About this Event
Join us for a conversation with RoseLee Goldberg to celebrate her book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, chronicling the current state of performance in an age where digital and web technologies are becoming increasingly dominant. She will be in conversation with Whitney Mallett, followed by a signing.
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An updated edition of the pioneering study in the acclaimed World of Art series, this classic book surveys a full century of performance art, from the Futurist manifesto of 1909 through the second decade of the new millennium.
The standard reference since its first publication in 1979, Performance Art continues its authoritative chronicling of one of the most important art forms to emerge in modern times. Art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg has updated her magnum opus to reflect the current state of performance in an age where digital and web technologies are becoming increasingly dominant, as she shows how a medium once used in sporadic bursts of artistic dissent has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Performance is now the medium of choice for many creatives entering the global conversation of art and culture. As the medium has developed across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas it has become one of the most popular art forms for articulating "difference," whether dealing with issues of identity, politics, race, or historical background. Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Sanford Biggers, Tania Bruguera, Patty Chang, Rashid Johnson, Autumn Knight, Pierre Huyghe, and Jacolby Satterwhite are among the many new and established artists whose work can now be seen in the context of other innovators in the field from the Futurists and Dadaists to Yves Klein and Laurie Anderson. Goldberg explores contemporary artists' approaches to politics, tradition, social engagement, and the art world itself, while evaluating the changing status of performance.
This revised edition includes an updated foreword, an expanded reading list, and a new chapter outlining developments in the second decade of the twenty-first century in the fields of dance, architecture, technology, and virtual performance.
RoseLee Goldberg, world-renowned art historian, critic and curator, is Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Launched in 2004 to create a highly visible public platform for contemporary art and performance by artists, Performa, has changed public and academic perception of performance art with its exciting city-wide Biennial, ground-breaking commissions, publications, and original arts-broadcasting platform. Performa has inspired the establishment of performance departments in cultural institutions around the globe. Goldberg’s many publications include her pioneering book, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and now in fourteen languages; Laurie Anderson (2000), and Performance Now; Live Art for the 21st Century (2018). Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, Goldberg has organized performance series at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim and Garage in Moscow. Her many awards include Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government, Yoko Ono’s Courage Award for the Arts, the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the title of Honorary Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute, London, Goldberg has taught at NYU Steinhardt since 1987.
Whitney Mallett is a Canadian-born writer and publisher living in New York focused on dialogues and intersections of printed matter, performance, art, and design. In 2023, she founded The Whitney Review of New Writing, a newsprint magazine devoted to contemporary literary criticism and experimental forms of review. She is also the co-editor of Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey, a study of sixty years of American domestic fantasy. Mallett has worked with institutions including Performance Space New York, Performa Biennial, MoMA PS1, the New Museum’s NEW INC., Swiss Institute, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Aesop Queer Library, and Comme des Garçons New York. She has spoken at Columbia University, the New School, School of Visual Arts, magCulture Live, Theorizing the Web, Left Forum, New Art Dealers Alliance, Press Play, and the International Library for Fashion Research.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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