PERFORMA

2009-10-31 15:04:36 来源: art218 作者:artda001

PERFORMA 是一个跨平台的非营利性艺术机构,致力于研究行为表演作为一种艺术形式在20世纪的发展,从而为21世纪的行为表演开辟新的发展方向。 PERFORMA 的部分使命是每两年在纽约组织一次行为艺术双年展,以巩固行为艺术作为一种全球当代艺术界的重要艺术形式。
2005年的 PERFORMA 与国际上知名的美术馆、画廊、独立空间和独立策展人合作推出了多维度的表演,以及影像作品展示和学术研讨会。活动从哈林区到华尔街,25,000人参与了行为艺术节在纽约的20个场地的各种活动。此次活动在世界行为艺术领域获得极大关注,同时也为行为艺术在国际当代艺术领域探索了新方向的可能性。而这次 2007年的 PERFORMA07 是行为艺术双年展的第二届,将于2007年10月27日至11月20日在纽约举行。
展览及活动地点 哈林区工作室美术馆(The Studio Museum in Harlem),华美协进社(China Institute),
詹姆士·科恩画廊(James Cohan Gallery),美洲华人博物馆, 纽约唐人街

访问:http://www.performa-arts.org/

Mission
PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world.

History

PERFORMA is the brainchild of RoseLee Goldberg, whose definitive book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979 & 2000), pioneered the study of performance art and has been translated into nine languages. Ms. Goldberg’s writing, as well as her activities as curator at The Kitchen in the late seventies, has shaped the public’s view of live performance as a visual art form for almost thirty years.


In 2001, Ms. Goldberg originated and produced visual artist Shirin Neshat’s first live performance work, Logic of the Birds, with critical and popular success in both New York and London. The idea to create a biennial, with a specially commissioned new performance as the centerpiece, evolved from this highly successful production.


Committed to initiating new directions in visual art performance and to providing a framework for its history and reception, Ms. Goldberg founded PERFORMA in 2004.


PERFORMA is a multidisciplinary non-profit arts 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. Part of PERFORMA’s mission is to present a biennial of visual art performance in New York City that illuminates the critical role of performance in the history of art as well as its enormous significance in the international world of contemporary art.


The first of its kind, the PERFORMA05 Biennial offered an exciting program of performances, exhibitions, symposia, and film screenings organized in collaboration with a consortium of leading museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and independent curators in New York. The first ever PERFORMA Biennial was an enormous critical and popular success and set a new standard for the positioning of live performance in the international contemporary art world. Over 25,000 people attended sold-out and filled-to-capacity events at more than 20 venues across the city, truly activating and animating all of New York, from Harlem down to Wall Street, during PERFORMA05’s entire three-week run.
Letter from the Director
roselee

I founded PERFORMA, a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization, to
establish a distinctive biennial for the vast array of high caliber
performance by visual artists from around the world. I was prompted by the
belief that curating and contextualizing such cutting edge material serves
to build an exciting community of artists and audiences, and provides a
strong basis for educational initiatives.

Performance is an important catalyst in the development of the history of
twentieth century art. A biennial dedicated to performance will provide
audiences with a highly selected overview of the most outstanding work and
will, at the same time, show the relevance of live art as an innovative and
important contemporary form. We feel that the biennale will ignite a new
performance scene in New York, inspiring both emerging and established
artists to consider new dimensions for live performance.

PERFORMA provides New York City with a performance festival deserving of
the city’s status as a major cultural destination. It has already
established a critical platform for public discussion of this important
work, since at the heart of the organization is an ongoing commitment to
education, history, and active investigation of performance in all aspects
of the visual arts.

Please join PERFORMA’s friends and family by making tax-deductible
donations to our exciting new organization. A contribution to PERFORMA is
an investment in maintaining New York’s extraordinarily rich heritage of
radical performance and in nurturing new work for the future. Your help is
essential to realizing this ambitious project.

Thank you for your support.

Yours sincerely,

RoseLee Goldberg
Director

  

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