Among Thieves (Chapter 1: The Tower and the Star)
Glenn Kaino and Ryan Majestic
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard Street
Monday, November 9 7:00pm
In a hybrid performance of art and magic, Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino collaborates with renowned magician Ryan Majestic in an awe-inspiring interrogation of what is and isn’t believable: a question at the heart of
Mannequin's Ball
Bruno Jasienski
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
365 Fifth Avenue
Monday, November 9 6:30pm
Join us for an evening of Polish Futurist theatre, poetry, manifestoes, and art. Centered upon a 30-minute contemporary performance piece based on excerpts from Bruno Jasienski's avant-garde play "Mannequins' Ball" (1930), conceived and directed by
Futurist-Related Performance on Film
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Tuesday, November 3 - Monday, November 9, 9:00pm
The feet of three people act out an adulterous affair in Pedestrian Love (1914), the only filmed record of Futurist “reductionist performance,” to be shown alongside Excelsior (1914), a film based on a grand ballet
The Futurist Canon
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Tuesday, November 3 - Monday, November 9, 7:00pm
The only surviving feature-length Futurist film, Thais (1917), a seemingly conventional Italian “diva” picture that builds to a wildly experimental final sequence, with visionary set designs by Futurist painter Enrico Prampolini, will
Not a Futurist Film, but a Film without a Future
Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th floor, Brooklyn
Tuesday, November 10 7:30pm
In their collaborative film performances, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder employ simple mechanical means to hypnotically elaborate ends. 16mm loops, spray bottles, colored gels, unfocused lenses and hand-shadows combine, through rehearsed recipes, into slowly mutating
Museum Futures: Distributed
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
The New School, Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets
Tuesday, November 10 6:30pm
Artist Marysia Lewandowska in conversation with Jamer Hunt, anthropologist and Chair of Urban and Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons The New School for Design, and Christiane Paul, curator, writer and Director of the Media Studies Graduate Programs, The New
Bright Futures
John Malpede
Michelson Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, Room 648
Tuesday, November 10 5:30pm
John Malpede’s new performance and, “Bright Futures,” will be shown on the campuses of NYU as part of the Performa 2009 biennial, and at MIT in December. Malpede was in residence at MIT’s Center for
I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine
William Kentridge
Cedar Lake
547 W. 26th Street
Monday, November 9 - Tuesday, November 10, 8:00pm
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
Viva Futurism! Revolution, Vanguardia, and the Modern Metropolis
Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue
Wednesday, November 11 6:30pm
Swirling Images and thrilling sounds - a lively audiovisual presentation inspired by Futurism and Latin American art of the early 20th century. Multimedia artist Nicky Enright will present video projections and bilingual spoken word poetry
GIRLMACHINE
Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
Wednesday, November 11 6:00pm
GIRLMACHINE is an investigation of Futurism’s ambiguous vitality and its complex relationship to the modern body, exploring notions of masculine identity and mechanized erotics in the form of a Futurist club of men, women, and
Shock and Awe: The Troubling Legacy of the Futurist Cult of War
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
68th Street and Lexington Avenue
Wednesday, November 11 4:00pm
On the occasion of Performa 09, which this year marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of Futurism, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, the Hunter College Department of Art, and Performa
Trains, Trains, Trains
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Wednesday, November 4 - Wednesday, November 11, 8:30pm
Inspired by the Futurist love of trains, this film program includes the gorgeously lyrical train station short Impressions of Life #1: Railway Station Rhythms (1933), the beautiful Play of Reflections and Speed (1925), by “pure
Man and Machine
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Wednesday, November 4 - Wednesday, November 11, 7:00pm
March of the Machines (1929), an abstract mechanical symphony with a score originally written by Futurist artist Luigi Russolo, will be shown with poetic industrial documentary The Belly of the City (1932) and Melies protege
Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners
Town Hall
123 W. 43rd Street
Thursday, November 12 8:00pm
Performa is delighted to present "Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners," an evening-length concert of original scores and newly commissioned compositions for the intonarumori, or “noise-intoners”
Barefoot in the Head: Futurological Poetry Reading
Bruce High Quality Foundation University
225 West Broadway
Thursday, November 12 8:00pm
Organized by UK artists, curators, and lecturers Dr. John Russell and Alun Rowlands, and Performa Curator Mark Beasley, "Barefoot in the Head: Futurological Poetry Reading" is a curatorial response to the work of British science
The Futurist Impulse After Futurism
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Thursday, November 12 7:30pm
A program of films that were not made from an overtly Futurist sensibility, but which nonetheless acknowledge the revolution announced in Italy in the first years of the 20th century, and the accompanying “acceleration of
Balli Plastici
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
Thursday, November 12 6:30pm
In 1918, the Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero premiered his Balli Plastici, a puppet show performed by geometric, fantastical multicolored marionettes. Building an immersive world through set design, music, and puppets, Depero transcended the traditional divide
History in the Making, or the Secret Diaries of Linda Schultz
Keren Cytter
The Kitchen
512 W 19th Street
Wednesday, November 11 - Thursday, November 12, 8:00pm
Israeli visual artist Cytter’s first evening-length theatrical production combines dance, video, and music to tell the story of liberal activist John Webber and graphic designer Linda
Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)
Emily Mast
X Initiative
548 W 22nd Street, Ground Floor
Wednesday, November 11 - Thursday, November 12, times vary
In "Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)," the medium of theater has been adapted to an exhibition context in order to stage a conversation-cum-argument between five characters who represent various aspects of the artist’s psyche. Through
Postgravityart: Syntapiens
Eyebeam
540 W. 21st Street
Tuesday, November 10 - Thursday, November 12, times vary
A performance by Dragan Zivadinov, Dunja Zupancic, and Miha Tursic that will acquaint viewers with post-gravitational art as the conditions in which art will be produced in the future in a new space of construction,
3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings
Alexandre Singh
White Columns
320 W. 13th Street (entrance on Horatio St.)
Monday, November 9 - Thursday, November 12, 8:00pm
For four consecutive evenings, White Columns will host a series of narrative performances by Alexandre Singh. Taking the mantle from Homer, Singh will be reciting from memory "The Alkahest," a series of interwoven tales featuring
Ubu Lenin
Rainer Ganahl
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway #3
Friday, November 13 9:30pm
The fact that Lenin was a participating dadaist in Zurich - though in disguise — served as a pretext for New York based artist Rainer Ganahl to rewrite the original Ubu play as Ubulenin. Ganahl
Ecks Ecks Ecks - AKA - Sacred Band of Thebes - AKA - In Memory of Robert Isabell - AKA - Any Fag Could Do That at X Initiative
Ryan McNamara
X Initiative
548 W. 22nd Street
Friday, November 13 8:00pm
In 375 BC, the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force composed entirely of homosexual lovers, annihilated the Spartan army, a brigade three times their size, at Teygra. 2352 years later, party planner Robert Isabell
City Symphonies Out of Doors
Text of Light
High Line Park (14th Street passage)
Friday, November 13 7:00pm
Acclaimed avant-garde ensemble Text of Light--composer and saxophonist Ulrich Krieger, guitarist and composer Alan Licht, turntablist and visual artist Christian Marclay, and Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo--presents a live musical score to "Berlin: Symphony of
Nummer Elf: The King's Gambit Accepted, the Number of Stars in the Sky & Waiting for an Earthquake
Guido Van Der Werve
Marshall Chess Club
23 W. 10th Street
Friday, November 13 7:00pm
Recently, Dutch artist Guido van der Werve filmed a scene at the Marshall Chess Club in which he plays a game of chess with grandmaster Leonid Yudasin. For this film that explores the parallels between
New York, New York
Candice Breitz
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St
Thursday, November 12 - Friday, November 13, 8:30pm
with Kunsthaus Bregenz
Video and installation artist Candice Breitz presents “New York, New York,” her first-ever live performance, which features two nearly-identical casts composed of four
Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer
Teatro of the Italian Academy (11/12) and Italian Cultural Institute (11/13)
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (11/12) and 686 Park Avenue (11/13)
Thursday, November 12 - Friday, November 13, 1:00pm
Thanks to its irreverence and its lack of interest in puristic distinctions, including its capacity to find redeeming value in banality, Futurism will survive the process of “touristicization” and fetishization that characterizes a good part
A Futurist Film Funeral (fff !!!)
Bradley Eros
Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Saturday, November 14 8:30pm
An evening of kinetic cinema and musique plastique in three parts: 1) Synthetic History, a radical remix of the recent Transformers (“Transformers Transformed!”) as a critical revenge on old and new fascist tropes, 2) Plastic
The Quote Generator
Danielle Freakley
X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street
Saturday, November 14 7:00pm
For a few years Freakley performs by speaking in "quotations" with "reference" as her normal mode of speech, in everyday public life. She will be launching the second phase of her performance (speaking in quotation
Family Dinner in a Parallel Universe
Mai Ueda
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Saturday, November 14 7:00pm
Ueda invites a selection of her friends--musicians, fashion designers, and artists--to perform, dine and play music at the same time. A not-to-missed neo-fluxus event that will recall the Fluxus Dumpling dinner staged by Maciunas in
Speed Reading
Definitions Gym
19 Union Square West (at 15th St.)
Saturday, November 14 6:00pm
A 90-minute relay race of sorts, featuring 25-35 writers and artists who will take turns reading aloud short texts related to the theme of speed while running on three treadmills positioned side-by-side. The velocity of
Mealing
Martí Guixé
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Saturday, November 14 6:00pm
For designer Martí Guixé, the word “mealing” describes the act of eating a meal, as well as the social concept of a relational meal. Mealing is a three-hour performance and meal-in-motion for approximately 80 people. Participants will
No Place: A Ritual of the Empathic
Saya Woolfalk
The Studio Museum
144 West 125th Street
Saturday, November 14 - Saturday, November 14, 6:00pm
"No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics" is a continuation of artist Saya Woolfalk’s investigation into a fictional future called No Place. Last summer, Woolfalk introduced us to the part-plant, part human-people of No Place
The Futurisms of American Poetry
Charles Bernstein and John Yau
Museum of the Chinese in America
215 Centre Street (between Grand and Howard)
Saturday, November 14 4:00pm
A reading/performance event featuring Charles Bernstein and John Yau. With an introduction on Futurism in China by Performa Curator Defne Ayas. Introduction by Chris Alexander and Kristen Gallagher. Organized by Tan Lin.
Charles Bernstein is author
Vital Signals
Japan Society
333 E. 47th Street
Saturday, November 14 2:00pm
"Vital Signals," a program of early video art from America and Japan, highlights the significant parallel developments in these countries during the 1960s and ‘70s. Co-presented with EAI, the leading international resource for video and
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Legend of John Henry
Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
Saturday, November 14 1:30pm
The "Terminator," a cyborg, returns to protect John Connor from a more powerful and advanced cyborg who is out to murder the teenager in this eye-popping sci-fi/action landmark, to be preceded by "The Legend of
Chalk Playground, LitTwitChalk
Tan Lin
P.S. 2 playground
122 Henry St.
Saturday, November 14 1:00pm
A performance-based chalk translation and street drawing in a parking lot. Chalking of a Futurist manifesto, a Chinese manifesto, and a collaborative, real-time poetry “line” installation piece by New York writers. Writers include: Felix Alarcon, Bruce
Futurismo/Futurizm: Futurist Avant-Garde in Italy and Russia
Yale University, New Haven
Friday, November 13 - Saturday, November 14, times vary
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Filippo Marinetti’s founding manifesto of Italian futurism. The manifesto's publication sparked intense interest across Europe and Eurasia, from France to Italy and Russia, and is
Reading Dante
Joan Jonas
The Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street
Tuesday, November 10 - Saturday, November 14, times vary
"Reading Dante," a large-scale performance by video and performance pioneer Joan Jonas, is based on elements from Dante’s epic fourteenth-century poem "The Divine Comedy," collaging footage
Empty is Also
Tamar Ettun and Emily Coates
X Intiative
548 W 22nd Street
Saturday, November 7 - Saturday, November 14, times vary
Integrating objects, a dancer, a musician, and video, “Empty Is Also” inverts the usual conception of dance and sculpture in relation to the ephemeral by investigating dance's durability versus sculpture's ultimate disposability. The dancer inhabits
Desire Caught by the Tail
Scott Keightley and Tom O'Neill
X Initiative
548 W 22nd Street
Sunday, November 15 7:00pm
Scott Keightley and Tom O'Neill are collaborating on this production of Desire Caught By The Tail, a darkly comic play written by Pablo Picasso during the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1941, about a motley
The Pigeon-Like Unease of my Inner Spirit
Ahmet Ögüt
Bidoun Magazine
47 Orchard Street
Sunday, November 15 7:00pm
“Hrant Dink is the 62nd journalist to have been murdered in Turkey since 1909."
For Performa 09, artist Ahmet Ögüt develops a conversation with Devorah Greenspan, a blind painter in order to create a homage to
Innocence in Extremis
Amy Granat and Felicia Ballos
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Sunday, November 15 7:00pm
A variety of moving images on multiple projections are mixed while a dancer performs at the same time: a collaboration of extreme cinema and dance.
Felicia Ballos and Amy Granat are both native of St. Louis,
Tesla, Despite History
Braco Dimitrijevic
The Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 15 6:00pm
Performa is pleased to present "Tesla, Despite History" (43 min) a film written, directed and narrated by Braco Dimitrijevic in 2006, that examines the astounding influence of the late 19th and early 20th century inventor
Drifts and Traps
Kabir Carter
Bronx Museum of Arts
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx
Sunday, November 15 1:00pm
Working with radio scanners and synthesizer modules, artist Kabir Carter will create a sound piece specifically for this event that commemorates the centennial of the Futurist movement. As a pre-performance talk, literary critics Marjorie Perloff
Brendan Fowler
Rental
120 East Broadway, Floor 6
Sunday, November 15 1:00pm
In conjunction with his solo show at Rental, Brendan Fowler presents a five hour durational performance that functions as much as a live soundtrack to the work as it does a unique set of gestures
The Endless Pace
Davide Balula
590 Madison Avenue
Sunday, November 15 12:00pm
The Endless Pace is a meditation on the flow of time in a public space. Over the course of one 'visual hour', dancers will silently embody the movements of a mechanical clock to demarcate sixty
Stone Ihiga
Wangechi Mutu
Saatchi & Saatchi
375 Hudson Street
Friday, November 13 - Sunday, November 15, 9:00pm
Wangechi Mutu’s Stone Ihiga*, a multi-layered performance and installation created in collaboration with riveting composer and vocalist Imani Uzuri, takes as its starting point the
SoloShow
Maria Hassabi
Performance Space 122
150 1st. Avenue
Thursday, November 12 - Sunday, November 15, times vary
In Maria Hassabi’s “Solo Show” a multitude of familiar representations of the female body drawn from art history, pop culture, and everyday life are dissolved into the physicality of contemporary dance. As these images are
The PROMPT (a night club)
White Slab Palace
77 Delancey Street
Wednesday, November 11 - Sunday, November 15, 8:00pm
Nov 11- 15, 8pm - 11pm nightly
A conceptual social club under the influence of Futurist Variety Theater, cues and propositions are offered each night in the form of conversation pieces, rules, performances and soundtracks, transforming
Vocabulary Lesson
CORO Collective
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Monday, November 16 9:00pm
Coro= Egle & Goda Budvytyte & Ieva Miseviciute
Coro collective (Amsterdam, Vilnius) is known to transform any public space into a music video, dividing the crowd into both cameras and participants. For Swiss Institute, Coro presents Vocabulary Lesson, an
Futurist Life Redux
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
Monday, November 16 8:00pm
ADDITIONAL SHOWTIME ADDED!
Monday November 16 at 8 pm (followed by Q&A with the artists) and 9:30 pm (introduced by the artists)
A wild and energetic new
Vaginal Davis, Kathleen Hanna, Tony Clifton + more
Live Component of Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve
Santos' Party House
96 Lafayette
Monday, November 16 8:00pm
Advanced Capitalism Reunion: Reparations and Retardations
Vaginal Davis with Pedro, Murial, and Esther (P.M.E.), 1989-2009
DJs Kathleen Hanna and Adam Horovitz
A Rare NYC appearance by international singing sensation,
Tony Clifton, and his 17-piece Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra
Sponsored by Comic
The Future in Five Senses: Echoes of Italian Futurism in New York Architecture and Design
Auditorium, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
24 West 12th Street
Monday, November 16 6:00pm
For the "heroic" avant-gardes of early twentieth-century, perhaps no metropolis invited the projection of utopian aspirations more than New York City. The Futurists' actual presence in New York was minimal and belated. But if the movement drew upon
Form & Konsequenz
Bernd Krauss and Jan Verwoert
Wyoming Building, Goethe Institut New York
5 East 3rd Street
Monday, November 16 6:00pm
Art critic Jan Verwoert and artist Bernd Krauss discuss whatever happened to the notion of doing justice to materials: what form follows function if formalism is a folly?
Introduction by RoseLee Goldberg.
Jan Verwoert is an art
Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org
Online in Second Life
Monday, November 16 5:00pm
Watch documentation of the performance here
Forget about museums, galleries and biennials, stay home and play video games. Synthetic Performances are online live gaming sessions inside the virtual world of Second Life, performed by Eva and
Untitled Performances
Emma Hart and Benedict Drew
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn
Tuesday, November 17 7:30pm
Light Industry is proud to present Emma Hart and Benedict Drew in their first collaborative performance in New York. Juxtaposing and transforming the mechanics of 16mm film, video and sound, Drew and Hart will present Untitled
Lost Astronaut
Alicia Framis
Art Production Fund - APF Lab
15 Wooster Street
Tuesday, November 3 - Tuesday, November 17, times vary
parades & changes, replays
Anna Halprin, Anne Collod, Morton Subotnick, and Guests
Dance Theater Workshop
219 W. 19th Street
Wednesday, November 18 7:30pm
In 1965, postmodern dance legend Anna Halprin’s "Parades & Changes" shook the dance world by challenging conceptions of nudity, stillness, and the “ceremony of trust” (as Halprin named it) between performers and audience. Originally banned
The Good Life
Michel Auder
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Wednesday, November 18 7:00pm
"The Good Life," a new video installation by Michel Auder involving the poets Kathy Acker, Julien Blainem, William Burroughs, John Cooper Clarke, Ira Cohen, Gregory Corso, Brian Gyson, Harry Hoogstraten, Jean Jacques Lebel, Gerard Malanga,
Erratic Anthropologies
Art in General
79 Walker Street
Wednesday, November 11 - Wednesday, November 18, 7:00pm
A trio of performance projects--by Shana Moulton, Rancourt/Yatsuk, and Guy Benfield--that mine the artifacts and visual culture of defunct utopian communities, drawing from sources ranging from primitivist references in hippie culture to the latent promise
Lecture
Terence Koh
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
Thursday, November 19 8:00pm
Following on the National Arts Club's century-old tradition of salon-style intellectual discussions and as part of its ongoing PERFORM series, the Contemporary Art Department of The National Arts Club is pleased to present a special
K.62
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers
Abrons Art Center
466 Grand Street
Wednesday, November 18 - Thursday, November 19, 7:30pm
"K.62" is a new orchestrated performance by acclaimed installation artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created in collaboration with renowned composer and performer Ari Benjamin Meyers, with whom
K.85
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers
Location TBA
Wednesday, November 18 - Thursday, November 19, 7:30pm
"K.85" is a journey for a solo audience. Locations to be determined, duration variable.
Born in 1965 in Strassbourg, France, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster lives and works in Paris. Since the early 90s, Gonzalez-Foerster has developed an extremely
Day is Done Judson Church Dance
Mike Kelley
Judson Memorial Church
239 Thompson Street
Tuesday, November 17 - Thursday, November 19, times vary
For Performa 09, Mike Kelley will present three short dance/performance pieces in the Judson Memorial Church inspired by the darkly funny vignettes in his 2005
If I Sing to You / Spiraling Down
Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 W. 37th Street
Tuesday, November 17 - Thursday, November 19, 7:30pm
Two legendary old friends--Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer--present two new performances on the same evening, sharing a stage for the first time in over 25 years. Deborah Hay’s "If I Sing To You," featuring an
In the Room
Sung Hwan Kim
The New Museum
235 Bowery
Sunday, November 15 - Thursday, November 19, times vary
The performance at the New Museum is a variation of Sung Hwan Kim’s "In the room 3 (dog I knew)" with new sets and props. The performance opens with an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry
Desniansky Raion
Cyprien Gaillard and Koudlam
The Kitchen
512 W. 19th Street
Friday, November 20 8:00pm
In Cyprien Gaillard’s groundbreaking video "Desniansky Raion," a view of Belgrade’s futuristic town gate opens a triptych where architecture embodies the failure of the modernist social utopia in a brilliant, fascinating demonstration: an epic fight
Cinemagician
Yeondoo Jung
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
Thursday, November 19 - Friday, November 20, 8:00pm
with the Yokohama Festival for Video and Social Technology.
Yeondoo Jung’s new theater piece, Cinemagician, aims to recreate the tensions between the magician and audience that
“A history of performance in 20 minute,” “Signs and Wonders (Théorie de l'art moderne / Théorème de l'art maudit),” and “Vox artisti : His Masters' Voices”
Guillaume Desanges
X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street
Wednesday, November 18 - Friday, November 20, times vary
«A History of Performance in 20 Minutes » is a lecture which brings a concise history of the representation of the body in art, portrayed live by an actor, while the curator is talking. It
This Is Only A Test
Lucy Raven
Time Warner 57 / RCN 84 / Verizon 35
Monday, November 16 - Friday, November 20, 3:30pm
This is a test. Five nights of public television service announcements broadcast live from the MNN studio. [For the next 30 minutes, normal programming will be suspended. This is only a test.]
Monday (Nov 16)
Futurist Manifestos
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Ave
Tuesday, November 3 - Friday, November 20, times vary
An exhibition of original Futurist manifestos curated by Renato Miracco and Beatrice Buscaroli.
Presented by Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy. Curated by Renato Miracco.
Opening on Nov.3, 7-9pm
Daily from 10am-4pm
Special hours
Untitled
Terence Koh
Tompkins Square Park
Saturday, November 21 7:00pm
please,
this saturdae, nov 21st '09
tompkins square park
meet @ 7pm
in the middle
bye the two trees
please,
be silent
as..
...
Presented by Performa.
FREE
See the artist's documentation here
Terence Koh is also performing at the Brooklyn Museum and at The
Yeondoo Jung in conversation with Melissa Chiu
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Saturday, November 21 6:45pm
Artist Yeondoo Jung and Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society Museum, engage in a lively conversation at the Performa Hub about his work and recent Performa 09 Commission, Cinemagician.
FREE
Writing Live
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Saturday, November 21 5:00pm
A public seminar based on the theme of speculation and response. A number of invited artists and writers will give short artistic/ acted/ spoken/ written 'speculations' on the past, present and future of writing
Misplaced Women
Tanja Ostojic
White Box
329 Broome Street
Saturday, November 21 5:00pm
A delegated performance that portrays activities from everyday life signifying a displacement common among transients, migrants, and disaster refugees, as well to the itinerant artist traveling the world to earn her living. Part of
A Ballad of Accounting 2009: Composition for Cello and Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Alex Waterman
Artists Space
38 Greene Street #3
Saturday, November 21 2:00pm
A musical performance by Waterman with a 16-millimeter film by Elizabeth Wendelbo.
Part of Riot Radio Ballad, a series of programs which explore the performative and futurist aspects of spoken word, audio, and radio material.
Alex
Artists' Parents Meeting
Darius Miksys
e-flux
41 Essex Street
Saturday, November 21 2:00pm
Where do artists come from? Is it a matter of choice to become an artist, or do some predefined qualities make it inescapable? Are there some particular features in a person's surroundings that make him
Not for Sale: Noise Panel
Artists Space
38 Greene Street
Saturday, November 21 12:00pm
Designed to accompany the two day Mike Kelley-curated festival "A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality," Not For Sale: Noise Panel will include artist and musician Tony Conrad; Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia
A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music
The Gramercy Theater
127 E. 23rd Street
Friday, November 20 - Saturday, November 21, 6:00pm
A mini-festival of noise music curated by visual artist Mike Kelley. Born in a suburb of Detroit in 1954, Mike Kelley was brought up with the city's music scene, which spawned bands such as Iggy
Sirens Taken For Wonders
Paul Elliman
Performa Hub / Van Alen Institute
41 Cooper Square / 30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
Tuesday, November 17 - Saturday, November 21, times vary
The field trips will gather experts and amateurs alike for a siren-watch across the city, applying the observation and audio surveillance techniques of local wildlife groups and the sonic analysis of a New York City department of
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture: Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces
An Architektur
Gair Building No 6
81 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Thursday, November 12 - Saturday, November 21, times vary
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the
iSLAND kEEPER
Bernd Krauss
Goethe Institut, Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)
Sunday, November 8 - Saturday, November 21, times vary
Exhibition by day and theater at night, “iSLAND kEEPER” stakes out new territory for artist Bernd Krauss. The project will include objects and time-based work in several media clustered both spatially and temporally around a live
Mother Earth, Sister Moon
Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowska
chashama 679
679 Third Ave at 43rd Street
Wednesday, November 4 - Saturday, November 21, times vary
Opening Nov. 4, 6-8 pm
For Performa 09, Polish artist Christian Tomaszewski, in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska, considers how the future was
Ancient Darkness TV
Katie Paterson
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Sunday, November 22 11:59pm
Working with astronomers from the Mount Kea Volcano telescope, Katie Paterson will transmit an image of ‘ancient darkness’ from deep space on television station MNN, inviting a New York audience to stare into the void and
Scratch the Grand Finale
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
Sunday, November 22 8:00pm
The Scratch Orchestra was an experimental musical ensemble founded in London in the spring of 1969 by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton. The Orchestra reflected Cardew's musical philosophy at that time. This meant
Confidential Demonstration
Didier Faustino
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
Sunday, November 22 8:00pm
Didier Faustino will present "Confidential Demonstration" during Scratch The Grande Finale. The artist will be out front and inside the party wearing a dark suit and tie. Throughout the night, he will declaim his personal
P.A.
Marina Rosenfeld
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
Sunday, November 22 7:00pm
A sound art performance by Park Avenue Armory artist-in-residence Marina Rosenfeld, "P.A." uses the massive airspace and complex social function of the Armory drill hall as both a reflecting and distorting structure, inviting audiences to
Black Zero (1965)
Aldo Tambellini and Christoph Draeger
White Box
329 Broome Street
Sunday, November 22 6:00pm
The critically acclaimed "Black Zero" (1965) by Aldo Tambellini, in 1965 was one of the very first multimedia performances. It will be recreated 44 years later in its original form by all the artists who
Case
Brody Condon
New Museum
235 Bowery Avenue
Sunday, November 22 12:00pm
A performance and installation based on the classic cyberpunk novel “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. The event is a deadpan reading of the novel by mostly non professional actors in a casual, dress rehearsal like atmosphere.
Performa Radio
Artists Space
38 Greene Street
Sunday, November 22 12:00pm
For Performa 09, Performa Radio will take the form of two newly commissioned works and one previously existing work. New Performa Radio commissions will be presented by artist Nick Relph, and experimental filmmaker and writer Karen Schneider.
Not For Sale: Ideal Performance Space
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 22 11:00am
What is the ideal performance space for 21st century New York? This session will be dedicated to the discussion and speculation of what defines a performance space. It will examine past examples of performance spaces--whether
The Snorks, a Concert for Creatures [Trailer]
Loris Greaud
Times Square
Saturday, November 21 - Sunday, November 22, 11:59pm
The dark abyss of the ocean is the place on Earth that we know the least about. It is populated by photo-luminescent creatures that flicker
In Order of Appearance
Youri Dirkx and Aurélien Froment
80 St. Marks Place
Saturday, November 21 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
"In Order of Appearance" questions ways of presenting an artwork. The presentation takes place amidst architecture made of paper, modelled on the white cube of the museum. This draft version of the gallery space is
Santiago Sierra
Time TBA
Saturday, November 21 - Sunday, November 22, 10:00am
Staged throughout Europe, Canada, US, and Australia, Santiago Sierra’s NO consists of three touring trucks carrying an outsized three-dimensional sign of the exclamatory statement ‘NO.’ Envisaged as an international touring piece, its is key for
Performing the Web with JODI, Jeff Crouse & Aaron Meyers
Eyebeam
540 W. 21st Street
Friday, November 20 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Bringing together net art pioneers such as JODI with emerging practitioners from Eyebeam’s studios like senior fellow Jeff Crouse, "Performing the Web" will feature performances including JODI’s ongoing performance project, folksomy.alpha, which remixes the comments
3 Day Weekend
Oliver Herring
Salon 94
12 E. 94th Street
Friday, November 20 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
"3 Day Weekend" is both a performance and material for a live video shoot. The Weekend will unfold as a series of interactions built over the course of three days with a group of people
Flags
Arahmaiani
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Friday, November 20 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Raised by an Islamic scholar father and a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist mother, Arahmaiani is a key figure in the current art scene in Indonesia. Recently Arahmaiani has been using the Malay world’s variation of Arabic
How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away
James Hoff
Artists Space
38 Greene Street
Tuesday, November 17 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
James Hoff’s "How Wheeling Feels when the Ground Walks Away" presents an audio landscape comprised of various historic riots, from the concert hall and music venue to the sounds of modern warfare. Presented in surround
Riot Radio Ballad
Artists Space
38 Greene Street
Tuesday, November 17 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
A series of programs which explore the performative and futurist aspects of spoken word, audio, and radio material. Curated by Mark Beasley and presented by Performa and Artists Space.
Program includes:
Alex Waterman
James Hoff
Performa Radio
Zeno Reminder
Uqbar Foundation (Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman)
Cabinet Space
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
Friday, November 13 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Opening Nov. 13, 6-8pm
Screening Nov. 13, 7pm
November 20, 7 pm, Reinaldo Laddaga, will read his libretto “Summer Maneuvers”
Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman’s project “Zeno reminder” for Performa 09 installation, plays with the bonds and
Nothing Up My Sleeve
Stuart Sherman
Participant, Inc.
253 East Houston Street
Sunday, November 8 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Inspired by the work of Stuart Sherman, the exhibition "Nothing Up My Sleeve" includes documentation of multiple 'spectacle' performances by Sherman, focusing on artists who engage and expand our understanding of lived reality through the
Circular File Channel
Circular File
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 22, 11:00pm
Circular File will present three half-hour television shows that will premiere new artist videos, interspersed with in-studio interviews, discussions and performances.
Episode 1 broadcast Nov.07, Nov.08
Episode 2 broadcast Nov.14, Nov.15
Episode 3 broadcast Nov.21, Nov.22
Check MNN
Cold Water
La MaMa Galleria
6 E. 1st Street
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Opening reception Nov. 7, 6-9pm
Singer-songwriter and performance artist Justin Bond and New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als curate “Cold Water” at LaMaMa La Galleria, a unique exhibition of works by artists who are also performers
THE FIRST / LAST NEWSPAPER
Dexter Sinister
Port Authority
At BLANK SL8 (at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 41st Street)
Tuesday, November 3 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Opening Reception Tuesday, November 3 from 6-9 PM
Publishing imprint Dexter Sinister will transform BLANK SL8 (pronounced “Blank Slate”)—a “pop-up” hosting space facing the New York Times building and adjacent to the Port Authority terminal—into a
Futurist Library
Serge Becker
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway
Tuesday, November 3 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Graphic and interior designer Serge Becker’s unconventional reading room will house a curated library of books on Futurism and performance art history during the biennial.
Presented by the Swiss-Institute Contemporary Art.
Open Hours Tue – Sat 12
White Noise III: Pandora’s Sound Box
White Box
329 Broome Street
Monday, November 2 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
An original exhibition conceived to activate and destabilize our vision of the global political landscape through sound, "Pandora’s Sound Box" can be considered an experiment of the associative imagination, which affects human thinking, feeling, and
Performa TV on MNN
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
During the biennial tune into Manhattan Neighborhood Network for the following artist produced programs:
Nov. 22 at 11:59 PM Katie Paterson: ANCIENT DARKNESS TV
Working with astronomers from the Mount Kea Volcano telescope, Katie Paterson will
100 Years (Version #2)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
On the occasion of Performa 09, an exhibition drafting a short history of actions, events, situations, happenings, and performances beginning with the Futurist manifesto in 1909 and continuing to the present. "100 Years (Version #2)"
AIR, Art International Radio
Clocktower Gallery
108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
AIR, Art International Radio is once again the official radio station of Performa, streamcasting interviews, performances and on-site reports of the artists, musicians, curators, and visitors of the biennial.
Check AIR's Website daily for new content
Art Must Move
A Collaboration with Khatt Foundation
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Inspired by the Futurists’ approach to typography and graphic design as well as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Ottoman legacy in Cairo, Performa develops a dialogue with the Khatt Foundation, a non-profit cultural foundation dedicated to design
Performa Hub
Biennial Headquarters
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Open 10am-8pm, Nov. 1-22
Located in the latest architectural gem on the Bowery, the brand new Cooper Union building, the Performa Hub will function as our headquarters during the biennial. The Hub offers a meeting point, a
The Public School (for Architecture)
Van Alen Institute & http://nyc.thepublicschool.org
30 W. 22nd Street, #6
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Performa is pleased to collaborate this November with The Public School (for Architecture) New York, a project by Van Alen Institute New York Prize fellows common room and Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School (for Architecture) is a
Couch; Fake Couch
Darren Bader
Performa HUB and various venues
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
Two couches will be arranged on the sidewalk in front of and tied to the ground-floor architecture of the Performa HUB. "Couch: Fake Couch" will travel to various museums and non-profits throughout the three weeks
Untitled
Guy Ben-Ner
Performa Hub
41 Cooper Square
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, November 22, times vary
with Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund
Artist in conversation with Jon Kessler and RoseLee Goldberg, Nov. 2, 7pm, at Performa Hub
Filmed and edited over the course
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