PERFORMA.TV

About this original series

PERFORMA.TV presents exclusive video clips of performances, commissions, interviews, and events from Performa 09, the third biennial of new visual art performance, taking place November 1-22 in New York City.

  • # Episodes

    163 episodes
  • Rating

    TV-14

Episodes of PERFORMA.TV

    • Andrey Kuzkin - Performance

      As part of the opening of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and Performa collaborative exhibition 33 Fragments of Russian Performance (curated by Yulia Askenova), Russian artist Andrey Kuzkin will premiere a new performance in the Performa Hub. Andrey Kuzkin (b. 1971 Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow) is a significant performance artist working within the Moscow art scene. He came to prominence with the performance “Full Circle” as part of the 1st Moscow International Bienna...

      • Release date
        Aug 14, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:54
    • Tyler Ashley - Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Ame...

      Do you want rock-hard abs? Slimmer hips and firmer buttocks? Do you reject the idea of autonomous art? Join Tyler Ashley and his group of dancers - the SARAHS - in today's most comprehensive exercise and education program in Constructivism! Don’t miss this opportunity to explore Constructivist concerns about the arrangement and power of the body in space through a unique mash-up of aerobics class clichés and a 19th century Czech “slet.” With explosive movement, live music, and audience interac...

      • Release date
        Jul 19, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:17
    • Boris Charmatz - Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro

      Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is a living exhibition created by renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz for his groundbreaking Musée de la Danse (Dancing Museum) in Rennes, France, and now being re-conceived for New York City as part of Performa 11. Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is an exhibition without any artwork, but with artists. It includes no objects, photographs, sculptures, or installations. Rather, it is comprised of completely empty rooms filled by the gestures, projects, bodies, ...

      • Release date
        Jun 20, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:06
    • Lorraine O'Grady: On Baudelaire and Michael Jack...

      Performa Institute, April 25th, 2012

      • Release date
        Jun 6, 2012
      • Runtime
        10:00
    • Tamar Ettun - One Thing Leads to Another

      One Thing Leads to Another is a working installation and multi-media performance, revolving around a overturned hot air balloon, reanimated through narrative, dance and shifting physicality. This project from artist Tamar Ettun will abstract vignettes from The Odyssey, taking the text's themes of labor, gifting and movement of the itinerant body, while incorporating dance traditions from Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, and Ohad Naharin's GAGA. The performance, which will occur inside the inflated...

      • Release date
        May 31, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:34
    • Ming Wong - Persona Performa

      In his ambitious new project, which promises to be an unforgettable theatrical experience, Ming Wong has created a site-specific work for the Museum of the Moving Image in response to the building’s dynamic, fluid, and starkly white new architecture. Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece Persona, in which an actress and her nurse exchange identities on the remote Fårö Island, Wong’s piece is a powerful meditation on cinema and theater. It will begin with twenty-four amateur New York ac...

      • Release date
        May 31, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:58
    • Asli Çavuşoğlu - Words Dash Against the Façade

      Istanbul-based artist Asli Çavuşoğlu will create a walking tour on 11.11.11 that will use fortune-telling to scrutinize the ornamental façades of New York City buildings. Selected interpreters are given free reign to create the rules of fortune-telling through the use of potentially disputable sources and through the framework of their personal perspectives. Curated by Defne Ayas.

      • Release date
        May 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        03:16
    • Shelly Nadashi - Refrigerating Apparatus

      Refrigerating Apparatus is a spatial arrangement of a number of paper-mache sculptures and a series of silk prints presenting holes. These elements are installed specifically at the library space of the Performa Hub in Soho. They will be manipulated by the repetitive sequences of choreographic movements and the recitation of texts, from a guidebook to email etiquette.

      • Release date
        May 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:14
    • Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler - Seven

      Artists Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler will collaborate to present SEVEN, a performance and installation that stretches from the urban landscape of New York to the savannahs of Africa. Mixing Kessler’s kinetic sculptures with Rottenberg’s absurdist videos, SEVEN will collapse film time and real time to create an intricate laboratory that channels body fluids and colors into a spectacle on the African savannah. In New York, a “Chakra Juicer” will capture sweat from seven performers engaging in...

      • Release date
        May 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        02:44
    • Robert Ashley - That Morning Thing

      That Morning Thing (1967) A remounting of Robert Ashley's legendary opera That Morning Thing was performed only three times (Ann Arbor, MI, Oakland, CA and Tokyo, Japan) in the late 1960s, but the opera acquired its reputation through rumor and the famous recordings of two sections, Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon and She Was A Visitor (on Lovely Music). In three distinct acts plus epilogue, the opera presents the socio-political climate of the times. This new staging by the writer/composer him...

      • Release date
        May 30, 2012
      • Runtime
        03:18