As part of the opening of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and Performa collaborative exhibition 33 Fragments of Russian Performance (curated by Yulia Askenova), Russian artist Andrey Kuzkin will premiere a new performance in the Performa Hub. Andrey Kuzkin (b. 1971 Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow) is a significant performance…

Do you want rock-hard abs? Slimmer hips and firmer buttocks? Do you reject the idea of autonomous art? Join Tyler Ashley and his group of dancers - the SARAHS - in today's most comprehensive exercise and education program in Constructivism! Don’t miss this opportunity to explore Constructivist concerns about the arrangement and power of the body in…

Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is a living exhibition created by renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz for his groundbreaking Musée de la Danse (Dancing Museum) in Rennes, France, and now being re-conceived for New York City as part of Performa 11. Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is an exhibition without any artwork, but with artists. It includes…

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One Thing Leads to Another is a working installation and multi-media performance, revolving around a overturned hot air balloon, reanimated through narrative, dance and shifting physicality. This project from artist Tamar Ettun will abstract vignettes from The Odyssey, taking the text's themes of labor, gifting and movement of the itinerant body, w…

In his ambitious new project, which promises to be an unforgettable theatrical experience, Ming Wong has created a site-specific work for the Museum of the Moving Image in response to the building’s dynamic, fluid, and starkly white new architecture. Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece Persona, in which an actress and her nurse exchange i…

Istanbul-based artist Asli Çavuşoğlu will create a walking tour on 11.11.11 that will use fortune-telling to scrutinize the ornamental façades of New York City buildings. Selected interpreters are given free reign to create the rules of fortune-telling through the use of potentially disputable sources and through the framework of their personal per…

Artists Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler will collaborate to present SEVEN, a performance and installation that stretches from the urban landscape of New York to the savannahs of Africa. Mixing Kessler’s kinetic sculptures with Rottenberg’s absurdist videos, SEVEN will collapse film time and real time to create an intricate laboratory that channels …

That Morning Thing (1967) A remounting of Robert Ashley's legendary opera That Morning Thing was performed only three times (Ann Arbor, MI, Oakland, CA and Tokyo, Japan) in the late 1960s, but the opera acquired its reputation through rumor and the famous recordings of two sections, Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon and She Was A Visitor (on Lovely Mu…

Organized by Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui, "Visiting Tarab" will incorporate elements of the world’s largest collection of Classical Arab music as interpreted by 16 musicians and sound artists ranging in expertise from hip hop to electronic and contemporary music. Atoui invited sixteen musicians and sound artists from different origins and practices…

For Performa 11, Liz Magic Laser will present a new mixed-media performance, I Feel Your Pain, that will restage America’s recent political contests as a romantic drama. Drawing on a variety of agitprop theater tactics, particularly the Russian Constructivist idea of a “living newspaper,” the performance will examine how emotion is used to establis…

For Performa 11, artist Ragnar Kjartansson presents a a twelve-hour long performance, entitled Bliss, that will repeat the delirious final aria of Mozart’s 1786 opera The Marriage of Figaro. In the final act of this opera, the Count asks the Countess' forgiveness for his arrogant blunders, which she grants, inspiring the entire court to celebrate. …

A unique live cinematic and musical event, Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed pairs acclaimed filmmaker Guy Maddin’s classic first feature film with a live performance—directed by Maddin himself—of a new score created by composer Matthew Patton, a superstar group of Icelandic musicians, acclaimed Seattle-based musical collective Aono Jikken En…

Colorado-based artist Eric Steen brings together home brewers from around the city to brew beer, share tips, sample each others creations, and learn more about the science and creativity found in home brewing. Curated by Esa Nickle.Performa Inc.

A banquet of provocative food, wood, and porcelain sculptures inspired by unregulated financial markets, high finance and politics.Performa Inc.

Live Performances & DJ Sets @ Red Egg, New York. Nov11th 2011. Part of Performa 11Performa Inc.

Nov 12th, 2011 @ Recess, New York CityPerforma Inc.

Raphael ZarkaPerforma Inc.

Rainer GahnalPerforma Inc.

Jonas MekasPerforma Inc.

Ragnar Kjartansson - LecturePerforma Inc.

Psychedelic NoirPerforma Inc.

Jacquelynn Baas Fluxus TourPerforma Inc.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal- MoMAPerforma Inc.

Brew PubPerforma Inc.

Athi-Patra Ruga discusses his Performa 11 Project with RoseLee GoldbergPerforma Inc.

Bibbe Hansen on Al HansenPerforma Inc.

Mika Rottenberg & Jon Kessler - SevenPerforma Inc.

Tyler Ashley - Half Mythical, Half Legendary Americanism. Performance at Duffy Square, Times Square NYC, Nov5th, 2011Performa Inc.

Utopia or Oblivion: Part IPerforma Inc.

Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is a living exhibition created by renowned French choreographer Boris Charmatz for his groundbreaking Musée de la Danse (Dancing Museum) in Rennes, France, and now being re-conceived for New York City as part of Performa 11. Musée de la Danse: Expo Zéro is an exhibition without any artwork, but with artists. It includes…

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