RoseLee Goldberg
RoseLee Goldberg, art historian, critic, curator and author whose book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (London University), she was director of the Royal College of Art Galle... Read more
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Magazine posts contributed by RoseLee Goldberg
A Desire for Performance
07/26 |
Jarrett Moran, Rose...
“It’s almost very personal to talk about,” Performa founder and curator RoseLee Goldberg says of commissioning live performances, “because I feel that commissioning is about desire.” In 1999, Goldberg saw Shirin Neshat’s video Turbulent at the Venice Biennale and imagined the presence of the performers, seeing the piece as a live artwork. That experience resulted in Goldberg’s first commission and Neshat’s first performance work, Logic of the Birds, the success of which fed into the founding of Performa, a biennial of live artwork and a crucial advocate for performance pieces.
Performa: Looking for Material from All Disciplines
10/05 |
Jarrett Moran, Rose...
When art historian RoseLee Goldberg, founder of the Performa performance art biennial, says that Performa “has had a huge effect on showing the range of performance that’s available,” she isn’t just talking about surveying existing performance work. The biennial works with artists across a range of media, and each year it approaches artists who otherwise might not have considered working in performance. Jesper Just, for example, made his first performance work for the inaugural 2005 biennial, which Goldberg commissioned on the basis of Just’s video Bliss and Heaven, which includes an emotional performance delivered to an audience of one, concluding with the drop of a theater curtain.




















