A lecture by RoseLee Goldberg on the internationally acclaimed Performa Biennial in New York will take place on 6 September at 4 pm at the Mo Museum in Vilnius. Goldberg, a world-renowned art historian, critic and curator, is the Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa.

Launched in 2004 to create a highly visible public platform for contemporary art and performance by visual artists, Performa has changed public and academic perception of performance art with its exciting city-wide Biennial, ground-breaking Performa Commissions, publications, and original arts broadcasting platform Radical Broadcast. Performa has inspired the establishment of performance departments in cultural institutions around the globe. Goldberg’s many publications include her pioneering book, Performance Art: from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and now in fourteen languages; Laurie Anderson (2000), and Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century (2018). As the former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, Goldberg has also organized performances at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim etc. Her many awards include Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government, Yoko Ono’s Courage Award for the Arts, the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the title of Honorary Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute, London, Goldberg has taught at NYU Steinhardt since 1987.

An introduction to the lecture and Q&A session will be led by Neringa Bumblienė, curator and Artistic Director of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, and accompanied by Job Piston, Performa Curator at Large.

The event is co-organised by the Lithuanian Institute of Culture, Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, and the Mo Museum.

To attend the event please fill in the registration form here.