Cécilia Bengolea and Michèle Lamy: Sculptured Rites
A Performa 19 commission, Cécilia Bengolea and Michèle Lamy’s metabolic live performance before we die births a kinetic pageant of…
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The Battleground of the Spirit: Chicago’s Glass and Steel Skin
Chicago’s Navy Pier has lived many past lives. Lining the shore of Lake Michigan for more than a kilometer, it…
Paris Roundup 2019
Saturation occurs once again, the city drenched in expos, events, and itinerant first-timers. Given the slight period in which to…
Kia LaBeija: Attenuated Iconographies
A live performance co-commissioned by Performance Space New York for Performa 19, Kia LaBeija’s Untitled, The Black Act generates an opulent,…
Chillida Leku Museum / San Sebastián
The spirit of Eduardo Chillida reverberates throughout Chillida Leku — “the place of Chillida” in the Basque language. Here, Chillida’s…
“STURTEVANT: MEMES”Freedman Fitzpatrick / Los Angeles
“STURTEVANT: MEMES” at Freedman Fitzpatrick is the artist’s first solo exhibition to be mounted in Los Angeles since her death…
Ed Atkins: Alchemies of Incantation
A Performa 19 commission, Ed Atkins’s A Catch Upon the Mirror is a live performance that manifests under a different…
Oslo Biennial 2019
The Venice Biennale opened in the same week as the first edition of the OsloBiennalen. But while the former will…
Korakrit Arunanondchai: Ghosting Ghost Cinema
Korakrit Arunanondchai’s Together, created in collaboration with boychild and Alex Gvojic, is a live cinematic installation that calls itself a…
Zhao Zhao Mizuma Art Gallery / Singapore
Entering the gallery I encounter a huge canvas, so large that it occupies an entire wall — tall enough to…
Nkisi: Visual Redub
A collaborative live performance by Paul Maheke, Nkisi, and Ariel Efraim Ashbel, co-commissioned by Performa, Abrons Art Center, and Red…
Kunststrom für Alle: POWER NIGHT at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. The preserved stained-glass window above the entrance to…
If the Snake / Okayama Art Summit
The title of the second Okayama Art Summit is a half-formulated hypothesis: “If the Snake.” I guess we’ll never know.…
Singapore Utopia Chan + Hori Contemporary / Singapore
A gang of avant-gardists wants to have a utopian impact on Singapore society. They hope to shape the present world…
The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art / Moscow
Is it the elephant in the room or a non-issue that the Garage Museum is funded by fossil-fuel, given that…