A different kind of paean to the carnivalesque transpires in New York City, outside RoseLee Goldbergโs curatorial reach.
Performa
When Hens Look Like Maleviches
There is no perfect word or glossary to describe where Laura Lima takes art.
Performa Announces 2015 Commissions, All but One for Male Artists [UPDATED]
Thus far, the performance art biennial has announced a total of eight commissions and nine names โ and among them, only a single woman.
Baudelaire, Michael Jackson, and Modernism
One of my favorite pieces included in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem earlier this year was Adam Pendletonโs โLorraine OโGrady: A Portraitโ (2012).
Unpaid Work Alert: Performa Seeks Writers [UPDATED]
Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call theyโd announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The catch? The positions are unpaid.
Surrealismโs Fistfights and Adversarial Culture
An evening Dada revue organized by Tristan Tzara, July 6, 1923โs Soirรฉe du Coeur ร Barbe (Night of the Bearded Heart) was the site of an infamous altercation between Tzaraโs associates and Surrealist don Andrรฉ Breton at the Thรฉรขtre Michel in Paris.
The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance
โBe African-American. Be very African American.โ Thus reads a typed instruction on an otherwise blank piece of paper sent by veteran performance artist William Pope.L to Clifford Owens as part of Anthology, the latterโs crowd-sourced performance project staged last year at MoMA PS1.
No Easy Answers: Jรฉrรดme Belโs โDisabled Theaterโ
Jรฉrรดme Belโs new piece, Disabled Theater, now at New York Live Arts as part of Performa 13, has gotten a fair amount of positive press and reviews, but it felt complicated to me, and not always in good ways.
Original Sin, Original Theater
Experiencing โThe Humansโ does require some stamina, as itโs a three-hour long play that often dips into follies that can drag a bit long. Yet if youโre interested in theater, the influences of artโs obsession with forms, Shakespeare, Wodehouse, and scatological humor wrapped around a frame of the Greek satire of Aristophanes is an intriguing experiment.
Exclusive Highlights from Performa 13โs Surrealist Reader
Here is an exclusive look at Performaโs Surrealist Reader, along with excerpts of many of the texts.
RoseLee Goldberg to Speak at Hyperallergic ArtTalk on Mon Oct 7
On Monday, October 7, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring curator RoseLee Goldberg at The Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The topic for that eveningโs discussion and conversation is, of course, performance art.
Performa Launches a Post-National Country Pavilion Program
The worldโs most famous biannual art event, the Venice Biennale, stands apart from other biennials because of its network of country-specific pavilions, discrete buildings that different countries use to show their exhibitions. Now, the Performa performance art biennial, one of the worldโs more diffuse instances of the form, is launching a pavilion program that emphasizes international cooperation and โinternational artists.โ