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PERFORMA Interviews: Laurie Simmons (11-07-05 )
PERFORMA Interviews: Fracis Al??s (10-31-05)
PERFORMA Interviews: Jens Hoffman (11-14-05)
PERFORMA Interviews: Bernar Venet and Michelle Handelman (11-14-05)
PERFORMA Interviews: Doug Ashford with Sharon Hayes (11-21-05)
PERFORMA Interviews: 24-Hour Incidental (11-21-05)
PERFORMA Interviews: Gala Opening with Jesper Just (11-14-05)
PERFORMA 2005 : Tamy Ben-Tor (11-14-05)
PERFORMA 2005 : Melik Ohanian’s Cosmograms (12-12-05)
PERFORMA interviews : Renee Daalder (12-12-05)
PERFORMA interviews : Carey Young, Consideration (12-12-05)
PERFORMA interviews : Jesper Just (12-12-05)
PERFORMA 2005 : Gelitin’s Tantamounter 24/7 (12-26-05)
PERFORMA 2005 : Bernar Venet and Coco Fusco (12-26-05)
PERFORMA 2005 : Closing Night at the Bowery Ballroom (12-26-05)
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Jesper Just, True Love is Yet to Come, 2005 (Production Still).
Courtesy the artist and PERFORMA.
PERFORMA Interviews: Laurie Simmons
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First broadcast November 7, 2005
With her staged-interior photographs using dolls and miniature furniture,
Laurie Simmons pioneered territory later explored by Gregory Crewdson (her onetime student) and Thomas Demand. Now she’s making movies! Host Michael Rush talks with Simmons about Cibachrome and celluloid.
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PERFORMA Interviews: Francis Al??s
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First broadcast October 31, 2005
As part of WPS1’s coverage of the Performa Biennial 2005 November
3-20, 2005 critic, author, historian and Performa director RoseLee
Goldberg interviewed the performance artist Francis Al??s.
Originally trained as an architect, Alÿs has undertaken performance projects including Paradox of Praxis, where he pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melted, and When Faith Moves Mountains, where 500 people moved a giant sand dune near Lima, Peru using shovels.
PERFORMA Interviews: Jens Hoffman
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First broadcast November 14, 2005
Jens Hoffman wants to disrupt time and space. A Hans Ulrich Obrist protogé, Hoffman challenges traditional curating practices with projects such as The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist and A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show. Since Harald Szeeman transformed the role with his 1969 seminal show Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, curators have asserted themselves as creative forces in their own right. Jens Hoffman carries on in this tradition, inspiring admiration, controversy, and little ditties along the way. (29 minutes)
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PERFORMA Interviews : Bernar Venet and Michelle Handelman
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First broadcast November 14, 2005
Performance art goes from cool conceptual to bawdy bravura as Bernar Venet (60s pioneer) and Michelle Handelman (21st century costumed feminist) discuss different approaches to what can happen between an artist and an audience.
In 2005, Bernar Venet received France’s highest accolade; he was named Chevalier de la Legion D’Honneur. As puzzling as his pioneer conceptual performance work of the 60s and 70s, which relied heavily on scientific texts, mathematical vocabulary, and philosophy, Bernard Venet is still confounding audiences. Unlike Marina Abramovic, who will perform other artists’ work as part of the Performa biennial, Venet is covering his own groundbreaking work Neutron emission from muon capture in Ca4. The new version, Astrophysics with High Energy Light, uses the formal lecture setting a context for visual art. His new book, a collection of 17 essays and interviews spanning 1975-2003 entitled Art: A Matter of Context, was published in August 2005.
Laughing Lounge, the German-cult-film/Indian-laughing-club-inspired giggle marathon at Jack the Pelican Gallery in Williamsburg may have you busting a gut. Last year, Michelle Handelman had her first one-woman show at Jack the Pelican Gallery with the passionate and repulsive This Delicate Monster, a multi-screen narrative/performance piece based on Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. Her newest work, Laughing Lounge, is the official Performa selection of this noted video artist, performer and photographer; director of the Bravo Award-winning documentary Blood Sisters about SF’s lesbian S&M community; and a professor at New School University’s Media Studies department.
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PERFORMA Interviews : Doug Ashford with Sharon Hayes
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First broadcast November 21, 2005
New York based Sharon Hayes’ artistic role is to orchestrate and document collective activity in the public domain. Her video, performance and installation projects have engaged individual and group perceptions of political events and ideologies, employing conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics, and journalism. Her Performa exhibition, After Before, at Art In General runs through Dec. 17, 2005. Artist and teacher Doug Ashford interviews the artist at the WPS1 Clocktower studios.
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PERFORMA Interviews : 24-Hour Incidental
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First broadcast November 21, 2005
The Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art (SI) presented a 24-Hour Incidental, a one-day program of simultaneous performance by ten artists representing several generations of performance art. Artists included were John Armleder, Peter Coffin, Jason Dodge, Annika Eriksson, Piero Golia, Carsten H’?Ωller, Karl Holmqvist, Koo Jeong-A, Christoph Keller and Yoko Ono. WPS1’s Delphine Blue, on her Performa whirlwind tour, got a personal walk-through with 24–Hour Incidental curator Jordan Wolfson.
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PERFORMA Interviews: Gala Opening with Jesper Just
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First broadcast November 14, 2005
WPS1 sent Delphine Blue to capture the flavor of the gala opening at the Stephan Weiss Studio for Performa’s 2005 performance biennial in New York. The party followed the premier performance of Jesper Just’s True Love is Yet to Come. Delphine snagged the artist as well as biennial director RoseLee Goldberg, Dakota Jackson, and an international assortment of giddy fans.
PERFORMA 2005: Tamy Ben-Tor
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First broadcast November 21, 2005
Live from PERFORMA05, Tamy Ben-Tor performs Exotica, the Rat and the Liberal. Recorded live at Salon94 on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005.
Uncovering the racism of Western liberalism, Israeli video and performance artist Tamy Ben-Tor uses costuming and prosthetics to bring her newest creation to life. Artist Avi Pitchon calls Tamy’s mix of comedy and biting political critique a “cultural ground zero,” equally humorous as it is unnerving. Ben-Tor is featured in the
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PERFORMA 2005: Melik Ohanian’s Cosmograms
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First broadcast December 12, 2005
Melik Ohanian launched his book Cosmograms (Lukas&Sternberg) during the Performa 2005 event. The idea for Cosmograms originated from Ohanian’s seven-screen film projection Seven Minutes Before presented at the Sao Paolo Biennale (2004) in which one narrative was screened from seven different views. Edited by Ohanian and French writer Jean-Christophe Royoux, contributors from varied fields include Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture at the University of Princeton; David Elbaz, an astrophysicist; Richard Drayton, a lecturer in Extra-European History at the University of Cambridge; and Tacita Dean, a Berlin-based artist. Born in 1969, the multimedia artist Melik Ohanian lives and works in Paris. Using film and photography, Ohanian explores scientific, social, and cultural communities. (45 minutes)
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PERFORMA interviews: Renee Daalder
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First broadcast December 12, 2005
RoseLee Goldberg sits down in the WPS1 Clocktower studios with the Dutch-born, Canadian-based director Renee Daalder who first gained wide recognition for his cult classic high school revenge drama Massacre at Central High (1976). He did not helm another film until the 1986’s Population One, which was later followed by two films over a decade later, Habitat (1997) and Hysteria (1998). Daalder’s work-in-progress entitled Here Is Always Somewhere Else was shown at Anthology Film Archives as part of the Performa05 Biennial on a bill with the Bas Jan Ader retrospective.
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PERFORMA interviews: Carey Young, Consideration
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First broadcast December 19, 2005
Tairone Bastien, Curatorial Associate for Performa05, hosts Carey Young and her associates, all of whom participated in a work entitled Consideration at Paula Cooper Gallery as part of the festival. In the gallery, Young and her team attempted to engage viewers into legal contracts. Alongside the artist were historian Charles Wylie, and lawyer Robert Lands. Young is a London-based artist whose work investigates the increasing incorporation of personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial. Her projects incorporate activities including intervention, language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex associations and questions for the viewer. (29 minutes)
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PERFORMA interviews: Jesper Just
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First broadcast December 19, 2005
RoseLee Goldberg interviews the artist Jesper Just whose performance/opera True Love Is Yet To Come was the premiere event of the Performa05 festival. Born in Denmark, 1974, Jesper Just works primarily with video and centers his themes on male gender roles and cross-generational relationships between men as well as themes of power, redemption and seduction. Just is strongly inspired by cinema; his aesthetic, dramaturgic, and narrative language reflects Hollywood productions and makes use of filmic cliches, while at the same time consciously critiquing them. See also our coverage of the Performa Opening Gala event that featured the primiere. (28 minutes)
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PERFORMA 2005: Gelitin’s Tantamounter 24/7
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First broadcast December 19, 2005
The intrepid, charming and wise Delphine Blue dives into Leo Koenig Gallery to observe and document Gelitin’s Tantamounter 24/7, a performance and exhibition featuring a homemade art-Xerox duplication machine. Gelitin, the Vienna-based collective, willfully dissents from the idea of art-as-mystery; the whole point of their slap-dash, jokey copies is their complete transparency. The group makes a point of steering clear of even a hint of artist-as-commentator, as everything about what they do seems determined not to be taken seriously. (51 minutes)^
PERFORMA 2005: Bernar Venet and Coco Fusco
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First broadcast December 26, 2005
A Performa special event that reconfigures the the panel discussion as performance featuring Coco Fusco and Bernar Venet. Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, whose recent projects combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from multi-media large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. French born Bernar Venet (1941) has had a prolific career as an artist, working in photography, sculpture, painting, choreography, set design, costume design, furniture design, poetry, and as a composer. Venet’s conceptual work in the 1960s led him to use sound in his work, specifically reading scientific texts and mathematical vocabulary, which he also used in his sculpture and paintings. Recorded at the Kitchen in New York.
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PERFORMA 2005: Closing Night at the Bowery Ballroom
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First broadcast December 26, 2005
WPS1’s Delphine Blue roams the closing party for the Performa 2005 Biennial in New York. The event featured the music of Rodney Graham and The Patsys (both featured on this week’s WPS1 schedule) among others. (29 Minutes) ^