Throughout March and April 2014, Performance Space is proud to bring you three incredible guest speakers from around the world to share their ideas, opinions and experiences in contemporary arts practice.
RoseLee Goldberg
Presented by Performance Space and Artspace
SAT 22 MARCH
3pm
FREE
Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo 2011
Claire Doherty
Presented by Performance Space, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Carriageworks
FRI MARCH 28
4pm
FREE
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh 2015
Raimundas Malasauskas
Presented by Performance Space, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Carriageworks
TUES 15 APRIL
4pm
FREE
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh 2015
RoseLee Goldberg
PUBLIC LECTURE – Out from Under: Performance Art Comes of Age
SAT 22 MARCH, 3pm, FREE
Artspace, Level Two
RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator of Performa, is an art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. Former Director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and Curator at The Kitchen in New York, she is also the author of Performance: Live Art Since 1960 (1998) and Laurie Anderson (2000), and is a frequent contributor to Artforum and other publications. Recent awards and grants include two awards from the International Association of Art Critics (2011), the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award from Independent Curators International (2010), Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Warhol Foundation (2008), and Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government (2006). In 2004, she founded Performa, a non-profit arts organisation committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world, and launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05 (2005), followed by Performa 07 (2007), Performa 09 (2009), Performa 11 (2011), and Performa 13 (2013). Since 1987, Goldberg has taught at New York University.
Claire Doherty
PUBLIC LECTURE – The New Rules of Public Art
FRI 28 MARCH, 4pm, FREE
Carriageworks
“Create space for the unplanned; Don’t make it for a community. Create a community; Demand more than fireworks; Get lost.”
An organisation born in Bristol, UK, Situations re-imagines what public art can be and where and when it can take place. Claire Doherty, writer, curator and founder Director of Situations, gives a provocative introduction to the New Rules of Public Art – drawn from producing groundbreaking public art projects over the past fifteen years from New Zealand’s One Day Sculpture series to Nowhereisland, the Cultural Olympiad’s most daring public art commission. Doherty is renowned as a leading voice in public art curating through Situations’ work and through her publications, Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (2004) and the ‘Situation’ edition of the Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art series (2009) and this year launches ‘Out of Space and Out of Time: Public Art Now’. Doherty was an advisor to the London 2012 Olympic Park Public Realm Committee, is Curatorial Director of Oslo’s public art programme, Slow Space, in Norway and is Chair of the European Network of Public Art Producers. In 2009 Doherty was recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award for outstanding cultural entrepreneurs. This year sees the launch of the Public Art Now an international programme of events, publications and film interviews inspired by the New Rules of Public Art.
Claire Doherty is the Director of Situations which she initiated in 2003, following a ten-year investigation of new curatorial models beyond conventional exhibition-making at a range of art institutions including Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol and FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. In 2009, Claire was awarded a prestigious Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Award as an outstanding cultural entrepreneur. Claire directed One Day Sculpture in 2008-9 with David Cross; a year-long collaborative series of 20 commissioned, 24-hour public artworks across New Zealand.
Doherty lectures and publishes internationally. She is editor of Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (Black Dog Publishing, 2004); Documents of Contemporary Art: Situation (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2009). She was also an external advisory member of the Olympic Park Public Realm Advisory Committee and a Fellow of the RSA.
Raimundas Malasauskas
PUBLIC LECTURE
TUES 15 APRIL, 4pm, FREE
Carriageworks
Raimundas Malašauskas, born in Vilnius, is a curator and writer. From 1995 to 2006, he worked at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, where he produced the first two seasons of the weekly television show CAC TV, an experimental merger of commercial television and contemporary art that ran under the slogan “Every program is a pilot, every program is the final episode.” He curated “Black Market Worlds,” the IX Baltic Triennial, at CAC Vilnius in 2005.
From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting curator at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and, until recently, a curator-at-large of Artists Space, New York. In 2007, he co-wrote the libretto of Cellar Door, an opera by Loris Gréaud produced in Paris. Malašauskas curated the exhibitions “Sculpture of the Space Age,” David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2009); “Into the Belly of a Dove,” Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2010), and “Repetition Island,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2010). His other recent projects, Hypnotic Show and Clifford Irving Show, are ongoing.
RoseLee Goldberg, Claire Doherty and Raimundas Malasauskas’ visits to Australia have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
RoseLee Goldberg’s visit has been supported by the Keir Foundation.
