Envisioning the intersections of photography and performance.
This issue, a collaboration between Aperture and Performa, the
nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live
performance in visual art, takes a capacious approach to considering the
intersections of photography and performance.
In the Words section, Tate curator Simon Baker traces the impulse to
perform for the camera throughout photographic history; New Museum
curator Lauren Cornell looks at how artists such as K8 Hardy,
Juliana Huxtable, and Amalia Ulman use social media to calculated
effect; Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg and MoMA curator Roxana
Marcoci discuss performance, documentation, and the ways in which
performances are crafted for the camera; and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
explores the lecture-performance form in the work of Lebanese artists
Walid Raad, Rabih Mroué, Lina Saneh, and Joana Hadjithomas and
Khalil Joreige.
In the Pictures section, Delfim Sardo considers the Portuguese
artist Helena Almeida's Inhabited Painting(s) and other works;
Brian Sholis on the disquieting appeal of Torbjørn Rødland's
images; James Welling introduces his new series Dance Project; Olu
Oguibe on Samuel Fosso's recent Mao Zedong series; Brian
Dillon on Dru Donovan's recreations; Performa curator Adrienne
Edwards on how Carrie Mae Weems animates minimalism; a look at the
role of image research in the Hong Kong-based duo Zheng Mahler's
Performa 15 debut performance; and Kristin Poor explores two
approaches to photographing dance, by looking at Barbara Morgan's
enduring images of Martha Graham, and Babette Mangolte's
photographs of Trisha Brown's dance performances.
