NYU Humanities Council Faculty Workshops
Redefining Performance
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 2004- 2005 Schedule and Events 2 ARCHIVE FOR 2004-2005 SESSIONS Archive of 2004-2005 Sessions (Complete) Session #1: Performance of the Ephemeral. RoseLee Goldberg Session #2: Dance and Politics: What Really Matters - Ralph Lemon and Sarah Michelson Session #3: Performance Art in the Americas and China - Coco Fusco and Barbara Pollack Session #4: Performing the City- Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment) and Julian LaVerdiere | REDEFINING PERFORMANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY 2004-2006 Co-Directors: RoseLee Goldberg, Steinhardt School of Education Nancy Barton , Chair of Art Department, Steinhardt School of Education Andre Lepecki, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts Rachel Bowditch, Graduate Student Coordinator, PhD Candidate, Performance Studies In the opening years of the 21st century, contemporary visual art -- whether film, installation, photography and even painting -- can be seen to have been deeply affected by performance. The new work incorporates layers of media, both high tech and low, as well as live and mediated actions in the art making process and is exhibited in a wide variety of contexts and venues. While the distinctions between performance and other new media are now extremely blurred, it remains the historians' task to keep a watch on the latest iterations of performance-driven material, and to find ways to explain these exciting new developments in an ever-changing cultural context. The goal of these workshops will be to develop a new definition of performance in the 21st century. It will reconsider performance of the past three decades, showing how aesthetic and conceptual threads from those years have been co-opted and reinterpreted by a younger generation of artists and academics and brought forward to express the particular ethos of the opening years of the new century. We will examine the ways in which artists who came of age in the media saturated 1980s and 90s use performance or performance strategies in the construction of their individual aesthetics, and we will also devise new approaches to elucidating the meaning of such work. These five discussion sessions will provide a focused forum for NYU professors, scholars, graduate students and practitioners from relevant fields to transcend the borders of disciplinary divisions, and investigate highly interdisciplinary works of performance. Bringing together experts from the fields of Art History, Visual Art, Performance Studies, New Technologies, Photography and Imaging, Cinema Studies, Urban Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Media Studies, the variety of perspectives will provide unique access into the multi-layered and multi-disciplinary works of art united by their performative elements. Its purpose will be to understand the relevance of performance as a vital and highly responsive art form in articulating contemporary issues and sensibilities, and to provide a framework for comprehending new performance paradigms in the future. --RoseLee Goldberg, Associate Adjunct Professor of Art History October 2004 Graduate Coordinator: Rachel Bowditch rb868@nyu.edu
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