Performa 13

Alexandre Singh with Defne Ayas and Liesbeth Levy Artist Talk: A Causerie

Monday, November 18, 1:00 pm

As part of the realization of The Humans, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, which co-commissioned the theatrical production with Performa, presented the Causeries, a series of discussions in which Alexandre Singh expanded on The Humans’ key concepts.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Staging the Show: The Theater of Exhibition Making Jens Hoffmann, Triple Candie, and Mark Beasley

Monday, November 18, 3:00 pm

What does it mean to stage an exhibition? Can curating be defined as performative? Four curators discuss their engagement with theater, the restaging of artists work, and the exhibition.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St

Derrick Adams Artist Experiment: The Institution of Me

Monday, November 18, 5:00 pm

The Institution of Me is a live art installation comprised of three performances and the process of realizing them.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Paweł Althamer Biba Performa: Documentary film about Tadeusz Kantor

Monday, November 18, 6:00 pm

Join the Biba Peforma team for a screening of a documentary about legendary Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor.

FREE · Biba of Williamsburg, 110 Kent Ave, Brooklyn

Terry Adkins Sacred 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.

FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St

Clifford Owens Five Day’s Worth

Monday, November 18, 8:00 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.

Free with RSVP · Third Streaming, 10 Greene St

Rashid Johnson Dutchman

Monday, November 18, 10:00 pm

LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.

$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street

Clifford Owens Five Day’s Worth

Tuesday, November 19, 12:00 am

Conceived as a 5-day performance including objects, conflicts and resolutions. A series of photographs will be made during the run of the performance.

Free with RSVP · Third Streaming, 10 Greene St

Pedro Gómez-Egaña Artist Class: The Beating Motif

Tuesday, November 19, 1:00 pm

Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s talk will make an associative exploration of Man Ray’s seminal work Object to be Destroyed and will discuss how the immobility with which the piece is generally exhibited relates to cultural notions of suspension.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub

Derrick Adams Artist Experiment: The Institution of Me

Tuesday, November 19, 5:00 pm

The Institution of Me is a live art installation comprised of three performances and the process of realizing them.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Einat Amir Our Best Intentions

Tuesday, November 19, 6:30 pm

A participatory performance series and video installation that interweaves contemporary art, psychotherapy, and theater.

Free with RSVP · Presented by Artis at Affirmation Arts, 523 W 37th

Martha Graham Dance Company Surreal Graham: Herodiade and Spectre-1914

Tuesday, November 19, 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.

$20 (includes a glass of wine) · Martha Graham Studio Theater, 11th Floor, Westbeth, 55 Bethune Street, NY, NY 10014

Paweł Althamer Ceremony in Honor of Queen Mother to Protect Mothers Against Eviction

Tuesday, November 19, 6:30 pm

Paweł Althamer and his collaborators will be dedicating their monumental sculpture Queen Mother of Reality to all mothers displaced from their homes. Join them for a ceremonial evening of feasting, dancing and performance.

$35 · Biba, 110 Kent Ave, Brooklyn

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler The Museum of Non Participation: The Guest of Citation

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.

FREE · Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle

Shana Lutker The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm

Tuesday, November 19, 8:30 pm

A fistfight between Surrealists and Dadaists is revisited and re-imagined by this LA-based artist.

$15 · Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Place

Rashid Johnson Dutchman

Tuesday, November 19, 10:00 pm

LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.

$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street

Raqs Media Collective Artist Class

Wednesday, November 20, 1:00 pm

Raqs Media Collective presents a selection from their working notes towards their Performa 13 Commission, The Last International.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Derrick Adams Artist Experiment: The Institution of Me

Wednesday, November 20, 5:00 pm

The Institution of Me is a live art installation comprised of three performances and the process of realizing them.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Einat Amir Our Best Intentions

Wednesday, November 20, 6:30 pm

A participatory performance series and video installation that interweaves contemporary art, psychotherapy, and theater.

Free with RSVP · Presented by Artis at Affirmation Arts, 523 W 37th

Martha Graham Dance Company Surreal Graham: Herodiade and Spectre-1914

Wednesday, November 20, 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.

$20 (includes a glass of wine) · Martha Graham Studio Theater, 11th Floor, Westbeth, 55 Bethune Street, NY, NY 10014

David Antonio Cruz TAKEABITE: The Opera

Wednesday, November 20, 7:00 pm

A short and humorous operatic performance explores migration, gluttony, and consumption of the American dream.

Free with RSVP · El Museo del Barrio

Clifford Owens Five Day’s Worth

Wednesday, November 20, 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.

Free with RSVP · Third Streaming, 10 Greene St

Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs

Wednesday, November 20, 8:00 pm

Vitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.

$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City

Shana Lutker The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm

Wednesday, November 20, 8:30 pm

A fistfight between Surrealists and Dadaists is revisited and re-imagined by this LA-based artist.

$15 · Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Place

Rashid Johnson Dutchman

Wednesday, November 20, 10:00 pm

LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.

$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street

Archive Fever – Fales Library & Special Collections Series Queering the Archive: David Wojnarowicz and Robert Blanchon

Thursday, November 21, 1:00 pm

Working against interpretation, Queering the Archive presents an excerpt of David Wojnarowicz’s Fire in My Belly (1987) and Robert Blanchon’s let’s just kiss + say goodbye (1995) to explore questions of legitimacy and authenticity of the queer artist’s voice after death.

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Dieter Meier Dieter Meier in conversation with Anthony Haden-Guest

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.

Whitebox Art Center, 329 Broome St

Cricoteka Can 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.

FREE · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Einat Amir Our Best Intentions

Thursday, November 21, 6:30 pm

A participatory performance series and video installation that interweaves contemporary art, psychotherapy, and theater.

Free with RSVP · Presented by Artis at Affirmation Arts, 523 W 37th

Martha Graham Dance Company Surreal Graham: Herodiade and Spectre-1914

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.

$20 (includes a glass of wine) · Martha Graham Studio Theater, 11th Floor, Westbeth, 55 Bethune Street, NY, NY 10014

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

Thursday, November 21, 7:00 pm

Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Clifford Owens Five Day’s Worth

Thursday, November 21, 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.

Free with RSVP · Third Streaming, 10 Greene St

Ed Atkins Man 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.

$15 · Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave

Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs

Thursday, November 21, 8:00 pm

Vitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.

$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City

Raqs Media Collective The Last International

Thursday, November 21, 8:30 pm

A performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.

$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St

Michael Bell-Smith, Sara Magenheimer and Ben Vida Bloopers #0

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.

$5 on the door · Four81, 481 Broadway, floor 4

Rashid Johnson Dutchman

Thursday, November 21, 10:00 pm

LeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.

$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street

Shana Lutker Artist Talk: The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm

Friday, November 22, 1:00 pm

Join Shana Lutker for a talk on her Performa Commission and Surrealist fistfights.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street

Anna Lundh Artist Class: Q&Q - 2022 (Full report)

Friday, November 22, 3:00 pm

Anna Lundh will present Q&Q – 2022, a research project and experiment she initiated in New York in March 2012, which during one year has collected and shared questions from the public about what the future will be like – 10 years from now.

Free with RSVP · Performa Hub

Pedro Gómez-Egaña Object to be Destroyed

Friday, November 22, 6:00 pm

In a performative response to Man Ray's iconic Object to be Destroyed, Gómez-Egaña considers cultural notions of motion and temporality.

FREE · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Einat Amir Our Best Intentions

Friday, November 22, 6:30 pm

A participatory performance series and video installation that interweaves contemporary art, psychotherapy, and theater.

Free with RSVP · Presented by Artis at Affirmation Arts, 523 W 37th

Molly Lowe HANDS OFF

Friday, November 22, 7:00 pm

A surreal and otherworldly performance imagines a culture where humans have devolved into a tangle of fingers.

$10 · Presented with Recess at Temp Art Space, 57 Walker Street

Julie Béna (in collaboration with Adrien Vescovi) The Song of the Hands

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.

FREE · 38 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

Friday, November 22, 7:30 pm

Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Tori Wrånes Yes Nix

Friday, November 22, 7:30 pm

A stunning visual concert featuring the Norwegian chanteuse and a host of New York City musicians.

$25 · SIR Stage 37, 508 West 37th Street

Clifford Owens Five Day’s Worth

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.

Free with RSVP · Third Streaming, 10 Greene St

Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs

Friday, November 22, 8:00 pm

Vitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.

$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City

Raqs Media Collective The Last International

Friday, November 22, 8:30 pm

A performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.

$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

Friday, November 22, 9:00 pm

Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Pedro Reyes The People's United Nations (pUN)

Saturday, November 23, 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.

FREE with museum admission · Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Julie Tolentino “The Sky Remains the Same”: How Do You Map the Sky?

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.

$6; free for New Museum Members · New Museum Theater, 235 Bowery at Prince St.

Agnieszka Kurant Cutaways

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.

Free with RSVP · NeueHouse Screening Room

Julie Tolentino “The Sky Remains the Same”: The Archive of Lovett/Codagnone’s “WEIGHTED” (2010)

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.

FREE · New Museum Theater, 235 Bowery at Prince St.

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

Saturday, November 23, 4:00 pm

Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Pedro Gómez-Egaña Object to be Destroyed

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.

FREE · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Einat Amir Our Best Intentions

Saturday, November 23, 6:30 pm

A participatory performance series and video installation that interweaves contemporary art, psychotherapy, and theater.

Free with RSVP · Presented by Artis at Affirmation Arts, 523 W 37th

Molly Lowe HANDS OFF

Saturday, November 23, 7:00 pm

A surreal and otherworldly performance imagines a culture where humans have devolved into a tangle of fingers.

$10 · Presented with Recess at Temp Art Space, 57 Walker Street

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

Saturday, November 23, 7:30 pm

Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Christopher Knowles The Sundance Kid is Beautiful

Saturday, November 23, 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.

FREE · Whitebox Art Center, 329 Broome St

Tori Wrånes Yes Nix

Saturday, November 23, 7:30 pm

A stunning visual concert featuring the Norwegian chanteuse and a host of New York City musicians.

$25 · SIR Stage 37, 508 West 37th Street

Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs

Saturday, November 23, 8:00 pm

Vitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.

$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City

Raqs Media Collective The Last International

Saturday, November 23, 8:30 pm

A performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.

$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St

Ann Hirsch and Guy Benfield Performa After Hours

Saturday, November 23, 9:30 pm

The final night of After Hours takes its own sorrowful demise as subject. Ann’s exploration of common female stereotypes will reveal a new character. She is joined by Guy Benfield, who will be choreographing a new private ritual of song and imagery.

FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets

Guido van der Werve Fourth Annual Running to Rachmaninoff Run

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.

Contact Donald Johnson Montenegro to participate in the run: 212.206.9100 or donald@luhringaugustine.com · Begins at Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street; ends at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY

Pedro Reyes The People's United Nations (pUN)

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.

FREE with museum admission · Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

Sunday, November 24, 4:00 pm

Sound, lights, and stage design create an atmosphere of suspense and virtual action, plunging the audience into an ghostly dream space.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Blowfly and Michael Smith An Afternoon on Humor presented with MoMA PS1

Sunday, November 24, 4:00 pm

Mike Kelley's friends and collaborators present an afternoon on humor at MoMA PS1.

$12 in advance; $15 day-of starting at noon · The VW Dome, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City

Conrad Ventur Tribute to Mario Montez

Sunday, November 24, 7:00 pm

Tribute to Boricua drag performer Mario Montez.

FREE · Participant Inc., 253 E Houston St

Gabriel Lester Super-Sargasso Sea (phantom play #1) - 2013

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.

$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St

Christopher Knowles The Sundance Kid is Beautiful

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.

FREE · Whitebox Art Center, 329 Broome St

Performa 13 Grand Finale The Malcolm McLaren Award

Sunday, November 24, 9:00 pm

One last biennial party and the presentation of The Malcolm McLaren Award.

$25 / $15 Visionaries, students · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St