Artnet

Can Rapid 3-D Printing Boost Performance Art? Performa Teamed Up With MIT Scientists to Find Out

Performa is going high-tech for the seventh edition of its international performance art biennial. The non-profit arts organization is launching a three-year partnership with the Brown Arts Initiative ...
Observer

RoseLee Goldberg On 20 Years of Performa and Why Performance Art Still Matters

Robin Rhode, Erwartung. Photo © Paula Court. Courtesy of Performa. Performa is one of those singular New York institutions that accurately define the intersection of ...
Artnet

Shoptalk: How Performa’s RoseLee Goldberg Wields Soft Power on a Shoestring Budget

RoseLee Goldberg, the founding director of Performa, the nonprofit organization that runs New York’s performance art biennial, is an enigma —at once regal and impish, unchanging yet constantly ...
Forbes

Previewing Performa 2025 Biennial In New York City

Tschabalala Self, 'Sounding Board.' A Performa Commission for the Performa 2021 Biennial. Costumes designed by Tschabalala Self with UGG. From left to right: Hunter Bryant, Alexis Cofield, Cj Hart, ...
The New York Times

For the Children of Performa, the Sound of Art Is a Buzz and a Growl

An arts festival taps third- and fourth-graders to teach adults a thing or two about authenticity. Students of Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn being “sleeping bees” rehearsing for their roles ...
The New York Times

Performance Art Wasn’t on Their Radar. But, ‘What if’?

RoseLee Goldberg of New York’s Performa has long encouraged visual artists to take the leap of translating their ideas into real time and space. RoseLee Goldberg, the founding director and chief ...