On Allan Kaprow: November 8

Allan Kaprow: Art & Life
Thursday, November 8th, 6pm
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street


American artist Allan Kaprow is credited with inventing the term “happenings” to describe performance art pieces that involved public participation. This unique program, will further explore Kaprow’s innovative artistic practices and legacy. The evening will include original film and video and a discussion with artist Paul McCarthy, art historian Irving Sandler, and Stephanie Rosenthal, the Haus der Kunst curator who recently organized the historic reconstruction of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts as part of a major Kaprow retrospective that will be also be featured during PERFORMA07. Additional panelists to be announced. See Performa calendar for details of the re-doing of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts.

$15 , $12 , $10

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=6

Vito Acconci: November 7

Vito Acconci: A Live Reading
November 7, 6 pm
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway 3rd Floor
FREE

Vito Acconci offers, for the exhibition, the description of an unrealised building for Antartica, a building that only exist in the mind of who gets to hear its description, a piece where the listener generates in his or hers private mental space the feeling of an architecture.

This event is part of Performa07.

http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=85&detail=true

Carolee Schneeman: November 7

Carolee Schneeman
New & Restored Films & Videos
Screening & Artist Talk
Wednesday, November 7, 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

EAI celebrates the extraordinary work of Carolee Schneemann with a screening of newly-restored, seminal films from the 1960s, as well as recent videos. Schneemann will be present to speak about her works and answer questions from the audience. Admission free.

http://www.eai.org/eai/11_07_cs_pr.html

Hans Eijkelboom: November 6

Hans Eijkelboom
Talk and Book Signing
Tuesday, November 6
6:30 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Free Admission

In his new Aperture book, Paris—New York—Shanghai (November, 2007), Dutch artist Hans Eijkelboom creates a comparative study of these three major contemporary metropolises, each selected for its role as a center of modernism. Paris stands in for the nineteenth century; New York, the twentieth; and Shanghai, the twenty-first. Eijkelboom will discuss his inspiration for this project and the related exhibition, which opens at Aperture Gallery on Thursday, November 8, 2007.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=11

Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant: November 6-10

Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant,
Cast No Shadow, 2007
A PERFORMA Commission

Multiple events. See Performa website for details.

Artist Talk to follow November 8 show only.

BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Nov 8 - Nov 10, 2007
7:30 pm
$20, 30, 35, 45

BAMDialogue: 9pm November 8
A post-show discussion with the artists, moderated by Jose Munoz, Chair of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Co-presented by PERFORMA.

Visual artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien’s first evening length production, Cast No Shadow, brings to life Julien’s extraordinary triptych of films–True North, Fantôme Afrique, and Small Boats–in a remarkable work for the stage. In collaboration with acclaimed British choreographer Russell Maliphant, Cast No Shadow uses shifting geographical landscapes–from the North Pole, to Burkina Faso, to Sicily–and bodies in motion that at times seem to spill directly from the film onto the dance floor, to reveal deeply poignant stories of expedition and migration. Cast No Shadow, a PERFORMA Commission with Sadler’s Wells (London) is co-commissioned by Dance Umbrella and co-produced by Espace Des Arts, Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône. It will premiere at Sadler’s Wells in October and make its US premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of PERFORMA07 and BAM’s 25th Next Wave Festival.

Cast No Shadow was first conceived by Isaac Julien over three years ago, when PERFORMA Director RoseLee Goldberg suggested to him that he create a live performance out of his films. In 2005, Sadler’s Wells joined PERFORMA as a Co-Commissioner and Producer of Cast No Shadow, and brought Russell Maliphant on board to collaborate with Julien on the project.

http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=5&detail=true

David Adjaye: November 7

Wednesday, Nov 7
6:30 pm

Columbia University GSAPP
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall (lower level)

Respondent: Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem




David Adjaye of Adjaye/Associates, architect of the Idea Store, was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Ghanaian diplomats. Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art in 1993, the London-based architect and theorist has built or won ten public commissions, at an age before many architects have built a single structure. His projects range from private residences in London and Nanjing, China, to public commissions, such as the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Each building exhibits a myriad of global influences, such as west African sculptural forms and electronic music. Though celebrated internationally by architecture critics for his conceptual approach to building design, Adjaye is relatively unknown in the United States.

http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions_new.html
http://www.studiomuseum.org/education_schedule.html

On Richard Prince: Nov 6

"Same Man Looking in Different Directions:
On the Art and Attitude of Richard Prince"

Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Sackler Center.
$10 ($7 for members, students, and seniors).

Richard Meyer, author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, examines Richard Prince's far-flung source materials—from biker porn and Borscht Belt jokes to Hollywood publicity photographs and pulp-fiction covers. Meyer links these materials to Prince's extensive collection of books and printed memorabilia, to the artist's writings, and to an early window display in a Greenwich Village bookstore. The talk also grapples with the surprisingly strong feelings that Prince’s art has aroused in critics, curators, even the artist himself. Moments of aggression and interpretive conflict are (delicately) touched upon.

This event is part of the programming organized in coordination with the exhibition Richard Prince: Spiritual America.

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Diller + Scofidio, James Corner: Nov 8

"The Old Becomes New: Urban Revitalization in New York"
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm
MoMA, Celeste Bartos Theater, Cullman Education Building
4 West 54th Street

From the Atlantic Yards to Red Hook in Brooklyn, from the High Line and Fresh Kills lifescape to the new Second Avenue subway, New York City is re-inventing itself through public projects and parks, greater accessibility and new technologies. James Corner of field operations and Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro address issues surrounding urban transformation.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the Film desk, or online at www.ticketweb.com.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=5689&ref=calendar

Roxy Paine: November 6

Thursday, November 6, 6:30pm
School of Visual Arts, 133/141 West 21st Street, room 101c
Event is free and open to the public.

A 2006 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roxy Paine was born in 1966 in New York and studied at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York. Since 1990, his work has been internationally exhibited and is included in major collections such as De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. His tree sculptures can be found at various museums and foundations including the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA; Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden; Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo NMAC, Cadiz, Spain; and the St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO. Roxy Paine lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, NY.

Tamy Ben-Tor: Judensau: Nov 3-5

Nov 3 - Nov 5, 2007
6 pm
FREE
Email info at salon94.com to make a reservation

“It is not a specific individual which I portray, it is a mimicking of public opinion, of cultural phenomena. The notion of normality is a perfect ground for obscenity and it is exactly that which I wish to take apart, defuse, put in disorder."

This event is part of the Performa07:The second visual art performance biennial

http://07.performa-arts.org/