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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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 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 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
A fistfight between Surrealists and Dadaists is revisited and re-imagined by this LA-based artist.
$15 · Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Place
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 presents a selection from their working notes towards their Performa 13 Commission, The Last International.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street
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
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
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
A short and humorous operatic performance explores migration, gluttony, and consumption of the American dream.
Free with RSVP · El Museo del Barrio
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
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
A fistfight between Surrealists and Dadaists is revisited and re-imagined by this LA-based artist.
$15 · Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Place
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
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.
FREE with
· Performa Hub, 13 Crosby StreetDieter 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
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
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
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
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
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 presents a night of films celebrating and investigating the role of avatars in video art.
$15 · Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave
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
A performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.
$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
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
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
Join Shana Lutker for a talk on her Performa Commission and Surrealist fistfights.
Free with RSVP · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby Street
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
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
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
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
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
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
A stunning visual concert featuring the Norwegian chanteuse and a host of New York City musicians.
$25 · SIR Stage 37, 508 West 37th Street
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
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
A performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.
$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
A stunning visual concert featuring the Norwegian chanteuse and a host of New York City musicians.
$25 · SIR Stage 37, 508 West 37th Street
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
A performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.
$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
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 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
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
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
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
Tribute to Boricua drag performer Mario Montez.
FREE · Participant Inc., 253 E Houston St
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 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
One last biennial party and the presentation of The Malcolm McLaren Award.
$25 / $15 Visionaries, students · Performa Hub, 13 Crosby St
Performa flies 55 flags designed by 60 international artists above New York City.
Althamer builds connections between Williamsburg's many residents as all are invited to join in his conviviality and revelry at the Biba bar.
Over the course of nineteen days, spectators will experience the evolution of seminal Electro Pop legend YELLO, precursor of MusicVideo.
The hallways of this historic building vibrate in a sound and sculptural installation.