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All New York's a Stage for Performa 07

Performa 07

Oct. 27-Nov. 20

Various Locations
Admission: Free-$25
212-366-5700 or buy tickets here
performa-arts.org

Adam Pendleton is one of ten featured artists commissioned to create a new work for Performa 07.

Performa 07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, opens on October 27th in New York City and is launching a four-week program of performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposia and live events. Included are ten major Performa Commissions by Carlos Amorales, Sanford Biggers, Nathalie Djurberg, Japanther, Isaac Julien, Daria Martin, Kelly Nipper, Adam Pendleton, Yvonne Rainer and Francesco Vezzoli.

Yoko Ono, John Cage, Trisha Brown, Douglas Coupland and Philippe Decoufle will also be performing. Performa 07 features the work of over 90 international artists at more than 50 leading cultural institutions and venues throughout the city, with the participation of more than thirty curators, and is organized under the artistic direction of its founder, RoseLee Goldberg.

Performa 07 will open with a special premiere of a new Performa Commission by celebrated Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum . In his first ever live performance, Vezzoli will present a restaging of "Cosi' e (se vi pare,)" or "Right You Are (If You Think You Are)," the renowned play by Luigi Pirandello, which implicates the audience in its examination of celebrities while also pointing to the relativity of truth, the necessity of illusion and the instability of the human persona. The evening will begin with a Gala Dinner, to benefit Performa, hosted by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. Tickets for the dinner can be reserved by calling (212) 366-5700.

Shirin Neshat's "Logic of the Birds," 2001.

Additional venues include BAM's Harvey Theater, The Atrium, Columbia University, the New School, Joe's Pub and World Financial Center.

Performa is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization 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.

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