Orit Gat

Author, critic, photographer, and now performance artist Teju Cole distills the tumult of the past year in the US into a dark, oneiric presentation.

For this year's Performa Biennial, the New York artist is everywhere, notably teaming up with Volcom to colonize a downtown skate spot.

"The wrong kind of occupation." Artist Lisa Oppenheim's new work is filled with delicate texture and color, but its rich surfaces and vintage imagery are interwoven with narratives of American child labor.

What does it mean to remake one's appearance after years in the digital wilderness? Few are better placed to answer than Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, whose collaboration with DNA portraitist Heather Dewey-Hagborg mines the politics of the personal.