with Limor Tomer

11/14/24

This episode of Performance Talks is a conversation with the General Manager of Live Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Limor Tomer.

Tomer earned both her B.A. and M.A. from The Juilliard School. For 10 years, she performed professionally as a classical pianist in solo and orchestral performances throughout the U.S. and Europe. While at The Met, Tomer expanded and branched out the museum's performance program into exciting new arenas.

In this conversation, we speak about what it looks like to program live work at a historical museum, the interaction between architecture and performance, and the evolution of live art programming at the Met, which started as the 'lectures and concerts' department, contained within it's auditorium, but now encompasses all performing arts, which visitors can encounter throughout the museum.

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with Charles Aubin

a conversation series about the afterlives of performance

10/29/24

For this episode of Performance Talks I had the pleasure to interview the New York-based curator and Co-Director of Centre Pompidou Jersey City, Charles Aubin.

Aubin started his career at Centre Pompidou in Paris, served as Senior Curator and Head of Publications at Performa, and was recently hired as Co-Director of Centre Pompidou Jersey City (scheduled to open in 2026) in a full circle moment.

Working at Performa for more than a decade, the artists he curated work by are almost too numerous works to name: Madeline Hollander, Jérôme Bell, Danielle Dean, and Franz Erhard Walther. A few years ago, he started an oral history project focussing on Yvonne Rainer's choreographic work since her return to dance in 1999.

In our interview, we delve into Charles' origins as a curator and speak to the challenges of gathering first hand accounts of Yvonne’s 21st-century works.⁣

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Bonus Episode: Performance Talks Book Club on Sarah Michelson

with Nile Harris and David Velasco

10/15/24

On September 29 at 99 Canal, writer and editor David Velasco and performer and producer Nile Harris, joined Jeanette Bisschops for a conversation on 'Sarah Michelson,' the 2017 book edited by Velasco and published by MoMA as part of their Modern Dance series.

They were joined by a crowd of performance devotees and Sarah herself. In the recorded discussion, the group talks about the contested process of making the book, the value of dance writing, and how they came to be obsessed with Sarah's work in the first place.

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Nile Harris

Nile Harris is a performer and director of live works of art. He is currently working on commissions with Performance Space New York and the Chocolate Factory Theater and serves as an Artistic Leader at Ping Chong and Company. His recent work includes ‘this house is not a home’ (2023) an improvised play about American nationalism starring performers Crackhead Barney & Malcolm-X Betts which premiered at Abrons Arts Center and later restaged a part of the Under the Radar Festival.

Sarah Michelson

Born in Manchester, England, and based in New York, since the 1990s Michelson has created performances that examine the nature of dance as a discipline through its historical, physical, and intellectual rigor. Her recent work has incorporated painting, video projection, sound, and installation.

David Velasco

David Velasco was editor in chief of Artforum from 2017 to 2023 and before that worked as an editor at the website for twelve years. In 2016 he was the creator of and series editor for “Modern Dance,” published by the Museum of Modern Art, which has produced three books: Sarah Michelson (ed. David Velasco), Ralph Lemon (ed. Thomas [T.] Jean Lax), and Boris Charmatz (ed. Ana Janevski). In October 2023 he was dismissed from the magazine after publishing an open letter from cultural workers calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. He lives in New York where he is at work on a book.

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99 Canal is a project run by artists, for artists

with David Velasco

a conversation series about the afterlives of performance

09/29/24

This first episode of Performance Talks is a conversation with writer and editor David Velasco

He brought dance on to the pages of Art Forum during his six year stint as editor-in-chief at the magazine and was the editor of Modern Dance, a series of monographs on contemporary choreographers, published by MoMA. His writing on dance and performance is some of the best out there. In this conversation, Velasco speaks about the importance of integrating dance and theater history into the visual art canon, finding his voice as a writer and the excitement and difficulties of evoking a performance or choreography through text.

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David Velasco was editor in chief of Artforum from 2017 to 2023 and before that worked as an editor at the website for twelve years. In 2016 he was the creator of and series editor for “Modern Dance,” published by the Museum of Modern Art, which has produced three books: Sarah Michelson (ed. David Velasco), Ralph Lemon (ed. Thomas T. Jean Lax), and Boris Charmatz (ed. Ana Janevski). In October 2023 he was dismissed from the magazine after publishing an open letter from cultural workers calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. He lives in New York where he is at work on a book.

The MoMA Modern Dance Series:

https://store.moma.org/products/sarah-michelson-modern-dance-series-paperback

https://store.moma.org/products/boris-charmatz-modern-dance-series-paperback

the monograph on Ralph Lemon is unavailable prior to his upcoming major exhibition at MoMA PS1, opening November 14, 2024

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https://www.instagram.com/davidmvelasco/

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