PERFORMA is not only an invaluable reference, it is a new kind of guide to cultural life, a time capsule of this very moment in New York's
eminent performance history, complete with profiles of the city's nonprofit biennial venues that, like this book, give ephemeral art a physical place in which to persist.
An
eminent scholar and researcher of contemporary Chinese art, contemporary Asian
performance art, and contemporary Indonesian art, Berghuis previously served as a Lecturer in Asian Art
History at the University of Sydney, Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archeology, a committee member at China Studies Centre, and a member of the Sydney Southeast Asian Studies Centre.