December 2011
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A Vertical One-Night Performa
By Performa 11 Staff
On December 1st, 2011, Performa produced a vertical one-night Performa for the tenth- anniversary celebration for Art Basel Miami Beach at the New World Symphony Center in Miami Beach. This site-specific event in the new Frank Gehry-designed building took place over three floors and included performances by Performa artists including iona rozeal brown (Performa 11),...
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Anti-Artist talks curated by ArteEast
By Barrak Alzaid
In the series Anti-Artist Talks curated by ArteEast for Performa, I invited artists to explore a theme tangential to their own work in an attempt to dismantle the predominance and formulaic structure of the conventional artist talk.[[MORE]]
Set in a classroom of the Performa Hub, each performance-lecture relied on the immediacy of the audience, and our presence in a space of...
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Shirin Neshat’s OverRuled
By Barrak Alzaid
At the onset of Shirin Neshat’s OverRuled, the audience is hailed as witness to a trial by a command to rise before the court. Our complicity in the action that unfolds deepens as two men and two women emerge from the audience and offer themselves to be tried at a proceeding that purports not to punish, but to redeem.[[MORE]]
Set within a triptych comprised of two arms of...
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Wu Tsang's Full Body Quotation
By Lumi Tan
On November 21st, the scene at the New Museum’s Skyroom was familiar, but not entirely expected, as the entry into an early evening performance. Booming dance music by TOTAL FREEDOM was played, free liquor was served, and there was no perceptible “performance” for quite some time. The majority of the room filled up with those happy to drink, chat over the music, and mill around for...
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Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle: A Guiding Light...
By Katy Diamond Hamer
A Guiding Light (Part II), a film by Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle, was recently screened on the occasion of Performa 11. First shown last year at the Cooper Union Theater, this second screening took place in a crowded classroom on the second floor of the Performa Hub, and was accompanied by Gillick, Vidokle and Gao Shiming, curator of the Shanghai Biennial in China who...
