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233 Mott Street
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Eve Essex and David Gutkin Experiments in Notation |
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A workshop to explore varying definitions and uses of notation in time-based art. | Free |
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Andrey Kuzkin Performance |
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Russian artist Andrey Kuzkin will premiere a new performance in the Performa Hub as part of the exhibition 33 Fragments of Russian Performance. | Free |
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33 Fragments of Russian Performance |
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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 |
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33 Fragments of Russian Performance opening |
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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 |
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John Powers Star Wars and the Rhetoric of Power |
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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. |
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Mark Beasley and Nathaniel Mellors Cockadoodledon't!!!: on humor and language |
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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 Buy Tickets |
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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics: Melanie Crean and Claire Picher Building Better Speech Performance Workshops |
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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 |
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Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle A Guiding Light (Part II) |
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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 reservationBuy 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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Proposed curriculum on contemporary art and performance: Dennis Oppenheim and the art of survival, Day 17 |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Dennis Oppenheim “Compression Fern” (1970) screening and action |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Abbas Akhavan, Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid al Gharaballi, and Youmna Chlala The Anti-Artist Talk Series |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Ben Kinmont with Laurel George (NYU) Ethical considerations in project art practices |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Guy Maddin The Power of a Continuity-Free Cinema |
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Take a very special artist class with Performa 11 Commission artist and filmmaker Guy Maddin. Seats limited! | $10 / 8 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Michael Portnoy Artist Class: Permutation Riff Tank |
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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 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Julieta Aranda and Carlos Motta and guests "Thank You and Good-Bye" |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Burak Arikan Artist Class: Creative Networking Workshop |
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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 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Ragnar Kjartansson and Davíd fiór Jónsson Artist Class: On Music and Forgiveness / followed by book signing |
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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 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Raphaël Zarka Artist Lecture: The Geometry of Skateboarding |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler Artist Talk - co-presented with Columbia University |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Liz Glynn Artist Class: The Best of Intentions: Futility, Failure, and Performance |
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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 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Antonio Manuel A discussion with the artist and screening of his short films Arte Hoje, Semi Ótica |
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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. |
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Mai-Thu Perret Artist Class: On Utopia |
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Join Performa 11 Premiere artist Mai-Thu Perret for an Artist Class exploring the topics of Russian Constructivism and Utopia. | $10 / 8 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Professor Daniel Gerould on Adrian Piotrovsky, Soviet Mass Spectacles, and Festive Performance with live recitation |
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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 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Alexandra Obukhova Action vs Performance - A short history of Moscow performances, 1970 - 2000s |
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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 reservationBuy Tickets |
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Liutauras Psibilskis, Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. and Sissel Kardel On Blindness and Ginger Island |
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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. | |
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Serkan Ozkaya Artist Class: Speech Acts and 3D Modeling |
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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 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Elmgreen & Dragset Artist Class |
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Take a very special class with Performa Commission artists Elmgreen & Dragset! Seats limited! | $10 / 8 StudentBuy Tickets |
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Liutauras Psibilskis and guests On Blindness (and Ginger Island) |
Liutauras Psibilskis and guests will explore blindness and its relation to the Ginger Island Project. | $10 / 8 StudentBuy Tickets |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Boris Charmatz Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro |
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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. |
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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 |