Biennial Consortium
The Biennial Consortium is a selective network of New York City’s arts and cultural institutions, all presenting and supporting performances and exhibitions that align with the Performa 13 biennial. These series of partnerships and co-presentations highlight the myriad of art and cultural events that make this particular point in time one of the most exciting in the city. The Consortium celebrates the creative history of the city and its legacy of radical performance that, since the 1950s and 60s, has brought together artists of all disciplines and made New York the center of the international avant-garde.
Consortium event tickets are sold directly thorough the consortium organization's box office. See individual event listings for details.
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- Friday, November 1, 12:00 pm
- Saturday, November 2, 12:00 pm
- Sunday, November 3, 12:00 pm
An homage to the legendary dance vocabulary of Merce Cunningham in the newest edition of Musée de la Danse.
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- Saturday, November 2, 3:00 pm
A web-Conference and Live Performance that brings together a diverse group of experts, artists, and performers to explore the fields of digital media and quantum activism.
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- Sunday, November 3, 11:00 am
Bruscky dismantles the conventions of soccer in this chaotic afternoon match.
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- Sunday, November 3, 11:00 am
Over the course of nineteen days, spectators will experience the evolution of seminal Electro Pop legend YELLO, precursor of MusicVideo.
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- Sunday, November 3, 7:00 pm
- Monday, November 4, 7:00 pm
A runway fashion show featuring détourned clothing of his own design and an installation of related artworks.
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- Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm
A performance/lecture that combines text, projections, and the body/movement as part critique of African American representations in the media, and the public’s fetishization of media-hyped personalities.
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- Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 pm
A special evening devoted to the work of radical art and theater collective Squat Theatre including a screening and conversation with Squat Theatre members Eva Buchmuller and Anna Koos and Whitney curator Jay Sanders.
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- Thursday, November 7, 7:00 pm
Magid interrogates questions of cultural copyright and corporate power in relation to individual identity and legacy.
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- Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm
Set in a semi-fictional form of New York high society, New York New York Happy Happy is a scripted participatory performance in the form of a gala.
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- Saturday, November 9, 2:00 pm
Antin reads and discusses excerpts, some unpublished, from the memoirs of her invented character, Eleanora Antinova, the African American ballerina of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
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- Saturday, November 9, 6:30 pm
- Saturday, November 9, 9:00 pm
Adams explores how we engage and reinterpret overlooked histories through the American cultural phenomenon of schoolchildren reciting historical texts on stage.
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- Sunday, November 10, 6:00 pm
Avant-garde fashion and ancient food rituals come together in a one-night-only event.
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- Sunday, November 10, 7:00 pm
- Sunday, November 17, 7:00 pm
- Sunday, November 24, 7:00 pm
Tribute to Boricua drag performer Mario Montez.
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- Sunday, November 10, 9:00 pm
Two evenings of poetry, cabaret interventions, and impromptu performances celebrating the singular Fernando Arrabal.
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- Monday, November 11, 10:00 am
A day of film screenings, including L'Arbre de Guernica, followed by a moderated discussion.
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- Tuesday, November 12, 6:00 pm
Antin, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade present video and images as they discuss legacies of theatricality in performance art.
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- Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 pm
- Thursday, November 14, 6:00 pm
A lone performer and a slide projector combine narratives from current affairs photos and artist statements.
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- Friday, November 15, 12:00 pm
- Saturday, November 16, 12:00 am
Courtesy the Artists (Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade)
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- Friday, November 15, 7:00 pm
An installation and performance event that explores the relationships between animals and humans in the urban realm.
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- Friday, November 15, 7:00 pm
The world premiere of a film by Robin Deacon with a post-screening discussion with the filmmaker and Jay Sanders. In conjunction with the exhibition, "Rituals of Rented Island."
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- Saturday, November 16, 12:00 pm
A slideshow of tree photos becomes the score for a live theremin performance.
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- Sunday, November 17, 7:30 pm
A documentary following the creation and premiere of Joan Jonas's Reanimation.
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- Sunday, November 17, 10:00 pm
SANTOS, WHITE COLUMNS, 47 CANAL, NADA, LISA COOLEY, GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE, PRINTED MATTER, HALF GALLERY, SALON 94, JACK HANLEY GALLERY, ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, ANTON KERN GALLERY, GREENE NAFTALI GALLERY, PERFORMA, AND CANADA PRESENT: SUNDAY NIGHT FEVER
with Eric Duncan / Spencer Sweeney / Matthew Higgs / Nick Relph
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- Monday, November 18, 8:00 pm
- Tuesday, November 19, 12:00 am
- Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm
- Thursday, November 21, 7:30 pm
- Friday, November 22, 7:30 pm
Conceived as a 5-day performance including objects, conflicts and resolutions. A series of photographs will be made during the run of the performance.
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- Tuesday, November 19, 6:30 pm
- Wednesday, November 20, 6:30 pm
- Thursday, November 21, 6:30 pm
Was Martha Graham a Surrealist? The Martha Graham Dance Company will present an intimate look at two seminal Graham masterworks created during the height of the Surrealist movement.
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- Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 pm
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler need you to create and intervene in "The Exception to the Rule," the latest exhibition in their fictional museum, The Museum of Non-Participation.
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- Wednesday, November 20, 7:00 pm
A short and humorous operatic performance explores migration, gluttony, and consumption of the American dream.
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- Thursday, November 21, 6:00 pm
Dieter Meier in conversation with Anthony Haden-Guest will discuss the roots, the phenomenon and legacies created by YELLO. They will be joined by a surprise guest.
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- Thursday, November 21, 9:00 pm
The beginning of a new series that is equal parts musical revue and an excellent party with a killer DJ.
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- Friday, November 22, 7:00 pm
Loosely inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions, the pair will enact two types of gestures, creating parallel languages.
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- Saturday, November 23, 12:00 pm
- Sunday, November 24, 12:00 pm
A parallel, playful version of the United Nations in the artist's largest, most complex initiative for a New York City museum to date.
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- Saturday, November 23, 1:00 pm
A discussion of the archival processes of Julie Tolentino’s “The Sky Remains the Same,” accompanied by a premiere screening of The Archive of Lovett/Codagnone’s “Closer” (1999-2005) and/or “For You” (2003). With Julie Tolentino, Lia Gangitano, Joshua Lubin-Levy, and Sarah Schulman.
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- Saturday, November 23, 3:00 pm
Lovett/Codagnone’s “WEIGHTED” is executed here in its authorized archival form as a durational repetition of the same score, performed in sequential pairings by John Lovett, Alessandro Codagnone, Julie Tolentino, and Stosh Fila. A discussion with the artists follows the performance, moderated by Joshua Lubin-Levy and Travis Chamberlain.
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- Saturday, November 23, 3:00 pm
Film project based on characters edited out of final versions of films. A portrait of invisible universe of cut outs, surplus characters and narratives. Screening and conversation between Agnieszka Kurant and Manuel Cirauqui moderated by Mary Ceruti.
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- Saturday, November 23, 7:30 pm
- Sunday, November 24, 7:30 pm
Christopher Knowles performs a selection of rarely-shown works, including The Sundance Kid is Beautiful and texts from Einstein on the Beach in a multimedia environment that incorporates recent poetry and sculpture.
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- Sunday, November 24, 11:00 am
Guido van der Werve invites you to grab some chamomile flowers and run with him from Manhattan to where Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff is buried in upstate New York.
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- Sunday, November 24, 4:00 pm
Mike Kelley's friends and collaborators present an afternoon on humor at MoMA PS1.