Defne Ayas
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Defne Ayas is a curator and producer. Based mostly in Shanghai and sometimes in New York and Istanbul, Ayas works as a director of programs to Arthub Asia, a multi-disciplinary organization devoted to contemporary art creation in China and rest of Asia, and as an art history instructor at New York University in Shanghai. Ayas has also been a curator of PERFORMA since 2004, the biennial of visual art performance of New York City, where she has presented more than fifty live performances and performance-related programs with an international roster of artists, curators, and critical thinkers. Prior to joining PERFORMA, Ayas coordinated New Museum of Contemporary Art’s public- and new media-programming.
