TACITA DEAN CRANEWAY EVENT Tacita Dean, Craneway Event, 2009. Courtesy of Performa, Frith Street Gallery, London, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York-Paris Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7 (Nov 5 at 8:30pm, Nov 6 at 6&8:30pm, Nov 7 at 6&8:30pm) Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, 131 E. 10th Street BUY TICKETS NOW! For three days in fall 2008, Tacita Dean filmed Merce Cunningham and his company rehearsing an Event in the craneway of an abandoned Ford Motor factory in Northern California. The stunning 16-millimeter, feature-length film that resulted, Craneway Event, captures the austere and powerful beauty of the dancers moving across multiple stages in the massive hangar-like space, and is the last appearance made by this legendary choreographer on film. It also marks the second collaboration between Cunningham and Dean, an internationally acclaimed visual artist whose work is exhibited at biennials and galleries worldwide. In 2008, Dean’s installation Merce Cunningham performs Stillness (in three movements) to John Cage’s composition 4’33” with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films) was exhibited at Dia:Beacon. The world premiere of Craneway Event is co-presented by Performa 09 and Danspace Project. A Performa Premiere co-presented by Performa and Danspace Project. Supported by Marian Goodman Gallery. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ ALICIA FRAMIS LOST ASTRONAUT Tuesday, November 3 - Tuesday, November 17, times vary; Opening on November 3, 9-11pm, DJ set by Silvia Prada Art Production Fund - APF LAb, 15 Wooster Street FREE Premiering in New York as part of the Performa 09 biennial of new visual art performance, Alicia Framis presents Lost Astronaut - an ongoing performance-installation based at APF LAB that explores the potential of living on the moon through the ironic and fictional character and activities of a woman astronaut portrayed by Framis. Left on Earth like all women who were never part of the moon race, she settles in at her “BaseCamp” (APF LAB, located at 15 Wooster Street), where she will live for two weeks wearing a customized astronaut suit, residing among drawings and prototypes that aim to both parody and make a serious claim for women’s presence on the moon. The astronaut’s activities will be pre-determined by scores written by a group of internationally acclaimed authors and artists, and the audience will be able to interact with her as she stays in her BaseCamp or wanders the streets of New York City. In conjunction with this live performance, a collection of architectural models designed for the moon in collaboration with a number of architects will be on view at APF LAB, presenting various possible spaces to build and inhabit in the future, while offering a realistic scheme that seeks to fit the context and conditions offered by the moon as a habitat. Lost Astronaut provides a plausible fiction that humorously responds to the Futurists’ preoccupations over the evolution of architecture, design, or way of life for the future through the crossing of disciplines and artistic and intellectual collaborations, at a time when humans’ settlement in space is becoming scientifically possible. Follow the Lost Astronaut! On Twitter: http://twitter.com/lostastro On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lost-Astronaut BaseCamp at APF Lab open daily noon-6 pm. For detailed schedules, please refer to Performa website. A Performa Premiere presented by Performa and Art Production Fund. Curated by Defne Ayas, with support from Virginie Bobin.  Supported by the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ WILLIAM KENTRIDGE I AM NOT ME, THE HORSE IS NOT MINE William Kentridge, I Am Not Me the Horse is Not Mine, 2008. Performance Still. Image courtesy of Performa and the artist. Monday, November 9 - Tuesday, November 10 at 8pm Cedar Late, 547 W. 26th Street BUY TICKETS NOW! Renowned South African artist William Kentridge will present a dazzling and comic 40-minute performance in which the artist himself gives an unusual presentation related to his current opera-in-progress: a work inspired by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical opera The Nose, based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name, which will debut at the Metropolitan Opera in March 2010. The Nose tells the surreal story of a pompous government official who awakes one morning to find that his nose has taken on a life of its own, jumping off its owner’s face to go for a walk around the city of St. Petersburg. Alone on stage save for a large screen, Kentridge is soon joined by two projected images of himself, followed by a series of his own collages, drawings, and animations, creating an engrossing and visually dramatic experience that exemplifies this artist’s particular brand of magic. A Performa Premiere presented by Performa. Supported by Marian Goodman Gallery and Performa Producer’s Circle Member Liza Essers.

Performa 09 Tickets Now on Sale! VIEW CALENDAR BUY TICKETS BECOME A MEMBER Performa Members receive discounted tickets, exclusive invitations, and other insider information. Become our Fan on Facebook to receive updates about after-hour events! Performa Hub is the Biennial Headquarters. 41 Cooper Square. Open 10am-8pm, Nov 1-22.   About Performa 09 Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, will be held in New York City from November 1–22, 2009. The three-week festival will showcase new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 40 arts institutions and 25 curators, as well as a network of public spaces and private venues across the city, Performa 09 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas, acting as a vital “think tank” bringing audiences together for new performances, exhibitions, broadcasts, screening, installations and public education programs across all disciplines. Performa is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Performa launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05, in 2005, followed by Performa 07 in 2007. www.performa-arts.org

Major Funding and Support for Performa 09 has been provided by : The TOBY Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation's New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation, the David & Elaine Potter Charitable Trust, Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Orentreich Family Foundation and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

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