Not exact matches
That tone was set at the opening night's
performances: Lee Mingwei's
durational performance Our Labyrinth (2015), for which a dancer swept the floors of the galleries with a mixture of grains, purifying a path for visitors; Aki Sasamoto's Delicate Cycle (2016), which included such domestic objects as washing machines and bundles of clothing; and Olivier de Sagazan's Transfiguration (2016), in which de Sagazan used clay, paint, and hair to transform himself
into a shamanistic figure.
It continues with works from the world's leading innovators in the arts, as they break through thresholds of space, memory, sound, and genre — from Philippe Parreno who, in his largest exhibition in the U.S. to date, transforms the presentation of visual art
into an evolving sensory journey; to Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jamie xx as they create a new contemporary ballet; to avant - garde
performance artist Laurie Anderson who, through a site - specific installation in the Armory's drill hall, will expand upon her work with storytelling and technology to create a site - specific environment that serves as a meditation on time, identity, surveillance and freedom; and finally to Igor Levit and Marina Abramović as they interpret Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations, to create a concentrated
durational performance that reflects upon music, time, space, emptiness, and luminosity.
The Brooklyn
Performance Combine brings 5 poets, 11 visual artists, and 10 performing artists
into one two hour
durational event at the Brooklyn Museum on November 1, 7 - 9 pm.
Additionally, New York — based artist Jaime Isenstein (b. 1975)-- whose video work was recently brought
into the Hessel Collection — will present a
durational performance in the Museum (April 13, 1:00 — 4:00 p.m.) where she transforms herself
into the arms and legs of a wingback chair, further exploring her interests in magic acts and other old - time entertainments.
Untitled (Healing pavilion), 2015, by Sam Falls seemed to channel Marina Abramović
durational performance The Artist is Present, 2010, at MoMA with connected seating that situate two viewers looking face forward
into each other.
The Brooklyn
Performance Combine brings 5 poets, 11 visual artists, and 10 performing artists
into a single two hour
durational event in the Beaux - Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum on November 1, 7 - 9 pm.
Through the medium of
durational performance art she enters
into laborious tasks / circumstances that create repetitive strain on her body and mind while creating tension with the viewer.
From the use of religious aesthetics to
durational public
performances, her works push the performative moment
into a public sphere often intervening and juxtaposing next to the private lives of ordinary Cambodians.
The entire arc of art — film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature finds its way
into his video installations,
durational performances, drawings and paintings.
The
performances» combination of extended durations — the works are at least fifteen minutes long — and repetitive sounds made apparent my brain's inability to solidify the radical impermanence of
durational work
into a stable memory.