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PERFORMA 2009: Preview with RoseLee Goldberg
Originally aired on Friday, October 23rd, 2009
PERFORMA founding director RoseLee Goldberg takes us through the process, the highlights, the parties, and the people of the third coming of her performance festival (events daily, Nov. 1-22, 2009, sites around town). AIR's David Weinstein visited her offices two weeks before the launch (26 minutes).

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Not for Sale: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Originally aired on Friday, November 19th, 2010

RoseLee Goldberg moderates this panel discussion on performance, politics, and culture in African art, with panelists Okuwei Enwezor and Deborah Willis.

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It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum
Originally aired on Friday, August 27th, 2010
In this PERFORMA-sponsored panel, It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, RoseLee Goldberg offers a brief history of performance and PERFORMA and introduces the event's panelists: art historian...Read More
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Not for Sale: It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum
Originally aired on Friday, August 27th, 2010
In this PERFORMA-sponsored panel, It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, RoseLee Goldberg offers a brief history of performance and PERFORMA and introduces the event's panelists: art historian...Read More
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Not for Sale: Have You Kicked a Building Lately?
Originally aired on Friday, July 16th, 2010
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...Read More
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Mike Kelley, Destroy All Monsters
Originally aired on Friday, January 1st, 2010

A founder of seminal "anti-rock" band Destroy All Monsters, Mike Kelley discusses considerations of noise music as well as the Kelley-curated festival, A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality in 2009, plus an excerpt from the band's reunion show.

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PERFORMA 2009: A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: Joan LaBarbara & John Duncan
Originally aired on Friday, December 25th, 2009
Known for his electronic sound constructions featuring short wave radio noise, John Duncan arrives at the Gramercy Theater with a secret plan. In our interview he describes his desire to create what he has not heard...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: Z'EV
Originally aired on Friday, December 18th, 2009
Just before his performance at Mike Kelley's two-day noise fest at the Gramercy Theater, writer/percussionist/mystic/philosopher Z'EV talks about his approach to soundmaking and technology, acoustic phenomena of...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Originally aired on Friday, December 11th, 2009
As part of the Mike Kelley-curated, Marc Beasley-produced two-day noise music festival, A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge places the...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Mike Kelley, Day Is Done
Originally aired on Friday, December 11th, 2009

For PERFORMA 09, artist Mike Kelley presented 3 dance/performance pieces with a circus like cast in the Judson Memorial Church, inspired by the darkly funny vignettes of his 2005 film installation Day Is Done. The music is by Kelley and Scott Benzel.

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PERFORMA 2009: Paul Elliman, Sirens Taken for Wonders
Originally aired on Friday, December 4th, 2009
Paul Elliman assembled a program for Performa entitled Sirens Taken for Wonders which consisted of several walks around New York City in search of sirens while observing and testing the impact of noise on urban life and...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Michael Smith
Originally aired on Friday, December 4th, 2009
Host Michael Rush in conversation with artist Michael Smith who has been producing videos, performances, and installations for over three decades, often via his performance persona, Mike. MICHAEL reveals how he and Mike...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Mariana Castillo Deball & Irene Kopelman, Zeno Reminder
Originally aired on Friday, December 4th, 2009
Curator Defne Ayas speaks with Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman (The Uqbar Foundation) whose work Zeno Reminder (a Performa 09 installation) plays with the bonds and ruptures between nature and technology,...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Aurélien Froment and Youri Dirkx
Originally aired on Friday, November 27th, 2009
RoseLee Goldberg talks with artist Aurélien Froment and actor Youri Dirkx about their performance In Order of Appearance. The presentation takes place within an abstract playground where objects and artworks are...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Candice Breitz
Originally aired on Friday, November 27th, 2009
RoseLee Goldberg in conversation with South African video and installation artist Candice Breitz whose Performa09 commissioned work New York, New York, her first-ever live performance, features two nearly-identical...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Michael Portnoy & Sarina Basta
Originally aired on Friday, November 27th, 2009
Defne Ayas with curators Sarina Basta and Michael Portnoy whose conceptual social club known as The Prompt was a nightly place of conversation pieces, rules, performances, and soundtracks for Performa 2009 (32...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Ahmet Ögüt
Originally aired on Friday, November 27th, 2009
Curator Defne Ayas hosts guest Ahmet Ögüt, a conceptual artist living and working between Amsterdam and Istanbul. Ögüt has developed a work for Performa 2009 entitled The Pigeon-like Unease of My Inner Spirit in...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Paul Elliman Interview
Originally aired on Friday, November 27th, 2009
Performa Curator Defne Ayas in conversation with British artist Paul Elliman, whose piece, Sirens Taken For Wonders, brought together viewers of all backgrounds for a siren-watch across New York, observing the sounds of...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Yeondoo Jung with RoseLee Goldberg
Originally aired on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
South Korean artist Yeondoo Jung talks with RoseLee Goldberg about his art and how his childhood exposure to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and early 19th century photographers continues to inspire his artistic thinking....Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Terence Koh
Originally aired on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Author, critic and curator Michael Rush sits down with artist Terence Koh to discuss his latest work, an untitled exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, a Performa 2009 feature. This work, a stack of 33 glass cases containing...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Luciano Chessa, Luigi Russolo, and the Intonarumori
Originally aired on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Luciano Chessa speaks to David Weinstein about his research, re-imagining, and reconstruction of the legendary noise intoners or Intonarumori that were built by Futurist painter and author of The Art of Noise,...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Yeondoo Jung with Leeza Ahmady
Originally aired on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
South Korean artist Yeondoo Jung talks with Leeza Ahmady about his art and how his childhood exposure to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and early 19th century photographers continues to inspire his artistic thinking. He...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Arto Lindsay
Originally aired on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Artist and musician Arto Lindsay (DNA, Ambitious Lovers) joins RoseLee Goldberg at the Performa Hub for a discussion about growing up in Brazil, the music and art scene he encountered on arriving in New York, organizing...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Omer Fast
Originally aired on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
RoseLee Goldberg hosts artist Omer Fast who is participating in Performa 09 with Broken Telephone, an installation that combines the familiar childhood game with the confessional talk show format. Guests will recount...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Guido van der Werve
Originally aired on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Performa curator Defne Ayas speaks to Dutch artist Guido van der Werve about the parallels between chess, piano, and literature, as well as his chess piano — an elaborately constructed instrument of his own invention,...Read More
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PERFORMA 2009: Meg Stuart
Originally aired on Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Host RoseLee Goldberg interviews choreographer/curator Meg Stuart on her U.S. premiere of Auf den Tisch! (At the Table!), an improvisation project at Baryshnikov Arts Center (13 minutes).Read More
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