Quotes from Press and Fans
RoseLee Goldberg amazed with PERFORMA05, billed as the city??™s first biennial of ???visual art performance.??? Working with a tiny staff, a shoestring budget and no institutional affiliation, Ms. Goldberg put together a program that covered a lot of aesthetic bases - old school, just out of school, high-tech, no-tech - and encompassed more than 60 scheduled events ??¦ all of which makes the prosp...
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Background
Shirin Neshat, Logic of the Birds, 2001
PERFORMA is the brainchild of RoseLee Goldberg, whose definitive book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979 & 2000), pioneered the study of performance art and has been translated into nine languages. Ms. Goldberg??™s writing, as well as her activities as curator at The Kitchen in the late seventies, has shaped the public??™s view of live performance as a visual art form for almost ...
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