Performa 09 Preview
Posted on September 17, 2009
Filed Under PEEP THIS!
Set to run through November, Performa 09 promises to be quite a show. This time round, the visual art performance festival will be staging events around the whole of New York and involving more than 150 international artists including Guy Ben-Ner, Wangechi Mutu and Saya Woolfalk.
TRACE attended the sneak press preview on Tuesday.
It was held in the Judson Memorial Church: hallowed halls for performance artists ever since the hospitality of the enlightened pastor Bob Spike during the early sixties. The church has been a haven for artists such as Claes Oldenberg and Yoko Ono and witnessed the arrests of visionary ministers, most notably those during the infamous Flag Show of 1970.
This Performa 09 is certainly ambitious, promising to break all rules and ignore all boundaries. Visual art, music, poetry, dance, fashion, architecture, graphic design and dancing ponies are all featured in the line-up of events, many of which are still in the tantalising TBA stage.
Rumours abound though. There are promises of the last footage of the choreographer Merce Cunningham and his troop in Tacita Dean’s work and a gastronomical journey set up by Jennifer Rubell through the former DIA building in Chelsea. A ton of ribs, a liquor elevator and concealed cutlery are all on the menu.
For more information, visit: http://www.performa-arts.org/
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