"This year's Performa, New York's performance art biennial, is taking over spaces across the city for projects that, in many cases, will be the artists' first forays into live performance. The biennial's main slate of eight commissions includes projects by seven women-Aria Dean, Sylvie Fleury, Camille Henrot, Ayoung Kim, Lina Lapelytė, Tau Lewis and Diane Severin Nguyen-and a male-female duo, Pakui Hardware."
"Kim, for instance, will stage her piece The Double at Canyon, a new immersive institution on the Lower East Side. The Korean new media artist's investigation into the subject of the body double-both in the practice of movie stunt doubles and gaming avatars-will take the form of live motion capture choreography with two performers animating their avatars as well as non-human surrogates such as bicycles, ladders and other digital doppelgangers. (The project coincides with her solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, Delivery Dancer Codex, 6 November-16 March 2026.)"
"Another multimedia project, by the American artist Diane Severyn Nguyen, involved putting out a call on social media to cast a musical group that will perform remixes and mashups of Vietnam War-era protest songs in a live broadcast performance at Bric in Brooklyn. "Diane initially set out to cast two groups: a Western rock band and a K-pop group," says Job Piston, a Performa curator-at-large working with Nguyn on her commission, War Songs. "In the end she combined the two into one, 11-person supergroup.""
Performa's 20th anniversary biennial activates multiple New York venues with artists often debuting in live performance. The main slate comprises eight commissions featuring seven women—Aria Dean, Sylvie Fleury, Camille Henrot, Ayoung Kim, Lina Lapelytė, Tau Lewis and Diane Severin Nguyen—and the duo Pakui Hardware. Ayoung Kim stages The Double at Canyon, using live motion-capture choreography to examine stunt doubles, gaming avatars and non-human surrogates. Diane Severin Nguyen assembles an 11-person supergroup via social media to remix Vietnam War-era protest songs for a live broadcast at Bric. RoseLee Goldberg serves as founding director and chief curator.
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