Keira Knightley in Maze (dir. Stuart Pearson Wright, 2010). Courtesy of the artist and Riflemaker.

Starring the Stuart Pearson Wright and Kiera Knightly as two lovers going in circles. Trapped in a labyrinth, Wright is an artist who is frantically trying to reach his lover played by Knightly.

Two separate projections displayed side by side closes in on each characters’ individual journey and emotional conclusions.

Stuart Pearson Wright – “romantic artist or fickle muse, earnest male or inconstant female.”

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Update: The sound was distracting to the visitors checking out my blog during office hours. So the check out the video after the jump.

Since the opening of “In Her Work” at MoMa, the legendary performance artist Marina Abramović has been garnering rave reviews and inciting new ways to look at art and appreciate performance art. Most recently, Marina Abramović has been inviting any museum goer to sit face to face with her. Jezebel has complied a couple of photos in which museum goers exhibited sincere emotion and some were even brought to tears. Some well known people even took part. I only wish I could be there to sit face to face with her.

http://jezebel.com/5525616/sight-at-the-museum-celeb+spotting-with-marina-abramovi

Also check out my other postings of the performance artist.

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Pink Terror Hawking from mike barzman on Vimeo.

Color Theory, check. Slow motion camera, check. Dangerous scenes, check check.

Pink Terror is doing a lot to distract you from their message which could be found in the music accompanying their video.

It remind me of the music essay, “Everybody’s Free (To wear Sunscreen)” by Baz Luhrmann.

Catherine Opie, JD, 2008. Chromogenic print, 32 x 24 inches (81.3 x 61 cm). © Catherine Opie, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York

Pictured above is Le Tigre’s JD Samson sporting a mustache, part of Catherine Opie’s series “Girlfriends”. The series also includes K.D. Lang, Katherine Moening, and Jenny Shimizu.

When I was college, I use to flip through slides of Catherine Opie’s photographs for inspiration. It was the way she arranged her subjects. The saturated color she chose for the background. The final size of her prints…She photographs from the heart and the connection to each of her subjects is clear.

If you are in the New York area, stop by the Barbara Gladstone’s Gallery to see her work up close through April 24th.

On the gallery’s website, you can see the rest of Opie’s series on “Girlfriends”.

“On Friday two young and hungry New York Street Artists combined their artistry, critical intellects, and kinetic energy (and questionable dancing skills) to help define street art for a new generation on the cusp of the 2010s.”…. “On a 30 foot by 8 foot luhan-wood billboard in Brooklyn, Gaia and NohJColey brought their A Game to the street and auspiciously stretched the definition of wheat-pasted smart-aleck wall-wrecking.”

Read more on these guys here http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theBlog/?p=7589

Filmed by Nicolas Heller

Music by Big Boi & Chip Tha Ripper

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/

Stairway to Heaven, 2003. Artist Do-Ho Suh.

“Since 1999, Suh has made replicas of his living spaces—his childhood home in Seoul and his apartment in New York—in semi-transparent fabrics that he can literally pack in a suitcase and carry with him. 348 West 22nd St., Apt A, New York, NY 10011 is a full-scale reproduction of Suh’s Chelsea apartment, constructed—or more precisely, sewn—with remarkable specificity. Suh begins his architectural pieces by taking precise measurements of the space, which he then translates into patterns and fabricates in Korea with the help of master seamstresses. Viewers can enter and walk through the apartment, observing the fireplace and bookshelves, the stove, refrigerator, and sink, and the light switches, sockets, doorknobs, and locks. The effect is uncanny for viewers, and even more so for the artist. Fabricated in grey nylon, West 22nd St. is playful and amusing, like an Oldenburg soft-sculpture, but also somewhat sterile and sad. This is in contrast to Suh’s re-creation of his familial residence, Seoul Home, which is sewn in diaphanous, celedon-green silk organza that drapes in puddles on the floor in one installation and floats like a ghost in the air in another.”

- David Winton Bell Gallery

Tim Walker is London photographer. His earlier work features documentary and portrait photography. Walker photographs for W, Vanity Fair, as well as the British and Italian Vogue.

“Everything from the gigantic rabbit head hat to the boat hairpiece makes us feel like we fell down a rabbit hole and ended up in a magical (though slightly desolate) version of Versailles.” – Kristen Pisaturo

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Artist Marina Abramovic (L) performs during the 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present' exhibition opening night party at The Museum of Modern Art on March 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

“This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)…the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting….All performances, one of which involves viewer participation, will take place throughout the entire duration of the exhibition, starting before the Museum opens each day and continuing until after it closes, to allow visitors to experience the timelessness of the works.”    – Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

Q&A with Performance Artist Marina Abramovic in New York Magazine

Also, I came across a slide show in which she opened up her homes to The New York Times. Her modern eye inspires me. Click here to check it out.