Edited by RoseLee Goldberg. Text by RoseLee Goldberg. Contributions by Catherine Wood, Jay Sanders, Anthony Huberman, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Assembled by the pioneering scholar of performance art, RoseLee Goldberg, this volume documents new performances by some of the world's most exciting visual artists, focusing on the relationship between contemporary dance and visual art, the ongoing legacy of "Happenings" inventor Allan Kaprow and the recent explosion of performance in China. Photographs, artists' scripts, sketches, journals and storyboards are complemented by writings from prominent curators and critics, as well as interviews with Paul McCarthy, Dan Graham, Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Nathalie Djurberg, Jérôme Bel and others.
According to Francesco Bonami, "When RoseLee Goldberg came up with the idea of a New York biennial exclusively dedicated to live events, whether performance, dance, Happenings, confrontations, operas or plays by contemporary artists, young, old or middle-aged, nobody though it would fly. But it did fly and now it's high up in the sky as one of the major contemporary art events to look forward to." Featured image documents Emily Coates, Sally Silvers, Patricia Hoffbauer and Pat Catterson performing Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical at Performa 2007. On Saturday, April 24, from 2:00-3:00, Goldberg will read and sign copies of Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in celebration of the close of 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009), an exhibition presenting influential moments in the past century of performance art history. Goldberg will be joined by Sanford Biggers, Pete Drungle, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Kessler, Shaun El C Leonardo, Eva and Franco Mattes, Michael Schulman, Barbara Sukowa, Elaine Summers, Amy Sillman and Sarina Basta.
"One day when I was growing up in the early '60s and studying with Merce Cunningham, the late Judith Dunn—then dancing with the Cunningham Company and married to Robert Dunn, the musician and dance educator who conducted the workshop that led to the Judson Dance Theater in 1962—exclaimed, 'I'm not interested in history!' I was aghast. How could an artist not be interested in history?! Everything Cunningham was doing bore the cumulative marks of his relationship to modernism. Everything I had done or thought about thus far had a particular connection to some aspect of Western dance or art history, most immediately to composer John Cage's ideas about silence, which themselves drew a direct line back to Futurist Luigi Russolo's Art of Noise. But strangely enough, Judith's work didn't seem to relate to the past. Her choreography—to my eyes, at least—eluded historical references in its seemingly arbitrary originality and ingrown perversity. I perceived elements in my own choreography to be perverse in the tradition of Duchamp and Dada, hence reflective of a historical link. But Judith's low amble with a stuffed bird in her mouth, or the motorcycle used as inscrutable décor, in her dance of the same name, seemed too private, too hermetic, while my screaming fit at the end of Three Seascapes, on the other hand, referred back to Munch, or the 'syntesi' of the Futurists, or was a sock in the eye to previous modern dance properties. Come to think of it, maybe that motorcycle was too…"
On Saturday, April 24, ARTBOOK@PS1 was pleased to host a reading and signing for Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07, moderated by Roselee Goldberg, the founder of Performa and editor of the book.
Participating artists and contributing writers present included Sanford Biggers, Pete Drungle, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Kessler, Shaun "El C" Leonardo, Eva and Francisco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Michael Schulman, Barbara Sukowa, Elaine Summers, Amy Sillman and Sarina Basta. Those present took turns reading portions of essays selected from the book and reciting interviews from the book, taking on the roles of other artists and writers, as assigned by Goldberg. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 340 pgs / 150 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $55 ISBN: 9783037640340 PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier AVAILABLE: 1/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD Excl FR DE AU CH
Performa 07: Everywhere and All at Once An Anthology of Writings
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by RoseLee Goldberg. Text by RoseLee Goldberg. Contributions by Catherine Wood, Jay Sanders, Anthony Huberman, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Assembled by the pioneering scholar of performance art, RoseLee Goldberg, this volume documents new performances by some of the world's most exciting visual artists, focusing on the relationship between contemporary dance and visual art, the ongoing legacy of "Happenings" inventor Allan Kaprow and the recent explosion of performance in China. Photographs, artists' scripts, sketches, journals and storyboards are complemented by writings from prominent curators and critics, as well as interviews with Paul McCarthy, Dan Graham, Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Nathalie Djurberg, Jérôme Bel and others.
