Marina Abramović Presents… Marina Abramoviča vada īpašu treniņu apmeklētājiem, tas palīdz publikai skatīties un saprast ilgstošas performances / Marina Abramović leads the audience through the drill, which helps the audience with how to view and understand long durational art
Šī unikālā izstāde notika 2009. gada 3.–19. jūlijā Mančestras Univer sitātes galerijā Whitworth un bija Mančestras starptautiskā festivāla “nagla”. Projekta koncepciju Abramoviča izstrādāja kopā ar kuratoru Hansu Ulrihu Obristu (žurnāls Art Review nupat pasludināja viņu par šīgada ietekmīgāko personību laikmetīgajā mākslā), galerijas Whit worth vadītāju Mariju Bolšovu (Maria Balshaw) un Mančestras festivāla direktoru Aleksu Putsu (Alex Poots). Izstāde bija atvērta 17 dienas, katru dienu tā ilga četras stundas, un to dienā varēja apmeklēt 250 cilvēku (iepriekš piesakoties; ieeja – brīva). Pie ieejas visiem bija jāuzvelk balti halāti. “Tas nepieciešams kolektīvajam eksperimentam, mūsu vieno tībai. Šajās četrās stundās jums ir jāatsakās no savas personības,” skaidroja Abramoviča. 1889. gadā atvērtā galerija Whitworth atbrīvoja visas telpas no mākslas objektiem – gleznām, zīmējumiem, skulptūrām. To vietu ieņē ma performances mākslinieki Nihils Čopra (Nikhil Chopra, Indija), Ivans Čivičs (Ivan Civic, Bosnija un Hercegovina), Amanda Kūgana (Amanda Coogan, Īrija), Marija Kūla (Marie Cool, Francija) un Fabio Balduči (Fabio Balducci, Itālija), Jinmeja Duaņa (Yingmei Duan, Ķīna), Unhei Hvana (Eun Hye Hwang, Dienvidkoreja), Džeimija Aizenšteina ( Jamie Isenstein, ASV), Terenss Ko (Terence Koh, Kanāda), Alesteirs Maklenans (Alastair MacLennan, Skotija), Kira O’Railija (Kira O’Reilly, Īrija), Fjodors PavlovsAndrejevičs (Krievija), Melati Surjodarmo (Melati Suryodarmo, Indo nēzija) un Niko Vašellāri (Nico Vascellari, Itālija). Pēc Abramovičas ieva da publika izklīda galerijas telpās, lai nākamajās trijās stundās vērotu “dzīvo mākslu” – performances. Marina Abramoviča (dzimusi Belgradā 1946. gadā) ir ekstremālās
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University’s Whitworth Art Gallery, as the highlight of the Manchester International Festival. Marina Abramović developed the concept together with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (the magazine Art Review recently named him as this year’s most influential personality in con temporary art), Whitworth Director Maria Balshaw and Manchester Festival Director Alex Poots. The exhibition lasted 17 days and ran for four hours each day, with 250 viewers allowed in per day (entry was free, but had to be reserved in advance). Everyone had to put on a white coat at the entrance. “This is essential for our collective experiment, for our unity. For these four hours we must switch off our own personality,” explains Abramović. The Whitworth Art Gallery (founded in 1889) cleared its exhi bition halls of all artistic objects, including paintings, drawings and sculptures. They were replaced by performance artists: Nikhil Chopra (India), Ivan Civic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Amanda Coogan (Ireland), Marie Cool (France) and Fabio Balducci (Italy), Yingmei Duan (China), Eun Hye Hwang (South Korea), Jamie Isenstein (USA), Terence Koh (Canada), Alastair MacLennan (Scotland), Kira O’Reilly (Ireland), Fyodor Pavlov-Andreyevich (Russia), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia) and Nico Vascellari (Italy). Following an introduction by Abramović, the public scattered throughout the gallery to spend three hours observing “living art” – performances. Marina Abramović (born in 1946, in Belgrade) is a legend of extreme performance, whose rituals on the boundaries between life and death, experiments with the body and the nsubconscious, explorations of the boundaries of pain, and studies of the relationship between the artist 69 / 09
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