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The Museum of Modern Art
Unit 1: Lesson 7
Performance Art- Maria Hassabi | PLASTIC
- Yvonne Rainer: "The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there's nothing left to move?"
- Jannis Kounellis, "Da inventare sul posto (To invent on the spot)"
- Marina Abramović
- Marina Abramović: What is performance art?
- Marina Abramović: Marina's first performance
- Marina Abramović: The Body as medium
- Marina Abramović: Documenting performance
- Marina Abramović: Teaching the next generation
- Marina Abramović: "Cleaning the House" workshop
- Marina Abramović: Performance vs. acting
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Marina Abramović: Documenting performance
Marina Abramović talks about how performance art has to be live and can be re-performed by others. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
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Video transcript
- The performance for me makes sense if it's live. And doesn't make so much
sense if it's documentation. Everything else would left over, like photograph or video,
not the real thing. The real thing the audience
have to be in the place what happen and to see that. So maybe the most
documentation, which is valuable would be the memory of the audience and the actual story which they
will tell to somebody else. And somehow all the artists
in the '70s left just documentation and not
any kind of (mumbles) and how this actually can turn into the kind of live process. Because some artists
absolutely don't want to be re-perform the pieces
because they felt that they done it in such a beautiful
time that doesn't work later on. Another artist and critics
will think that if there somebody else re-perform the
piece, actually is not anymore the piece of the artist idea. It would be a new piece because he add his own personality inside. But I really think that
it's very important to re-perform the pieces
even with all this danger that becomes somebody else piece. But still you have to refer
to the original source and you can make your own version. If today you can re-perform
Bach, and make techno Bach out of this, why you can't
re-perform the performance? The only way that reformists
of this live element inside. So I have to live like that because otherwise it's
just dead photograph on the paper or just another video.