Peforma Videos

Circular File will present three half-hour television shows that will premiere new artist videos, interspersed with in-studio interviews, discussions and performances. Curated by Tairone Bastien.

In a hybrid performance of art and magic, Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino collaborates with renowned magician Ryan Majestic in an awe-inspiring interrogation of what is and isn?t believable: a question at the heart of both age-old traditions.

For Performa 09, Polish artist Christian Tomaszewski, in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska, considers how the future was imagined by the Communist regimes of the former Soviet Bloc. Mother Earth Sister Moon explores this theme by examining the fashion and style elements related to a diverse range of Eastern Bloc phenomena, including the Soviet space program, sci-fi film and literature of the era, and the cults surrounding the mysterious 1908 explosion over the Tunguska River Valley in central Siberia. This research will manifest itself as a giant reconstruction of the suit worn by the first woman in space Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova that also pays tribute to the sculpture Hon-en Katedral ( She-a Cathedral ), an enormous female figure conceived and built by Niki de Saint Phalle with Jean Tinguely in 1966. Visitors to the sculpture will be able to walk inside it and at designated performance times view a fashion show, with music by Masami Tomihisa, featuring both reconstructions of actual garments and new designs that evoke the Soviet space program and science-fiction films. In this way, the live show will act as a curated design exhibition in motion.

According to Marinetti, pasta was the worst food to eat, because it made humans slow, dull, and fat?so in this installation, the steam created from boiling pasta will form a sauna, giving audience members the chance to be as lazy and un-energetic as they want.

As part of an ongoing performance, Alicia Framis donned her astronaut suit for her first assignment prepared by Silvia Prada. "The 'Lost Astronaut' must attend the opening party event of the perfromance-installation ON NOVEMBER 3RD and socialize with those present, and dance."