» Marina Abramovic: The Artist Speaks
A great interview about the piece.
hyde or die
Marco Anelli Paco Blancas 2010
“She almost acts as a catalyst. She presses the button that makes you feel all these emotions and feelings. I think through the concentration and the focus, plus the energy of the audience, it creates this movement within you. It’s very subtle the way it happens. Maybe it’s just an image that pops while I’m connected with Marina. Let’s say it’s an image of someone I love deeply, and then this creates the emotion, the tears just come out. Most of the time it’s tears of joy. You’re just being and thinking about somebody or something that’s important in your life. And then just acknowledging this person or situation and moving on into being present because yeah, the tears come, but I don’t want to cry for the entire sitting. I want to move on and continue to be with Marina, to be present.” -Paco Blancas on what has lured him to tears while sitting with Abramovic during his 14 visits..
Marina Abramovic Rhythm 10 1973
This is the performance I quoted her talking about in the catalogue I am currently drooling over.
Also, Marina Abramovic sometimes scares me. In a good way. I think.
» Watch Marina Abramovic's performance at MoMA live
I love that they are streaming this. Next best thing to being there right? Right?!
Sometimes denial is my best friend.
Photo of Terence Koh by Marco Anelli
The artist Terence Koh has been appearing every night at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, England, as part of Marina Abramovic’s performance showcase during this month’s Manchester Festival (through July 19). For his four-hour piece, Koh lies on the floor in a shirt made from crushed pearls, his face and feet covered in powder. Curled up in the fetal position, he plays Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa” over and over on his iPod. But tonight Koh is honoring the artist Dash Snow, who died today in an apparent drug overdose. Koh will change his tune to “Cheree” by the synth-punk band Suicide. As Koh explained in an e-mail message, “It is for one of my best friend’s Dash and that is our favorite song together and we used to dance to it together.” Strangely, the song was used in the closing scene of “Downtown 81,” which was about Jean-Michel Basquiat, another artist who died way too soon. via…
Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present at MoMA March-May 2010
In an act of enormous endurance, for nearly three months from March to May 2010, the 62-year-old artist will perform seven hours a day for five days a week and ten on Fridays (when the museum is open late), only resting on Tuesdays when MoMA is closed—586 hours in total.
The Art Newspaper can reveal that the new work will involve wooden shelves, each about the size of a desktop, mounted in a zig-zag pattern from the floor to around 50 feet high on the north wall of MoMA’s towering atrium. Ladders connecting the shelves will have rungs made of upturned knife blades making ascent or descent impossible. via…
Marking my calendar now. I have wanted to see one of her performance pieces for quite a while and I refuse to miss that.
Hear that? Refuse.
“I don’t know how it feels to be up there, and I don’t want to try. Performance is not about trying. Performance is, they put you there and you deal with the situation.”
— Marina Abramovic
