Marina live online
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 15 March 2010
A surprise bonus comes with the opening of Marina Abramovic’s retrospective at MoMA yesterday. Despite early questions about the difficulty of streaming the performance online, the museum has set up a live-feed of the work, in which members of the public are invited to go head to head in an endurance test with the artist. On MoMA’s blog, Associate Media Producer David Hart, reveals the hurdles that had to be overcome to even make the video possible, including his own reservations which led him to “whine and rant like a toddler”. (We’ve been there too Dave.) In the end, he asks his online audience the same question many have asked about Abramovic’s own work, about grueling performances and art in general: is it crazy or is it brave?
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