Performa 09 Back to Futurism

Provoking the future: Performa commissions -- Exalting the crowds: performance as spectacle -- The illuminating stage: performance at the edge of theater -- Simultaneous awareness: performance between screens -- The art of noises: music, radio, sound -- Lust is a force: the lust weekend -- The universe will be our vocabulary: on language -- The polyexpressive symphony: captured on film -- A slap in the face of public taste: pushing the audience -- Every generation must build its own city: the Performa hub and urban activism