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The Performa Projects provide an acclaimed group of artists, curators, and institutions an exciting platform to produce and present new work.
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Flag New York City
- Friday, November 1, 12:00 pm
Performa flies 55 flags designed by 60 international artists above New York City.
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Radek Szlaga with Konrad SmoleńskiTRIBUTE TO ERRORS AND LEFTOVERS
- Saturday, November 2, 5:00 pm
- Sunday, November 3, 5:00 pm
- Tuesday, November 5, 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, November 6, 5:00 pm
- Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm
An immersive installation with live music that explores the confusing experience felt when emigrating to the U.S.
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Jumana Manna & Sille StorihleThe Goodness Regime
- Saturday, November 2, 5:00 pm
- Sunday, November 3, 5:00 pm
The myths and history of Norway are re-envisioned by the American- Palestinian filmmaker in this short film, illustrating the idealized country. Free Supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York and The Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
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Voice Is the Original InstrumentFeaturing Maja Ratkje, Joan la Barbara and The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation
- Saturday, November 2, 7:30 pm
Female vocalists demonstrate the range of the human voice through Extended Vocal Technique, bringing early pioneers and new practitioners to the stage. Featuring Joan La Barbara, Maja Ratkje and The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation.
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In Tones from Light to DarkA Concert
- Sunday, November 3, 7:00 pm
Four radically different vocal styles and performances that represent the meeting of the avant-garde and a pop sensibility.
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Eleanor BauerBAUER HOUR
- Sunday, November 3, 8:00 pm
- Sunday, November 3, 10:00 pm
A performance art variety show hosted by the one-and-only Eleanor Bauer.
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Akademia RuchuChinese Lesson / Chińska Lekcja
- Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pm
Poland's groundbreaking collective create contemporary versions of their seminal political happenings.
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Pete Drungle Dream Sequences for Solo Piano
- Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm
Dream sequences by Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel accompany this virtuoso pianist as he improvises an original score.
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Noé SoulierIdéographie
- Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm
Noé Soulier performs a "dance of ideas" in the premiere of this performance-lecture.
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Karol RadziszewskiKisieland
- Thursday, November 7, 8:30 pm
An evening of readings, slide projections, and conversations around Polish pioneer gay activist Ryszard Kisiel and Radziszewski’s documentary Kisieland, exploring the political importance of queer resistance in Eastern Europe.
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Akademia RuchuThe Market of Toys
- Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm
- Saturday, November 9, 12:00 pm
Seminal Polish collective Akademia Ruchu (the Academy of Movement) creates a new, participatory performance specially conceived for Times Square.
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Katarzyna KrakowiakThe Great and Secret Show / The Look Out Gallery
- Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm
The hallways of this historic building vibrate in a sound and sculptural installation.
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Marthe Ramm Fortun Inverted Sky
- Friday, November 8, 7:00 pm
- Saturday, November 9, 7:00 pm
- Sunday, November 10, 7:00 pm
An open ended re-telling of the story of Grand Central Terminal in honor of its centennial.
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Frank Haines & Zeena Schreck Zeena Schreck, Live From the Eye of the Storm
- Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm
Frank Haines presents Zeena Schreck transmitting sacred syllables from Vajrayana, Shaktism and Sethian-Typhonian left-way tantric practices.
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Man with a ProjectorFeaturing Malcolm Le Grice, Guy Sherwin, Lynn Loo, and Keith Rowe
- Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm
A rare chance to see important historic works and new film and video performances by Malcolm Le Grice and Guy Sherwin.
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Lina Viste Grønli, Peter Child and Elaine Chew Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale)
- Sunday, November 10, 1:00 pm
A new piano score transcribed from a rehearsal session is the inspiration for Performa's first intercontinental performance.
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Bedwyr WilliamsA Break In
- Sunday, November 10, 5:00 pm
- Sunday, November 10, 6:30 pm
A break in at the home of a private collector is staged in one of Williams's most ambitious monologues yet.
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Benjamin PattersonAction as Composition: A Retrospective Concert
- Tuesday, November 12, 8:00 pm
The first-ever retrospective concert of the Fluxus founder's “action as composition” works.
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Vishal JugdeoA Shaky Picture Has No Weight
- Wednesday, November 13, 8:30 pm
- Thursday, November 14, 8:30 pm
Los Angeles-based installation artist and filmmaker creates a new work of filmic fragments in a constructed theatrical set that speaks to movement, travel, and sense of space.
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Tameka Norris and Senga NengudiTwo performances: Untitled, 2012 and RSVP, 1976 and 1976-77
- Thursday, November 14, 7:00 pm
Norris creates a live painting and dancers activate a new Nengudi sculpture in a pair of performances.
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THE TRANSMITTER SHOW – WORDS AT A DISTANCE
- Friday, November 15, 7:00 pm
If written text is the first generation of virtual reality, radio plays are part of second-generation virtual realities, fostering different imaginative leaps and foregrounding the spectral presence of the voice.
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Pope.LCage Unrequited
- Saturday, November 16, 10:58 am
A 25-hour marathon reading of John Cage’s edited anthology, Silence: Lectures and Writings (1961) by over 80 invited collaborators.
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Jamal CyrusTexas Fried Tenor, 2012
- Saturday, November 16, 2:00 pm
Cyrus fries a saxophone while reciting a poem based on the Texas Tenor saxophone tradition.
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Benjamin PattersonA Penny for Your Thoughts
- Saturday, November 16, 2:45 pm
An exchange between artist and viewer in which the artist offers participants hats constructed from newspapers in exchange for an idea.
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Benjamin PattersonPond
- Saturday, November 16, 1:00 pm
- Saturday, November 16, 4:00 pm
Pond is one of Patterson’s earliest action scores, written for nine performers and inviting the spectator to become participant
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To Breathe is Not EnoughA Concert featuring Karl Holmqvist, Will Holder, and Angie Keefer
- Saturday, November 16, 8:00 pm
The act of publishing is reconsidered as a spoken word concert, from poetry to air kissing.
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Zachary FabriShiny Shoes
- Sunday, November 17, 1:00 pm
A new live performance interweaving physical movement, monologue and sound from the galleries of The Studio Museum in Harlem to 125th St.
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Terry AdkinsSacred Order of Twilight Brothers
- Monday, November 18, 6:30 pm
For Performa 13, Terry Adkins, Blanche Bruce, and the Lone Wolf Recital Corps present Last Trumpet for brass and 4 Akrhaphones and Nobody Knows My Name for brass, voice, and percussion.
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CricotekaCan Objects perform?
- Thursday, November 21, 6:00 pm
A project dedicated to the work of legendary Polish visual artist and theater director Tadeusz Kantor and how his legacy is evident in the work of contemporary artists.
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Gabriel LesterSuper-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013
- Thursday, November 21, 7:00 pm
- Friday, November 22, 7:30 pm
- Friday, November 22, 9:00 pm
- Saturday, November 23, 4:00 pm
- Saturday, November 23, 7:30 pm
- Sunday, November 24, 4:00 pm
- Sunday, November 24, 7:30 pm
Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.
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Ed AtkinsMan of Steel
- Thursday, November 21, 7:30 pm
Ed Atkins presents a night of films celebrating and investigating the role of avatars in video art.
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Pedro Gómez-Egaña Object to be Destroyed
- Friday, November 22, 6:00 pm
- Saturday, November 23, 5:00 pm
In a performative response to Man Ray's iconic Object to be Destroyed, Gómez-Egaña considers cultural notions of motion and temporality.