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.