31/10/2013
Performa 13
Different venues, New York
Performa presents new work by a range of artists working in visual art, dance, music, film, radio, and food. It extends beyond Manhattan, featuring performances and events in Queens, The Bronx, and Brooklyn. More than 100 separate events presented at over 40 venues.
Performa is the only biennial dedicated to commissioning, presenting and exploring new visual art performance across disciplines. For three weeks Performa and a consortium of arts organizations will band together to transform New York City into the performance capital of the world.
More than 100 separate events presented at over 40 venues will showcase new work in an innovative program, breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 50 arts institutions and over 50 curators.
Founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Performa launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05, in 2005, followed by Performa 07 (2007), Performa 09 (2009), and Performa 11 (2011).
THEMES AND HISTORICAL ANCHOR
Our historical anchor this year is Surrealism, and the programming will reflect more than eighteen months of curatorial research and investigation on this topic. Performa 13 will address the legacy of Surrealism with such key inputs in modern and contemporary art as the liberation of the psyche, poetry, "the marvelous," and artists’ engagement with politics.
Central to the biennial will be the crucial role artists play to envision new kinds of citizenship for the twenty-first century by nurturing and championing new ways and desires to live together, wherever they may be. Idiosyncratic uses of the voice by performers will also be explored during the biennial; the disembodied voice, the voice as instrument of desire and menace, sound and song, and as a platform for the language of persuasion, coercion, seduction, and violence.
Performa 13, the fifth iteration of the Performa biennial, opens with much excitement this Friday, November 1. The day will begin at noon at the new Performa Hub, where visitors will have the chance to meet Performa curators, artists, and visitors from around the world, and in the evening, the three-week biennial will kick off with a gala dinner to benefit the Performa Commissioning Fund and to celebrate all 110 artists participating in Performa, as well as the more than 45 collaborating partners that together transform New York City into the performance capital of the world.
Performa is delighted to announce the full roster of artists, including Guillermo Acevedo, Derrick Adams, Akademia Ruchu, Paweł Althamer, Einat Amir, Pieter Ampe, Eleanor Antin, Athanasios Argianas, Fernando Arrabal, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Eleanor Bauer, Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA, Michael Bell-Smith, Julie Béna, Blowfly, Hans Breder, Paulo Bruscky, Boris Charmatz, Elaine Chew, Peter Child, Courtesy the Artists (Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade), Cricoteka, David Antonio Cruz, Attila Csihar, Jamal Cyrus, Robin Deacon, Pete Drungle, Tamar Ettun, Zachary Fabri, Flag NYC, Ed Fornieles, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Dani Gal, Rainer Ganahl, Guilherme Garrido, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Lina Viste Grønli, Subodh Gupta, Frank Haines & Zeena Schreck, Maria Hassabi, Florian Hecker, Andy Holden, Peter Holden, Will Holder, Karl Holmqvist, Ruo Huang, Jenny Hval, Rashid Johnson, Joan Jonas, Vishal Jugdeo, Siri Rishi Kaur, Angie Keefer, Christopher Knowles, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Agnieszka Kurant, Elaine Kwon, Joan La Barbara, Malcolm Le Grice, Gabriel Lester, Lynn Loo, Molly Lowe, Anna Lundh, Shana Lutker, The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, Jennifer Wen Ma, Jill Magid, Martha Graham Dance Company, Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Sara Magenheimer, Dave McKenzie, Ryan McNamara, Dieter Meier, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Meredith Monk, Stine Janvin Motland and C. Spencer Yeh, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Norris, Ahmet Öğüt, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Eddie Peake, Pope.L, Philippe Quesne, Karol Radziszewski, Raqs Media Collective, Maja Ratkje, Pedro Reyes, Keith Rowe, Paramatma Siri Sadhana, Aki Sasamoto, Guy Sherwin, Alexandre Singh, Michael Smith, Noé Soulier, Cally Spooner, Dean Allen Spunt, Squat Theatre, Radek Szlaga with Konrad Smolenski, threeASFOUR, Julie Tolentino, Guido van der Werve, Conrad Ventur, Adrien Vescovi, Ben Vida, Marianne Vitale, Adam Wade, Bedwyr Williams, Tori Wrånes, and Rima Yamazaki.
Presented in close collaboration with the Biennial Consortium, a selective network of New York City's most adventurous cultural institutions, Performa 13 is pleased to announce its exciting new initiative Pavilion Without Walls and expanded Hub and Performa Institute programs.
Performa 13 is curated by a team of curators led by Performa Founding Director and Curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa curators Mark Beasley, Charles Aubin, Adrienne Edwards, Summer Guthery, Esa Nickle, Lana Wilson, and curator-at-large Defne Ayas, as well as curators from the more than 45 biennial partners, including Antonio Sergio Bessa, Mary Ceruti, Michael Conner, Lia Gangitano, Larissa Harris, Matthew Higgs, Ana Janevski, Thomas Lax, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Matthew Lyons, Hanne Mugaas, Jay Sanders, Allison Weisberg, and Joanna Zielińska.
The Performa 13 guide is available at the Hub. For more information and tickets, visit the web site www.performa-arts.org
Media contacts:
FITZ & CO, Jenny Isakowitz, 212-627-1455 x254, jenny@fitzandco.com
Performa, Jessica Massart, 212-366-5700, jessica@performa-arts.org
press@performa-arts.org or call 212-366-5700
Premiere Friday, Nov 1, 12:00 am
Cally Spooner Call for Female Singers
Tori Wrånes Call for Singers and Performers
Akademia Ruchu Call for Volunteers
Flag NYC Call for Flagpoles
Pedro Reyes Call for Missing pUN Delegates
Join us for Performa 13 Opening Night, the gala event of the biennial in celebration of Performa 13 artists, the Norwegian and Polish Pavilions Without Walls, and the Biennial Consortium. In "All Nations State Dinner" attire enjoy cocktails, dinner, party, performances, and a live auction including works by Ragnar Kjartansson, Elizabeth Peyton, and Iona Rozeal Brown, all staged in the legendary 41,000 square-foot Mckim, Mead & White Moynihan Station.
6:30 pm Cocktails, Dinner, and Live Auction presented by Paddle8
9 pm Opening Night Party
Performa 13 Hub
13 Crosby Street New York, NY 10013
Hours: noon–8pm daily