“MESSIDONA” VIDEO + ARTFORUM QUOTE ON “REPERFORMANCES”
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“Much is being made of the decision to include what the artist calls ‘reperformances’ in Abramović’s retrospective. To me, this debate is largely beside the point: If you believe in the sacred authenticity of the original, then by definition no redo could threaten it; if you think performance is always already meditated, then live bodies are as much a form of representation as any other. More interesting than whether reenactments are art-historically correct is what they are asked to do– whether they close down or open up the potentiality of performance.”
Lambert-Beatty, Carrie. “Against Performance Art.” ARTFORUM May 2010; 209. |
touches (13)
duration (13 seconds)
number of opponents (6)