Performance Art Legend Visits Saratoga Springs – Free Lecture April 24
Penny Arcade, photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Legendary performance artist Penny Arcade will serve as the visiting artist showcased in the Tang Museum’s final Dunkerley Dialogue of the 2024-25 season.
The event – Penny Arcade in conversation with Skidmore professor Joseph Cermatori – will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 24 at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.
Penny Arcade, aka Susana Ventura, was a teenage superstar for Andy Warhol’s Factory, featured in the film Women in Revolt. She is an international icon of artistic resistance whose social practice is focused on the support of other artists and on the preservation of artist legacies, including the work of Sheyla Baykal (1944-1997) whose photographs are part of the Tang Museum’s monumental exhibition of 100 years of queer art, a field of bloom and hum.
She has co-helmed The Lower East Side Biography Project, a video oral history of downtown New York that broadcasts and streams every Monday at 11 p.m., and is the author of 16 full-length works, hundreds of performances pieces, lectures, and interviews, all available online.
She last visited Saratoga Springs in June 2018 during a 10-day residency in Saratoga Springs organized by the Orchard Project. An interview conducted with this reporter during her stay at a Spring Street apartment may be read at: https://www.punkglobe.com/pennyarcade1218.php.
The dialogue April 24 will take place in the exhibition, a field of bloom and hum, which fills the Museum’s two floors with work by more than 160 artists in a celebration of queer identities and communities. The Tang’s upstairs gallery, the Malloy Wing, features two stages created for exhibition-related events like the Dunkerley Dialogues. Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversational format.
Admission to the museum and to the events is free. For more information, contact the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit https://tang.skidmore.edu.