Archive for June, 2010

Counterpoint: Abramovic Redux (Part Deux) [AKA: "If You Love Your Fun, Die for It!"]

I enjoyed the Flickr photostream accompanying Marina Abramovic’s retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art, though of course I didn’t look at all of it, maybe seven or eight or ten pages.  Often enough, one of the interesting things about Abramovic’s work is the way it involves her audience.  In the photographs, at least, looking [...]

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An Experience with “God’s Ear”

This evening I saw The Shotgun Players (http://www.shotgunplayers.org/) perform “God’s Ear” at the Ashby Stage, and it was incredible. Set against an unchanging backdrop that calls to mind something like a large ice cave, the play tells a story we’ve experienced many times before, in drama, in literature, certainly in movies: A married couple struggles [...]

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Blink and you’ll miss it

If you haven’t heard about Marina Abramovic’s performance piece accompanying the MoMA’s “The Artist is Present” retrospective, the gist is this: Abramovic sits in a chair.  A museumgoer sits in a chair opposite.  They stare at each other for as long as the visitor wishes to stay, from eight seconds to eight hours.  The visitor [...]

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