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• May 17th, 2013 Loudspeaker: A Symposium on The Voice

  Performa is pleased to announce Loudspeaker: A Symposium for Extra-Normal Vocals, a concert/symposium that considers the historic grounding of extended vocal technique as well as current developments within contemporary avant-garde performance. Pioneered by New York-based vocalists such as Joan La Barbara, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, and Diamanda Galas, participants will demonstrate the range of sounds of which the voice is capable, from vocal trills and ululation (Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk) to melisma (Whitney Houston and Beyoncé) and death growl (Napalm Death).

• Performa 13 Dates: November 1-24, 2013

  Performa 13 will take place from Friday, November 1st through Sunday, November 24th. The 24-day program of more than 100 separate events presented at over 40 venues across the city will be announced over the coming months through video press releases, behind the scenes studio visits with Performa 13 artists, interviews with the more than 30 curators responsible for selecting and working with artists from around the world, and sneak previews from cities as far a field as Johannesburg, Delhi, Shanghai, Oslo, Warsaw and Singapore.

• RoseLee Goldberg at Experienz April 20th, 2013

  Performa is pleased to announce that RoseLee Goldberg will deliver the keynote address at the panel discussion organized by Experienz, an innovative, forward-thinking, four-day platform dedicated to contemporary performance and live art, taking place at WIELS contemporary art center in Brussels (April 18th-21st). Other Performa artists taking part in this program include Liz Magic Laser (Performa 11), Davide Balula (Performa 09) and Guillaume Désanges (Performa 09).

• Ragnar Kjartansson Wins Performa 11 Malcolm McLaren Award

  “it seems possible that as ‘Bliss’ continues to unravel, it will expose human kindness as much as human imperfection, and that the key element extended into real time and space by Mr. Kjartansson and his collaborators will be the act of forgiveness conveyed by, but also implicit within, the countess’s few, achingly affecting notes.”

• Performa 11 Roundup on Art in America

  "Performa revived legends. But throughout the run, the festival also staged strong contemporary work."

• Art in America Reviews Liz Magic Laser

  "Up may be down, and down up, but in her clever performance Laser devised a way through all the blather."

• 33 Fragments of Russian Performance Critic’s Pick in Artforum

  "[The] exhibition should read like so many variations on the theme of rebelliousness."

• Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler in New York Times

  "It is unexpectedly dazzling"

• Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, Boris Charmatz and Eleanor Bauer reviewed in the New York Times

  "Ms. Bauer channels everything from Karen Finley to “Swan Lake,” morphing with live-wire intensity from giant teddy bear to rebellious little girl to chameleon chanteuse."

• Performa Playbill: Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler in Art in America

  "During the first preview performance on Thursday, most spectators sat respectfully still, but in later iterations, people moved around, as is encouraged, and struck up quiet conversations."

• Tarek Atoui in the New Yorker’s “Culture Desk” Section

  "TAREK ATOUI: VISITING TARAB" profile in the New Yorker

• Elmgreen & Dragset Profile in New York Times

  Elmgreen & Dragset profile preview in the New York Times by Randy Kennedy.

• A Pre-Performa 11 Halloween Bash!

  A PRE-PERFORMA 11 HALLOWEEN BASH AT SANTOS PARTY HOUSE ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 28TH!

• New York Times Preview of Performa 11 Program

  "Live performance will be erupting, and possibly disrupting, New York for three weeks starting Nov. 1..."

• Artinfo Announces the Release of Performa 11 Calendar

  "The well-loved performance biennial has released its full — and massive — schedule of events."

• Performa 11 Website in New York Observer

  "The almost unbelievably epic calendar is available at Performa’s website."

• Elmgreen & Dragset in T Magazine

  “If all of us would dare to be more ridiculous, we wouldn’t be so neurotic.”

• Performa 11 Sneak Peek on Artnet

  Performa on Artnet "Bigger than Ever!"

• Commission artist Ragnar Kjartansson Preview in New York Observer

  “RoseLee said to me, ‘Do your fantasy darling!’”

• Paper Magazine Preview of Performa 11

  "Getting Pumped for Performa!"

• RoseLee Goldberg Profiled in New York Observer

  "Repeat Performance: The Redoubtable RoseLee Goldberg’s Performa Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever."

• Artinfo Recaps Performa Press Conference

  "This November, Performa 11 will hit New York City with an avalanche of performance art events..."