Informal discussion with the performance artist for GSD students, led by Sanford Kwinter.
Jeffrey Brown talks to performance artist Marina Abramovic, who was the subject of a highly popular retrospective last year at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
The Marriage Proposal
Amir Baradaran, Act I: Bodies and Wedding, On Marina Abramovic's The artist is present.
From the artist website: "Amir Baradaran (b. 1977) is a New York-based media and performance artist. Born in Tehran and raised in Montreal, Amir Baradaran’s experience in academia and activism led him to pursue his artistic practice. Working in a variety of mediums, Baradaran engages in the realm of speculative, participatory public experiences through the exploration of notions of technology, authorship and identity."
In this performance, he makes her laugh!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Looper
We were talking about this movie for a little bit today. I just thought I'd post the trailer.
Bridging the gap - Accounci review
Accounci once said, "if I specialize in a medium, I would be fixing a ground for myself, a ground I would have to be digging myself out of, constantly, as one medium was substituted for another - so, then instead of turning toward 'ground' I would shift my attention and turn to 'instrument,' I would focus on my self as the instrument that acted on whatever ground was available. "
He has always seen art as an instrument connecting the artists and the audiences. In his infamous piece Undertone and Seedbed, where he utilize master-bate to create a situation of reciprocal interchange between the artist and audiences.
I found the piece above quite shocking and disturbing. It is called "Prying". When I watch it, the feeling of "prying" just never go away.
This piece is a recent work of him. He is still dedicated to building the connection between the people inside the art to people outside the art. The architecture is a examplary combination of private circumstances and public circumstances.
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