NEW YORK ARMORY 2017 LIVE PERFORMANCE - TOP PICKS

Szilard Gaspar | Full Contact, 2016, performance view, courtesy of Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest.

Maybe it's the warmer weather, maybe it's the temporary escapism but we are really looking forward to New York Armory Week. Several art fairs have upped their performance art programming and some, well, we just can't seem to get any information from... thus is art week. So here it is, our top NY Armory Week 2017 performance art picks. Hope to see you around!

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FEBRUARY 28 // 6:30PM & 7.30PM
SPRING/BREAK Art Show
4 Times Square, Floor 22, The Lounge, #2200
(entrance on 43rd Street), NYC
KATYA GROKHOVSKY performs during *PERSONAL TESSERACT 
Curated by Anne Spalter
Grokhovsky also presents a wall-mounted installation of worn men’s t-shirts of exlovers, stained with bodily fluids, rebelling against her Ukrainian upbringing’s societal priority of marriage and female subservience.

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MARCH 1 // 6PM 
VOLTA NY
PIER 90, WEST 50TH Street at 12th Ave., NYC
SZILARD GASPAR performs Full Contact Matter
Transylvania-born performance artist, boxer and sculptor, Szilard Gaspar presents Full Contact for the first time in the United States at VOLTA NY. According to Zorzini Gallery, Bucharest, Gaspar's latest performance series "reflect (his) increasing interest for integrating specific boxing techniques within the frame of performance art,"

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Contemporary Drag, Richard Haines, courtesy of Gordon Robichaux

MARCH 2 // 7PM
NADA
Skylight Clarkson North, 572 Washington St., NYC
Contemporary Drag A revue with performances by La’fem Ladosha, Severely Mame, Chris of Hur, David Mramor, and Sasha Velour, curated by Gordon Robichaux. Contemporary Drag is curated by Gordon Robichaux, is an expansive program of performances, video screenings, panel discussions, curated books, and a special collection for NADA x PAOM.

MARCH 4 // 12-6PM 
NADA
​Skylight Clarkson North, 572 Washington St., NYC
*Note, there are ongoing performances at NADA throughout the fair but these are our top!
12PM Ana María Montenegro performs Spy in the Wild; Allocution and discussion. Montenegro's performance explores the relationship between politics and mass populists sport events within the context of the ongoing peace process in Colombia. The speech is a collage made using language that politicians and sportsmen use when addressing the public. Presented with CARNE Gallery. 

5PM Baseera Khan performs Acoustic Sound Blankets
Nested underneath sound blankets, Abrons Art Center Artist in Resident Baseera Khan and another female performer hum and dance together to compose music while photo documentation and screen printed ephemera display the relationship between her own body and the body of a fellow female performing at another time. This documentation of past performance, and sounds created while performing, locates them in a historical motif, while the choreography creates a new plural history we share.

6PM Phoebe Berglund performs Reconstruction
This is a reconstruction of a dance floor that was built 12 months ago. Choregraphed and performed by Phoebe Berglund, with stormy budwig, Jessica Cook, and Nikima Jagudajev.

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Clean Labor rehearsal, courtesy of the Artist and More Art. Photo by Chuka Chukuma (2017)

MARCH 5 // 1PM 
BRENDAN FERNANDES performs Clean Labor 
presented by More Art at the Wythe Hotel
80 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Brendan is collaborating with cleaning staff at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to design an original, contemporary dance inspired by the movements and routines involved in their work. The resulting performance explores the similarities between the graceful and methodical movements of cleaning and those of dance, establishing a dialogue between the two, physically demanding professions and making us all more aware of how our bodies shape and are shaped by the work we do.