Lygia Pape, "Divisor", 1968. Photo: Museum of Modern Art.
The Museum of Modern Art presents the second in a series of meetings held this year as part of the research programme Performance in the Museum (Off-hinge / Off-center. Alternative histories for 20th century performance). This time Claudia Calirman will give a talk on “An Aesthetics of the Margins: Brazilian Performance Art 1960s?1980s” (11 March, 6 pm) and run a seminar on “Case Study: Antonio Manuel’s Body Art And Media Appropriation” together with André Lepecki (12 March, 6 pm). Admission to both events is free.
Off-hinge / Off-center. Alternative histories for 20th century performance is the third part of a research programme devoted to performance art, run by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN) in cooperation with André Lepecki, associate professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University (NYU) and in Stockholm (Uniarts). The increasing significance of performance in contemporary art practice prompts a question of a chronological and political nature: what other histories of performance may lie underneath dominant narrations of its origins in the USA and Western Europe?
Art historians and curators from across the world have been recently making efforts to revise performance’s genealogy by turning towards peripheral areas where performance art has been created and surprising influences it has undergone. The series of lectures “Off-hinge / Off-center. Alternative histories for 20th century performance” features five prominent historians and curators, hailing from Japan, Brazil, Slovenia, Russia, and Portugal, who are going to present the results of their research and thus join in the MSN’s efforts to rewrite art history by looking at it from different perspectives. The programme starts in February and will last until May 2015.
The programme started in February and will last until May.
Venue: MSN, ul. Emilii Plater 51, Warsaw
Schedule:
26 and 27 February (Thursday and Friday) ? lecture and seminar by Raiji Kuroda (art historian and curator, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan)
11 and 12 March (Wednesday/Thursday) ? Claudia Calirman (art historian, curator, professor of John Jay College, CUNY)
1 and 2 April (Wednesday/Thursday) ? Verónica Metello (art historian, curator, researcher at CEIS XX, Coimbra University)
15 and 16 April (Tuesday/Wednesday) ? Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (art historian, curator, lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
13 and 14 May (Wednesday/Thursday) ? Sasha Obukhova (art historian, curator, director of the Art Projects Foundation)
