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In conjunction with the exhibition Martha Wilson, Performing, Re-enacting and Reacting will explore key complex issues surrounding the current tendency to re-perform historical works. How do artists (and sometimes institutions) re-enact a performance outside of its original artistic milieu? How do re-enacted performances differ from the original work (temporally, contextually) and how can we continue to present them in the now? Should there be a standardization for presenting performance today? Bringing together artists and art historians who have extensive engagements with performance in New York, this panel will consider the participants' diverse approaches in answering these questions through several specific case studies.

Performing, Re-enacting and Reacting is presented in collaboration with Pratt Manhattan Gallery on the occasion of Martha Wilson’s Franklin Furnace, and to coincide with Martha Wilson: Downtown at NYU Fales Library and Performing Franklin Furnace at Participant Inc.

Presenters
Martha Wilson

Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity.

Alaina Claire Feldman

Alaina Claire Feldman is the Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) where she has organized solo and group exhibitions, performances, readings and film screenings.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez

Nicolás Dumit Estévez treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap.

Robert Longo

Robert Longo (b. 1953) is an internationally recognized visual artist known for his large scale works in various media: drawing, sculpture, film, performance and music.

Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is a cultural critic and an Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.