PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK
PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org
Žilvinas wears many hats while working at Performance Space New York.
He has worked on shows as Technical Director, Scenic Supervisor, General Technician, Carpenter, Painter, Set Decorator, a Crew Member, a Stage Hand, and a Performer.
He is immensely thankful for each creative opportunity he gets at PSNY!
Mission Statement:
YES to Artists
YES to Risks
YES to Community
YES to Every Body
YES to ___
About Performance Space New York:
Over the last 4 decades Performance Space New York (formerly Performance Space 122) has been propelling cultural, theoretical, and political discourse forward. Founded in 1980, Performance Space became a haven for many queer and radical voices shut out by a repressive, monocultural mainstream and conservative government whose neglect exacerbated the emerging AIDS epidemic's devastation. Carrying forward the multitudinous visions of these artists who wielded the political momentum of self-expression amidst the intensifying American culture wars, Performance Space is one of the birthplaces of contemporary performance as it is known today. Together with our artists and communities, we have been presenting interdisciplinary works that dissolve the borders of performance art, dance, theater, music, visual art, poetry and prose, ritual, night life, food, film, and technology. We are committed to centering those who have been historically excluded from spaces like ours.
Performance Space New York Staff:
X Arriaga, Keith Haring Curatorial Fellow
Constanza Armes-Cruz, Senior Producer
Paula Bennett, Senior Manager Institutional Partnerships
Mars Doutey, Derek Lloyd Production Fellow
Sarai Frazier, Associate Production Manager
Yolene Grant, Communications & Marketing Manager
Pati Hertling, Director
Ashley Pierre-Louis, Artist Services Associate
Alex Reeves, Creative Technologist
Amarii Saeed, Communications and Office Associate
Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda, Associate Director
Andy Sowers, Production Manager
Kirsten Sunderland, Manager of Individual Giving
Kimiko Tanabe, Audience Services Manager
Board of Directors:
Kerstin Brätsch
Nicole Eisenman
Roxane Gay, President
Jonathan González
Meaghan Gragg, Secretary
Autumn Knight
Jeffrey Lee
Sophie Mörner
Ted Oberwager, Treasurer
Jackson Polys
Thomas Rom, Vice President
Institutional support is provided by Arison Arts Foundation, Destina Foundation, Ford Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Willem de Kooning Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Fund of Tides Foundation, Henry, Luce Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Morrison & Foerster Foundation, National Performance Network, The National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Shubert Foundation, David Teiger Foundation, Cy Twombly Foundation
Land Acknowledgement: Performance Space New York is situated in Lenapehoking, the land, waters, and air of the Lenape diaspora, a place which has always been, and still is, and always will be a network of intersecting Indigenous movements. We acknowledge that our existence, operating on the island of Manahatta, is a consequence of violent histories of settler colonialism bound up with unchecked exclusions, genocide, and erasures of many Indigenous people ongoing to this day.
This acknowledgement should not function as acceptance or closure, but as a call to commit to reconfigure our notions about ourselves through our work and working practice as we take responsibility to dismantle the ongoing effects of settler colonialism.
