Category: Curator
Nationality: South African
Last Year: New
When RoseLee Goldberg founded Performa, New York’s performance art biennial, in 2004, her aim was ‘to show the relevance of live art as an innovative and important contemporary art form’. That has certainly since been realised – not just through Performa’s impressive programme but also in the artworld’s renewed interest in performance art (MoMA, for example, spruced up its department of New Media, now helmed by Klaus Biesenbach, to include performance art). Perfoma’s third edition opens this month and features an incredible list of commissioned works by artists including Guy Ben-Ner, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Mike Kelley, and premieres by Tacita Dean and Joan Jonas.