Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
20 Mins a Day
This is a new performance, influenced - even inspired - by my experience of sitting for 20 minutes with Marina Abramovic in New York at the preview of her new piece "The Artist is Present" This website has a life feed so that you can see who if anyone is sitting with her at any particular moment.
Marina plans to be at MOMA every day it is open for the next 72 days. Her piece is durational, and challenges her body to complete this task, no mean feat for someone now 64 years old.
My piece is a lot more modest. I also plan to perform for the same 72 days as she is doing, but for a mere 20 Mins a day.
Her piece is about being present to those who come to the gallery, especially those who choose to sit with her for a while.
This is how she looked the day I was there, with her long navy dress.
My piece is about sitting with myself, yes thinking of her, but mainly thinking about being present to myself, to my own 'present moment', and for that brief time, disentangling myself from strong emotional attachments: on the one hand the deep reluctance I have to letting go of the past, and on the other hand, the fear I have of stepping bravely into the unknown future.
There is also a sub-text in which I feel I am accompanying Marina, in a tiny way, sending her 'good vibrations', and visualizing her in the 'golden light' as she lives through the challenge she has set herself.
Here is how I looked during my first session today. (click image to enlarge)
Marina plans to be at MOMA every day it is open for the next 72 days. Her piece is durational, and challenges her body to complete this task, no mean feat for someone now 64 years old.
My piece is a lot more modest. I also plan to perform for the same 72 days as she is doing, but for a mere 20 Mins a day.
Her piece is about being present to those who come to the gallery, especially those who choose to sit with her for a while.
This is how she looked the day I was there, with her long navy dress.
My piece is about sitting with myself, yes thinking of her, but mainly thinking about being present to myself, to my own 'present moment', and for that brief time, disentangling myself from strong emotional attachments: on the one hand the deep reluctance I have to letting go of the past, and on the other hand, the fear I have of stepping bravely into the unknown future.
There is also a sub-text in which I feel I am accompanying Marina, in a tiny way, sending her 'good vibrations', and visualizing her in the 'golden light' as she lives through the challenge she has set herself.
Here is how I looked during my first session today. (click image to enlarge)
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