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New Visual Art Performance Biennial · November 1–21, 2011 · New York City

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Performa Intensive Public Lecture Massimiliano Gioni: On Biennials Monday, October 3, 6:30 pm
Influential curator Massimiliano Gioni will deliver a public lecture on producing major biennials.
Free. · NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Einstein Auditorium
Barney Building
RoseLee Goldberg in conversation with Shirin Neshat and Wangechi Mutu Wednesday, October 5, 6:00 pm
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Free. · Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
New York Public Library
Performa Intensive Public Lecture Jens Hoffmann: Biennials and Curatorial Ambivalence Monday, October 17, 6:30 pm
CCA Wattis Institute Director Jens Hoffmann will lecture about producing and curating major biennials.
Free. · NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Einstein Auditorium
Barney Building
Opening Night Benefit Featuring World Premiere of Elmgreen & Dragset's Happy Days in the Art World and Special Live Retrospective Tuesday, November 1, 7:00 pm
Opening Night of Performa 11 with feature the world premiere performance by Elmgreen & Dragset, followed by an exceptional party featuring a retrospective of live performances by the artists.
Multiple Ticket Levels · Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Skylight SoHo
Elmgreen & Dragset Happy Days in the Art World Tuesday, November 1, 7:30 pm
Elmgreen & Dragset reflect on the artworld in a Beckett-esque self-portrait starring Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards.
$25 and up · Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Jonathan VanDyke With One Hand Between Us Wednesday, November 2, 11:30 am
A non-verbal storefront drama plays out over five days under dripping paint.
Free - visitors may drop in any time they wish between 11:30 am and 7 pm · Scaramouche
Alexandra Obukhova Action vs Performance - A short history of Moscow performances, 1970 - 2000s Wednesday, November 2, 5:00 pm
Alexandra Obukhova, renowned Russian art historian and curator will deliver a lecture on Russian Performance from the avant-garde to the contemporary, in association with the Performa and Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow collaborative exhibition 33 Fragments of Russian Performance.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
33 Fragments of Russian Performance opening Wednesday, November 2, 5:00 pm
This exciting archival exhibition features performance documentation, photographs, and video of Russian performance from the historical avant-garde of the 1920s to the present.
Free · Performa Hub
L’Encyclopédie de la parole Chorale Wednesday, November 2, 5:30 pm
A brief “choir” performance of texts gathered from political speeches, movie scenes and voicemail messages, in English for the first time.
Free · Performa Hub
Mateo Tannatt Pity City Ballet Wednesday, November 2, 6:00 pm
A live talk show about monumental public artwork – with added dance and greenscreen technology.
Free with reservation · Saatchi & Saatchi
Rashaad Newsome Tournament Wednesday, November 2, 6:00 pm
Medieval-style rap joust for a cash prize and inclusion on the artist’s mixtape Swag Vol. 2.
Free · Marlborough Chelsea
L’Encyclopédie de la parole Chorale Wednesday, November 2, 6:30 pm
A brief “choir” performance of texts gathered from political speeches, movie scenes and voicemail messages, in English for the first time.
Free · Performa Hub
Juan Betancurth, Alicia Grullón, VJ Demencia (René Juan de la Cruz), Irvin Morazán, Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White El Museo Program Wednesday, November 2, 6:30 pm
The Museum is activated by a shamanistic dating show, a picket line, and much more.
Free · El Museo del Barrio
Spartacus Chetwynd The Lion Tamer Wednesday, November 2, 7:00 pm
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 Public · New Museum Project Space
Andrey Kuzkin Performance Wednesday, November 2, 7:00 pm
Russian artist Andrey Kuzkin will premiere a new performance in the Performa Hub as part of the exhibition 33 Fragments of Russian Performance.
Free · Performa Hub
L’Encyclopédie de la parole Chorale Wednesday, November 2, 7:30 pm
A brief “choir” performance of texts gathered from political speeches, movie scenes and voicemail messages, in English for the first time.
Free · Performa Hub
Spartacus Chetwynd The Lion Tamer Wednesday, November 2, 8:00 pm
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 Public · New Museum Project Space
Performa Film Program: Not Funny Lenny Bruce Wednesday, November 2, 9:00 pm
Rare documentation from 1973 of one of Lenny Bruce's last performances.
$9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Jonathan VanDyke With One Hand Between Us Thursday, November 3, 11:30 am
A non-verbal storefront drama plays out over five days under dripping paint.
Free - visitors may drop in any time they wish between 11:30 am and 7 pm · Scaramouche
Serkan Ozkaya Artist Class: Speech Acts and 3D Modeling Thursday, November 3, 1:00 pm
Taking inspiration from Austin's "How To Do Things with Words" and the 3D modeling of Michelangelo's David, Ozkaya will explore the ways in which language replaces the world and representation replaces the object.
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
L’Encyclopédie de la parole Chorale Thursday, November 3, 5:00 pm
A brief “choir” performance of texts gathered from political speeches, movie scenes and voicemail messages, in English for the first time.
Free · Performa Hub
Mateo Tannatt Pity City Ballet Thursday, November 3, 6:00 pm
A live talk show about monumental public artwork – with added dance and greenscreen technology.
Free with reservation · Saatchi & Saatchi
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Thursday, November 3, 6:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Spartacus Chetwynd The Lion Tamer Thursday, November 3, 7:00 pm
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 Public · New Museum Project Space
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece Thursday, November 3, 7:00 pm
A witty two-parter featuring former Royal Ballet soloist, and referencing John Cage and cows.
$18 / $12 for Danspace Members · Danspace Project
Elmgreen & Dragset Happy Days in the Art World Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pm
Elmgreen & Dragset reflect on the artworld in a Beckett-esque self-portrait starring Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards.
$25 and up · Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Spartacus Chetwynd The Lion Tamer Thursday, November 3, 8:00 pm
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 Public · New Museum Project Space
Mai-Thu Perret Love Letters in Ancient Brick Thursday, November 3, 8:00 pm
Comic-strip dance adaptation of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, a love triangle between a cat, a mouse, and a dog.
$15 · Joyce SoHo
Matthew Stone Anatomy of Immaterial Worlds Thursday, November 3, 9:00 pm
The artist’s research into shamanism leads us on a part-cathartic, part-ecstatic journey.
$5 · The Hole
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion Both Sitting Duet Thursday, November 3, 9:00 pm
Bessie-award winning dance translation of the violin and piano piece “For John Cage” by composer Morton Feldman.
$18 / $12 Danspace Members · Danspace Project
Performa Film Program: Not Funny Richard Pryor Thursday, November 3, 9:00 pm
The first-ever comedy concert film, and still arguably the best, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert.
$9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Jonathan VanDyke With One Hand Between Us Friday, November 4, 11:30 am
A non-verbal storefront drama plays out over five days under dripping paint.
Free - visitors may drop in any time they wish between 11:30 am and 7 pm · Scaramouche
Liutauras Psibilskis, Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. and Sissel Kardel On Blindness and Ginger Island Friday, November 4, 1:00 pm
Take a class with Ginger Island Project curator Liutauras Psibilskis and artists Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. and Sissel Kardel, on the topic of blindness and the experience of the Fluxus travelers on Ginger Island.
· Performa Hub
Public Movement Positions Friday, November 4, 1:00 pm
For their first action in the U.S., Public Movement presents Positions, a choreographed demonstration that invites people to take a stand on any number of urgent issues.
Free · Union Square South and Washington Square Park
Daido Moriyama Printing Show—TKY Friday, November 4, 2:00 pm
The artist recreates his 1971 performance that features the use of a photocopier and photographic prints in a collaborative bookmaking project for the audience.
$75/ tickets can be purchased at www.aperture.org · Aperture Foundation
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Friday, November 4, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Professor Daniel Gerould on Adrian Piotrovsky, Soviet Mass Spectacles, and Festive Performance with live recitation Friday, November 4, 3:00 pm
Lecture and Discussion with Prof. Daniel Gerould, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY on Adrian Piotrovsky, Soviet Mass Spectacles, and Festive Performance (“eoratology”), with a live recitation!
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
L’Encyclopédie de la parole Chorale Friday, November 4, 5:00 pm
A brief “choir” performance of texts gathered from political speeches, movie scenes and voicemail messages, in English for the first time.
Free · Performa Hub
Boris Charmatz Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro Friday, November 4, 5:00 pm
A unique interactive experience that radicalizes the history and future of dance through a "museum of dance" comprised of gestures, projects, bodies, stories, and dances.
Free. · Performa Hub
Daido Moriyama Printing Show—TKY Friday, November 4, 6:00 pm
The artist recreates his 1971 performance that features the use of a photocopier and photographic prints in a collaborative bookmaking project for the audience.
$75/ tickets can be purchased at www.aperture.org · Aperture Foundation
Jonathan Meese WAR 'SAINT JUST (FIRST FLASH)' Friday, November 4, 6:30 pm
A Punch-and-Judy show with no script, freely developed around an unannounced theme that Meese is choosing for himself.
Free · Bortolami Gallery
Christine Sun Kim with Lukas Geronimas Feedback Friday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Christine Sun Kim, an artist deaf since birth, will conduct a series of experiments which initiate a slippage of audio into visual.
Free · Recess
Mai-Thu Perret Love Letters in Ancient Brick Friday, November 4, 8:00 pm
Comic-strip dance adaptation of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, a love triangle between a cat, a mouse, and a dog.
$15 · Joyce SoHo
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion The Quiet Dance and Speaking Dance Friday, November 4, 8:00 pm
A duo of hilarious conceptual explorations into the perceptions surrounding the relationship between music and dance.
$18 / $12 for Danspace Members · Danspace Project
Frances Stark Put a Song in Your Thing Friday, November 4, 8:30 pm
A semi-autobiographical stroll through the creative chaos of the artist’s life, involving a dancer, and DJ from the dancehall “daggering” scene.
$30 · Abrons Arts Center
Lili Reynaud-Dewar Interpretation Friday, November 4, 9:00 pm
A collaborative performance mixing Sun Ra, Civil Rights, the history of a record shop in France.
Free with reservation · Calder Foundation
Tyler Ashley Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism Saturday, November 5, 11:00 am
Jane Fonda meets Rodchenko in this interactive exploration into the world of Stepanova style, Meyerhold Biomechanics, and 19th century Eastern massive sports demonstrations.
Free · Duffy Square, Times Square
Jonathan VanDyke With One Hand Between Us Saturday, November 5, 11:30 am
A non-verbal storefront drama plays out over five days under dripping paint.
Free - visitors may drop in any time they wish between 11:30 am and 7 pm · Scaramouche
Daido Moriyama Printing Show—TKY Saturday, November 5, 12:00 pm
The artist recreates his 1971 performance that features the use of a photocopier and photographic prints in a collaborative bookmaking project for the audience.
$75/ tickets can be purchased at www.aperture.org · Aperture Foundation
Boris Charmatz Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro Saturday, November 5, 12:00 pm
A unique interactive experience that radicalizes the history and future of dance through a "museum of dance" comprised of gestures, projects, bodies, stories, and dances.
Free. · Performa Hub
Liz Glynn Utopia or Oblivion: Parts I and II Saturday, November 5, 12:00 pm
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 · Roosevelt Island - Lighthouse Park (20 - 30 minute walk from Roosevelt Island F train stop)
Mai-Thu Perret Artist Class: On Utopia Saturday, November 5, 1:00 pm
Join Performa 11 Premiere artist Mai-Thu Perret for an Artist Class exploring the topics of Russian Constructivism and Utopia.
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Saturday, November 5, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Elmgreen & Dragset Artist Class Saturday, November 5, 3:00 pm
Take a very special class with Performa Commission artists Elmgreen & Dragset! Seats limited!
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Institute, Performa Hub
Raphael Zarka Free Ride Saturday, November 5, 3:00 pm
A two-part project materializes recent research into the “geometry of skateboarding” and its relation to sculpture.
Free · Performa Institute at the Performa Hub
Daido Moriyama Printing Show—TKY Saturday, November 5, 5:00 pm
The artist recreates his 1971 performance that features the use of a photocopier and photographic prints in a collaborative bookmaking project for the audience.
$75/ tickets can be purchased at www.aperture.org · Aperture Foundation
Gerard Byrne In Repertory Saturday, November 5, 6:00 pm
A process-based project installed underneath a theater, with viewers responding to installed props, mixing with actors employed in a subtle, interspersed fashion.
Free · Abrons Arts Center
Andrei Monastyrski Empty Zones Saturday, November 5, 6:00 pm
An exhibition of select video works by the seminal Russian artist exploring his ‘Trips Out of Town’ with Collective Actions.
Free · e-flux
Eleanor Bauer (BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) Saturday, November 5, 6:30 pm
An expedition into the surface-oriented world of a performer in a hilarious, inventive solo.
$16 in advance / $20 at the door. · New York Live Arts
Mai-Thu Perret Love Letters in Ancient Brick Saturday, November 5, 8:00 pm
Comic-strip dance adaptation of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, a love triangle between a cat, a mouse, and a dog.
$15 · Joyce SoHo
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece Saturday, November 5, 8:00 pm
A witty two-parter featuring former Royal Ballet soloist, and referencing John Cage and cows.
$18 / $12 for Danspace Members · Danspace Project
Tarek Atoui Visiting Tarab Saturday, November 5, 8:30 pm
Artists from pop, hip hop, electronic, and improvised music re-imagine the world's largest archive of Classical Arab music.
$30 · SIR Stage 37
Lili Reynaud-Dewar Interpretation Saturday, November 5, 9:00 pm
A collaborative performance mixing Sun Ra, Civil Rights, the history of a record shop in France.
Free with reservation · Calder Foundation
Liz Glynn Utopia or Oblivion Sunday, November 6, 11:00 am
A silent dance recreation of an experiment attempted by Buckminster Fuller during his time on the faculty at Black Mountain College.
Free · Duffy Square, Times Square
Varispeed Perfect Lives Manhattan Sunday, November 6, 11:00 am
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 · Various
Jonathan VanDyke With One Hand Between Us Sunday, November 6, 11:30 am
A non-verbal storefront drama plays out over five days under dripping paint.
Free - visitors may drop in any time they wish between 11:30 am and 7 pm · Scaramouche
Boris Charmatz Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro Sunday, November 6, 12:00 pm
A unique interactive experience that radicalizes the history and future of dance through a "museum of dance" comprised of gestures, projects, bodies, stories, and dances.
Free. · Performa Hub
Public Movement Positions Sunday, November 6, 1:00 pm
For their first action in the U.S., Public Movement presents Positions, a choreographed demonstration that invites people to take a stand on any number of urgent issues.
Free · Union Square South and Washington Square Park
Performa Ha! Reggie Watts, Dina Seiden, Hennessey Youngman, Lumberob, Bedwyr Williams, Club Nutz and house-band Title TK and Michael Smith Sunday, November 6, 9:00 pm
Three Sundays of conceptual jokes by artists, stand-up comedians and musicians.
$20 · HA!
Liz Glynn Utopia or Oblivion: Parts I and II Monday, November 7, 12:00 pm
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 · One New York Plaza
Performa Film Program: Not Funny Comics on the Edge in the 1970s Monday, November 7, 7:00 pm
Featuring the work of two groundbreaking 1970s comedians: Albert Brooks, and Andy Kaufman.
$9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Liz Glynn Artist Class: The Best of Intentions: Futility, Failure, and Performance Tuesday, November 8, 3:00 pm
In this Artist Class, Glynn will explore the relationship between human scale and iconic monumental form, the messiness of collective negotiation, and the tensions and desires around structural perfection and monumentality.
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Antonio Manuel A discussion with the artist and screening of his short films Arte Hoje, Semi Ótica Tuesday, November 8, 5:00 pm
This discussion will include artist Antonio Manuel with Claudia Calirman and Gabriela Rangel, curators of his first solo exhibition in the U.S. Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! currently on view at the Americas Society. The short films Arte Hoje (1976), Semi Ótica (1975) and Loucura & Cultura (1973) feature friends and fellow artists Rogério Duarte, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Luiz Carlos Saldanha and Caetano Veloso.
Free, first come first serve. · Performa Hub
MPA and Amapola Prada Revolution Two Marks in Rotation Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 pm
Cinderblocks, plate glass, and the artists’ bodies are used to seek the edges of permissibility.
Free · Leo Koenig, Inc.
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler Artist Talk - co-presented with Columbia University Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 pm
Performa 11 Commission artists Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler discuss their collaborative project SEVEN. Co-presented with The Columbia University School of the Arts.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Performa Film Program: Not Funny: Piece to Camera Tuesday, November 8, 7:00 pm
Several 1970s California-based artists making humorous minimalist videos.
$9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Ed Atkins, Haroon Mirza, and James Richards An Echo Button Tuesday, November 8, 9:00 pm
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. · Zabludowicz Collection
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Wednesday, November 9, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Wednesday, November 9, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Nils Bech with Bendik Giske Wednesday, November 9, 6:00 pm
Based on his upcoming album, Nils Bech creates rituals as tools, allowing him to reenact emotional circumstances from his life through voice, movement, music and text. Curated by Hanne Mugaas.
Free · Greene Naftali Gallery
Simon Fujiwara The Boy Who Cried Wolf Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 pm
An epic narrative in three parts, about explorers, sex and Abstract Expressionist painting.
$30 · Abrons Art Center
Ed Atkins, Haroon Mirza, and James Richards An Echo Button Wednesday, November 9, 9:00 pm
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. · Zabludowicz Collection
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Thursday, November 10, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Thursday, November 10, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
John Powers Star Wars and the Rhetoric of Power Thursday, November 10, 3:00 pm
A talk about Star Wars, not as literary fantasy but as an real object; an object made at a particular time and place, by a particular group of people, informed by the politics of American modernism.
Free, first come first serve. · Performa Hub
Raphaël Zarka Artist Lecture: The Geometry of Skateboarding Thursday, November 10, 5:00 pm
Zarka presents recent research into the “geometry of skateboarding” and its relation to modern sculpture. which will also be translated into English for the first time and available for the audience as a free publication.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Boris Groys Talk on Andrei Monastyrski Thursday, November 10, 6:00 pm
A talk by the esteemed Russian curator on Andrei Monastyrski.
Free · e-flux
Maria Petschnig see-saw, seen-sawn Thursday, November 10, 7:30 pm
Juxtaposing suggestive fantasies in the form of video clips with live actions.
Free · Austrian Cultural Forum
Simon Fujiwara The Boy Who Cried Wolf Thursday, November 10, 7:30 pm
An epic narrative in three parts, about explorers, sex and Abstract Expressionist painting.
$30 · Abrons Art Center
Jack Ferver with Michelle Mola Me, Michelle Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm
Uncovering the mysteries and myths of the life of Cleopatra through dance.
$18 / $15 MAD members and students · Museum of Arts and Design
Ming Wong Persona Performa Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm
After Bergman’s Persona, a human filmstrip of American cinema archetypes winds its way through the museum.
$30 · Museum of the Moving Image
Stewart Home and guests Psychedelic Noir Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm
An evening of readings, book shredding, ventriloquism and verbal acrobatics.
$10 · Westway
Justin Vivian Bond Full Moon Tranifestation Circle with Justin Vivian Bond and Friends Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm
Solo exhibition incorporating elements of Bond's soon-to-be demolished Second Avenue loft, creating an intimate context for a one-night performance.
Free · Participant, Inc.
Ed Atkins, Haroon Mirza, and James Richards An Echo Button Thursday, November 10, 9:00 pm
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. · Zabludowicz Collection
Asli Çavuşoğlu Words dash against the façade Friday, November 11, 11:11 am
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.
$11.11 · Tour will begin at the Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) on 81st Street behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Friday, November 11, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Friday, November 11, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Ragnar Kjartansson and Davíd ﬁór Jónsson Artist Class: On Music and Forgiveness / followed by book signing Friday, November 11, 3:00 pm
Join Performa 11 Commission artist Ragnar Kjartansson and Conductor Davíd ﬁór Jónsson for a very special class on Mozart, music and forgiveness. Seats limited!
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Free Flux-Tour of the Grey Art Gallery guided by Larry Miller Friday, November 11, 5:30 pm
Free Flux-Tour of the Grey Art Gallery guided by artist Larry Miller.
$3.00 suggested, free with NYU ID. No reservations. · Grey Art Gallery
Shelly Nadashi Refrigerating Apparatus Friday, November 11, 6:00 pm
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 reservation · Performa Hub
Nils Bech with Bendik Giske and Sergei Tcherepnin Look Inside Friday, November 11, 7:00 pm
Songs around sculpture chart a chronology of emotional events from the artist’s recent life.
$12 Members, $15 General Public · New Museum
Jack Ferver with Michelle Mola Me, Michelle Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
Uncovering the mysteries and myths of the life of Cleopatra through dance.
$18 / $15 MAD members and students · Museum of Arts and Design
Ming Wong Persona Performa Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
After Bergman’s Persona, a human filmstrip of American cinema archetypes winds its way through the museum.
$30 · Museum of the Moving Image
Bibbe Hansen on Al Hansen Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
Bibbe Hansen, daughter of Fluxus and Happenings artist Al Hansen, will present a lecture at focusing on Al Hansen's life and work.
Free - seating limited · Golden Gallery, Inc.
Ed Atkins, Haroon Mirza, and James Richards An Echo Button Friday, November 11, 9:00 pm
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. · Zabludowicz Collection
Sound project and DJ sets by Marina Rosenfeld. DJ by Raz Mesinai & DJ Japanster The Ginger Island Project / Red Egg Friday, November 11, 11:00 pm
In the project Ginger Island becomes a metaphor for utopias, dreams, aspirations and creativity.
Free · Red Egg
Shirin Neshat OverRuled Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
A highly stylized performance set in a courtroom which references historical and contemporary Iranian and Arab uprisings against various forms of dictatorship and theocracy.
$35 General, $35 to $100 Opening Night · THERE IS NO LATE SEATING
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Fluxus Weekend Various Friday, November 11, 10:00 am
In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium.
· Various venues
Guido van der Werve Effugio no 2 Running to Rachmaninov Saturday, November 12, 10:00 am
Guido van der Werve invites you to grab some Chamomile flowers and run with him from Manhattan to where Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov is buried in upstate New York.
Free with RSVP to vanessa@luhringaugustine.com · Luhring Augustine
Tyler Ashley Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm
Jane Fonda meets Rodchenko in this interactive exploration into the world of Stepanova style, Meyerhold Biomechanics, and 19th century Eastern massive sports demonstrations.
Free · The High Line (Beginning at Chelsea Market Passage, near W16 St, and move south to The Standard, near Little W12 St).
Eric Steen Brew Day Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm
Brings together home brewers from around the city to share their knowledge and art.
Free · Performa Hub
Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander and David Thorne Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm
A public reading of unedited transcripts from Guantanamo Bay Tribunals.
Free with MoMa admission · Bauhaus Staircase, Floor 2, The Museum of Modern Art
Alison Knowles in collaboration with Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman Beans All Day Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm
The founding member of Fluxus cooks and serves “beans all day” to audiences and passersby amid an installation of her sculptural 'bean turners'.
Free · Forever & Today, Inc. storefront space
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Saturday, November 12, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Burak Arikan Artist Class: Creative Networking Workshop Saturday, November 12, 1:00 pm
A series of workshops focusing on the design of large scale networks as a creative activity and expanding the individual's thinking about the network as a creative medium. Maximum 15 participants. Reserve your place now!
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Saturday, November 12, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics: Melanie Crean and Claire Picher Building Better Speech Performance Workshops Saturday, November 12, 3:00 pm
Explore performative and technological strategies to facilitate speech with groups that are affected by political transformation or upheaval, investigating how issues of identity and power can be communicated as a form of text, through gesture and through socially-based technical frameworks in a form of collective action.
Free · Performa Hub
Tamar Ettun One Thing Leads to Another Saturday, November 12, 3:00 pm
A pilgrimage within a partially-inflated, stationary hot air balloon.
Free · Recess at Kidd Yellin
Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life gallery talk by Jacquelynn Baas Saturday, November 12, 3:30 pm
Gallery talk by Jacquelynn Baas, Director Emeritus, Berkeley Art Museum, and curator of the Grey Art Gallery's exhibition, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life.
$3.00 suggested donation, free with NYU ID. No reservations. · Grey Art Gallery
Shirin Neshat OverRuled Saturday, November 12, 5:00 pm
A highly stylized performance set in a courtroom which references historical and contemporary Iranian and Arab uprisings against various forms of dictatorship and theocracy.
$35 General, $35 to $100 Opening Night · THERE IS NO LATE SEATING
FOR THE PERFORMANCE

Cedar Lake
Amy Granat, Sissel Kardel, Milan Knizák, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Lisa Oppenheim & Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. The Ginger Island Project / Emily Harvey Foundation / Opening Reception Saturday, November 12, 5:00 pm
An exhibition about the utopian Fluxus artist community that George Maciunas initiated in the early 1970s.
Free · Emily Harvey Foundation
Shelly Nadashi Refrigerating Apparatus Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm
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 reservation · Performa Hub
Performa Radio Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm
Leading figures in the fields of literature, art, and music present short narrative plays live and online.
$10 · The Greene Space WNYC
Jonas Mekas Fluxus Cabaret Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm
A brand new film from the archives of Mekas, featuring Paik, Ono, Lennon, Maciunas, Beuys and more!
Tickets $9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Rainer Ganahl Credit Crunch Meal - Free food for all! Saturday, November 12, 6:00 pm
A banquet of provocative food, wood, and porcelain sculptures inspired by unregulated financial markets, high finance and politics.
Free · Jack Hanley Gallery
Wolfgang Staehle, Pete Drungle, Lance Steagall Alterazioni Video / The New Cinema Event Saturday, November 12, 7:00 pm
A raw film projection night organized by Alterazioni Video with live music and voiceover reading.
Free · The Blind Barber
Laurence Wagner To Do What? Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm
Laurence Wagner will walk around the block of Canal, Wooster, Grand and Greene Streets in Soho carrying a suitcase until the point of exhaustion.
Free · The block of Canal, Wooster, Grand and Greene Streets
Jack Ferver with Michelle Mola Me, Michelle Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm
Uncovering the mysteries and myths of the life of Cleopatra through dance.
$18 / $15 MAD members and students · Museum of Arts and Design
Performa Radio Saturday, November 12, 8:30 pm
Leading figures in the fields of literature, art, and music present short narrative plays live and online.
$10 · The Greene Space WNYC
Shirin Neshat OverRuled Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm
A highly stylized performance set in a courtroom which references historical and contemporary Iranian and Arab uprisings against various forms of dictatorship and theocracy.
$35 General, $35 to $100 Opening Night · THERE IS NO LATE SEATING
FOR THE PERFORMANCE

Cedar Lake
Fluxus Weekend Various Saturday, November 12, 10:00 am
In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium.
· Various venues
Laurel Nakadate and James Franco Three Performances in Search of Tennessee Sunday, November 13, 12:00 pm
A spirit calling, theatrical karaoke, and an open audition all based around Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.
$30 · Abrons Art Center
Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander and David Thorne Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading Sunday, November 13, 12:00 pm
A public reading of unedited transcripts from Guantanamo Bay Tribunals.
Free with MoMa admission · Bauhaus Staircase, Floor 2, The Museum of Modern Art
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Sunday, November 13, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Julieta Aranda and Carlos Motta and guests "Thank You and Good-Bye" Sunday, November 13, 5:00 pm
A public discussion with Julieta Aranda, Carlos Motta and guests (Naeem Mohaiemen, Adam Kleinman, Defne Ayas) that will use the publication “Broken English” as a point of departure to shift the focus from "Constructivism" as a movement in art and design to "Constructivism" as a sociological theory of knowledge focused in group interactions.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Elena Bajo Performances Sunday, November 13, 5:00 pm
A deconstruction of white cube conventions, rendering them decidedly in-flux and indeterminate.
Free · Scaramouche
Trajal Harrell Antigone Jr. Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
An imagined historical mix of Harlem vogueing and early postmodern dance.
$11 · Third Streaming
A tribute to Nam June Paik / screening of Paik's Global Groove (1973) Hosted by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
A screening of the late Nam June Paik's seminal film "Global Groove."
Free · Big Screen Plaza - 851 Avenue of the Americas (Behind the Eventi Hotel)
The Ginger Island Project / Storefront for Art and Architecture / Closing Reception Films by Jonas Mekas & Milan Knizák Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
A remix night about the utopian Fluxus artist community that George Maciunas initiated in the early 1970s.
Free · Storefront for Art and Architecture
Fluxus Concert Sunday, November 13, 6:00 pm
A night of music and performance dedicated to the musical stylings of Fluxus.
$20 · Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center
Trajal Harrell Antigone Jr. Sunday, November 13, 7:30 pm
An imagined historical mix of Harlem vogueing and early postmodern dance.
$11 · Third Streaming
Liz Magic Laser I Feel Your Pain Sunday, November 13, 8:00 pm
A constructivist-style “living newspaper” restaging America’s recent political contestations as a romantic drama.
FREE, first come first serve. · The SVA Theatre
Performa Ha! Reggie Watts, Dina Seiden, Hennessey Youngman, Lumberob, Bedwyr Williams, Club Nutz and house-band Title TK and Michael Smith Sunday, November 13, 9:00 pm
Three Sundays of conceptual jokes by artists, stand-up comedians and musicians.
$20 · HA!
Fluxus Weekend Various Sunday, November 13, 10:00 am
In the spirit of Fluxus, Performa will produce an intensive 52-hour program across New York City, collaborating with members of the Performa Consortium.
· Various venues
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Monday, November 14, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Mark Beasley and Nathaniel Mellors Cockadoodledon't!!!: on humor and language Monday, November 14, 3:00 pm
Performa curator Mark Beasley and biennial artist Nathaniel Mellors discuss the serious nonsense and surreal side of humor and language, from vaudeville, Beckett and Monty Python to the absurdist scripts and psychedelic theater of Mellors' own 'Giantbum' and 'Ourhouse.'
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Tyler Ashley Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism Monday, November 14, 5:30 pm
Jane Fonda meets Rodchenko in this interactive exploration into the world of Stepanova style, Meyerhold Biomechanics, and 19th century Eastern massive sports demonstrations.
Free · The High Line (Beginning at Chelsea Market Passage, near W16 St, and move south to The Standard, near Little W12 St).
Mel Gordon The Magnanimous Cuckold Monday, November 14, 6:30 pm
Screening of the 1980-81 Guggenheim reconstruction of Meyerhold’s The Magnanimous Cuckold.
Free · Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center
Performa Film Program: Not Funny Crossing Over Monday, November 14, 7:00 pm
A program of rare work by artists who made serious attempts to crossover to comedy or vice versa.
$9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Liz Magic Laser I Feel Your Pain Monday, November 14, 8:00 pm
A constructivist-style “living newspaper” restaging America’s recent political contestations as a romantic drama.
FREE, first come first serve. · The SVA Theatre
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Tuesday, November 15, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Abbas Akhavan, Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid al Gharaballi, and Youmna Chlala The Anti-Artist Talk Series Tuesday, November 15, 1:00 pm
In this series of talks artists explore a theme tangential to their own work in an attempt to dismantle the predominance and formulaic structure of the conventional artist talk. Curated by Barrak Alzaid, Artistic Director ArteEast.
Free with reservation · Performa Institute at the Performa Hub
Ben Kinmont An Exhibition in Your Mouth Tuesday, November 15, 6:30 pm
A six course menu of recipes ranging from a Futurist dish to cheeses based on Sol Lewitt’s “Forms Derived from a Cube.”
Price: Tickets cost $65.00 (which covers food and gratuity but not wine). Space is limited. Reservations: please contact Isa at: +1 347 689 3594. Last reservation at 10 pm. · ISA (Williamsburg)
Performa Film Program: Not Funny Stand-Up, Sit Down, and Visual Art Comedy Today Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 pm
Short works by some of the artists and stand-up comedians working between these two disciplines today.
$9 / $7 students/seniors / $6 AFA Members · Anthology Film Archives
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Wednesday, November 16, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Michael Portnoy Artist Class: Permutation Riff Tank Wednesday, November 16, 3:00 pm
Michael Portnoy will lead participants in a bit of "conceptual horticulture", developing new breeds of practice from the seeds of works presented in Performa 11.
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Dennis Oppenheim “Compression Fern” (1970) screening and action Wednesday, November 16, 5:00 pm
Join us for a special screening of “Compression Fern” (1970) from Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-1974 by Dennis Oppenheim. The viewing of “Compression Fern” (1970) will be paired with attempts to compress organic material provided on the night.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Dennis McNulty The Eyes of Ayn Rand Wednesday, November 16, 7:00 pm
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 · St. Patrick's Youth Center
Nathaniel Mellors Ourhouse Wednesday, November 16, 8:00 pm
A surreal four-part video series combining sculpture, language, and domestic power dynamics.
$10 · Westway
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Thursday, November 17, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Proposed curriculum on contemporary art and performance: Dennis Oppenheim and the art of survival, Day 17 Thursday, November 17, 1:00 pm
Three conversational seminars around the life and work of Dennis Oppenheim. Each will bring distinct vantage points to the discussion of Oppenheim’s work and practice, and in particular his lifelong interrogation of the idea of performance and body projects.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Laurent Montaron The Invisible Message Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm
An attempt to re-enact an apocryphal 1866 experiment with kites that talk to each other.
Free · Staged concurrently at Socrates Sculpture Park and Roosevelt Island (Lighthouse Park).

This is a weather-dependant event, in case of rain the event will be cancelled.
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Dennis McNulty The Eyes of Ayn Rand Thursday, November 17, 7:00 pm
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 · St. Patrick's Youth Center
iona rozeal brown battle of yestermore Thursday, November 17, 8:00 pm
An epic battle myth told in a mix of voguing, hip-hop and Kabuki theater.
$30 / $15 with discount code: "kabuki" · Skylight West
Nathaniel Mellors Ourhouse Thursday, November 17, 8:00 pm
A surreal four-part video series combining sculpture, language, and domestic power dynamics.
$10 · Westway
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Friday, November 18, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Laurent Montaron The Invisible Message Friday, November 18, 2:00 pm
An attempt to re-enact an apocryphal 1866 experiment with kites that talk to each other.
Free · Staged concurrently at Socrates Sculpture Park and Roosevelt Island (Lighthouse Park).

This is a weather-dependant event, in case of rain the event will be cancelled.
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Friday, November 18, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle A Guiding Light (Part II) Friday, November 18, 5:00 pm
A Guiding Light was first produced as a collaboration between Performa and the Shanghai Biennale. Gillick and Vidokle will re-frame the piece by creating a ‘behind-the-scenes’ conversation that will be part-screening, part-sincere critique, and part-promotional staging for the 'film'.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Eric Steen Brew Pub Friday, November 18, 6:00 pm
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!
$20 · Performa Hub
Ben Kinmont with Laurel George (NYU) Ethical considerations in project art practices Friday, November 18, 6:30 pm
A presentation by cultural anthropologist Laurel George and artist Ben Kinmont, considering interactional art practices outside of institutional space, a mode that Kinmont has been working in for over two decades.
Free with reservation · Performa Hub
Pablo Helguera The Well-Tempered Exposition, Book One, Part II Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm
Exploring word and action through the frame of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.
Free. Phone RSVP 212 334 3347. · Location One
Guy Maddin Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm
A live, dreamlike re-imagining of Maddin’s first feature film, produced in 1988, with a new score by acclaimed Icelandic musicians.
$25 in advance / $30 at the door. Discount for Performa and Film Society members/students/seniors ($20/$25). · Please note new performance dates and times.

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
Will Cotton COCKAIGNE Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm
A short ballet inspired by the ethereality of cotton candy, and a burlesque inspired whipped cream dance. With music by John Zorn and Caleb Burhans, and choreography by Charles Askegard and Miss Ruby Valentine.
Free. RSVP essential to info@klupfoundation.org. · Prince George Ballroom
iona rozeal brown battle of yestermore Friday, November 18, 8:00 pm
An epic battle myth told in a mix of voguing, hip-hop and Kabuki theater.
$30 / $15 with discount code: "kabuki" · Skylight West
Guy Maddin Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed Friday, November 18, 9:00 pm
A live, dreamlike re-imagining of Maddin’s first feature film, produced in 1988, with a new score by acclaimed Icelandic musicians.
$25 in advance / $30 at the door. Discount for Performa and Film Society members/students/seniors ($20/$25). · Please note new performance dates and times.

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
Ragnar Kjartansson Bliss Saturday, November 19, 12:00 pm
A twelve-hour live loop of the final aria of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, with full orchestra, scenery, and period costume.
$30 / $10 ticket with discount code "figaro" · Abrons Arts Center
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Saturday, November 19, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Eve Essex and David Gutkin Experiments in Notation Saturday, November 19, 1:00 pm
A workshop to explore varying definitions and uses of notation in time-based art.
Free · Performa Hub
Laurent Montaron The Invisible Message Saturday, November 19, 2:00 pm
An attempt to re-enact an apocryphal 1866 experiment with kites that talk to each other.
Free · Staged concurrently at Socrates Sculpture Park and Roosevelt Island (Lighthouse Park).

This is a weather-dependant event, in case of rain the event will be cancelled.
Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler SEVEN Saturday, November 19, 2:00 pm
A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.
Free. · Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space
Guy Maddin The Power of a Continuity-Free Cinema Saturday, November 19, 3:00 pm
Take a very special artist class with Performa 11 Commission artist and filmmaker Guy Maddin. Seats limited!
$10 / 8 Student · Performa Hub
Eric Steen Brew Pub Saturday, November 19, 6:00 pm
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!
$20 · Performa Hub
Guy Maddin Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed Saturday, November 19, 7:00 pm
A live, dreamlike re-imagining of Maddin’s first feature film, produced in 1988, with a new score by acclaimed Icelandic musicians.
$25 in advance / $30 at the door. Discount for Performa and Film Society members/students/seniors ($20/$25). · Please note new performance dates and times.

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
Wu Tsang Full Body Quotation Saturday, November 19, 7:00 pm
Full Body Quotation is a choral performance, a living sculpture, and a party, in which Tsang and his performers channel a chorus of voices sampled from the known (and unknown) canon of transgender cinema. With DJ Total Freedom.

$10 New Museum Members, $12 General Public · New Museum Theater
Robert Ashley That Morning Thing Saturday, November 19, 8:00 pm
For his Performa Premiere, Robert Ashley—a pioneer of opera-for-television and mixed media musical theater—will present That Morning Thing (1967), an opera in three acts for men’s and women's speaking voices and eight dancers.
$30 · The Kitchen
Otomo Yoshihide and Christian Marclay Turntable Duo: Otomo + Marclay Saturday, November 19, 8:30 pm
The experimental music revolutionaries join together to explore the possibilities of electronic and acoustic sound.
Tickets $25 / $20 Japan Society members. Venue box office: 212 715 1258. · Japan Society
Athi-Patra Ruga Ilulwane Saturday, November 19, 9:00 pm
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 reservation · Asphalt Green
Guy Maddin Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed Saturday, November 19, 9:00 pm
A live, dreamlike re-imagining of Maddin’s first feature film, produced in 1988, with a new score by acclaimed Icelandic musicians.
$25 in advance / $30 at the door. Discount for Performa and Film Society members/students/seniors ($20/$25). · Please note new performance dates and times.

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Sunday, November 20, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Robert Ashley That Morning Thing Sunday, November 20, 3:00 pm
For his Performa Premiere, Robert Ashley—a pioneer of opera-for-television and mixed media musical theater—will present That Morning Thing (1967), an opera in three acts for men’s and women's speaking voices and eight dancers.
$30 · The Kitchen
Ursula Mayer Gonda Sunday, November 20, 5:00 pm
A live performance that responds to the play Ideal by controversial Russian-American writer Ayn Rand through a critical reading of aspects of revolutionary modernism.
$10 · Center548
Ursula Mayer Gonda Sunday, November 20, 7:00 pm
A live performance that responds to the play Ideal by controversial Russian-American writer Ayn Rand through a critical reading of aspects of revolutionary modernism.
$10 · Center548
Robert Ashley That Morning Thing Sunday, November 20, 8:00 pm
For his Performa Premiere, Robert Ashley—a pioneer of opera-for-television and mixed media musical theater—will present That Morning Thing (1967), an opera in three acts for men’s and women's speaking voices and eight dancers.
$30 · The Kitchen
Athi-Patra Ruga Ilulwane Sunday, November 20, 9:00 pm
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 reservation · Asphalt Green
Performa Ha! Reggie Watts, Dina Seiden, Hennessey Youngman, Lumberob, Bedwyr Williams, Club Nutz and house-band Title TK and Michael Smith Sunday, November 20, 9:00 pm
Three Sundays of conceptual jokes by artists, stand-up comedians and musicians.
$20 · HA!
Nicoline van Harskamp Any Other Business - a scripted conference, video installation Monday, November 21, 12:00 pm
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 · Performa Hub
Alison O’Daniel Night Sky Monday, November 21, 8:00 pm
A parallel story: two girls time-travel through the desert while a group of contestants compete in a dance marathon.
Free with RSVP to courtenay@artingeneral.org. · Anthology Film Archive
Robert Ashley That Morning Thing Monday, November 21, 8:00 pm
For his Performa Premiere, Robert Ashley—a pioneer of opera-for-television and mixed media musical theater—will present That Morning Thing (1967), an opera in three acts for men’s and women's speaking voices and eight dancers.
$30 · The Kitchen
Performa 11 Grand Finale The Malcolm McLaren Award Monday, November 21, 9:00 pm
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. · Bowery Hotel
RoseLee Goldberg in conversation Culturebot Presents Performance and Context: The Black Box and The White Cube Sunday, January 8, 1:00 pm
RoseLee Goldberg in conversation with Culturebot
Free · LuEsther Lounge
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
Performa Institute Presents Portrait of the Artist: Lorraine O'Grady Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 pm
Portrait of the Artist: Lorraine O’Grady will examine the remarkable work and life of artist Lorraine O’Grady in the context of feminism, politics, and art of the 1980s and today
THIS EVENT IS FULL. There will be a Wait List at the door. · NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development , Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, New York
Performa Benefit Auction Thursday, May 17, 6:00 pm
Performa Benefit Auction to include works by previous Performa biennial artists and many more
$50 · The FLAG Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor
between 10th and 11th Avenues