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March 2011
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different artist | different presence
“nothingtoodooterencekoh” at mary boone ended last saturday since an important aspect of my seeing the show for the first time had been walking into the space without having seen an image of it, i chose not to post about it until after it had closed (for those not familiar with the piece, see * below) brushing through the curtain to enter the gallery, my initial reaction was to the...
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February 2011
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July 2010
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starting with pictures
just as in the beginning, i didn’t plan to attend three times a week or to sit once a week, i didn’t intend for it to be a full month before i felt ready to continue with this project during the past weeks, i have been anything but present with it. instead, i made a place for the experience to resonate below the surface of consciousness i have made no effort to explore my reactions, or...
Jul 9th
June 2010
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“So Ive been very thrilled with the response ive gotten on the Marina Abramovic...”
– dimitri from Marina Abramović webcam captures’s call for further submissions to the project
Jun 21st
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aftermath
this blog documents my response to marina abramovic’s performance ”The Artist Is Present” which ran at MoMA from 3/10-5/31/10. it contains extensive personal commentary on the performance as i wrote about each of my 38 visits and it is part of “a flower every day”, my multi-media project in response to the performance and so, while the performance has ended, i...
Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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WatchWatch
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present: The Legacy of Performance, Recorded on 6/2/2010 momavideo on USTREAM. Educational
Jun 2nd
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Jun 1st
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75 words
making the memory generosity | velikodušnost grace | milost gratitude | zahvalnost love | ljubav fear | strah sadness | tuga heart |  srce home | dom presence | prisustvo participation | u?eš?e communication | komunikacija thought | misao doing | radi being | bi?e stillness | tišina life | život light | svetlo happy | sre?an child | dete dance | ples burn | spaliti burst | prsnuti cage | kavez...
Jun 1st
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38th visit...finale
after sitting, i am a bit out of it and i go to the museum’s sculpture garden to collect myself; clearly i am not the only one from the over night crew who thinks this is a good idea. once back in the atrium, the rest of the afternoon passes very quickly for me and probably for everyone else as well the time allotted each sitter seems to get shorter and shorter while at the same time the...
Jun 1st
May 2010
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May 31st
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38th visit...atrium antics
arriving in the atrium i see that uncharacteristically, the last line of the countdown calendar has already been marked off. somewhat truer to form, there is still a bit of vip action; yoko ono has just sat, a mother and baby are seated when we enter, this is quite beautiful to witness and it brings me full circle to the first public day of the performance. tehching hsieh has his final...
May 31st
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a very different line, continued
a different line: part one the next part of the morning is a little bittersweet… the civility of today’s experience entering the museum and lining up for the atrium is in such sharp contrast from one week earlier, which was the last time i attempted to sit and which had been bedlam. this is how it should have been all along; and contrary to the argument that had been made against...
May 31st
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a very different line
so let me start at the beginning… after seeing people lined up outside at 5:30 sunday evening to sit on monday i realize that if i intend to sit on the last day it will require revising my plan of going home and napping a few hours before returning to join the line. i decide to bike back to brooklyn, gather my things together and return asap it doesn’t seem worth the effort to come at...
May 31st
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May 31st
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today is already tomorrow
leaving the museum sunday evening, monday’s line is forming this post is a place holder until i return after the close of the show i have painted tomorrow’s flower because it is already today i am leaving now to try to sit one last time.
May 31st
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May 31st
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37th visit
it’s sunday, the 2nd to last day of the show and to be totally honest i am not exactly present… i am a bit preoccupied with whether or not i will try to sit tomorrow since i know it’s going to mean being in the line overnight the 30 minute limit on sitting has been cut in half but this doesn’t seem to effect marina she is still giving each person the full treatment and...
May 31st
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May 30th
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36th visit
today is the first day in a while that i haven’t felt comfortable “sneaking” a shot of the count down. that’s how much security is now present. i walk into the atrium feeling more like an observer than a participant but almost immediately this changes it feels impossible, on seeing marina, to not to be seduced back into the piece; her poise and grace belay the 70+ days...
May 30th
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May 29th
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35th visit
after yesterday’s visit, i know what i am not doing today; i am not getting up at 4 to try to sit i am going into my studio in the morning, before going to the museum, to paint a flower that i have been trying to paint for days but always closes before i get home at night this feels right to me after all, a major piece of my attending the performance has been to define the time each...
May 29th
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May 28th
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34th visit
it is not possible for me to arrive at the museum before afternoon. and by the time i do i am kind of buzzing from the activity of my day; this is one of my big challenges after all, how to leave the world behind so that the artist can be present, create the discipline to go into the studio and park my day to day life on the other side of the door. i resolve to do this now, today, in the atrium...
May 28th
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May 27th
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33rd visit
today i wake up at 5:45 before my alarm goes off and  i know i will not try to sit monday’s experience has made me realize that while i want to keep supporting the piece i can’t twist myself into something that i am not to do so. when i arrive at the museum i find that the line has finally been tamed and this is a huge relief… it also turns out that even had i gone, i most...
May 27th
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May 25th
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32nd visit
if you have read the previous post, you know that the beginning of the day was a mess… i ended up about 22nd in line and was pretty sure that i wouldn’t sit. i was happy to find however that once things calmed down, once the unsettling effects of the stampede had receeded, i was able to really enjoy the experience of being present (all puns intended) and did not miss drawing at all ...
May 25th
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the abramovic line
UPDATE 5/26: after deciding not to attempt to sit today i arrived at the museum after it opened the report from the front of the line is that the situation is greatly improved: honor system until the 53rd street doors open at 9:30 the line reforms at the entrance to the museum proper, the first 50 (i think) people are brought in an orderly, single file line upstairs, sounds good to me there...
May 25th