hyde or die

For this year’s Performa Tracey Emin will be reading from not only her book Strangeland, but also from her upcoming book of poetry Those Who Suffer Love. It is this Saturday, November 7th at Performance Project at University Settlement (184 Eldridge Street) and starts at 3:00pm.  There is also a Q&A afterwards moderated by the one and only RoseLee Goldberg.

What else are you doing on Saturday? I know you don’t have actual better plans than that.

RSVP at rsvp@performa-arts.org

184 Eldridge Street
3:00 PM

November 06, 2009, 11:11am  

Performa starts up this weekend.  I don’t want to talk about it. I was planning last year to go and obviously dropped the ball.  I will not make this mistake in 2010. I won’t.

What is Performa you ask? Here’s a schedule, a written down glimpse of the unbelievable amounts of performance art that is going to be going on in NY this weekend.

Impressed? Thought so. Here is where you can buy tickets.

October 29, 2009, 4:14pm  

Mark Leckey in The Long Tail

The Museum of Modern Art presents the North American premiere of Mark Leckey in the Long Tail (2009), a performance-based work presented in a theater for performing arts at the Abrons Arts Center on October 1, 2, and 3, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. Throughout the performance—which is part lecture, part monologue, and part living sculpture—Leckey engages the topics of television and broadcasting history, from the BBC to the icon of Felix the Cat, while simultaneously addressing the “Long Tail” theory of internet-based economics.

Someone please go to this for me and then tell me how awful it was and how it’s such a good decision that I live in Los Angeles.  Thanks.

September 22, 2009, 12:29pm  

Photo of Terence Koh by Marco Anelli

The artist Terence Koh has been appearing every night at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, England, as part of Marina Abramovic’s performance showcase during this month’s Manchester Festival (through July 19). For his four-hour piece, Koh lies on the floor in a shirt made from crushed pearls, his face and feet covered in powder. Curled up in the fetal position, he plays Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa” over and over on his iPod. But tonight Koh is honoring the artist Dash Snow, who died today in an apparent drug overdose. Koh will change his tune to “Cheree” by the synth-punk band Suicide. As Koh explained in an e-mail message, “It is for one of my best friend’s Dash and that is our favorite song together and we used to dance to it together.” Strangely, the song was used in the closing scene of “Downtown 81,” which was about Jean-Michel Basquiat, another artist who died way too soon. via…

July 15, 2009, 8:57am  

Erwin Wurm One Minute Sculptures (detail), 1997

This is part of the exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now that is up at the SFMOMA that will be up through February 8.  If you are in or around the Bay area I suggest you go check it out because…

1. I love the SFMOMA, they have the most amazing shows all the time, without fail.
2. I like the idea of exploring the participation in art, so why not do a show about it? Well, that’s exactly what Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling did.  Awesome.
3. Performance art= awesometown.

December 15, 2008, 12:20pm  

Minerva Cuevas The Story of the Celtic Tiger 2006

This is a photograph of a performance piece done at OPEN / INVITED e v + a(in a town called Limerick! I love that name), and I have an open ended question so if you know the answer, hit me up:

I am not too familiar with performance art, but can you buy images of the performance? Is that a common practice that performance artists do or is it more like, the art was in the moment and can never be again? 

The reason I ask is because I would love a photograph of this Celtic Tiger drinking a Guiness.  I love him so much. 

November 24, 2008, 3:16pm  

Performa’s Metal Ball was this weekend and I am all kinds of jealous that I don’t live in NY because I am pretty sure I could have figured out my way in…some how.  Pretty much when I grow up I want to do awesome events like this a la RoseLee Goldberg.  Enough people attended to raise $250,000, which, with the economic situation the way it is, is more than impressive. One day.  A girl can dream. 

UPDATE: Another reason to want to grow up and be RoseLee.

November 18, 2008, 12:27pm