#durational-performance

#durational-performance

There is something very Old New York about a young woman putting herself on the lineliterallyand daring the city to keep up. Not the nostalgic, sepia-toned New York of postcards and penthouses, but the one with bite: downtown after dark, sweat and bravado, art that doesn't ask permission and music that doesn't wait its turn. That is where Lexa Gates lives right now, and Her on the Wheelthe durational performance staged at Jeffrey Deitchfelt like a perfectly tuned provocation to a city that still understands nerve.

Soap Opera, an ambitious video work by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, is on view for the first time at the project space of Reykjavík's gallery i8, i8 Grandi. The piece is a recording of Santa Barbara: A Living Sculpture, a durational performance which explored immigration, class, war and power through the medium of daytime television, and took place at Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture between December 2021 and February 2022.