PICA’s TBA Festival announces artists

GUEST BLOGGER: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, PERFORMA
PICA in Portland, Oregon announces its lineup of artists for its upcoming Time-Based Arts Festival, September 6-16th:

10 Tiny Dances, Aki Onda/Kanta Hiro/Fuyuki Yamakawa/Atsuhiro Ito, Andrew Dickson, Anna Oxygen/Cloud-Eye Coordination, Arnold Joseph Kemp, BARR aka Brendan Fowler, Cartune Xprez, Charlotte Vanden Eynde, Claude Wampler, Cristi??n Silva, Donna Uchizono Company, Elevator Repair Service, Fred Frith/Zeena Perkins/Ikue Mori, Gary Wiseman, Greasy Kid Stuff, Guido van der Werve, Haircuts by Children, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Holcombe Waller, Ina Archer, Kassys, Larry Bamburg, Larry Krone, Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies, Liz Haley, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Marko Lulic, Melia Donovan, Mirah/Spectratone International, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Peter Kreider, Regina Silveira, Rinde Eckert, Ryan W. Paulson, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Sincerely, John Head, Taylor Mac, tEEth, URBANHONKING, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, YACHT, Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey,

Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 0 comments

Edward Yang RIP

Edward Yang, one of Taiwan’s greatest filmmakers, passed away last week at the age of 59.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Manohla Dargis, and Godfrey Cheshire have all written pieces memorializing this wonderful director, whose films were unfortunately seldom screened in the United States.

A fitting eulogy from the final scene of his last and best known film, YI YI (2000):

Posted by Lana | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | 0 comments

PERFORMA’s Second Life

I have been trying to track down the “Pizza Sluts” here in Second Life. Finally I stumbled upon vestiges of their performance on display at Odessey Art and Performance. When you step on the flying rolling pizzas in the back room they unleash red glowing flying objects and then suddenly you are whisked away to new uncharted territories. Some powerful pizzas they are indeed.

Posted by Performa Kamachi | Monday, June 25th, 2007 | 0 comments

PERFORMA BOOK AVAILABLE TO ORDER

We are very proud to announce that you can now order our first book! Your copy will be shipped from our office directly to you. We hope you’ll support PERFORMA and get your copy of this exceptional book which documents in great detail PERFORMA05, the first biennial of new visual art performance.

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 0 comments

FOREVER RADICAL podcast now available

On top of the Flash Player audio of our NOT FOR SALE: Forever Radical? panel and other panels available here, there is now a podcast available for download here, courtesy of WPS1.

Posted by Lana | Friday, May 11th, 2007 | 0 comments

NOT FOR SALE: Forever Radical? audio recording now available

The audio recording of our NOT FOR SALE: Forever Radical? panel (from April 12, 2007), as well as recordings of two of our previous NOT FOR SALE discussions, are now available here courtesy of WPS1 Art Radio.

Posted by Lana | Friday, May 4th, 2007 | 0 comments

Theater for the 21st century?

As presented today by architect Liz Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, plans for the redevelopment of Lincoln Center are a breathtaking vision of the architectural possibilities for performing arts venues in the future.

One highlight will be a curved lawn on top of a glass-sided restaurant–described by Lincoln Center Chairman Frank A. Bennack, Jr. as a “champagne below, brown bag on top” concept (probably not realizing that brown bags in parks are no longer associated with sack lunches) and to be covered with grass of an otherworldly green color (Diller described the color as “Antonioni green,” probably referring to the Day-Glo grass in BLOW-UP). Technology is everywhere–the main stairway leading up to the plaza will feature embedded LED screens rolling across each step with Lincoln Center program information, there will be interactive information kiosks at locations across the campus, and even the iconic fountain will be specially programmed to perform magic tricks, like creating a puffy cloud of water hovering in mid-air above the fountain’s base.

The sleekest element of the redevelopment is the new interior design for Alice Tully Hall. The space will be lined with a “high performance” wood surface that covers a lighting system, so that the wood appears to glow from within; when a performance is about to begin, instead of the lights flashing or the curtain parting, the walls will “blush” a warm red color. Beautiful.

Posted by Lana | Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 | 0 comments

NOT FOR SALE in this week’s Flavorpill

NOT FOR SALE: Forever Radical? is a pick in this week’s Flavorpill!

Posted by PERFORMA | Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 | 0 comments

ARCHIVED NEWS

8 October 2006

RoseLee Goldberg named Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters

RoseLee Goldberg, Founder and Director of PERFORMA, has been named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by M. Renaud Dennedieu de Vabres, the French Minister of Culture and Communication. This honor, given out twice annually to only a few hundred people worldwide, recognizes eminent artists, writers, and people who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world. American recipients of the medal of the Order of Arts and Letters include Paul Auster, Ornette Coleman, Marilyn Horne, Richard Meier, Robert Rosenblum, I.M. Pei, Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep.

8 September 2006

Jesper Just Trilogy Premiere

On September 8th, Perry Rubenstein Gallery will host the world premiere of PERFORMA05 artist Jesper Just’s new film trilogy, which was commissioned and produced by Perry Rubenstein Gallery. It Will All End in Tears will be shown from September 18-October 28, 2006. This is Just’s newest work since True Love is Yet to Come, a PERFORMA Commission which premiered to critical and popular acclaim at PERFORMA05.

It Will All End in Tears will be making its UK premiere at Artprojx in London on October 10, followed by a conversation with Just.

Posted by PERFORMA | Thursday, April 5th, 2007 | 0 comments