PERFORMA is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Part of PERFORMA’s mission is to present a biennial of visual art performance in New York City that illuminates the critical role of performance in the history of art as well as its enormous significance in the international world of contemporary art.
The PERFORMA05 biennial offered an exciting program of performances, exhibitions, symposia, and film screenings organized in collaboration with a consortium of leading museums, galleries, alternative spaces, and independent curators in New York. The first of its kind, PERFORMA05 was an enormous critical and popular success and set a new standard for the positioning of live performance in the international contemporary art world. Over 25,000 people attended sold-out and filled-to-capacity events at more than 20 venues across the city, activating and animating all of New York, from Harlem to Wall Street.
PERFORMA07 expands upon the success of the first edition. Towards this end, PERFORMA chief curator RoseLee Goldberg and associate curator Defne Ayas have invited The Long March Project to present a series of performances and panel discussions as part of PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, that will be held in New York City from October 27–November 20, 2007.
This will be the first significant representation of The Long March Project in New York, and will build on PERFORMA’s network of consortium venues, 'connecting the dots' between cultural organizations and their varied constituencies. Performances and panel discussions are specifically designed to question the exhibition and interpretation of Chinese art in a city with entrenched ties to China. PERFORMA and the Long March Project thus embark upon a broader metaphorical “long march” across New York City with performances and conversations at multiple venues.
Venues:The Studio Museum in Harlem, China Institute, James Cohan Gallery, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, public space in Chinatown
Artists:Qiu Zhijie, Gang Zhao, Xu Zhen, and Long March Collective
Curators:Lu Jie and David Ross
Associate Curator: Defne Ayas (PERFORMA)
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Email: lm@longmarchspace.com |
