Aïda Ruilova: The Silver Globe (with video)

TONY: What does performance art mean to you as a visual artist, and what does it feel like to be included in a performance-art biennial?
It’s exciting to be able to collaborate with other artists and performers to create a mood or feeling that is in front of a live audience. You can plan but only to an extent, and then it’s up to just where it decides to land in the moment.

How does multimedia art maintain its relevance in our age of YouTube?
YouTube is great because there’s no hierarchy—you could watch a clip from the film Cleopatra next to a kid playing guitar in his bedroom next to a Raymond Pettibon video. It’s all there together, but attention span is the real arbiter on YouTube: How does an art film vie for attention with a video of a kid beating someone up in his backyard? Not sure if that really even matters in this age.

Aïda Ruilova’s The Silver Globe, which mixes live music and movement with video images, is at the Kitchen (519 W 19th St between Tenth and Eleventh Aves, 212-255-5793) Nov 16 and 17.

Aïda Ruilova: video for Deerhoof's "Queen Orca Wicca"