The Prompt is a conceptual social club under the influence of Futurist Variety Theater. Sessions held nightly November 11-15, 2009. Cues and propositions are offered each night in the form of conversation pieces, rules, performances and soundtracks, transforming this destination into a pressure cooker for ideas and intimacies. Curated by Kunstverein.
November 13th session:
RULES: Michael Portnoy
CONVERSATION PIECE: The Bruce High Quality Foundation
FILM: Marianne Vitale, Sylvie Fleury
PERFORMANCES: Joan Juliet Buck, Patrick Cleandenim, Joseph Grigely, Cassie Terman, Benjamin Heller
CURATORS/HOSTS: Michael Portnoy, Sarina Basta, Mary Rinebold, Jamie Hook
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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 be given ceramic glasses with “edible microsnacks” adhered to their surface and instructions for eating them while performing small gestures that will require each person to interact with their fellow diners.
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Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers present The World Series of ‘Tubing at Eyebeam. An augmented reality card game, players compete against one another by selecting and presenting their “best” YouTube video clips. The audience then choose their favorite videos with a cleverly conceived audience response system using laser pointers. By blurring the distinctions between performer, audience, and participant, their work builds upon the inherent qualities of shared culture as it exists online.
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How, why, and when did my child become an artist? The goal of this social interaction is not to solve this mystery, but rather to explore the generational move backward as a creative forward-looking exercise. Darius Miksys presents this conversation between parents of artists, hosted at e-flux project space. Curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, with production support by Sarah Demeuse. Special thanks to PERFORMA’s Defne Ayas.
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Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupancic, and Miha Turšic take the audience on a 50 hour journey through the concepts of “theatre in zero-gravity”, at Eyebeam.
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Felicia Ballos and Amy Granat are both founding members of Cinema Zero in Brooklyn. Granat has worked on the restoration of the films of Maya Deren and has presented her films in New York and Europe. Ballos trained with Trisha Brown and Min Tanaka and has danced with Yvonne Rainer. Both have ties to extreme underground music. Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis.
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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 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 both age-old traditions.
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 film, literature and poetry.
A evening of Polish Futurist theater, art, and manifestos with staged excerpts from Bruno Jasiénski’s avant-garde play Mannequin’s Ball (1930).
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
Marije Vogelzang chats to PERFORMA TV from the confession booth located inside the PERFORMA 09 hub
Our first post from the PERFORMA 09 Confession Booth.
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 chance to be as lazy and un-energetic as they want.
Analysis and commentary by RoseLee Goldberg on Day 3 of PERFORMA 09
Premiering in New York for Performa 09, Alicia Framis presents Lost Astronaut – an ongoing performance-installation at APF LAB, exploring the potentialities of living on the moon through the ironical and fictional character and activities of a woman astronaut. Left on Earth like all women who were never part of the moon race, she settles in to BaseCamp, in which she will live for the 2 weeks of the biennial in a customized astronaut suit, among drawings and prototypes that aim to both parody and demand women’s presence on the moon. Her activities will be pre-determined by scores written by invited authors and artists, and the audience will be able to interact with her in BaseCamp or as she wanders the streets of New York City. Participating writers and artists include: Marina Abramovic, Mark Beasley, Virginia Bobin, Kim Ann Foxman, Brian Keith-Jackson, Shelley Jackson, Angie Keefer, Matthew Licht, Rita McBride, John Menick, Katie Paterson, Silvia Prada, Frances Richard, Michael Schulman, and Katrina Sieveirding.
A video compilation of ‘found performaces’ (on-line vidoes of people who recorded themselves while having a psychedelic experience) that will be followed by a live recreation by two performers who repeat the gestures of the individuals on their drug-induced journeys, an actor mimicking the voices and dancer matching the body movements.
Performed by the actor Russell Edge and dancer Linda Austin.
Christian Tomaszewski rehearses his piece set to take place inside this gigantic space-suit.
Candice Breitz films New York, New York
As part of an ongoing performance, Alicia Framis donned her astronaut suit for her first assignment prepared by Silvia Prada. “The ‘Lost Astronaut’ must attend the opening party event of the performance-installation ON NOVEMBER 3RD and socialize with those present, and dance.”
RoseLee Goldberg chats with Arto Lindsay about his performance, Somewhere I read
Jon Kessler talks to Guy Ben-Ner at the PERFORMA hub about his film Drop the Monkey, which was shot in Berlin and Tel-Aviv.
Analysis and commentary by Roselee Goldberg of Day 2 at PERFORMA 09
A re-examination of the 19th-century pehnomenon that was Jenny Lind, a singer also known as the “the Swedish Nightingale,” in which a fragment of Lind’s inaugural concert in America will be restaged under unusual circumstances at the same site where she gave this historic concert 159 years ago. Presented by the Museum for African Art.
A funny, joyful take on the symphony, involving tap dancing, bowling, ping pong, TV, and more. Co-presented by Performa and Performance space 122.
Analysis and commentary by Roselee Goldberg of Day 1 at PERFORMA 09
Between Worlds is a pop spectacle developed in conjunction with Fischerspooner’s new recording, Entertainment, with source material provided by The Wooster Group.
On New York CIty’s Marathon Sunday, avant-garde music composer Arto Linsday designed and organized a multi-disciplinary arts parade featuring over 50 dancers and performers moving through Times Square. All the participants played music composed by Lindsay on modified cell phones while performing choreography created in collaboration with Lily Baldwin.
