Events on Sun, Nov. 15, 2015 See all events See all events
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Rainer GanahlSelling My Library
Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking my Library: A Talk about Book Collecting,” Rainer Ganahl explore the book beyond its utilitarian function and as a deeply personal object.
FREE
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ChimurengaResidency: Library
South African collective Chimurenga in residence at the Performa Hub. This ongoing project presents a multi-tiered programming platform, hosting a library-of-people through a broad spectrum of collaborators to create improvised bodies of knowledge.
FREE
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Jérôme BelBallet (New York)
Jérôme Bel takes a group of trained and untrained performers from New York on a bold adventure across the city to consider how each environment—dance studio, white cube, and theater—frames the ways we look at and "feel" dance.
$25, $15
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Jesper Just and FOSin the shadow/ of a spectacle/ is the view of the crowd
For Performa's 10th anniversary, artists Jesper Just and FOS present an installation and performance addressing notions of spectatorship and its dual nature, presenting a spectacle that culminates in a new spectacle emerging from the negative space of the deconstructed original.
$30, $25
Ongoing Projects
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Doveman and Tom KalinMy Silent One (In The Sweetness of Time)
Tom Kalin and Doveman (Thomas Bartlett) premiere a collaborative live exhibition environment, where Kalin responds in film projections to a full-length LP by Doveman.
FREE
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Ryan GanderEarnest Hawker
Ryan Gander imagines his future self: a conflicted avatar who briefly appears in and around the biennial selling his wares to an unsuspecting public.
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Ray JohnsonPlease Add To and Return To: Mail Art Homage to Ray Johnson
An exhibition of submissions to the project Please Add To and Return To, a mail art activation.
FREE
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Brian FuataAll Titles, No Centre Crux: the email performances in PERFORMA 2015
Expanding on his live performances for Performa 15, Brian Fuata launches a series of ‘email performances’ that approach electronic correspondence as a theatrical stage.
FREE
By booking a ticket your email address will be provided to Brian Fuata who will contact you twice a week over the period of November 1-30, 2015.
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Jesper JustServitudes
Jesper Just’s film probes society’s obsession with youth and beauty, exploring the tension between identity, femininity, and commodity in the contemporary age.
FREE
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Heather PhillipsonFINAL DAYS
Heather Phillipson deconstructs the modern department store in a video installation that pits the retail landscape against the new frontiers of online shopping.
FREE
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Ulla von BrandenburgSink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley
Ulla von Brandenburg’s ongoing exploration of the rituals of the Saint-Simonians, a 19th century cult often cited as the origin of early French socialism, culminates here in an atmospheric B&W video-installation.
FREE
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ChimurengaResidency: Library
South African collective Chimurenga presents a multi-tiered programming platform in the Performa 15 Hub, hosting a library-of-people through a broad spectrum of collaborators to create improvised bodies of knowledge.
FREE
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WrongSoloResidency: Cardinals
Australian artist collective Wrong Solo (Agatha Gothe-Snape, Brian Fuata, and Shane Haseman) presents a self-reflexive three-part performance that speculates on the contemporary art world, developed in residence at the Performa Hub.
FREE