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In addition to Performa Commissions, the Performa Projects provide an acclaimed group of additional artists, curators, and institutions an exciting platform to produce and present new work.
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Julieta Aranda and Carlos Motta Broken English |
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A Constructivist-style publication, reflecting on the constant cultural translations and negotiations of New York City. | Free |
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L’Encyclopédie de la parole Chorale |
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A brief “choir” performance of texts gathered from political speeches, movie scenes and voicemail messages, in English for the first time. | Free |
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Mateo Tannatt Pity City Ballet |
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A live talk show about monumental public artwork – with added dance and greenscreen technology. | Free with reservation Buy Tickets |
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Spartacus Chetwynd The Lion Tamer |
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Exploring the truths and fallacies of history making, through chambers and antechambers and among large costumed insects. Live performance, projected film, and interactivity all play a part in this other-worldly experience. | $12 New Museum Members / $15 General PublicBuy Tickets |
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Tyler Ashley Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism |
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Jane Fonda meets Rodchenko in this interactive exploration into the world of Stepanova style, Meyerhold Biomechanics, and 19th century Eastern massive sports demonstrations. | Free |
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Liz Glynn Utopia or Oblivion: Parts I and II |
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Liz Glynn will present a two-part performance. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s faltering geodesic dome experiment of 1948, including a building project with volunteer participants. | Free |
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Raphael Zarka Free Ride |
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A two-part project materializes recent research into the “geometry of skateboarding” and its relation to sculpture. | Free |
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Liz Glynn Utopia or Oblivion |
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A silent dance recreation of an experiment attempted by Buckminster Fuller during his time on the faculty at Black Mountain College. | Free |
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Varispeed Perfect Lives Manhattan |
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Perfect Lives Manhattan is a daylong, site-specific performance of Robert Ashley’s 1983 opera adapted by Varispeed, a newly formed collective of composer-performers. | Free |
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Performa Ha! Reggie Watts, Dina Seiden, Hennessey Youngman, Lumberob, Bedwyr Williams, Club Nutz and house-band Title TK and Michael Smith |
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Three Sundays of conceptual jokes by artists, stand-up comedians and musicians. | $20Buy Tickets |
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Liz Glynn Utopia or Oblivion: Parts I and II |
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Liz Glynn will present a two-part performance. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s faltering geodesic dome experiment of 1948, including a building project with volunteer participants. | Free |
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Ed Atkins, Haroon Mirza, and James Richards An Echo Button |
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British artists Ed Atkins, Haroon Mirza, and James Richards have created a project for Times Square that responds to the history and the spectacle of the site. | Reservation required.Buy Tickets |
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Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation |
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Any Other Business is a video installation of a fully scripted conference recorded for a live audience in an Amsterdam convention centre. In each of its nine meetings, based on original political debates and speeches, a productive type of miscommunication occurs. | Free |
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Stewart Home and guests Psychedelic Noir |
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An evening of readings, book shredding, ventriloquism and verbal acrobatics. | $10 Buy Tickets |
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Fluxus Weekend Various |
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In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium. | |
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Asli Çavuşoğlu Words dash against the façade |
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Asli Çavuşoğlu will create a walking tour on 11.11.11 that will use fortune-telling to scrutinize the ornamental façades of New York City buildings. | $11.11Buy Tickets |
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Shelly Nadashi Refrigerating Apparatus |
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This project combines a number of sculptures and prints, which are manipulated through the recitation of texts, from a guidebook to email etiquette. | Free with reservationBuy Tickets |
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Sound project and DJ sets by Marina Rosenfeld. DJ by Raz Mesinai & DJ Japanster The Ginger Island Project / Red Egg |
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In the project Ginger Island becomes a metaphor for utopias, dreams, aspirations and creativity. | Free |
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Eric Steen Brew Day |
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Brings together home brewers from around the city to share their knowledge and art. | Free |
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Tyler Ashley Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism |
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Jane Fonda meets Rodchenko in this interactive exploration into the world of Stepanova style, Meyerhold Biomechanics, and 19th century Eastern massive sports demonstrations. | Free |
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Performa Radio |
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Leading figures in the fields of literature, art, and music present short narrative plays live and online. | $10Buy Tickets |
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Dennis McNulty The Eyes of Ayn Rand |
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Tracing various spatial and temporal constructions along a line from Konstantin Melnikov's house in Moscow in 1927 to Ayn Rand's eyes in New York 1958. | $15 Buy Tickets |
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Laurent Montaron The Invisible Message |
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An attempt to re-enact an apocryphal 1866 experiment with kites that talk to each other. | Free |
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Eric Steen Brew Pub |
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Following Performa's home brewing conference, beer made by local homebrewers will be available over two nights at the Performa Hub. All you can drink! | $20Buy Tickets |
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Athi-Patra Ruga Ilulwane |
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A synchronized-swimming performance reflecting on the passage of time in both New York and in the artist’s own South African Xhosa culture. | Free with reservationBuy Tickets |
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Performa 11 Grand Finale The Malcolm McLaren Award |
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The Performa 11 Grand Finale will be held in honor of the punk pioneer and Sex Pistols founder Malcolm McLaren. | $20 in advance / $25 at the door. Cash only.Buy Tickets |