Performa 09 | Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson

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/

Public Ad Campaign

Jordan Seiler
The New York City project Public Ad Campaign, recently featured in the New York Times, adheres to the following belief:

"...public space and the public's interaction with that space is a vital component of our city's health. By visually altering and physically interacting with the public environment, residents become psychologically invested in their community... Outdoor advertising is the primary obstacle to open public communications. By commodifying public space, outdoor advertising has monopolized the surfaces that shape our shared space."

The resulting actions, primarily the work of Jordan Seiler, are chronicled at www.publicadcampaign.com along side the work of other artists doing similarly subversive public installations.


OX, France


Sam 3, Spain