GINA PERFORMA is a progressive critical writing and performance project created by Ryan Tracy as part of Writing Live, a Performa education project produced by Performa, Open Dialogues and thespacebetweenwords in connection with Performa 09.
During the three-week course of the Performa 09 biennial, GINA PERFORMA will appear at performances. She will perform. She will also document the performances descriptively in terms of “REALNESS”, and will collect autographs of those attending the performances in order to track the social score of Performa 09. Artifacts of this writing/performance project include the articles of clothing worn by and used to create GINA PERFORMA; audience autographs, which will be taken on Performa 09 programs; live-written notes taken in notebooks; digital reproductions of such autographs and notes; photographs and digital images of the process of GINA PERFORMA; text scores describing and prescribing performances of Performa 09 as well as the performance of GINA PERFORMA; sound scores created from the text scores; video scores created from the text and sound scores, including photo, audio and video documentation of the total score for GINA PERFORMA in/and PERFORMA 09; and this blog.
Ryan Tracy holds the copyright to this site and to all materials published on this site, unless specified otherwise.
WRITING LIVE CREDITS/SPONSORS
US Director Defne Ayas (Performa)
Curators Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham (Open Dialogues)
Co-Curator Claire McDonald (Space Between Words)
Associate Patricia Milder (Performa)
Writing Live Fellows: Rebecca Armstrong, Rachel Lois Clapham, Tyler Coburn, Patricia Milder, Mary Paterson, Ryan Tracy, Kenny Ulloa and Peter Walsh.
Artists Alexandre Singh, Charles Bernstein, Tan Lin and more to come…
