ART: Performance Artist Update – Marina Aramovic
Friday, 26 March 2010
Artist Amir Baradaran, shown in the video above, enters Marina Aramovic’s meditative space and “…[chose] to symbolically wed the icon”…”through the juxtaposition of the solemn and the celebratory.”
Two weeks ago, I had posted some articles relating to the upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York featuring the “queen” of performance art, Marina Aramovic. The exhibit features all of her work up to now as well as an interactive performance in which a selection of artists enter her meditative space. The meditative space has been establish by her remaining motionless and silent since the debut of the exhibit and will she remain this way for the next three months.
In the video, admirer, artist Amir Baradaran joins her in performance. Here is a description of his act.
“As Amir enters the meditative space in a flowing red gown—a close facsimile to Abramovic’s deep blue robe- he adds symmetry to the scene. Out of earshot of the audience, Baradaran expresses his deep and sincere devotion to Abramovic’s artistic legacy: “I love your bodies of work… and I would love to be wedded to this body…. do you accept this marriage, here and now?” He evokes the Shiite provision of ‘temporary marriage:’ a fixed-term, “noncommittal” relationship by which intimacy could be shared for a specific time. His request is met with silence. He then goes on to playfully describe a “national tradition” in which the woman coquettishly hesitates to respond when asked for her hand: “in my culture… they say she is out making rose water…” Baradaran ends his ceremony with a joyous dance- a whiplash shift from dialogue to dance inspired by the sensibility of Abramovic’s ‘tongue and cheek’, This is How We Kill Rats in the Balkans.“ – Amir Baradaran
Original Post: http://withtheseingredients.com/2010/03/10/art-artist-marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present/
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