{"title":"High Performance Magazine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHigh Performance\u003c\/em\u003e was an American magazine dedicated to performance art, published in Los Angeles from 1978 to 1997. Founded by Linda Frye Burnham, it was the primary periodical documentation of performance art practice in the United States during the 1980s and early 90s, covering body art, durational work, site-specific performance, and the intersections of art, politics, and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magazine co-produced \u003cem\u003eSoundings\u003c\/em\u003e, a series of live radio performances on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, including Mike Kelley's \u003cem\u003eThe Peristaltic Airwaves\u003c\/em\u003e, broadcast on September 30, 1986 — one of the two works documented on the Compound Annex 2012 release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here include issues of \u003cem\u003eHigh Performance\u003c\/em\u003e and related printed matter documenting the performance art scene it covered. Original period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mike-kelley-platos-cave-rothkos-chapel-lincolns-profile-sonic-youth-peristaltic-airwaves-2012","title":"Mike Kelley — Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile (with Sonic Youth) \/ The Peristaltic Airwaves, Compound Annex, 2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e2-CD set in jewel case with booklet. 14 × 12 cm. Published by Compound Annex Records, Los Angeles, 2012. Compound #38, #39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: New old stock. Factory sealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn increasingly uncommon document of Mike Kelley's sound and performance practice, issued shortly after the artist's death in January 2012. While not rare in the strict bibliographic sense, copies appear only intermittently on the secondary market and are collected by those interested in the intersections of contemporary art, performance, experimental music, and Sonic Youth-related material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc One: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile [55:36]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded live at Artists Space, New York, December 5, 1986. With Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley), Molly Cleator, and Adam Rudolph on didgeridoo. Assisted by Tony Oursler, Mary Jones, and Jennifer Bolande. Recorded by Carole Parkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc Two: The Peristaltic Airwaves [38:19]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerformed live on KPFK Radio, September 30, 1986. With Jack Skelley and Nic Greene, guitars; Dave Childs, drums; Nancy Evans, voice and horn. Co-produced by High Performance Magazine and Jacki Apple for Soundings on KPFK Pacifica Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth works were previously available only in limited cassette form before being digitally remastered and reissued by Compound Annex in 2012. The title connects several recurring concerns in Kelley's practice — philosophy, psychology, popular culture, mythology, and institutional critique — while the involvement of Sonic Youth places the recording within the fertile overlap between the downtown New York art and experimental music scenes of the mid-1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare object-register, the set operates as both artwork and record. Not merely a music release, it functions as retained evidence of a performance that otherwise survives only in fragments. The performance is gone; the recording remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Carefully packed and shipped boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Compound Annex Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53624873025874,"sku":"KELLEY-COMPOUNDANNEX-PC-2012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kelley_Mike._Plato_s_Cave_Rothko_s_Chapel_Lincoln_s_Profile_with_Sonic_Youth_The_Peristaltic_Airwaves._2012.jpg?v=1780377005"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/high-performance-magazine.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}