You Didn’t Have to Be There: Photography, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Date/Time: 14/11/2007 12:00 am

Panel Discussion
*You Didn’t Have to Be There: Photography, Performance, and
Contemporary Art*
Wednesday November 14, 2007 – 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free
The Aperture Foundation, in association with the Photography Department
of Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art
and Politics at The New School, presents a panel discussion organized
and moderated by RoseLee Goldberg, the founder and director of PERFORMA,
which will explore photography that has evolved out of performance, has
been used in performance, and has been of performance since the 1960s.
Moderator:
RoseLee Goldberg, founder/director, PERFORMA
Panelists:
Marina Abramovic, artist
Vanessa Beecroft, artist
Babette Mangolte, filmmaker
This panel is part of the Aperture Foundation Lectures *Confounding
Expectations: Photography in Context,* and is presented with generous
support from the Kettering Family Foundation and the Henry Nias
Foundation. The program is also made possible, in part, by public funds
from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs.
Presented on occasion of PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual
art performance.
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NEXT EVENT:
*Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land, and the Political Agency of
the Artist*
Thursday, November 29, 2007 – 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
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Carin Kuoni
Director, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
The New School
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