Created in partnership with NYC Parks and skate park designer Steve Rodriguez, Barbara Kruger will employ her signature effects and strategies to broadcast messages that engage issues of and ideas about power, desire, adoration, contempt, and capital at New York’s most popular skatepark underneath the Manhattan Bridge.

Wa Lehulere discusses his Performa Commission, the sculptural sound work, I cut my skin to liberate the splinter, with Evan Moffitt, Assistant Editor of Frieze magazine.  

Artist Jimmy Robert reflects on his Performa Commission at Philip Johnson’s Glass House, Imitation of Lives, with architect and Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Mario Gooden. 

Co-presented with Anthology Film Archives, AFROGLOSSIA's commissions are contextualized by a special four-day film program comprising moving image works that influenced the participating artists’ commissions or their overall practice. 

Johannesburg artist William Kentridge, best known for drawing impressionist, stop-motion charcoal animations of postcolonial life in South Africa, interrogates Performa 17’s research theme of Dada in a new performance based on Kurt Schwitters’s seminal 1932 sound poem Ursonate.