C.R.R. member may recall our field trip (!) to see RoseLee Goldberg speak at ArtHouse last month. She presented a slide show history of performance art and gave a sneak peak into what to expect from this year's PERFORMA Biennial.
PERFORMA, founded in 2004, is a multidisciplinary non-profit arts organization dedicated to live performance art. To encourage the further development of performance, PERFORMA organizes a biennial in New York City that highlights performance art’s critical role in contemporary art... The 2009 biennial runs from November 1-22. It includes ten new commissions by artists like Guy Ben-Ner, Mike Kelley and Yang Fudong, and new works by more than eighty others.
New York Times' fashion and design blog
The Moment recently featured the Italian collective of Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson biennial performance.
The article paints a vivid picture of the performance - tuxedos, bowling balls, exploding light bulbs, limoncello - which was summarized as “a live and multimedia piece based on joy, infinite profound joy.”
More videos can be found on the PERFORMA website:
performa-arts.org/blog/tv/