As part of Performa 11, artist Pablo Helguera presents the second chapter of his year-long project the Well-Tempered Exposition, a methodical investigation on the formal components of the performance art practice.

Pablo Helguera The Well-Tempered Exposition Book I, part II Friday, November 18, 7pm Beatriz Helguera, piano And Katherine Ademenko, Lisa Gross, Ryan Hill, Brian Linden, Melanie Lockert, Laura Lona, Richard Saudek and Corey Tasmania As part of Performa 11, artist Pablo Helguera presents the second chapter of The Well-Tempered Exposition, a methodical investigation on the […]

Location One Senior Artist-in-Residence Pablo Helguera's year-long reinterpretation of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier launches with performances by actors, musicians and dancers.

Pablo Helguera (Mexico) Location One International Committee Born in Mexico City, 1971. Lives and works in New York Pablo Helguera (based in New York, born in Mexico City, 1971) works in the fields of pedagogy, literature, musical composition, and theater. His projects have included performance lectures, scripted symposia, and panel discussions with or without the […]

Call for participation Collaborative performance workshop For emerging performance artists, actors, singers and musicians Pablo Helguera: The Well-Tempered Exposition A project for Location One Part One of a year-long experimental performance project by Mexican artist Pablo Helguera. Using Bach’s famous keyboard exercises The Well-Tempered Clavier as a starting point, Helguera will organize a series of […]

Solo show by Italian artist Davide Balliano. In the exhibition “Giving My Back to the Night I Heard You Lying to a Giant (First Giant)” Davide Balliano uses the myth of Ulysses blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus as a starting point for his representation of the five phases of sleep which he calls the “ancestral fight against the obscure void that blinds us every night”.

Davide Balliano (Italy) Location One International Committee Davide Balliano was born in Turin, Italy in 1983. In this city he began his studies and earned a Bachelor in Graphic Arts. In 2002 he moved to Milan where he earned a second degree in Photography at the c.f.p Riccardo Bauer, and worked as artist. From June […]

Artists 2011-2012 Pablo Helguera (Mexico) Location One International Committee Born in Mexico City, 1971. Lives and works in New York Pablo Helguera (based in New York, born in Mexico City, 1971) works in the fields of pedagogy, literature, musical composition, and theater. His projects have included performance lectures, scripted symposia, and panel discussions (with or […]

Mattias Ericsson will join Location One as the first winner of the Hasselblad Foundation’s Victor Award, an honor that recognizes the best young Scandinavian artist working in photography. Ericsson was born in 1979 in Ängelholm, Sweden, and received his MFA in 2009 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Umea University. He has participated in numerous […]

The last drawing session was Saturday, September 22, 2007. Thank you to all the participating artists.

An installation of the moon with colonies created by participating artists. Contestants draw from the model using either a computer or pen and paper, and in the end, a jury of esteemed experts chooses the winner. The winner receives a plot of real estate on the moon.

Location One Residency Program 2009–2010 Senior Artist in Residence: Carolee Schneemann Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Painting, […]

Bonnie Marranca is co-founder/Editor of the arts publishing house PAJ and continues to edit PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (formerly titled Performing Arts Journal), which celebrated its 25th year in 2001. The triannual offers expanded coverage of performance, video, dance, drama, film, music, photography, installations, and new media. PAJ has also published numerous […]

Saoirse Higgins (Ireland) (pronounced See-er-sssha. It means ‘freedom’in Gaelic) Mechanism no. 1: War :: Saiorse Higgins, with Simon Schiessl (July 9-August 2, 2003) Doom Machine doom monitor :: Saiorse Higgins (Feb 2003-November 2005) http://artists.banff.org/saoirse/ [ you’ll never be the same after this, you were never the same after that] :: online-offline performance looking at the pull and push of time through Beckett

SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY examines what it means to be alive at this particular time and place and what traces each of us will leave behind.

An interview with one of America's pioneering performance artists.

Mac Wellman is one of the best-known “downtown” dramatists. Among his many plays are Terminal Hip, Crowbar, 7 Blowjobs, Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Murder of Crows, Hyacinth Macaw, which have been staged in several theatres and universities throughout the country.

March 6, 2000 Mac Wellman is one of the best-known “downtown” dramatists. Among his many plays are Terminal Hip, Crowbar, 7 Blowjobs, Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Murder of Crows, Hyacinth Macaw, which have been staged in several theatres and universities throughout the country. Cat’s Paw was produced by the Soho Rep in December and Jennie Richee […]