Performance Anxiety

9/1/04 to 9/29/04

  • Theme Song |September 1

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Past Films

  • Vito Acconci

    Wednesday, September 1 7:30pm
    Ever the provocateur, performance/video pioneer Vito Acconci used direct address to toy with the spectator in sing-songy seductions; years later, Anne McGuire famously did her veiled Judy Garland bit. In '74, Acconci showed what it meant to be an American; in '96, Anne Walsh made the provocative Two Men Making Gun Sounds.
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  • Heidi (Free Screening!)

    Thursday, September 2 5:30pm
    Free First Thursday Screening! Artists Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy's creative, compulsive retelling of Heidi using dummies, masks, and doubles.
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  • Linda Montano

    Wednesday, September 8 7:30pm
    Montano's groundbreaking 1978 work Mitchell's Death, on the experience of another's mortality, inspired us to look at more recent, less direct elegies to loss and its sometimes weird aftermath by Donigan Cumming, Joe Gibbons, and AfterLifers Torsten Burns and Tony Discenza.
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  • John Baldessari

    Wednesday, September 15 7:30pm
    John Baldessari's classic deadpan anti-performance I Am Making Art, from 1971, meets later, equally original gestural pieces by Cheryl Donegan, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, and Tony Labat
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  • Martha Rosler

    Wednesday, September 22 7:30pm
    In the 1970s, in pioneering works like Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained and Semiotics of the Kitchen, Martha Rosler envisioned the female body as a site of struggle. Twenty years later, Miranda July and HalfLifers brought the struggle into the realms of the televisual and the psychoactive landscape.
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  • Paul McCarthy

    Wednesday, September 29 7:30pm
    Physicality was the hallmark of Paul McCarthy's '70s works-like when he became a human paintbrush scuttling across the canvas. A decade later, Leslie Singer created a series of iconoclastic art/body performances, and in the '90s Cheryl Donegan used her shaven head as both palette and brush. On it goes into the 21st century with recent works by Patrick Rock, Guy Overfelt, and Scott Stark.
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