Biennial Hub
Studio Miessen
PERFORMA 17 HUB
The Performa Hub, first launched in 2009, functions as the headquarters of the Performa biennial. The Performa 17 Hub, is designed by renowned architect Markus Miessen and offers a meeting point, a lounge for regrouping between events, information on schedules, ticketing, and directions, Performa volunteers on-site for assistance, a bookshop, and a venue for special performances, screenings, artists talks, discussions, and panels, all as a part of the Performa Institute. Over the three weeks of the biennial, the Biennial Hub hosts a range of artistic activity and projects including dozens of public lectures and discussions, two symposia, and an artist residency for the Kenyan literary network Kwani Trust, producing materials and installations specifically for the Hub. It is also space for spontaneous gatherings and social events throughout the biennial, and as such, the space is staffed and equipped to be able to take advantage of the unpredictable and exhilarating intersection of over 35 artists with 12 curators and 40,000 biennial attendees.
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Performa Hub Opening Day
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
427 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Commissioned since Performa 09, the Hub, this year designed by Berlin’s Studio Miessen, is the nerve center and heart of the biennial’s and the Performa Institute’s presence. Spontaneously intersect with staff, books, screenings, events, and artist-in-residence Kenyan literary network Kwani Trust.
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Introduction to crystal healing, a healing modality that works directly with the light, color, beauty, and perfect geometric forms that the mineral kingdom provides to assist us in balancing all aspects of our being.
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Adult Contemporary is a mobile reading and performance series founded in 2013 by Svetlana Kitto and Katie Brewer-Ball.
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
Artists, archivists, scholars, digital technology experts, and curators contribute strategies for archiving the past decade of performance art in its ascending cultural prominence in this day-long symposium, culminating in an interactive panel regarding how best to archive specific case studies from the Performa Archive.
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Welcome to the Performa Archive! We'll follow up Saturday's Forever and A Day: Archiving Performa Symposium, by kicking off our Performa Archive selects, an exciting film program highlighting past Performa Commissions, including Iona Rozeal Brown and Russell Maliphant
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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.
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Performa 17 Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
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.
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Estonian Pavilon artist Flo Kaserau discusses her work, Ainult liikmetele (Members Only), with Laurel Ptak, executive director and curator at Art in General.
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As part of the Estonian Pavilion Without Walls, this hour-long short film program spans over two decades of works showing the presence of performance in Estonian contemporary art, as seen through the camera.
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
The lecture and screening on Estonian performance takes place within the Estonian Pavilion without Walls, providing context for Performa commissions and projects through a survey of the key moments in the history of performance art in the country from late 1960s until today.
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Our weekly Curators' Coffee sessions offers the art community a lively, informal opportunity to connect with Performa 17 curators, writers, artists, and international guests to discuss this year's exciting Biennial programming.
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The Performa Institute is pleased to present international artist Tracey Emin, CBE, RA, in a live painting/interview with Vincent Fremont. As the interview unfolds, Emin will be taking questions from the audience, so come prepared for this not to be missed event.
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Prospect Park
Garfield Place and Prospect Park West (entrance)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Performa 17 artist Yto Barrada and Brooklyn-based educator Lisa Nett lead a tree identification walk through Prospect Park.
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Artist Brian Belott does a song and dance with curator Jens Hoffman, as a finale to close out his DADA-inspired Performa 17 Commission, People Pie Pool.
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Kelly Nipper discusses her Performa Commission Terre Mécanique with Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Media at Columbia University, Noam M. Elcott.
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Bryony Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson reflect on Marching On, their performance commissioned by Storefront and made in collaboration with the Marching Cobras of New York presented at Marcus Garvey Park on November 11 and 12.
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
The Performa 17 biennial artist and curator discuss the interrelation of abstraction and performance in Mutu's work over the past two years.
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
The performance will begin at the Performa 17 Hub, and walk throughout SoHo.
Anu Vahtra’s project Open House Closing. A Walk activates vacant storefronts and spaces in SoHo, each displaying a different “scene" in an overall narrative. Vahtra is renowned for her artistic approach to site-specific space-oriented subjects and for the diligent methods of articulating them.
Free with RSVP
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Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
Teju Cole’s DJ lecture is an exploration of the way music, over the past 25 years, played an essential role in his personal notion of African-ness
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Heavy Discussion with panelists Alexis Sablone, Kea Duarte, Jaime Reyes, Sara Kay, Lacey Baker, and Elissa Steamer - some of the most well-known professional female skateboarders in the world.
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Queer nightlife has always been subversive by nature. By merely existing, spaces in celebration of Queer and Trans People of Color are a form of resistance and remain central to community strengthening. QTPOC art collective Papi Juice, New York-based platform RAGGA, and dancer-performer NIC Kay come together for a discussion on nightlife as art form and its critical role as a tool for activism. Moderated by Alexin Tenefrancia and Rosemary Reyes.
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Performa's RoseLee Goldberg and artist Nicholas Hlobo in conversation on the occasion of Hlobo's performance umBhovuzo: The Parable of the Sower.
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427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013Yvonne Rainer's Revision: A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies. A Rant Dance
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