"RoseLee Goldberg amazed with PERFORMA 05, billed as the city's
first biennial of 'visual art performance.' Working with a tiny
staff, a shoestring budget and no institutional affiliation, Ms.
Goldberg put together a program that covered a lot of aesthetic
bases--old school, just out of school, high-tech, no-tech--and
encompassed more than 60 scheduled events all of which makes the
prospect of PERFORMA 07 shine with promise." --Roberta Smith, the
"New York Times" This volume is the first in a series of important
publications drawing content and inspiration from the "PERFORMA"
biennial. Featuring inventive documentation by the 100 artists who
made the first "PERFORMA" so extraordinary, it offers an
exhilarating view into contemporary visual art performance and
"performs" as a collective artists' journal might. Vibrant
photographs of each artist's performance are accompanied by their
scripts, sketches and storyboards, providing unique insight into
process and upending conventions around archiving performance.
Lively interviews with some of the most significant artists of our
time--including Francis Alys, Tamy Ben-Tor, Jesper Just, Marina
Abramovic, Gelitin, Laurie Simmons and Mike Smith--appear alongside
context-setting essays by some of our most inspired young curators.
"PERFORMA" founder RoseLee Goldberg, who pioneered the study of
performance art with her seminal book "Performance Art from
Futurism to the Present" (1979), presents an authoritative
introduction addressing the genre's many forms--radio broadcast,
dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music,
historic reconstructions and lecture-as-performance among them.
"PERFORMA" is not only an invaluable reference, it is a new kind of
guide to cultural life, a time capsule of this very moment in New
York's eminent performance history, complete with profiles of the
city's nonprofit biennial venues that, like this book, give
ephemeral art a physical place in which to persist.
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