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Fales Library: Performa

Collected by: New York University

Archived since: Mar, 2017

Description:

Performa is a New York City-based multidisciplinary non-profit arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Founded in 2004, Performa is the brainchild of art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, whose definitive book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979 and 2000), pioneered the study of performance art. In 2001, Ms. Goldberg originated and produced visual artist Shirin Neshat’s first live performance, Logic of the Birds, with critical and popular success in both New York and London. Evolved from this production, the idea came about to create the Performa biennial in 2005, called Performa 05, with a specially commissioned new performance at its core. The event offered a program of performances, exhibitions, symposia, and film screenings organized in collaboration with leading museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and independent curators in New York. It was a critical and popular success, setting a standard for the positioning of live performance in the international contemporary art world. Over 25,000 people attended events at more than twenty venues across the city during Performa 05’s entire three-week run. Since that first year, the Performa biennial has presented new works by artists working in performance, first performance works by artists working in other mediums, and re-staging of seminal performance works from history. The Performa biennial has taken place every other year since then and has become a crucial component of Performa’s mission.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities

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Title: PERFORMA 05

URL: http://05.performa-arts.org/

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Title: PERFORMA 07

URL: http://07.performa-arts.org/

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Title: PERFORMA 11

URL: http://11.performa-arts.org/

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Title: PERFORMA 13

URL: http://13.performa-arts.org/

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Title: PERFORMA 15

URL: http://15.performa-arts.org

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Title: PERFORMA 17

URL: http://17.performa-arts.org/

Description: Website for the Performa Biennial in 2017. Performa 17 took place November 1-19, 2017 at various locations across New York City. The website contains information on the artist participants, events, venues, classes, commissions, and other projects during the biennial.

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Title: PERFORMA 19

URL: http://performa19.org/

Description: Performa is an arts organization founded by RoseLee Goldberg dedicated to performing arts history and experimental live performance. Performa 19 is the website for the organization's eighth biennial, featuring a series of live performances and speaking events in New York City from November 1st to November 24th, 2019. The website features a brief description of the organization and its biennial, information about works commissioned specifically for the biennial, venue information, a staff directory for the organization, a contact page, a calendar of scheduled biennial events, biographies of artists involved in the events, and a page dedicated to the organization's donors and corporate sponsors that includes solicitations for individual donations and a purchase link for tickets to the organization's 2019 gala. This site was first captured in November of 2019 and was active through the end of the biennial on November 24, 2019.

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Title: PERFORMA Magazine

URL: http://performamagazine.tumblr.com/

Description: Performa is an online magazine for contemporary, interdisciplinary performance featuring essays, interviews, video, and audio. The magazine's tumblr page features Q&As in video and text form with questions from users, short write-ups about performances (with images) and installations, and promotions for events.

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Title: PERFORMA

URL: https://performa-arts.org/

Description: Performa is an arts organization founded by RoseLee Goldberg dedicated to performing arts history and experimental live performance. The website contains issues of their magazine, which features documentation, short essays, interviews, video, and audio about the Performa biennial. It also includes information about their think tank, the Performa Institute; touring and exhibition information; commissions; partnerships; Yvonne Rainer performance information; and information on their biennials and other fundraising efforts. Previous programming also included We Are Your Performance Department, Museum Without Walls, Pavilion Without Walls, Performa X, and other special events.

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URL: https://performa2023.org/

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Title: PERFORMA 21

URL: https://www.performa2021.org/

Description: Performa is an arts organization founded by RoseLee Goldberg dedicated to performing arts history and experimental live performance. Performa 21 is the website for the organization's ninth biennial, featuring a series of live performances and talks in New York City from October 12-31, 2021. It featured the artists Kevin Beasley, Ericka Beckman, Sara Cwynar, Danielle Dean, Madeline Hollander, Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation), Tschabalala Self, and Shikeith. The website features a brief description of the organization and its biennial, information about works commissioned specifically for the biennial, a schedule of events and locations, performance programs, books, telethon information, Performa radio broadcasts, artist biographies, images, and videos.

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