Guggenheim Senior Curator Vivien Greene discusses avant-garde performance in the Futurist movement and how the movement’s founder, F. T. Marinetti, organized performative evenings as a method of extending his group’s influence. Greene and Head of Exhibition Lighting Mary Ann Hoag also describe the evocation of one of the highlighted avant-garde performances by Giacomo Balla in the Guggenheim’s multidisciplinary exhibition of Italian Futurism.

For more information, visit Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe.