PERFORMA founder and preeminent performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, shins bloodied from building-punting, introduces the Not for Sale panel Have You Kicked a Building Lately?, featuring panelists Vito Acconci, Elizabeth Berger, Beatriz Colomina and Teddy Cruz and respondents Glenn Weiss, Alexander Pincus and Peter Zuspan. The event, which took place on May 26, 2010 at Cooper Union, is PERFORMA's first panel to focus on architecture. The topics ranged wildly and frequently, from notions of how to create an organic structure and propagate natural interactions with architecture to the salience of impermanence and temporality in architectural history; panelists discussed topics both specific--like Cruz's considerations of the levee towns of the California-Meixo border--and general, like Colomina's emphasis of the historical import of exercise in architecture. Central to much of this are the moral, cultural, political, commercial, socioeconomic and artistic roles and the obligations of the architect (1 hour 23 minutes).

The title of this panel is taken from Ada Louise Huxtable's essay collection Have You Kicked a Building Lately?, which addresses notions of the manipulation of urban space by architects and artists and the active role of architectural structures in the lives of those who interact with them.