3 Day Weekend performed at Salon 94 in New York for Performa 09


Oliver Herring: 3 Day Weekend
April 29, 4-7pm; April 30, 5-7pm; May 1, 5-7pm
The Windsor Ballroom
1702 Windsor, Austin (map)

FREE admission


Oliver Herring: 3 Day Weekend

3 Day Weekend is both a performance and material for a live video shoot. 3 Day Weekend unfolds as a series of interactions built over the course of three days with a group of people chosen through an open application process. The actions are physical, dance related, mostly unrehearsed, and therefore unpredictable. Oliver Herring both "directs" the actions and films the footage. Initially commissioned by Performa 2009 and presented by Salon 94 in New York, Herring's work is being remade specifically for Austin.

Oliver Herring was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1964, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the University of Oxford (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art), Oxford, England, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. Since 1998, Herring has created stop-motion videos and participatory performances with "off-the-street" strangers. Herring has received grants from Artpace, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, among others.

This project is co-presented by Arthouse, testperformancetest, and Fusebox Festival in conjunction with Salon 94 and Performa 2009.