Performa Book Launch at P.S.1 on Sat April 24th!
Join us for the launch of our new Performa book and the final weekend of the extraordinary 100 Years show at P.S.1!
PERFORMA BOOK LAUNCH AT P.S.1
Featuring a Reading by Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg
With Special Artist and Author Guests!
Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 pm
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Free
Featuring a Reading by Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg
With Artists and Authors Sanford Biggers, Pete Drungle, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Kessler, Shaun El C Leonardo,
Eva and Franco Mattes, Michael Schulman, Elaine Summers, Amy Sillman, and others
Assembled by Performa director and pioneering scholar of performance art, RoseLee Goldberg, Performa’s new book, Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07 (2010, JRP Ringier – buy it here), documents new performances by some of the world’s most exciting visual artists, focusing on the relationship between contemporary dance and visual art, the ongoing legacy of “Happenings” inventor Allan Kaprow and the recent explosion of performance in China. Photographs, artists’ scripts, sketches, journals and storyboards are complemented by writings from prominent curators and critics, as well as interviews with Paul McCarthy, Dan Graham, Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Tony Conrad, Jérôme Bel, and many others.
After the reading, you can have your book SIGNED by RoseLee Goldberg, Sanford Biggers, Pete Drungle, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Kessler, Shaun El C Leonardo, Eva and Franco Mattes, Michael Schulman, Amy Sillman, Elaine Summers, and others in person!
AND WHILE YOU’RE AT P.S.1 ON THE 24TH…
See the final weekend of 100 Years, an extraordinary exhibition that provides an instant introduction to the history of performance art from Futurism to the present. Read Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg’s comments on the show here and don’t miss the last chance to immerse yourself in this critical and inspiring history!
Go to Saturday Sessions, presented by PopRally at 4 pm. Join in an afternoon of printmaking with Forth Estate inspired by Christian Marclay’s 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, currently on view as part of 100 Years, as well as performances by Real Estate and DJ Rezound. For more information, click here.
The Performa book launch + 100 Years + Saturday Sessions–sounds like the best Saturday ever!
