Posts tagged Clifford Owens
This Tuesday, September 11, “Performance Now: The First Decade of the New Century” opens at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The exhibition, curated by Performa’s RoseLee Goldberg, brings together some of the most important and exciting performance artists in practice today, examining the ways that the ephemerality of live work is transformed into altogether new art works through documentation, and how visual artists use performance throughout their creative process.
Performance is capable of activating museums and audiences like no other medium, and this program demonstrates that performance is not only contemporary, but the art of the future as well.
“Performance Now” also includes a series of lectures and film screenings; more information is available here.
Derrick Adams in Conversation with Adrienne Edwards
“Performance is a tool that uses me”
Interview by Adrienne Edwards
Derrick Adams is a New York City-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is rooted in Deconstructivist philosophies, and the formation and perception of ideals attached to objects, colors, textures, symbols and ideologies. Adams focuses on fragmentation, manipulation, and refraction of structures and surfaces. Particularly concerned with the shape-shifting forces of popular culture, Adams explores identity through the relationship between man and monument as they co-exist as representations of one another. Following his March 11th, 2011, performance of The Entertainer as part of Clifford Owens: Anthology project and exhibition at MoMA PS1, Adams and Performa’s Adrienne Edwards discussed processes, evolutions and influences.
RoseLee Goldberg and Clifford Owens: History Times Two
By RoseLee Goldberg
With Anthology, his current exhibition at MoMA PS1, Clifford Owens invited 26 artists to provide him with written scores for performances. The result: twice as many works as those listed. This “two for one” model—the artist’s proposal, and Owens’s interpretation of it—in some cases doubled the emotional content as well as the aesthetic layers of the original, making for an especially rich combination.
