Performa 13

New Visual Art Performance Biennial · November 1–24, 2013 · New York City

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HARIBO and SADAF/Jealous Orgasm Performa After Hours
Saturday, November 2, 9:30 pm
Stop by Performa After Hours for drinks and a performance by “supergroup”-HARIBO with Raul De Nieves, Jessie Stead and Nathan Whipple featuring SADAF /Jealous Orgasm.

FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Ultra New View with Denisa Musilova Performa After Hours
Sunday, November 3, 9:30 pm
Full-throated songs by Ultra New View paired with a Butoh-inspired new dance by Denisa Musilova.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Chez Deep: Colin Self and Alexis Penney Performa After Hours
Saturday, November 9, 9:30 pm
Interfacing body with voice, Alexis Penney and Colin Self of drag and performance collective Chez Deep present their newest sounds and excerpts from the Chez Deep manifesto alongside a six-person choir.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Jimmy Raskin Performa After Hours
Sunday, November 10, 9:30 pm
For Raskin "poetry" stopped in 1991, yet The Poet Pure was preserved as a poltergeist-part diagram part cartoon, half alive half dead-memorialized in his own books, lectures and art rooms. Raskin will reveal his best-of textual evidence from this eternal half-subject.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Korakrit Arunanondchai Performa After Hours
Saturday, November 16, 9:30 pm
Korakrit Arunanondchai and Jesus Benavente in a collaborative dueling concert of their Greatest Hits in Performance.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
Helen Carmel Benigson Performa After Hours
Sunday, November 17, 9:30 pm
Helen Carmel Benigson presents a new video installation and performance involving weightlifters, rap, and spray tans exploring imagined political, online bodies and real-life cultural archives.
FREE · Fig. 19, 131 ½ Chrystie Street, between Broome and Delancey Streets
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

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Long Term Exhibitions

Flag New York City

Performa flies 55 flags designed by 60 international artists above New York City.
Paweł Althamer

Althamer builds connections between Williamsburg's many residents as all are invited to join in his conviviality and revelry at the Biba bar.
Dieter Meier

Over the course of nineteen days, spectators will experience the evolution of seminal Electro Pop legend YELLO, precursor of MusicVideo.
Katarzyna Krakowiak

The hallways of this historic building vibrate in a sound and sculptural installation.