先日、ローズリー・ゴールドバーグ主催のＮＰＯ団体「パフォーマ」が行う「New York Performance Art Biennale 2005」がついに終了。2,3週間にわたり、ＮＹ各所のスペースを利用して大々的に行われたのだが、評判も上々だったように思う。私はマリーナ・アブラモビッチが行った1週間に渡るパフォーマンス「Seven EasyPieces」を見てきたので、また記事を書こうと思っています。
昨日がグランド・フィナーレのパーティだった為、足を運んできました。パフォーマのクロージング・パーティでは、オープニングでＤＪスプーキーがターンテーブルを回せば、その後、ロバート・ロンゴとジョン・ケスラーが即興パフォーマンス。ファスビンダーの「ベルリン・アレクサンダー広場」のバーバラ・スコヴァやダン・グレアムが挨拶した後、突然出てきたジェン・ワンが中国語で歌を歌ったりと、とにかく盛りだくさんだった。
私は途中で行われたクリスチャン・マークレイとオーキョン・リーのデュオが好きでした。マークレイ氏にとってのターン・テーブルも、オーキョンのチェロも、どちらも打楽器、という感じがして、パフォーマンスとしての音楽という点でも非常に面白かった。久しぶりに音楽を聞いたなぁ、という気分になった。みんな見に来ている人が楽しんでいる感じがして、よかった。
パフォーマの最終プレス・リリースを以下に貼り付けます。パフォ－マは日本でもイベントを行いたいと考えている様ですので、興味のあるキュレーターの方は連絡を取られてみてはいかがでしょう？では、また。
For Immediate Release
PERFORMA05 CONCLUDES INAUGURAL YEAR ON NOVEMBER 21
With Grand Finale Party to Celebrate Success, Look Forward to 2007
New York, November 21, 2005-PERFORMA05, the first visual art performance
biennial in New York City, celebrates its tremendous first year with a
Grand Finale Party at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday, November 21st, 8pm.
PERFORMA05 has been a resounding success, garnering rave reviews and
previews in national and international media in outlets such as The New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, WNYC, Art in America and Art Review. Jerry
Saltz, art critic at The Village Voice, praised PERFORMA05; “You gotta
hand it to RoseLee Goldberg-for changing the New York Art world and
inventing a biennial.”.All performances have been sold out with record
crowds. According to Christian Marclay, a PERFORMA05 participating artist:
“Screen Play attracted the largest and most diverse crowd I have ever
experienced for New Music in the city. There is an interested audience out
there and PERFORMA managed to tap into it."
From the local community to the international art world, many agree that
PERFORMA05 has revived and confirmed the place of performance art in the
lexicon of visual art history. “We have established a biennial to show the
importance of performance in the history of twentieth century art, and its
continuing impact on contemporary art,” says RoseLee Goldberg, founding
director of PERFORMA, the nonprofit organization that produced PERFORMA05.
“We have also brought together a fantastic community of people. The
response from a broad cross section of the public has been thrilling.”
The next biennial will build on the successes of the PERFORMA05 structure
by collaborating with venues throughout the city,while promising to invite
viewers to see visual art through “a new window”. Many from the new
roster of artists will be creating live performances for the first time in
their career. Venues and artists are lining up to participate in the 2007
Biennial. Joseph Melillo is executive director at Brooklyn Academy of
Music, one among many venues planning to become more involved: “PERFORMA05
was a revelatory artistic adventure. I am looking forward to participating
in the 07 Biennial so that BAM can play a role in this visionary program
for all of New York City.” Special commissions for PERFORMA07 will include
British artist Isaac Julien’s new piece The Ice Project, an evening length
work combining film installation with live musicians and dancers that
retraces the steps of Matthew Henson, an African American explorer, who
with Robert E. Peary, was the first to reach the North Pole in April 1909.
MoCA in North Miami will present “Henson’s Journey,” an excerpt from The
Ice Project, on December 2nd 2005, at the opening of Julien’s exhibition
at MoCA Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Monday night’s party, that begins at 8 pm at the Bowery Ballroom on
Delancey Street, will be a fitting celebration to end such a dynamic and
popular event. Harking back to the late seventies, when every artist worth
his or her salt played in a punk band, PERFORMA has put together a line up
of artists’ bands, featuring Robert Longo, John Kessler and famed
Fassbinder actor Barbara Sukowa (The Patsys), Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky),
Christian Marclay, Maxi Geil! and Playcolt, Mother Inc, and Japanther with
special guest Dan Graham. The Grand Finale will also feature introductions
by surprise guests and a late night DJ set by Spencer Product. Co-hosted
by the Village Voice.
For more information about PERFORMA05, please visit www.performa-arts.org
or call (212) 533-5720.
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Primary Media Contacts: Additional Media Contact:
Antoine Vigne or Emily Auchincloss Esa Nickle
Blue Medium, Inc. PERFORMA
T: (212) 675-1800 T: (212) 533-5720
F: (212) 675-1855 F: (212) 529-7289
E: antoine@bluemedium.com or emily@bluemedium.com E: press@performa-arts.org
昨日がグランド・フィナーレのパーティだった為、足を運んできました。パフォーマのクロージング・パーティでは、オープニングでＤＪスプーキーがターンテーブルを回せば、その後、ロバート・ロンゴとジョン・ケスラーが即興パフォーマンス。ファスビンダーの「ベルリン・アレクサンダー広場」のバーバラ・スコヴァやダン・グレアムが挨拶した後、突然出てきたジェン・ワンが中国語で歌を歌ったりと、とにかく盛りだくさんだった。
私は途中で行われたクリスチャン・マークレイとオーキョン・リーのデュオが好きでした。マークレイ氏にとってのターン・テーブルも、オーキョンのチェロも、どちらも打楽器、という感じがして、パフォーマンスとしての音楽という点でも非常に面白かった。久しぶりに音楽を聞いたなぁ、という気分になった。みんな見に来ている人が楽しんでいる感じがして、よかった。
パフォーマの最終プレス・リリースを以下に貼り付けます。パフォ－マは日本でもイベントを行いたいと考えている様ですので、興味のあるキュレーターの方は連絡を取られてみてはいかがでしょう？では、また。
For Immediate Release
PERFORMA05 CONCLUDES INAUGURAL YEAR ON NOVEMBER 21
With Grand Finale Party to Celebrate Success, Look Forward to 2007
New York, November 21, 2005-PERFORMA05, the first visual art performance
biennial in New York City, celebrates its tremendous first year with a
Grand Finale Party at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday, November 21st, 8pm.
PERFORMA05 has been a resounding success, garnering rave reviews and
previews in national and international media in outlets such as The New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, WNYC, Art in America and Art Review. Jerry
Saltz, art critic at The Village Voice, praised PERFORMA05; “You gotta
hand it to RoseLee Goldberg-for changing the New York Art world and
inventing a biennial.”.All performances have been sold out with record
crowds. According to Christian Marclay, a PERFORMA05 participating artist:
“Screen Play attracted the largest and most diverse crowd I have ever
experienced for New Music in the city. There is an interested audience out
there and PERFORMA managed to tap into it."
From the local community to the international art world, many agree that
PERFORMA05 has revived and confirmed the place of performance art in the
lexicon of visual art history. “We have established a biennial to show the
importance of performance in the history of twentieth century art, and its
continuing impact on contemporary art,” says RoseLee Goldberg, founding
director of PERFORMA, the nonprofit organization that produced PERFORMA05.
“We have also brought together a fantastic community of people. The
response from a broad cross section of the public has been thrilling.”
The next biennial will build on the successes of the PERFORMA05 structure
by collaborating with venues throughout the city,while promising to invite
viewers to see visual art through “a new window”. Many from the new
roster of artists will be creating live performances for the first time in
their career. Venues and artists are lining up to participate in the 2007
Biennial. Joseph Melillo is executive director at Brooklyn Academy of
Music, one among many venues planning to become more involved: “PERFORMA05
was a revelatory artistic adventure. I am looking forward to participating
in the 07 Biennial so that BAM can play a role in this visionary program
for all of New York City.” Special commissions for PERFORMA07 will include
British artist Isaac Julien’s new piece The Ice Project, an evening length
work combining film installation with live musicians and dancers that
retraces the steps of Matthew Henson, an African American explorer, who
with Robert E. Peary, was the first to reach the North Pole in April 1909.
MoCA in North Miami will present “Henson’s Journey,” an excerpt from The
Ice Project, on December 2nd 2005, at the opening of Julien’s exhibition
at MoCA Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Monday night’s party, that begins at 8 pm at the Bowery Ballroom on
Delancey Street, will be a fitting celebration to end such a dynamic and
popular event. Harking back to the late seventies, when every artist worth
his or her salt played in a punk band, PERFORMA has put together a line up
of artists’ bands, featuring Robert Longo, John Kessler and famed
Fassbinder actor Barbara Sukowa (The Patsys), Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky),
Christian Marclay, Maxi Geil! and Playcolt, Mother Inc, and Japanther with
special guest Dan Graham. The Grand Finale will also feature introductions
by surprise guests and a late night DJ set by Spencer Product. Co-hosted
by the Village Voice.
For more information about PERFORMA05, please visit www.performa-arts.org
or call (212) 533-5720.
###
Primary Media Contacts: Additional Media Contact:
Antoine Vigne or Emily Auchincloss Esa Nickle
Blue Medium, Inc. PERFORMA
T: (212) 675-1800 T: (212) 533-5720
F: (212) 675-1855 F: (212) 529-7289
E: antoine@bluemedium.com or emily@bluemedium.com E: press@performa-arts.org
